The Top 10 Golf Balls
Our critic's ranking, best first.
- TaylorMade TP5TaylorMade TP5Five layers is not a marketing number. The extra mantles buy spin separation nothing three-piece can match.Read the review
- Titleist Pro V1Titleist Pro V1The reference ball. Everything else in the category is measured against it, and most of it still comes up short.
- Noodle Long & SoftNoodle Long & SoftFifteen balls for twenty dollars that feel like nothing else at the price. The best value in golf, full stop.
- Srixon Z-StarSrixon Z-StarThe best greenside spin in the tour category, at ten dollars a dozen less than the ball everybody defaults to.
- Bridgestone Tour B XBridgestone Tour B XReactiv iQ makes the cover behave differently on a driver than on a wedge, and the claim survives contact with reality.
Vice ProA proper cast urethane tour ball for thirty-five dollars, sold direct because no retailer is taking a cut of it.
Srixon Z-Star DiamondThe overlooked middle child of the Z-Star family, and the one that stops a wedge faster than almost anything else on sale.
Srixon Q-Star TourA urethane cover at an ionomer price, which makes it the best value ball on the shelf by a distance.- Callaway Chrome SoftCallaway Chrome SoftThe softest ball that still plays like a tour ball, and the only real reason to walk past the Titleist shelf.
- Titleist Pro V1xTitleist Pro V1xHigher, firmer and more spin through the bag. Better than the Pro V1 for some players and worse for most of them.