Wilson Triad Review

Wilson has spent years building good golf balls nobody buys, and the Triad deserves to break that pattern. The engineering idea is unusual and easy to explain: core, mantle and cover are made to the same density, so the ball behaves as a single mass rather than three layers arguing with each other, and that shows up as a more consistent flight from strike to strike.

The cover is cast urethane, the real thing rather than an ionomer imitation, and the wedge spin it produces is in genuine tour ball territory. Full shots hold greens, and pitches from a tight lie take one hop and stop. Driver spin is deliberately held down, which keeps the flight flat and the misses inside the trees, and the compression sits around eighty so the strike is firm without being harsh.

It is not the longest ball on the rack and it will not turn a slice into a fade. What it does is deliver almost everything a premium ball delivers for roughly ten dollars less per dozen, with unusually good quality control for the price. That is the whole argument. If you already play a urethane ball and lose a couple a round, this is the sensible switch.