Callaway’s Chrome Tour Shark Balls are Ready to Hunt

Discovery Channel’s Shark Week 2025 is just around the corner, and Callaway is ready to celebrate with the launch of Chrome Tour Shark golf balls. The tie-in with sharks makes perfect sense—much like your golf balls, they spend their lives in water.

Look, Callaway has taken its triple diamond from golf clubs to golf balls, and while JAWS wedges aren’t a thing anymore, it still feels like kind of a whiff that they didn’t call this the Apex Predator collection. Although I suppose that wouldn’t be on-the-nose enough for some of you.

The Chrome Tour Shark collection features four distinct designs showcasing some of the ocean’s most feared hunters: Thresher, Whale Shark, Hammerhead, and Great White. Each ball delivers all the performance benefits golfers expect from Chrome Tour—the whole “new gold standard” thing—wrapped in designs that’ll make you feel like you’re teeing up a nature documentary.

It’s also worth noting that 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of JAWS, which means we’re all legally obligated to hum the theme music every time we see these balls. Da-dum. Da-dum. Da-dum-da-dum-da-dum.

Timing is everything

Because nothing in golf is ever totally unique, I should mention that TaylorMade launched its shark balls a couple of weeks ago. People, Shark Week runs from July 20-26. It’s not Shark Month or Shark whenever we feel like it. It’s Shark Week. Period. Hard stop.

You’d think a brand that can engineer five-layer golf balls could figure out how to read a TV schedule. Talk about jumping the shark.

I will see myself out, but not before pointing out that Callaway fully understood the assignment.

The predator lineup

The Chrome Tour Shark collection features four of the ocean’s most recognizable hunters:

Thresher: These guys are basically the trick-shot artists of the shark world, using their oversized tail fins like whips to stun fish. Reminds me of some of you—flashy moves with questionable results.

Whale Shark: The gentle giants of the collection. At up to 40 feet long, they’re the largest fish in the sea but survive on a diet of tiny plankton and small fish. Kind of like how some of you look intimidating on the first tee but your game feeds on nothing but hopes and dreams.

Hammerhead: With their bizarre head shape providing 360-degree vision, hammerheads see everything coming from all angles. Unlike some of you part-time range pros, who have perfect vision for everyone else’s swing flaws but somehow can’t see your own over-the-top move.

Great White: The undisputed king of the ocean and the reason most of us won’t go swimming after watching Shark Week. These balls feature the apex predator that’s been giving beachgoers nightmares for 50 years—much like how some of you channel that same primal rage when you blade a wedge over the green from 30 yards out.

What’s missing

Look, I normally criticize what I think is missing from these limited-edition releases, and the Chrome Tour Shark collection is no exception. Where’s the Mako? The Tiger shark? And while Larry Johnson would make no sense in this case, where’s Pat Falloon?

But I’ll give Callaway a pass here. With the limited canvas size of a golf ball, it would be pretty tough to distinguish between a Mako and a Great White, or a Tiger shark and… well, a Great White. There’s no way to accurately represent the scale.

Besides, the more passive Thresher and Whale sharks (colored in a soft, non-threatening teal) are great options for you cowards who love laying up. Not everyone understands math and knows you should go for it with the aggressive mentality of a Great White.

The bottom line

At the end of the day, these are still Chrome Tour golf balls underneath the shark graphics, which means they should deliver the performance characteristics Callaway has been promoting since shifting the bulk of its marketing efforts towards a real tour ball.

I don’t know if you’re feeling any pressing need to buy shark-themed golf balls, but if you’re going to buy themed balls, at least Callaway had the courtesy to time their release properly.

The Chrome Tour Shark balls are available now.