TaylorMade Distance+ Alignment Golf Ball
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TaylorMade Distance+ Alignment Golf Ball

The story of the new TaylorMade Distance+ golf ball is as simple as it gets for the category.

Distance+ is an inexpensive ball designed to hit a price point. It’s positioned for the no-frills’ golfer looking for affordability, distance and, in this case, an integrated alignment aid.

Distance+ Alignment.

And there you have it.

product packaging for the TaylorMade Distance+ Golf ball

TaylorMade Distance+ Construction

The TaylorMade Distance+ is a two-piece golf ball with an ionomer cover. TaylorMade says it offers max distance, mid-spin and, of course, soft feel. The stated compression is 77 and with the understanding that, on our gauges, TaylorMade balls typically read a bit firmer than stated, soft is undoubtedly a relative descriptor.

If you want soft and TaylorMade, Soft Response or Noodle Long & Soft are your best bets.

Wedge spin is described as mid/high. At worst, that’s just a bit of requisite marketing, At best, consider it relative to other distance balls. The larger point is that if you’re in search of greenside spin, this isn’t where you’ll find it.

At $15 a dozen or two for $25, your spin expectations should already be set accordingly.

The TaylorMade Distance+ golf ball is available now in white and yellow.

For more information, visit TaylorMadeGolf.com.

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      Gord

      2 years ago

      Haven’t tried the Distance+ but I got the best results from the previous generation Distance yellow ball. My drives were longer and straighter than other balls I had used and the control was great with my irons. I realized that you didn’t have to spend a lot of money on balls to have a good round, you just need to find one that works for you..

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      Brandon D

      3 years ago

      This ball has over 9,000 Amazon reviews, and also has very good reviews around the internet. Despite that it seems no one anywhere has done a performance test of this ball.

      The Taylormade Distance+ is also one of the few balls that isn’t advertised as being “soft.”

      All of the top selling balls on Amazon are lower priced ionomer balls yet no one has done any performance or comparison testing among the low priced balls, only the occasional direct comparison of one to a higher performance tour quality ball.

      Equipment reviewers are doing the golf community a disserve by not collecting distance and spin data on the under $25 segment.

      Data should be compiled on these balls to see how they compare, it would be great to compare balls in the under $25 price range to each other and see how a $25 per dozen ball compares to a $15 per dozen ball. For example, the Taylormade Soft Response vs. Taylormade Distance+, both are ionomer exteriors but the Soft Response is 3 piece and the Distance+ is two piece, and the soft response is $10 more, what is the performance difference?

      Popular balls in the under $25 per dozen segment that should have their performance tested and compared:
      Taylormade Distance+ $14.99
      Taylormade Soft Response $24.99
      Bridgestone e6 $21.99
      Srixon Soft Feel $21.99
      Callaway Supersoft $22.99
      Titleist TruFeel $22.99
      Snell Getsum $20.99
      Topflite Gamer $22.99
      Topflite Bomb $34.99 per 24

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      Ol'pal Gary

      3 years ago

      Well Mike, there’s a lot of us who Golf on Limited budgets.
      I’m middle of the road on being frugal.
      That said, i’ll be trying these out for myself to see how they are.
      Heck i can lose these jusy like i can lose my Callaway Softs.
      I had 2 of my longer drives last year with a DDH that i found during our Senior Scramble!

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      gregory aziz

      3 years ago

      Tony

      I just purchased 1 dozen of the prior gen distance + in yellow.. As Dennis states 77 was a softer comp point just a few years ago. Nevertheless, it provides an econ friendly two piece performer which I was able to get good mid spin. Another well written post.

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      Steve

      3 years ago

      What is totally sad is these at 2 dozen for $25 and the Kirkland ball at 2 dozen for $25? That said a ball that does not spin so much on short iron shots could just be the thing to take you from a 20 to a 15 handicap as you will get closer to the hole on all those shots that come up 30 feet short with a spin ball…..

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      Jon Silverberg

      3 years ago

      Tony: Shouldn’t this piece state somewhere that My GolfSpy testing shows distance positively correlates to compression, and since this ball is 20 compression points lower than the firmest balls, it can’t be maximum distance?

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      Dennis Beach

      3 years ago

      We used to think 77 comp was really soft at one time. Now, not so much. Not a bad ball by any means, If you want distance with some feel, this is it. The “React” core WILL get you out there, along with the 342 dimple pattern,that is tried and true from their Burner ball series. Did play them for a short time, while looking for my “gamer”. Now that soft is really soft, I do not even look at golf balls over 50 compression. I am a senior player, with a slow swing speed, that needs all the help I can get of the tee. But, if you can still crank it up, this ball is the one…

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      Jeff

      3 years ago

      I kinda got the feel that if you used this (along with other Distance balls), you’re being looked down-upon on here. That’s not good….it’s kind of snobbish.

      So who cares what ball you use? 2 piece, 3 piece, 4 piece, 5 piece, Surlyn, Urethane, etc. etc…

      All that matters is the score you post. How you get there, well, that’s up to you.

      I’ve often won money on the course using my 2 piece distance balls (Oncore Avant, Titleist Velocity, and/or Snell GetSum) from playing partners sporting ProV1’s.

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      Wayne

      10 months ago

      Most of my found balls are Titleist

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      Mike

      3 years ago

      Tony, thanks for the update. I’m glad that your article was short and concise, as I doubt this ball would appeal to 99% of the MGS readers. But hey, just like the range ball article, it’s a few minutes of interesting read.

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      Scott D

      3 years ago

      Mike, I don’t think you should assume that there is not a significant percentage of mygolfspy readers who use 2 piece balls either regularly or at least occasionally. I think that mygolfspy should devote a little more time to reviewing less expensive golf balls, especially in regards to their durability. A lot of golfers care about these balls.

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