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The Best Golf Ball We’ve EVER Tested?

We get asked all the time. “What’s the best golf ball you’ve ever tested?”

 Actually, it’s pretty crazy. So we’ve been testing golf equipment for over 15 years, right? And we’ve never seen anything like we have seen with Titleist and specifically the ProV1.

What I mean by that is when we did our ball lab, we’ve tested over 100 different types of golf balls. 80 percent of the best golf balls we have ever tested are Titleist balls. There is no other category in golf drivers, irons, wedges, putters, anything you can name shoes that has 80 percent of the top performers be one brand. So not only do they perform best from a testing standpoint, but from a quality control standpoint, there are leaps and bounds above everybody else.

Anybody can produce a really good ball once. But being able to produce that ball millions of times to that quality control standard is really tough. And no one in the business does that better than Titleist.

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Connor Lindeman

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Connor Lindeman

Connor is MyGolfSpy's resident sneakerhead and the authority on all things golf shoe performance. He's tested over 150 different pairs (and counting). When he isn't scrolling Twitter to find his next golf shoe purchase, you can find him at the piano or trying a new dessert place with his wife and daughter. #Lefty

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      bob

      1 year ago

      The best ball for any golfer is the Titleist (fill in specific model info here) ball. No ball flies truer or has more green gripping spin. Long, mid or short irons are a breeze when it is a Titleist they are compressing perfectly from any lie. Thank you. Now how long until I receive my $75 gift card from MGS for playing the game?

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      itsteetime

      1 year ago

      Last summer – 2024, I tried every major manufacture’s premium and 1st step down balls and a few D2C, too. Most tests were with 1 full dozen. However, many times I did not get past the 1st sleeve before I donated the remaining 9 to my friends. (They will play anything they find and I do mean find – pond, mud, woods, gator nest, ANYTHING! :-D)

      My favorite is Pro V1 with AVX coming in a close 2nd. Both win with good feel and consistent distance. Pro V1 wins with inside 50 yards approach shots.

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      OpMan

      1 year ago

      Sad that MGS goes around deleting comments now. Proof of what I’ve been saying. They’ve drunk the coolaid and are cheerleaders for the industry now

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      Frank

      1 year ago

      You can never go wrong with Prov1’s but I now have also tried Maxfli tour cg and they are a decent ball. I also think the Bridgestone tour balls are good. I also have tried the new Callaway chrome tour balls but not really in love with them although reviews for them have been really good. But my go to is the Titleist AVX and Prov1x. They are long and great around the green and there is never any worry about quality with them. I bought 2 dz. used golfballs when I first took up golf 40 years ago and have never bought any again for myself. I now sell preowned golfballs myself and have picked up quite a decent knowledge of balls and alot of that is from MGS testing. They do a great job in testing.

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      Ned

      1 year ago

      Honestly at my skill level and age I’m not about to spend $5 for a golf ball. It really isn’t going to make that much difference in my game.

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      Baracuda

      1 year ago

      I’m 78 and I’ve been playing for over 55 years. Younger days Titleist balata balls were my go to. As I got older I looked for a lower compression ball. When Titleist launched the AVX and I tried a sleeve I haven’t used any other ball. This ball has everything I look for, distance, less spin on the driver and plenty of green side spin. It putts the Sam’s as any Titleist I’ve played. My swing speed is 75 to 80 mph. Try an AVX the best ball ever played.
      Barry

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      SuperDave3673

      1 year ago

      Not many recreational golfers can justify the expense, but they are usually worth it in my opinion. The next best, to me, would be Snell or Vice. In my experience and from fellow players (a few legit single digit guys), the Snell/Vice balls do the best job of approaching ProV1/X performance and consistency at a reasonable price. One of them told me it was probably 80-90% as good, but at 60-70% of the price.

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      Chris

      1 year ago

      You guys should try Legato 3085. Awesome ball. Ive got 3 of my buddies to switch from prov’s. Only can get them from Legato or Amazon I believe. I had been searching for a ball that wasn’t to expensive or cheap for about a year and a half. Had been leaning towards Z-Star đź’Ž. Then I gave vice pro a shot and liked it quite a bit to the point i was sure that it more than likely going to be my gamer. Played them for awhile and was happy . Was ordering on Amazon 1 night and i kept seeing the Legato ball popping up quite a bit with like 4.5 stars. They was on sale for 19.99. Said f’it just 20 bucks go for it. My first round playing them, I knew after 6 holes that it was my gamer from now on and it would be hard to get me to even consider something different. Guys they really are That good . Give Them a try

      ImStillaYankee

      1 year ago

      Is that why I find so many in the woods while looking for golf balls?

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      Dtrain

      1 year ago

      Maybe it’s because they are the most played ball. They never claimed they were magic, just the most consistent.

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      ColeTrain

      1 year ago

      My ex-girlfriend worked at a golf course years ago. This course had more out of bounds than any other one I played. In one season we ended up with a couple thousand balls. It was the first time in my life I ever got to compare balls and pick which ones I liked. Needless to say I like the bunch but I had so many I cut open a hundred balls long before I knew this site was doing it. Pro V’s we’re always boringly consistent. But I didn’t expect was the amount of bad calloway balls that I saw. I mean I didn’t have any measurement tools since this was merely curiosity but I didn’t need any they were just as visually and not even close to concentric, it was surprising, didn’t matter the year or the ball there was a lot of them bad. Of course this was before they changed their quality control. As much as I loved bridgestones I did see a few bad apples in that bunch too. I didn’t cut a lot of z-stars open since every 100 pro v, Chrome soft I only found one. So I can’t say much about them. I loved the tour BRX and the z-star but I ran out of those and didn’t want to play the pro V1 for some dumb reason I wanted to be different. Lol, all I cared about was distance and a little bit of checkup around green side chips. Of course now that I have a new driver and have access to a lunch monitor and now understand I like a ball with distance off the tee, not excessive spin with a mid ball flight and medium green side spin. As much as I like non-conforming on the pro V1 it turns out it’s probably the best all around ball for me. if I’m hitting the fade with my driver on a narrow course I still like the BRX, the q-star tour and the tour response but since the entire world keeps buying and losing Pro-V ones, I’ll keep playing them until a ball comes out that is so perfect for my game that I can justify $5 a ball.

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      Chuck

      1 year ago

      I appreciate that you will say the obvious. I’ve got plenty of money but due to your objective approach in the lab, this frugal guy uses the Maxfli Tour. Thanks

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      Michael Replogle

      1 year ago

      Tough choices out there. Swing speed has a lot to do with my personal choices. At 67 with a rebuilt shoulder my speed is not what it was. I particularly enjoy the TP 5 and Taylormade Distance and the price makes it even more agreeable. The Taylormade Distance doesn’t hold the green like many others unfortunately.

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      Les Fleisher

      1 year ago

      Can you tell me what set of irons features the MOST offset throughout the entire set? Thanks

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      jjgolf

      1 year ago

      Les… the amount of offset will change as the clubs go up the bag so it’s not like all the club companies are abandoning offset on the high end. That said, look at the Tour Edge Hot Launch C524 irons. They have as much offset as any iron I’ve seen.

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      Matt

      1 year ago

      I currently game the Callaway Chrome Tour. My secondary ball is a ProV1…when I find them. I just save money going with the Callaway, buy 3 get 1, plus Mil/LEO disc. It’s a fantastic ball and performs almost identical to the proV1, just a hair longer.

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      Aijuka Bruce

      1 year ago

      I think most premium golf balls are surely good and the difference in results for a good golf are very minimal.

      Personally my preference in order are
      1. TP5
      2. Callaway SR2 (though very rare)
      3. Srixon Z-star
      4. Prov 1x
      5. Prov 1

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      WYBob

      1 year ago

      What I find interesting is that the “best” ball for quality per the Ball Lab results is the 2021 Pro V1 (rated 97) followed by the 2021 Pro V1V, the 2019 Pro -V1X, and the 2022 TM Tour Response (all rated 93). The 2023 Pro V1 and Pro V1X are rated at 85, so the logical question is why a decline in the Ball Lab scoring? It would be interesting to hear Titleist’s explanation as to why the 2021 ball appears to be of higher quality than the 2023 version of the same model. Also, there has not been a published Ball Lab since Aug. 2nd (and the one before that was May 5, 2024). There were a lot of new golf balls launched at the beginning of 2024 that haven’t been evaluated yet. When can we expect to see the Ball Lab getting back to a regular cadence of evaluations? We already know that Titleist is launching the 2025 versions of the Pro V1/V1X in the near term, so those (among others) would be important to see before the 2025 golf season gets truly cranked up.

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      League Golfer

      1 year ago

      Thank you WYBob. You are so right. At times I have been wondering if they were stopping Ball Lab analysis altogether and were going to focus even more on golf clothing and speakers for music on the course.

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      MattyV

      1 year ago

      ProV1 is the best cold weather ball. But lately, I’ve been playing Chrome Tour in Am tourneys and find it less spinny off the driver and yet good spin on the wedges. Plus, I love the 3 lines for short straight putts! No bad balls yet.

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      mrkg

      1 year ago

      definitely love me some prov’s. i have been playing maxfli tour lately and really like them as well, they are about $40 a dozen so there’s that…$28 a dozen if you buy the 4 pack

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      James

      1 year ago

      I play on one of the Miller Lite scratch tours down on the Gulf Coast. After a tournament, the top players get their gift certificates to spend in that course’s pro shop. The first thing that gets wiped out is a dz. Pro V-1’s. I will not play another ball. I know what it’s going to do and how it will react, especially chipping. It is simply the finest chipping ball sold.

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      Frank Brown

      1 year ago

      I love your site. Please do an article on best everything golf for Super Seniors. Swing speeds below 75 mph.

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      Ned

      1 year ago

      I’m with you address us older slow swing folks.

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      Vito

      1 year ago

      Pro V1’s are the best golf balls I have ever used. But for my slower driver swing(now down to 90mph) the difference between ProV’s and Tour X and Vice Pro’s is only a couple yards at most. I think if I were swinging at 100-105 I’d want the Titleists.

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      chux13

      1 year ago

      This is what I love about golf lab in that it does not go off performance but quality and consistency of ball production. Many golf balls may be pretty damn close in performance metrics as outlined by the MGS ball tests, but how many times will each ball from the same box will react, fly, roll the same every time? As much as I do not consider Titleist as a ball in MY top 3 to play, I do acknowledge they are the best built and most consistent golf ball in the market.

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      David Schulte

      1 year ago

      Seems like your contradicting yourself. You don’t consider Titleist a top three ball yet you say they are the best built and consistent. Makes no sense why you would not play Titleist.

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      ctg44

      1 year ago

      I have begrudgingly become a big fan of the ProV1x Left Dash. I say begrudgingly because of their cost, not because of the performance and consistency that is unmatched for my game. I’ve tried the top balls from TaylorMade (decent, but inconsistent), Bridgestone (just awful – no durability and way too much spin on every option), and others. I really like the Maxfli balls, but need them to get a Left Dash competitor that’s between their Tour and Tour X balls. I find the Tour (and regular ProV1) too soft, and the ProV1x and Tour X flight too high for me in the windy conditions we face a lot here in Texas.

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      peter mies

      1 year ago

      which year? i read your article once that i think said that 2022 or 2023 were best

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      League Golfer

      1 year ago

      It would be interesting if Mygolfspy did a ball analysis that told us what the best ballsi are for playing in windy conditions. Which balls really have the lowest trajectory and the most penetrating and boring trajectory and aren’t affected as much in cross wind conditions. And include two piece, Surlyn covered balls in the testing and conversation.

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