Callaway Chrome Soft Golf Balls 2020

Product Information

Callaway announced their latest golf-ball-duo as per 2020, and yes, today we'll be talking about the Chrome Soft and Chrome Soft X. Amazingly enough, the initial Chrome Soft was marketed as the ball that changed the ball, and regardless of how corny this sounds, the new 2020 Chrome Soft really comes with a bang, and we're not mincing words here either. As you can see, the average diameter flirts with the minimum (1.680) and to an extent takes advantage of the USGA’s methodology.

Relative to the market average, the diameter of the Callaway Chrome Soft is on the smaller side, making it ideal for a tour ball. Premium – Designed for low- to mid-handicap golfers with swing speeds of 90-99 mph; typically feature multi-layer construction and medium-soft covers; happy medium between Value/Recreational and Tour categories for distance and spin qualities. Examples: Titleist NXT Tour, Callaway HEX Diablo For 2020, Callaway has not only re-engineered Chrome Soft, but it’s also retooled its Chicopee, MA, manufacturing facility with the stated goal of making a better golf ball. This Chrome Soft’s story isn’t just about taking a step forward in performance; it’s about making a giant leap in quality and consistency. Any plans to consolidate all of these measurements into a single Tableau table for ease of comparison in the future? You don’t need to compare a ball to anything when you’re stating the factual findings. At no point did MGS say “this ball is 20% better than other balls”. MGS did say X% of balls had this defect.An entirely new mantle system for increased ball speed. The Soft Inner Mantle and a highly resilient Firm Outer Mantle work together to generate increased ball speed off the club face. This innovative system is specifically created to increase total distance. Modern day, tour-quality golf balls are multi-layered constructions that go through numerous manufacturing stages and processes before they end up in our golf bags. Home Golf Terms Golf Shop Golf in the USA Golf Videos Golf Rules Golf Tours List Golf Jokes Golf News All For Golf History of Golf Handicap Calculator Key Principles of Golf

Until then, here’s a brief rundown of some of what’s being implemented at Callaway’s Chicopee ball plant. The final piece is a urethane DuraSpin cover, designed to provide the feel and greenside spin better players demand. It’s true that manufacturers sometimes leave details out of the marketing message – I don’t recall anyone being entirely transparent about low compression balls being inherently slower, for example. Instead, that becomes messaging around playing the right ball for your swing speed and misnomers like Soft Fast cores (it’s all relative, I suppose). It’s also true that as soon as the cover is urethane, everybody claims high greenside spin. There will be some variance there, and we can’t quantify it in absolute terms, but by cutting a ball and looking at the composition, we can easily tell whether those claims are likely to be true or not. Inside 1 standard deviation is average. Greater than 1 standard deviation is good or fair depending on which way you go. More than 2 is Excellent or Poor. Distribution is relatively normal. Don’t think we have anything that hit excellent, but I do have some poors in the database.Once again, it is Precision Technology and a new Hyper Elastic SoftFast Core that combine for great speed and lower spin in this model. A new cover material, meanwhile, is why you can expect greater control around the greens.

Like Chrome Soft, the Chrome Soft X features a new dimple pattern. The dimple count is the same for both balls but the designs are fundamentally different. Visually distinct, X’s cover is optimized for the target golfer. It provides a flatter, though not necessarily lower, flight with the ball reaching its peak trajectory farther downrange. Think of it as a measurement to quantify value. It’s not a perfect analogy, but when you look at the cost of ownership for a specific vehicle, your individual experience may or may not mirror the experience of those whose information contributed to that set of data. Bridgestone would argue that this is exactly what it did when it launched the RX line, but there’s no disputing the fact that Callaway’s take on the soft tour ball is the one that resonated with golfers in a way that no other previous soft offering had. On the clubface: It's soft all right. Softer than “tour” models like the Titleist ProV1 or Bridgestone Tour B330, to our hands, yet firmer than the ultra-low compression likes of the Wilson Staff Zip. In our book, that's a happy medium. The current split in the market place is about 80/20 in favor of the standard ball. Callaway would like to see those numbers shift to 65/35 or maybe even 60/40. For that to happen, Callaway needs an entirely different ball.

Summary

A new state-of-the-art, four-story-tall mixer has been installed. It’s a crucial piece of equipment that should resolve the swirly core problem and other issues that occur as a result of materials being mixed improperly. The new Callaway balls are without doubt one of the best ball models on the market and you need to test them out in 2022. They also come with a new Tour Aero cover which is said to optimize the flight of the ball. These are small but important refinements for this new model.

While MyGolfSpy bright up some points that are helping all of us get better balls, the distance testing was suspect. Simply averaging 85 & 115mph doesn’t tell the story. Nearly all the distance loss is over 110mph. I’ve banged a bunch of Chrome Softs and Pro V1s down the same fairway and saw nothing like what MyGolfSpy said. TXG couldn’t reproduce it either with Matt’s 125mph swing.

The consistency values represent a range based on the standard deviations across all of the models we’ve tested. That said, for the most part, everyone is reasonably honest about launch and spin characteristics within their own lineup. There’s no benefit to saying a ball is high launch and low spin if it’s low launch and high spin, because when a company wants to sell a low launch, high spin ball, they know how to make it, so they’ll make it. No need to lie about it.