Callaway Chrome Soft Golf Balls 2020

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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. People who play this ball love it, and we’ve changed everything,” says Sean Toulon, EVP of Callaway Golf. 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. A healthy percentage of golfers love the Callaway Chrome Soft. You don’t lay claim to +/-20% of the market with a product consumers hate. There are three balls in the new Callaway family: the Chrome Soft, Chrome Soft X and the Chrome Soft X LS.

In July 2023, Neil became just the 9th editor in Golf Monthly's 112-year history. Originally working with the best coaches in the UK to produce instruction content, he has also presented many Golf Monthly videos looking at all areas of the game from Tour player interviews to the rules of golf. It just seems interesting to me that the testing isn’t broken down by box, since that is another variable in the test that doesn’t seem to be accounted for. For example, if you had been told that of the 3 dozen balls tested, 2 boxes had no bad balls but one box had 4 bad balls, would that change your view on the quality of the balls. Knowing that, I would probably argue that it seems the one box was a bad batch, and another should be tested since the majority of the small sample (2 out 3 boxes), had 0 issues. While the overall diameter consistency of the 2020 Callaway Chrome Soft falls within the average range, there was a single ball that did not meet our standard of roundness. 2020 Callaway Chrome Soft – Weight Great article. MGS “Ball Lab” is the best information to date. Maybe other golf ball companies will take notice and improve on their quality control. Our slower swinger got results in line with other soft balls, such as the Maxfli Revolution Low Spin and Srixon Soft Feel. We'll call it a win-win.Ball notes: Callaway made quite a splash when launching its newest golf ball in late 2014. “Chrome Soft,” the company proclaimed, “is going to change the golf ball category.”

CSX’s newfound speed comes from a significantly larger core. It’s not just bigger; it’s 117% bigger. As you can probably guess, there’s a bit of voodoo in that number. Callaway can more than double its core size because the construction of the 2020 Chrome Soft X has fundamentally changed. One has to question the format of publishing one ball’s data at a time AND specifically starting with Callaway: I know everyone is keen to see any improvements in Callaway’s ball production, but by publishing their data first without any competitor context, I can’t help but feel this leads readers to conclude that Callaway has barely improved, despite being roundly “average”.

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I also read through the “about MGS Ball lab testing” link and I didn’t see anything that would explain there. I think without that context you’re leaving yourself open to the criticism of “another Callaway bash” until the rest of the series comes out (even though I personally have no doubts about the testing process employed by MGS!). Tony believes that golfers deserve to know what's real and what's not, and that means MyGolfSpy's equipment coverage must extend beyond the so-called facts as dictated by the same companies that created them. 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.Tom – The article clearly states “11% of the balls have variations and performance implications should be a CONCERN”. I look forward to seeing the whole database. Based on the vidcast last month, I knew the testing was ongoing, Have you completed all of the testing at this point? Are you just working on the individual write-ups, or are there still more brands remaining to be tested?

Like the other balls in the Chrome Soft family, this standard Chrome Soft features what Callaway has branded Precision Technology. We suspect what that actually encompasses will evolve overtime, but with the current generation of Chrome Soft Precision Technology helps to ensure layer concentrity throughout the golf ball. Callaway Chrome Soft Construction It is notable that we found cores in two distinct colors (dark and light gray). Typically, we would expect cores of the same model to be the same color. That said, we found no quantifiable differences between the two colors in our measurements. Cover 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. In this section, we detail the consistency of the 2022 Callaway Chrome Soft. Our consistency metrics provide a measure of how similar the balls in our sample were to one another relative to all of the models we’ve tested to date. In less concrete terms, we know that off-center cores lead to greater spin axis tilt. Depending on how the ball is oriented at impact, that can produce more curvature and impact spin numbers.

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With all that’s transpired, Callaway faces some unique challenges as it moves forward with its 2020 golf ball lineup. It needs to keep everything that golfers love about Chrome Soft but it has to do better by its customers who now understand that Callaway’s ball quality wasn’t what it should have been. This is why the quality and consistency aspect is so important. If you have two balls with similar performance specs (and in the market you’ll find several options for any given spec), the bigger difference is going to be found in how often a given manufacturer is able to achieve that spec (our consistency metrics), and how often what we classify as a bad ball makes it to a store shelf. No matter what the spec of the ball is supposed to be, if it can’t be delivered consistently than, much like mamma’s box of chocolates, you don’t actually know what you’re going to get (from one ball to the next).