TaylorMade has seriously increased its investment in golf balls in recent years. The TP5, TP5x franchise has been hugely successful since its introduction in 2017, and its latest updates will make this a hard product to overlook.
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TaylorMade TP5: The Technology
Tour player feedback is critical to how brands approach the development of new products. Tour players wanted an improved, softer sound and feel while also getting more ball speed. However, changing those two variables is very difficult because distance and feel are both linked to compression and increasing one tends to decrease the other.
To overcome this obstacle, TaylorMade has had to develop a completely new core material that can achieve a softer sound and more speed.
The speed-wrapped core material, which TaylorMade are saying shares many similarities with the Speed Foam we see in their irons, has a much lower density than previous core materials. A less dense core increases speed but also makes the golf ball quieter.
