I have a fairly slow swing speed and love soft balls with lots of feel. Tried these out at the weekend and course was very wet but they are a great feel. Can't wait to try them when the course firms up and especially when I go to St Andrews for a couple of days in April. Awesome feel when putting and I also just got a brand new milled grind wedge so hoping to knock a couple of shots off my handicap in the first couple of months of the season when it finally gets going in the UK.
After 4 years of serious illness, hopefully now behind me, I have lost 15% swing speed and distance. I have used PROv1 & later X and was usually one of the longer hitters in my group. I’d now be well short. I went for a fitting at SGGT Chesterfield and was fitted for SZ4 Srizons and softer KBS Graphite shafts. This solves my issues but coupled with Speedsoft I am nearly back to where I was. They feel great, and this gives confidence. They fly higher which is just what I now need. I could have rescued my golf game with these changes and I’m thankful. I nearly gave up.
Well done Trottie. As the father of 2 teenage golfers these balls bring ladder down for young players. I mark up all there balls with the compression number. I have them using P__Soft balls this past year and S__r Soft. To think of compression 40 balls. Not Compression 99 distance balls. I try hard to explain that seniors and Teenage Juniors and side by side, with clubs and balls. How many times have that junior made the green 45 yards out with a chip and 2 puts for par. Then to leave with 2 chips and 5 puts. No young golfer = no club futures. Well done TM.
Tried these for the first time today and loved them! I’ve bounced around to a lot of different balls to find the ones I like including ProVs and TP5s, and I feel these are great for the price.
Used these for the first time this weekend and really liked them. Loved the feel and how high they launch. Definitely more suited to my game than the TP5 pix I’ve been using.
Hi Chris ! I recently got in a shipment of these speed softs. They are the premium ball of their price category. I had been using callaway supersofts and I do think these are better. I have played a couple of rounds with the Speed Soft blue inks with great results. A great ball for seniors. They check up better than the supersofts . They give you more spin too to elevate the ball. I noticed it right away. I love the soft feel they have. I think they are a premium ball in disguise :) They have done extremely well in a number of reviews as well . I will be using these from now on. I never expected these kind of results. Joe P.S. I am going to buy some of the solid yellow ones too. I like the color options for these balls. I have to say you went above and beyond in this review Chris. Its excellent!!!
@@trottiegolf Very impressed with these new balls. Look even better in hand than they do online. Normally I like a firm feeling ball off driver (TP5x or Bridgestone Tour BX are my usual gamers) but these felt really great and seemed to maintain my usual ball speed and distance. The sound is very pleasing as well. With the irons I could really feel how soft these were but loved how much more comfortable I was striking them and with no distance loss and good control. Performance was awesome, spin was there when needed and they would check up nicely also when needed. Took a few holes go get use to the soft feel with the putter but I really felt I could put a nice stroke on the ball with out it feeling it was going to jump off the face. The cover seemed to hold up real well just looking at the ones I didn't manage to lose. Shot my usual mid 80's but still getting better (55 years old and into my 3rd year of playing). Now thinking I may have just discovered my new gamer. This ball is well worth it.
I know a lot of people say “I can’t notice a difference in golf balls when hitting” and I’m going to say, I picked up golf this year, went on my first time in the course 2 days ago and did 18 holes in a golf outing scramble style. I’m obviously not very skilled yet but did actually perform better than I expected (thank you sim 2 max driver for your insane forgiveness LOL) and I noticed a difference between golf balls. I purchased new Callaway Supersofts and was hitting them the better than the randoms I found around the course. I noticed they felt different than the others and hit very nicely, I ordered the TM Speed Soft blue ink to try (may have lost quite a bit of balls haha) and very excited to try them.
Love the Speedsofts! Got the non ink version and have already hit one on my sim so much it cracked (around 1k strikes with the whole bag.) Great performance from these. I'll never go back to supersofts.
For the past year, I have been using the Taylormade DISTANCE+, and I really like it; it has a compression of 77, which is a bit higher than the SPEEDSOFT. On a brand-new DISTANCE+ with a couple of wedge hits, the cover will deteriorate, and after a round, the ball is severely scratched. I would like to see a comparison between the SPEEDSOFT and DISTANCE+
I have played Srixon soft feel for some time. Tried the speedsoft. Nice soft feel. They look great but launch too high for me. Lost a lot of distance when compared to Srixon. Will go back to the srixon softfeel.
Agree, I had the odd blue and dark red to try and couldn’t see the ball in flight and couldn’t find the damn things in the rough. Love the yellow stripes though.
Curious how it stacks up to the TP5 with mid or long irons, and the driver. Soft feel with huge performance is a big reason why I put the TP5 in my bag when it counts. Some brands feel like hitting rocks even when you stripe them.
After living through the wound balata to the two piece ionomer ocver, to the Titleist Professional, to the modern three to five piece urethane ball, I don't think I'll play a two piece ionomer cover ball ever again.
For the slower swinging mid to high handicaps I'm sure this is an excellent ball.. Now I just wish they had that paint splatter design available on the TP5 😅I'd buy it in an instant.
Tried the ink and loved it, so next round tried a white speedsoft, totally different feel! on investigation I found that the ink is manufactured in Korea, the white in China, and the yellow in Taiwan! So effectively three different balls and three different feels. Not complaining as I’m happy to use the ink, but …….
Do you think the benefits of more control around the greens outweigh the cons of having a higher spin off the drive? I have a 120+ headspeed with the driver but I am still new to golf and struggle with short game. Thanks!
You really need to get good with wedges before you care too much about ball selection. With 120 swing speed, if you can apply it properly, you'll want a firmer ball. At that speed you deform softer balls off the tee so badly that it can affect it's flight
@NotABirdie not really. It's really swing dependant on what ball to use BUT Kirkland is an absolute tour quality ball at a low price. There are some haters but they're the type of people that love name brand everything. You'll find a lot of scratch golfers that play Kirkland cause they know... It's a high compression ball and has tons of greenside spin. I'm assuming you're young and strong, maybe former baseball player with 120 swing speed? And you're talking driver club head speed, not ball speed?
@NotABirdie never mind. I see you said club head. Of top tier balls you'd be in ProV1x, Tp5x, chrome soft X. The distance benefit is greater than a couple hundred rpm of greenside spin. Honestly a topflite, nitro, even range balls off the tee are better than like a soft golf ball. Soft balls are low spin but if you watch it on a high speed camera you'll mangle them at impact. Topflite, Nitros and stuff like that are hard and low spin. Great off the tee, but won't stick a green like a premium ball. What they do basically is have more layers where they can keep cores hard (better energy transfer for long shots) and softer outer layers that wedges and irons grab more to give more spin. The cheap 2 piece balls (Nitro, topflite, just 2 examples) are just hard and hard. It's a yin and a yang. Everyone wants low spin off the tee and high spin at the green. Spin= control for all shots. Too much (off the tee) reduces distance. High swing speed players generally don't have an issue with too low of spin. Slow swing speeds need some spin to help keep the ball in the air to travel longer.
Was on Taylor Mades' website the other day. I saw these. Bought 2 dozen got them today. Then ink pattern is AWESOME!!! Will be trying them on the course this weekend. I'm super excited to see how they perform.
I don't know I just saw this ball and was drawn to it for the ink design. Do you currently play the Soft Response? Have you tried Tour Response? I think if you like soft then this is a winner
They should’ve made the tp5x pix like this. Too bad this ball is a really spinny ball. Would love to game these but with 115-118SS, this ball is going to balloon up in the air.
After living through the wound balata to the two piece ionomer ocver, to the Titleist Professional, to the modern three to five piece urethane ball, I don't think I'll play a two piece ionomer cover ball ever again.
@@jeromekemmer8148 I was young when balata was a thing, that ball would proper RIP! The Professional I remember that being a serious breakthrough too..... nostalgia in one comment there fella
Hey Trottie! Big fan. How do I book a fitting with you? Can we like, subscribe and comment to enter? I am ex college golfer, hit it 300 plus looking to get into qi 10 with TR red or blue. When should you tip a shaft and how much?
Here's a review....after 7 years of not playing golf I got back into it was using a variety of balls trying to find something that was consistent and felt good ....first rd 97 ....bought some speedsoft ink and gir and fir immediately went up..extremely consistent and great ball chips pitches wedges everything feels great ...beautiful to the eye and easy to find when in the rough ...cheaper than tp5's etc 35 dollars a box in Canada.....I literally love them and have the blue red and green ....I have only used red so far and at the rate so far I don't know if I will ever get to the other colors....I have used a ball for 3rds and have not a single blemish on it ...they are crazy durable ...go get some stop reading this review and thank Taylor made later these are great..after 1month of golf I am down to a 85 avg per rd
I did talk spin rates? Thought I made it clear, speed wise this isn't going to be the ball for anyone with 110 club speed driver but your lower swing speeds this is going to be in their wheel house. Let me know any constructive questions you might have and I'll happily answer them on the ball or any other equipment.
This is a good video but it isn't an impartial 'review' in the true sense of the word...it's an infomercial and should really be described as one...I do like the balls though 👍
I have a fairly slow swing speed and love soft balls with lots of feel. Tried these out at the weekend and course was very wet but they are a great feel. Can't wait to try them when the course firms up and especially when I go to St Andrews for a couple of days in April. Awesome feel when putting and I also just got a brand new milled grind wedge so hoping to knock a couple of shots off my handicap in the first couple of months of the season when it finally gets going in the UK.
Gonna pin this comment. LOVE THIS. Someone who plays a soft ball validating the performance. Thanks Simon & good luck at St Andrews
After 4 years of serious illness, hopefully now behind me, I have lost 15% swing speed and distance. I have used PROv1 & later X and was usually one of the longer hitters in my group. I’d now be well short. I went for a fitting at SGGT Chesterfield and was fitted for SZ4 Srizons and softer KBS Graphite shafts. This solves my issues but coupled with Speedsoft I am nearly back to where I was. They feel great, and this gives confidence. They fly higher which is just what I now need. I could have rescued my golf game with these changes and I’m thankful. I nearly gave up.
Inspirational story , great going and well done on all fronts . Clubs & more importantly health
Thank you Trottie. I so appreciate your wonderful content and great skill. Keep going for us. David
Picked up some this weekend excited to test them out. I like the look.
Just used them on a course - loved them
Well done Trottie. As the father of 2 teenage golfers these balls bring ladder down for young players. I mark up all there balls with the compression number. I have them using P__Soft balls this past year and S__r Soft. To think of compression 40 balls. Not Compression 99 distance balls. I try hard to explain that seniors and Teenage Juniors and side by side, with clubs and balls.
How many times have that junior made the green 45 yards out with a chip and 2 puts for par. Then to leave with 2 chips and 5 puts. No young golfer = no club futures. Well done TM.
Have been using for a few months. Works as designed for my game. Senior w/14 hdcp. Helps consistency.
This is the first "distance" ball that I like the cover on. This is something that I needed!!!
Just bought my second dozen…great ball feel.
Tried these for the first time today and loved them! I’ve bounced around to a lot of different balls to find the ones I like including ProVs and TP5s, and I feel these are great for the price.
Got to catch up to those vice sales. Imagine the sales if they made thia in the tp5s
Used these for the first time this weekend and really liked them. Loved the feel and how high they launch. Definitely more suited to my game than the TP5 pix I’ve been using.
LOVE IT - GO LOW David
Absolutely excellent review.
bought a box last night...taking them to the course tomorrow!
How did you go PLYR?
@trottiegolf loved them but found the paint a bit distracting. Going to try the plain white!
@@heavyp03 options, we like options
Hi Chris ! I recently got in a shipment of these speed softs. They are the premium ball of their price category. I had been using callaway supersofts and I do think these are better. I have played a couple of rounds with the Speed Soft blue inks with great results. A great ball for seniors. They check up better than the supersofts . They give you more spin too to elevate the ball. I noticed it right away. I love the soft feel they have. I think they are a premium ball in disguise :) They have done extremely well in a number of reviews as well . I will be using these from now on. I never expected these kind of results. Joe P.S. I am going to buy some of the solid yellow ones too. I like the color options for these balls. I have to say you went above and beyond in this review Chris. Its excellent!!!
Awesome comment, thanks for the feedback
Just ordered a box. Will hit the course with then as soon as they arrive. Can't wait to give them a try
How'd you go? Would love to hear
@@trottiegolf Very impressed with these new balls. Look even better in hand than they do online. Normally I like a firm feeling ball off driver (TP5x or Bridgestone Tour BX are my usual gamers) but these felt really great and seemed to maintain my usual ball speed and distance. The sound is very pleasing as well.
With the irons I could really feel how soft these were but loved how much more comfortable I was striking them and with no distance loss and good control. Performance was awesome, spin was there when needed and they would check up nicely also when needed. Took a few holes go get use to the soft feel with the putter but I really felt I could put a nice stroke on the ball with out it feeling it was going to jump off the face.
The cover seemed to hold up real well just looking at the ones I didn't manage to lose. Shot my usual mid 80's but still getting better (55 years old and into my 3rd year of playing). Now thinking I may have just discovered my new gamer. This ball is well worth it.
@@68wolffden TOP FEEDBACK - THANK YOU
I know a lot of people say “I can’t notice a difference in golf balls when hitting” and I’m going to say, I picked up golf this year, went on my first time in the course 2 days ago and did 18 holes in a golf outing scramble style. I’m obviously not very skilled yet but did actually perform better than I expected (thank you sim 2 max driver for your insane forgiveness LOL) and I noticed a difference between golf balls. I purchased new Callaway Supersofts and was hitting them the better than the randoms I found around the course. I noticed they felt different than the others and hit very nicely, I ordered the TM Speed Soft blue ink to try (may have lost quite a bit of balls haha) and very excited to try them.
Love them...soft feel great within 100 yards.
Love the Speedsofts! Got the non ink version and have already hit one on my sim so much it cracked (around 1k strikes with the whole bag.) Great performance from these. I'll never go back to supersofts.
just got 2 free dozen of these. Green & Red.
Ive been using these and they really do feel nice off the face
For the past year, I have been using the Taylormade DISTANCE+, and I really like it; it has a compression of 77, which is a bit higher than the SPEEDSOFT. On a brand-new DISTANCE+ with a couple of wedge hits, the cover will deteriorate, and after a round, the ball is severely scratched. I would like to see a comparison between the SPEEDSOFT and DISTANCE+
No one is going to do that comparison. There's not a good golfer on earth that is using a TM distance. They don't get any greenside spin
@@noworriesmanbah, hahahaha - go play with trump
Loving the Adidas drip my man!
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Good presentation skills bro!
Thx fella
I have played Srixon soft feel for some time. Tried the speedsoft. Nice soft feel. They look great but launch too high for me. Lost a lot of distance when compared to Srixon.
Will go back to the srixon softfeel.
Listen I can respect it because I love the test process. Stay curious and you'll see results.
The tour response stripe is a cheat code to putt with, I love it but any color other than the yellow is impossible to see.
Interesting. I've only practiced with it.
Agree, I had the odd blue and dark red to try and couldn’t see the ball in flight and couldn’t find the damn things in the rough. Love the yellow stripes though.
Hope they put that INK on different models!
Curious how it stacks up to the TP5 with mid or long irons, and the driver. Soft feel with huge performance is a big reason why I put the TP5 in my bag when it counts. Some brands feel like hitting rocks even when you stripe them.
All depends on your speed, if you have enough speed for the TP5 then I wouldn't be looking to move to this.
I love them I also have pink blue green red orange
Been playing the RBZ soft for years, how does it compare to this.
I think you gotta give it a serious test session if that's your go to
After living through the wound balata to the two piece ionomer ocver, to the Titleist Professional, to the modern three to five piece urethane ball, I don't think I'll play a two piece ionomer cover ball ever again.
2 boxes heading my way!
For the slower swinging mid to high handicaps I'm sure this is an excellent ball.. Now I just wish they had that paint splatter design available on the TP5 😅I'd buy it in an instant.
Yea I'm with ya, which is your favorite color? The red is only sold direct to consumer , meaning over the internet I believe
Will try them tomorrow
Tried the ink and loved it, so next round tried a white speedsoft, totally different feel! on investigation I found that the ink is manufactured in Korea, the white in China, and the yellow in Taiwan! So effectively three different balls and three different feels. Not complaining as I’m happy to use the ink, but …….
PLEASE, put the red splatter on the TP5😩🤞🤞🤞
I hear ya
Great looking ball my only concern is durability with that design guess time will tell
I didn't see any issues from sand or full wedge
Will there be a new Soft Response ball in 2024?
Someone else asked that, I have to assume this is a great comparison to that ball
Do you think the benefits of more control around the greens outweigh the cons of having a higher spin off the drive? I have a 120+ headspeed with the driver but I am still new to golf and struggle with short game. Thanks!
As a new player, probably not. A good higher speed player will want a lower spin ball off the tee
You really need to get good with wedges before you care too much about ball selection. With 120 swing speed, if you can apply it properly, you'll want a firmer ball. At that speed you deform softer balls off the tee so badly that it can affect it's flight
@@noworriesman do you have any recommendations? I currently shoot mid-low 90s to give you an idea. Thanks!
@NotABirdie not really. It's really swing dependant on what ball to use BUT Kirkland is an absolute tour quality ball at a low price. There are some haters but they're the type of people that love name brand everything. You'll find a lot of scratch golfers that play Kirkland cause they know... It's a high compression ball and has tons of greenside spin. I'm assuming you're young and strong, maybe former baseball player with 120 swing speed? And you're talking driver club head speed, not ball speed?
@NotABirdie never mind. I see you said club head. Of top tier balls you'd be in ProV1x, Tp5x, chrome soft X. The distance benefit is greater than a couple hundred rpm of greenside spin. Honestly a topflite, nitro, even range balls off the tee are better than like a soft golf ball. Soft balls are low spin but if you watch it on a high speed camera you'll mangle them at impact. Topflite, Nitros and stuff like that are hard and low spin. Great off the tee, but won't stick a green like a premium ball. What they do basically is have more layers where they can keep cores hard (better energy transfer for long shots) and softer outer layers that wedges and irons grab more to give more spin. The cheap 2 piece balls (Nitro, topflite, just 2 examples) are just hard and hard. It's a yin and a yang. Everyone wants low spin off the tee and high spin at the green. Spin= control for all shots. Too much (off the tee) reduces distance. High swing speed players generally don't have an issue with too low of spin. Slow swing speeds need some spin to help keep the ball in the air to travel longer.
Was on Taylor Mades' website the other day. I saw these. Bought 2 dozen got them today. Then ink pattern is AWESOME!!! Will be trying them on the course this weekend. I'm super excited to see how they perform.
68? how were they?
Trottie, you work for Taylormade. How is this impartial brother?
Love the look of the ball btw!
Just the different models, it’ll set everyone on a good path
Speed soft 🔥
gona get a cut on sales with such a good pitch? :)
Is this what is replacing the soft resoonse trottie?
I don't know I just saw this ball and was drawn to it for the ink design. Do you currently play the Soft Response? Have you tried Tour Response? I think if you like soft then this is a winner
Bought a dozen and it’s great ball to use on the course and nice to save a little cash. Also save my TP5 for tournaments.
Thanks for the info Trottie
I’m sold
Can u play a round left handed and post it the channel?
Are these those new slower balls the pga wants to start running?
Naaa, don't think we're there yet
@@trottiegolfwe don't want to be there at all.
@@saadsajidul9001 us guys don't that's for sure, maybe the top pro's want it. Game's hard enough for me I reckon 🤣
“When you cruise up the fairway” more like when I’m searching in the woods
They should’ve made the tp5x pix like this. Too bad this ball is a really spinny ball. Would love to game these but with 115-118SS, this ball is going to balloon up in the air.
Yea maybe not for you but I'm with ya, the ink is cool
Impartial??
This is an ad.
Subtle cut at 2:37 and hitting behind a divot lol
And orange
Smooth 56
$25 bucks.. probably 2 piece and no spin. Every 20 year old kid and fellas named Jerome will love these hideous things
You might want to turn off the light. Your racism is showing
After living through the wound balata to the two piece ionomer ocver, to the Titleist Professional, to the modern three to five piece urethane ball, I don't think I'll play a two piece ionomer cover ball ever again.
@@jeromekemmer8148 I was young when balata was a thing, that ball would proper RIP! The Professional I remember that being a serious breakthrough too..... nostalgia in one comment there fella
Hey Trottie! Big fan. How do I book a fitting with you? Can we like, subscribe and comment to enter?
I am ex college golfer, hit it 300 plus looking to get into qi 10 with TR red or blue.
When should you tip a shaft and how much?
It’s an advertisement, not a review. You’re a Taylormade worker.
Here's a review....after 7 years of not playing golf I got back into it was using a variety of balls trying to find something that was consistent and felt good ....first rd 97 ....bought some speedsoft ink and gir and fir immediately went up..extremely consistent and great ball chips pitches wedges everything feels great ...beautiful to the eye and easy to find when in the rough ...cheaper than tp5's etc 35 dollars a box in Canada.....I literally love them and have the blue red and green ....I have only used red so far and at the rate so far I don't know if I will ever get to the other colors....I have used a ball for 3rds and have not a single blemish on it ...they are crazy durable ...go get some stop reading this review and thank Taylor made later these are great..after 1month of golf I am down to a 85 avg per rd
Found that they deteriorated very quickly. Didn’t even hit any trees and the surface of the ball was unusable after about 5 holes.
Stop topping the ball🤣
@@LionelMessi-ct7tu 😂
The haters in the comments is crazy😂😂😂. Who gives af if he works for TM. You don’t have to buy shit😂😂
Thank you..... somebody who gets it
No comparisons? No spin rates? Just some guy saying he liked it? That's not a review, that's just propaganda.
I did talk spin rates? Thought I made it clear, speed wise this isn't going to be the ball for anyone with 110 club speed driver but your lower swing speeds this is going to be in their wheel house. Let me know any constructive questions you might have and I'll happily answer them on the ball or any other equipment.
Camouflage hard to find 🤦🏼♂️
This is a good video but it isn't an impartial 'review' in the true sense of the word...it's an infomercial and should really be described as one...I do like the balls though 👍
Informercial / Review - you liked it regardless 🤣
So annoying.
This video sounds like an advert!!!
it's not intended to, I just wanted to give you some info on the new ball.