About this deal
The color variance you see is really stress whitening of the material because of the mechanical way in which you are splitting the ball. If not keep reading: the new Chrome Soft 2020 features a brand new/redesigned core, which is 34% larger compared to the previous model; remember how we told you that a golf ball is built from the inside-out, right? I really don’t care how the Chrome Soft compares to itself between 2 different years but I do care how it compares to the Pro V and Pro VX, in fact, that is really all that matters. Like the standard Chrome Soft, previous X versions were 4-piece, dual-core designs (a little ball inside a bigger ball with two thin layers around it).
New Dual-Core manufacturing cells have been spun-up to resolve core-centering issues while improving the consistency of the baking process. I suspect you are far more MGS readers than one might realize playing balls from the lesser categories. Leaves me wondering whether to move to another company (you know the one) and getting the balls Truvized up. From your reply it would seem the total percent “bad” would be lower, not higher if there was a ball with multiple defects.
Although when I hit my next drive into the street I will be sure to claim that was one of the “bad balls”. As for variations in layer thickness; it doesn’t take much thought to realise that a ball with this issue will compress/react differently depending on which side of the ball you are hitting. Whilst many golfers will prefer a slightly firmer feel, we loved the muted sound through impact from the Chrome Soft. Core coloring was generally consistent with no swirls or abnormal color patterns that would suggest poorly mixed materials. 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).
The new compound is faster and stronger compared to the “vanilla version” (sans X), which results in ludicrous ball speeds.It's not the most workable ball out there, but few golfers will complain about a ball that's tough to curve. Just because their is a variation does that mean it goes 1% longer/shorter or higher/lower launch, 3% 10%?