Gear: TaylorMade Tour Response golf balls (2025)

Price: $42.99 per dozen

Specs: Three-piece, urethane-covered balls. Available in white, yellow and with 360-degree alignment stripes in high-visibility yellow, orange, light blue, navy blue and pink.

Available: Feb. 13

Who it’s for: Golfers who want a soft feel, low spin off the tee, and outstanding greenside spin and control from a ball that costs less than most premium balls.

What you should know: The core of the 2025 Tour Response has been designed with the same additive found in the TP5 and TP5x. This allows TaylorMade to elevate the compression for better performance while maintaining a soft feel and sound.

The deep dive: Last year was a massive year for TaylorMade golf balls because the brand rolled out a new technology it felt could change the way golfers think about balls. Previously, to make a ball faster, it had to be firmer, which created sounds and sensations that turned off some players. However, softer-feeling balls often lacked the speed and performance that discerning players demanded.

Enter Speed Wrap, an additive put in the core of the 2024 TP5 and TP5x that made the rubber less dense and decoupled the relationship between sound, feel and speed. Adding it allowed TaylorMade to increase the compression of the five-layer TP5 and TP5x, which boosted speed and performance while making the balls feel and sound softer.

Now, with the release of the 2025 Tour Response, TaylorMade is bringing that technology to its best-performing three-piece ball. As it does in the TP5 and TP5x, the addition of Speed Wrap in the core allowed TaylorMade to make the core firmer and faster while maintaining a soft feel that many golfers prefer.

The core is encased in a mantle that TaylorMade claims is the fastest it has ever made. This mantle is layered under a soft, thin, cast urethane cover. The grooves in wedges and short irons easily grab the urethane, so the Tour Response generates low spin off the tee but more spin on approach shots, pitch shots and chip shots for enhanced short-game control.

To help the 2025 Tour Response hold its line and be more stable in the wind, TaylorMade designed the ball with its Tour Flight dimple pattern, the same aerodynamic pattern that has been on the TP5 and TP5x since 2021.

The Tour Response will be available in traditional white and yellow, as well as with a unique alignment system. In 2022, TaylorMade started offering Stripe balls with the Clear Path Alignment system. The 22-millimeter-wide, 360-degree stripe that encircled the ball made it easier to line up putts on an intended target line. Then, you could watch the line as the ball rolled toward the hole to see if you struck the putt solidly, cut across the ball at impact or pulled the putt. For 2025, TaylorMade’s Tour Response Stripe balls have new neon digital inks, which should make following your putt easier.

This article originally appeared on Golfweek: TaylorMade Tour Response for 2025 is faster but still feels soft