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This is an awesome test!  Love blind testing.  Not knowing which ball is what & playing them all side by side in different situations to see how they act.  Priceless!  This will be a fun test & I look forward to hearing your thoughts.  Congrats guys! 

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Congrats to our testers!


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Fine cross-section of talent for the test!  Looking forward to the results. 👍

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The latest issue of Golf Digest includes an extended article detailing Tiger Woods's ball testing procedure with Bridgestone:
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Why mention that here? Because Tiger's testing was done without knowledge of the intended characteristics of the balls Bridgestone put in front of him:
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And that's exactly what twelve(!) MyGolfSpy Forum Members get to do now! Bridgestone will be shipping out a couple of sleeves of balls these members. What are they? What are they supposed to help with? We don't know! And that's the key: this is a blind, unbiased review, without coming in with expectations of performance based on the OEM's claims.
I'm excited to read our members' thoughts on these new Bridgestone balls. Who will be playing the role of Tiger for our community?
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Congrats to these members, and the rest of us can read up on their testing when we're not shoveling snow!

Congratulations guys, hitem well!


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Thanks for the awesome opportunity! This one is going to be a lot of fun. Having no preconceived notion about the ball should be an interesting wrinkle in getting it out in the course to see what it can do. I’m geeking out about this one!

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Congrats testers!! That looks like a really good group! After participating in the e12 test early in the year, I'm really interested to see the results and what everyone thinks. It will be fun to find out what was what when the next BigB ball is released.

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I’m excited to be part of my first MGS test! I’ll do my best! 

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Not bad for a mishit

Driver: :callaway-small: Rogue ST Max LS Tensei AV Blue S

3w/5w: :titelist-small: TSi2 Tensei AV Raw Blue S

4h: :mizuno-small: CLK 22* Hybrid Tensei CK Pro Blue 80HY S

Irons 5-PW: :mizuno-small: 223 Steelfiber PR 95 S

Wedges: :cleveland-small: RTX Zipcore Tour Rack 50, 54, 58 Steelfiber PR 105

Putter: LAB Link.1

Ball: :srixon-small: Z-Star Diamond

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21 minutes ago, yungkory said:

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Not bad for a mishit

Catch that one a little fade-y?

 

On 12/8/2019 at 8:07 AM, dalejbrass said:

I’m excited to be part of my first MGS test! I’ll do my best! 

Congrats on the first test!  Have fun!

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Just now, JohnSmalls said:

Catch that one a little fade-y?

 

Congrats on the first test!  Have fun!

Yeah, caught it in the heel 😒

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3w/5w: :titelist-small: TSi2 Tensei AV Raw Blue S

4h: :mizuno-small: CLK 22* Hybrid Tensei CK Pro Blue 80HY S

Irons 5-PW: :mizuno-small: 223 Steelfiber PR 95 S

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This is going to be an interesting one. I am curious what my clubhead data will be with the Mini Driver with a 43.5” shaft. I am guessing in the 100mph range...?

I will be getting my data in sometime this weekend. Boats in Cape May, and at the home place are broken. Been driving back and fourth.

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Not my best, but I was in a rush. Don’t hate! Terrible launch angle. Little high on the face and a little towards the toe. Interested to see how Bridgestone factors this in to the ball we are testing. Not far off from the trackman numbers I  have from a recent fitting, pretty impressive from a video submission. If you haven’t used this tool on the Bridgestone website, I highly recommend it!

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Not my best, but I was in a rush. Don’t hate! Terrible launch angle. Little high on the face and a little towards the toe. Interested to see how Bridgestone factors this in to the ball we are testing. Not far off from the trackman numbers I  have from a recent fitting, pretty impressive from a video submission. If you haven’t used this tool on the Bridgestone website, I highly recommend it!


I’d take that drive all day long. My best drive this year was 284 downhill and downwind onto hardpan.


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Congrats guys - looking forward to reading these reviews.

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Ping G410 7, 9 wood  Alta 65 R flex

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Let the games begin! This wasn’t my longest of the day, but it was smashed!

 

Here’s the clip of my swing!

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:cobra-small: LTDx 3W 15º | UST LIN-Q M40X TSPX Blue 7F4
:ping-small: G425 3H 19º | UST Recoil Proto Hybrid 85F4
:srixon-small: Z785 4-PW | UST Recoil 125 Proto F4
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º Mid, 54º Mid, 60º Mid | UST Recoil Wedge Proto F4
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I'm not overall pleased with the swing I sent in to them but I am very blown away with the fact you simply send in a swing video and they send back data that definitely are well within the "ballpark" of what I know to be my standard norm. I used my Mevo for 7 drives to know when I was more or less warmed up before the video swing and the data sent back from Bridgestone was basically within 3%+/- error of the averages I had just collected. From a simple 1 swing video....................I vote that to be impressive.

 

I'm more curious as to how/why they recommended Tour B XS to our tester who had 113mph chs and fairly high spin? Isn't that the "spinnier" ball? I thought that curious

 

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I also found that curious. My only thought was that I picked feel as the most important characteristic of the ball. I then went in and messed around with the “non-video” ball selection, and the BXS would always be the choice when I moved the spin above 3000 rpms.  Who knows!

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1 hour ago, jddaigneault said:

I also found that curious. My only thought was that I picked feel as the most important characteristic of the ball. I then went in and messed around with the “non-video” ball selection, and the BXS would always be the choice when I moved the spin above 3000 rpms.  Who knows!

I bet you are correct and nailed that on the "feel." I believe when I entered my data on preference, if memory serves me, think I choose "accuracy."

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This was a very typical average swing for me and fits with my known Arccos driving average yardages. Very cool from one video swing!

 

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Since everyone else is doing it... 😅

 

 

Driver: :callaway-small: Rogue ST Max LS Tensei AV Blue S

3w/5w: :titelist-small: TSi2 Tensei AV Raw Blue S

4h: :mizuno-small: CLK 22* Hybrid Tensei CK Pro Blue 80HY S

Irons 5-PW: :mizuno-small: 223 Steelfiber PR 95 S

Wedges: :cleveland-small: RTX Zipcore Tour Rack 50, 54, 58 Steelfiber PR 105

Putter: LAB Link.1

Ball: :srixon-small: Z-Star Diamond

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Can’t wait to see the results! I think I’ve finally settled on the Tour B XS after playing with it for a couple months. Very curious about this ball!

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Fairway Wood: :mizuno-small: ST190 15* Fujikura Atmos Blue 6S
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Rain is moving out tonight, if the range is open tomorrow I’ll get a video submission in to Bridgestone tomorrow.  I messed around with a sleeve of the B X this year and if it weren’t for already having 4 dz Z Stars in my closet, 8 would’ve stocked up.  To have the opportunity to test a new ball and provide feedback to Bridgestone is exciting.  Thanks again for the opportunity!

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All of these swing videos are awesome. Going to be a fun review to follow.

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3 Wood: 
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20° Hybrid: PXG_Logo.png.8401024d1fb8aec46f0e790c1aa5b80c.png PXG 0211 (2020 Model), 40.25", Mitsubishi Tensei AV RAW White 90X
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I’m excited for this one! Videos, mystery balls, Christmas season...what’s not to love?!

 

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Awaiting my results. Curious to see how I get around with the Mini Driver. Last time I was at the simulator I hit 107 with it. Probably nowhere near that, cold rain, tired.

Can’t wait to see what is inside of that box when it shows up!

Doing a little research last night with the MGS Ball Guide, I really enjoyed playing the Tour B XS, but the numbers from the test show it to be really close to the RX, except for iron distance being a touch more on the RX.

I really like the feel of a mushy ball on my irons and wedges. Even if they put me in something else I think I am going to give the RX a go this year.

A little less spin on irons and wedges would be welcomed.

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Same here, waiting on results now.  Will be interested to hear how things are.  Last time I was on a monitor was end of June.  I averaged... 112.6 chs, 167.9 bs, 2330 rpm, and 10.6 launch.

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On 12/14/2019 at 4:07 AM, jddaigneault said:

I’m excited for this one! Videos, mystery balls, Christmas season...what’s not to love?!

 

Right? I'm particularly interested to learn more about the changes Bridgestone has made to the ball. If it's as good as some of the claims I've seen then my current gamer is going to have some serious competition!

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My results.  Shot was a little low on the face, but it wasn't as low as 7 degree launch.  I would've guessed it was in the 9-10 range. I don't believe the spin was as high as this claims, but the ss is spot on.  This was a straight away par 4 that ranged that particular day 367 yards from the tee to flag.  After the drive, I had 83 yards to go.  There was very little roll out due to all the rain we had last week.

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