The Srixon AD333 is the franchise that defined the value ball category, offering reputable performance without the premium price tag. Now the brand is looking to continue this dominance with a set of design improvements made to this latest generation, all while remaining at an affordable £28 per dozen.
However, the landscape is changing, and the AD333 now faces stiff competition from the likes of Kirkland and Amazon, who are both producing their own balls and aggressively targeting the cheap golf ball market.
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While the prices of these supermarket contenders are attractive, I found in my testing that they simply don’t compare when it comes to the technology incorporated into the AD333. There is a refinement and attention to detail that many direct-to-consumer balls often lack, and while the Kirkland has proved its dominance over the Amazon Basics ball, the AD333 takes things up a notch.
In fact, moving forward, this is the ball that will be used as our test subject when it comes to all value and budget golf balls. However, for the sake of this review, I tested it head-to-head against the latest Titleist TruFeel to see how it stacked up against another heavy hitter in the category.
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My testing began indoors on a Foresight GC3 launch monitor at the Golf Monthly Performance Lab to get some baseline numbers without external interference such as temperature, moisture and wind. Both the AD333 and the Titleist TruFeel actually performed pretty well at the top end of the bag, producing solid numbers in terms of ball speed.
Sam De’Ath testing the new Srixon AD333 golf ball indoors on Foresight Sports GC3 Launch Monitor
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The Srixon gave me a slightly better flight than the TruFeel due to my specific launch conditions. This was largely due to the TruFeel generating a touch more spin when hitting the driver, which robbed it of that penetrating trajectory I was getting with the AD333 and subsequently fell a little short in terms of carry.
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The central story of this new AD333 is the evolution of its core and compression, which explains the performance I saw on the monitor. Srixon has fine-tuned the FastLayer core, lowering the overall compression to 68. This contrasting compression effect is designed to maximize ball speed and encourage a longer, straighter…
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