Piper Gold Golf Ball Review
The mid-priced golf ball sector has grown a lot over time with not only the bigger brands like Titleist (opens in new tab), Callaway, TaylorMade (opens in new tab) and Srixon offering balls between premium and value price points, but smaller brands like Sounder, OnCore, Cut and indeed Piper also make balls that can be described as mid-priced.
Founded in February of 2021 and headquartered in Atlanta, Piper Golf came to our attention recently when we tested the Blue (opens in new tab) and Black (opens in new tab) golf balls, with the latter in particular blowing away our US tester Chris Wallace (opens in new tab). Acknowledging this, we thought it right to test the top of the range Gold model.
The Gold has a four-piece construction that Piper says offers extreme distance, a higher ball flight and a high spin rate. Well it must be said our driver testing did reveal some interesting results off the back of those claims. Whilst the spin (2445 rpm) was a little higher than the average on our best mid price golf balls test, the ball flight was also lower (around 3 yards). So whilst the Piper Gold carried 13 yards less than the average, I would expect a good amount of roll on the ground, somewhat bridging the distance gap with some of the other models we tested alongside the Gold.
With the 7-iron, the spin I was getting was over 1000rpm higher than the average in our comprehensive test. Whilst I think that too little spin with the mid irons is probably a bigger problem, this did seem to affect my distances. The carry was around 10 yards shorter than the average. Of course, what I should gain from this is a bit of consistency when hitting into the greens and possibly the ability to shape my iron shots a little easier.
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However, whilst the spin was little high in the mid irons, it was around the greens and playing short game shots that I really enjoyed it. The 50 yard wedge shots I hit averaged 7703 rpm of spin which was really impressive and as…
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