PXG is re-entering the premium golf ball market with its release of two new balls, the Xtreme Tour, and the Xtreme Tour X. In this review, I am taking a look at the spinner, higher flying of the two, the Xtreme Tour X, to see how it stacks up against the best golf balls of 2024.
Starting with the tech, the Xtreme Tour X is a three-piece construction ball that features a polybutadiene core designed for high-speed performance, and a firm ionomer mantle layer looking to achieve maximum ball speeds, particularly with your longest clubs. PXG has then added a soft urethane cover to optimize spin, feel, and control.
I was a particular fan of just how white these golf balls are, which may seem like a strange thing to say, but when you see as many golf balls as I do, you begin to realize there are many different variations of white, and this is an especially bright one. For those interested, PXG also provide the Xtreme Tour X in a bright yellow option. In addition to the finish, I absolutely love the alignment aid on the side of these balls. As a serial user of the line, mainly on shorter putts, the bold black line was a great help, but also the perpendicular finer line was an extremely helpful guide for leading-edge alignment.
Despite the additional work PXG has put into the feel of this ball, I still found it significantly firmer than my gamer ball the TaylorMade TP5x. That aside, it produced some excellent spin around the greens for me and the durability of the ball was excellent, especially given the lengthy short game sessions I subjected it to.
The ball speed was probably the main story for me with the Xtreme Tour X. As you can see from the below data, I found a fairly significant uptake in speed from my current gamer and it was also a little quicker than its sibling the standard Xtreme Tour ball all the way through the bag for me. This translated to some fairly impressive carry numbers for a premium ball that offers plenty of spin.
The Xtreme Tour X does exactly what PXG said it would compared to the standard model, although maybe not as dramatically as I was expecting. Spin jumped up a little from the Xtreme Tour for me but not much more than 150rpm at any point through the bag, and with that, my peak heights increased a touch but it was so minimal I probably wouldn’t even have noticed had it not been quantified by my Full Swing KIT launch monitor, as it only amounted to a matter of a few feet.
As a high spinner of the golf ball generally, I think my favorite of the two was the standard Xtreme Tour, but truth be told, other than a noticeably firmer feel, there wasn’t too much between the two balls in terms of the data in my testing.
As a family of balls, the Xtreme Tour and Tour X are a significant step up for PXG in the premium ball market. At $49.99/£44.99, I think they are pitched about right, and anyone looking to investigate what distance and spin gains can be made by switching balls this off-season should definitely add PXG Xtreme Tour X to their test list.
