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Bridgestone Tour B XS

Bridgestone

First cited here by Tiger Woods, November 2017

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  • “I initially played the XS and liked it but after working with Bridgestone’s R&D team and really learning about the ball fitting process, it was obvious that the Tour B X was the best fit for my game.”
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  • “I can play any ball I want, and the Tour B XS is my clear choice,” said the 15-time Major champ.
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  • Most recently, that has been in the shape of the Bridgestone Tour B XS which he has been using since it was launched by the brand in 2020. Now, however, it looks like Woods will be using the firmer Bridgestone Tour B X over the next two events at least.
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  • After downloading the app, a user could point their phone at the Bridgestone Tour B XS box and an image of Woods “stands” before them (somewhat like a hologram) talking about the technology of the ball he uses and his relationship with the company.
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  • Those numbers eventually had Day transition to the company’s 2022 Tour B X model. According to Rehberg, while Day liked the greenside spin of the XS, it would float on him a little on full shots with the mid and short irons.
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  • “We hear from a lot of players who started with Bridgestone by trying Tiger’s Tour B XS model and then eventually transitioned to the Tour B X, RX, or RXS, after being fitted,” said Mellow.
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  • “The Tour B XS is still a ball he helped co-design, and it’s a ball he’ll probably go back to in those situations where he needs more playability and workability in the golf ball.
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  • all signs point to the 15-time major winner altering the recipe and switching away from the Tour B XS and into the Tour B X for at least The Match and PNC Championship.
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  • It is not an entirely new ball, but rather the existing 2020 Bridgestone Tour B XS model released in January , also known as the golf ball Woods uses on the PGA Tour.
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  • In addition to not being the same iron, it wasn’t the same ball, either, as Woods now uses Bridgestone’s Tour B XS model instead of one with a Nike swoosh.
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  • Before 2022, Woods had played Tour B XS, a softer ball with more spin, to work the ball both directions and get the necessary zip around the green.
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  • he’s looking for more distance, and the lower-spinning Tour B X model (compared to the Tour B XS he had been playing) definitely spins less
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  • Woods is putting the new TaylorMade SIM driver and a new Bridgestone Tour B XS golf ball in play this week at the Farmers Insurance Open.
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  • Woods took to social media on Wednesday to confirm Bridgestone’s Tour B XS prototype will be his ball of choice in Orlando.
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  • Tiger Woods took more than two years testing prototypes of what would eventually become Bridgestone’s Tour B XS ball.
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  • Woods began using the Tour B XS ball in preparation for the 2017 Hero World Challenge.
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  • Woods plays the more spinny Tour B XS whilst DeChambeau's preference is the Tour B X.
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  • Tiger Woods currently plays Bridgestone's Tour B XS golf ball.
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  • now putting the new Tour B XS ball in play at Torrey Pines
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  • Tiger Woods' Bridgestone Tour B XS golf ball.
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  • Tiger has typically used the softer version of whatever model golf ball he's playing (think Titleist Pro V1 over Pro V1x) and was using the Bridgestone Tour B XS – they even had a special edition available with 'Tiger' stamped on – but in more recent times he's switched to the firmer feeling Bridgestone Tour B X.
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  • He told us about playing with Tiger at Bay Hill and he saw some of the short-game shots Tiger was able to pull off with his Tour B XS that he couldn’t do with the ball he was playing, especially the low, spinny pitch that checks up
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  • Most recently, that has been in the shape of the Bridgestone Tour B XS which he had been using since it was launched by the brand in 2020, although he switched into the firmer Bridgestone Tour B X model in 2022.
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  • Upon signing with Bridgestone, Woods initially played the Tour B330 S golf ball which was eventually updated to the Tour B XS ball Woods won twice with in 2019 , including his 15th major title at the Masters.
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  • Woods will play Bridgestone Golf's Tour B XS ball in his first round of competitive golf since February, paired with Justin Thomas in the first round of the 2017 Hero World Challenge.
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  • Last season, he used TaylorMade Milled Grind wedges in 56° and 60° with True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 shafts, and Bridgestone Tour B XS golf balls.
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  • The Tour B X, however, is not the ‘spinniest’ ball in the Bridgestone line. What’s changed or what trait does the X give you that the XS did not?
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  • Tiger also favors a higher spinning golf ball (the Bridgestone Tour B XS) and likes to spin the heck out of his short game shots
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  • After playing more with Woods, who uses Bridgestone’s Tour B XS ball , however, McIlroy decided to make another switch.
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  • The XS version, which happens to be Tiger Woods' ball of choice , delivers more spin than the slightly firmer X.
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  • The Masters marked Tiger Woods’ first official tournament with Bridgestone’s Tour B XS golf ball in the bag.
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  • Woods also switched to the model in recent years from the softer and spinnier Tour B XS.
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  • Woods also had the new Bridgestone Tour B XS 2020 golf ball in his bag.
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  • he’s using a new Bridgestone Tour B XS prototype golf ball
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  • Ball: Bridgestone Tour B XS golf ball
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