1/8/2025 • GolfBox
Callaway’s Triple Diamond designation signifies equipment designed for faster swing speeds and better players. In 2025, the Triple Diamond brand branches out into the golf ball category for the very first time.
A new Chrome Tour X Triple Diamond joins the Chrome Tour and Chrome Tour X in Callaway’s tour-calibre golf ball matrix, providing an extra option for players searching for their spin/launch nirvana.
For all intents and purposes, the new Chrome Tour X Triple Diamond golf ball is Callaway’s answer to Titleist’s Pro V1x Left Dash. Like the Left Dash, the Triple Diamond fills a niche gap in the existing range. And like the Left Dash, the Triple Diamond was born on tour.
A handful of Callaway’s tour staffers played the Triple Diamond prototype ahead of its release. However, the new TD ball shouldn’t be viewed as some sort of pro-only magic ball that will completely transform your game.
It’s just a little different to the Chrome Tour and Chrome Tour X. And that’s it.
The four-piece Triple Diamond can be described as a firmer feeling Chrome Tour X that launches higher and spins less on full shots throughout the bag. If those last two traits sound more like a regular Chrome Tour, you’re kinda on the money. In some ways, the new TD is a hybrid of the two existing balls.
The Chrome Tour X Triple Diamond won’t be a ball for the masses. However, it offers a performance profile that occupies a unique space in the Chrome Tour range.
Tuning the Triple Diamond golf ball for lower-spinning yet higher-launching performance saw Callaway apply a new dimple pattern to its cover.
Aerodynamically, the new dimples provide a penetrating ball flight through the wind. But they also subtly shift flight characteristics, so the ball launches higher and spins less on full shots compared to the Chrome Tour X ball. It’s a narrow and specific launch window but if you’re a player who wants to drop spin numbers, the Triple Diamond will do the job.
More noticeable is the firmer feel of the Triple Diamond, achieved through a higher compression core.
The Callaway Chrome Tour X Triple Diamond is fitted with the same urethane cover as the other Chrome Tour models. Around the greens it offers plenty of grip but won’t spin as much as its counterparts.
Like most Triple Diamond options, the new ball isn’t a middle-of-the-bell-curve offering.
It’ll be an option for high-spin players who don’t like the softer feel of the low spinning regular Chrome Tour. Particularly players who don’t want the speed disadvantages that come with a lower compression ball.
Looking at it another way, players who generate too much spin with the existing Chrome Tour X might find what they’re looking for with the Triple Diamond. It shouldn’t back up as much on the greens and the higher launch means players don’t need as much spin to control approach shots into the green, anyway. The TD ball will conceivably offer more distance control than low spin/low launch golf balls.
And for players who play Titleist’s Pro V1x Left Dash, the new Chrome Tour X Triple Diamond be a viable alternative.
The Triple Diamond is available in white and Triple Track varieties. It will be released at GolfBox on January 31, 2025.