TaylorMade’s TP5 and TP5x balls re-energize the five-layer ball concep | Golf News and Tour Information [Video]

It may have seemed odd for Monday night’s TaylorMade mega-sized new product launch event to start with the company’s new TP5 and TP5x golf balls.

But as TaylorMade’s director of golf ball research and development Eric Loper sees it, while the company’s legendary technology in clubs has always dominated the spotlight, the golf ball business will be a rightly deserved point of emphasis this year. “This is a milestone for golf ball. The performance is that different. It really is.”

It’s been more than seven years since TaylorMade introduced the first five-layer golf ball, the Penta TP. The idea with the five-layer ball was to go beyond building technologies into a ball that optimized speed and reduced spin on tee shots, while at the same time providing plenty of greenside spin and short game control. Instead, the five layers were meant to improve the performance of each club in the …