The TaylorMade story

TaylorMade started in 1979 with a single product. Gary Adams mortgaged his house to lease a small plant in McHenry, Illinois, and built a driver head out of steel instead of persimmon. The metalwood took over golf inside a decade, and the company has been arguing for new materials ever since.

That argument runs through the ball range today. TP5 is a five-layer tour ball under a cast urethane cover — five layers rather than the usual three or four, so spin can be tuned separately for the driver and for the wedge. Tour Response carries the same cast urethane cover over a Speed Wrapped Core in a simpler build. SpeedSoft goes the other way entirely: a sub-50-compression PWRCORE ball made for slower swing speeds.

The 2026 range also introduces Microcoating. Paint used to pool inside the dimples, which blunted the aerodynamics the dimple pattern was designed around; a thinner, more even coat leaves the pattern doing its job. A small change that shows up as tighter dispersion, ball after ball.