2025 Callaway Supersoft USA Stars and Stripes Edition Review

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00:00 Intro
1:56 Pricing
03:18 Design
5:02 Chipping
6:01 Putting
8:25 Feel and Sound
9:45 50 Yard Pitch
12:50 Pitching Wedge
14:40 7 Iron
16:52 Driver
19:07 Accuracy and Consistency
20:23 Durability
21:26 Conclusion

Hey, what is up my fellow golf ball addicts? Welcome back to the channel. Today we are reviewing the 2025, I promised this time, Callaway Super Soft. We’re going to compare it to the old model. We’re going to compare it to a couple other soft field models. It’s going to be a good time. Let’s dive right in. Okay, so let me start by eating some crow. Uh, this will be a disclaimer. If you want to just skip past this, you can use the chapters, but I I do owe some of you an apology. Uh, so basically, I did come out with a review about a week or two ago, and it was of the Super Soft, and unfortunately, I tested the 2023 version, not the 2025 version. So, uh, the way this happened was is I had gotten it from a retailer, but they sent me the wrong one. I didn’t do my due diligence. I just got it in the mail from them. you know, I bought the 25 version, so I just got it out, tested it. Um, I just didn’t pay attention to the details like I should have. And, you know, when I released the review, many of you were like, “Hey, the golf ball you’re showing is the old model.” And I’m very sorry about that. I really am. It It was a boneheaded mistake and it shouldn’t happen. Um, I don’t really have any excuses. I’ve just been trying to produce so much content and get these triple reviews out and um I kind of gotten maybe coasting, you know, and just hadn’t and I promise you it will not happen again. Um, but when you test a golf ball that has multiple years where, you know, super soft, you know, it has a 21 version and a 23 version and a 25 version and then it’ll have a 27 version when it gets 27. Sometimes if you’re trying to do it from memory, the golf balls can get crossed. You know, you might remember some bits and pieces from 21 and 23 and you might mix them. Um, and so I need to be better about not doing that from memory because what happened was in my last review, you you know, the one I did of the mistake two weeks ago. Uh, I said a lot about like how the old model felt dead and marshmallowy and it just it didn’t come off the club with any authority and the numbers were terrible and yada yada yada. I was thinking of the 2021 version. I actually went back and watched the old 2023 version and it actually did pretty good. Like here’s the numbers from that. You can see above average, above average, above like they actually were really good across the board. And if you look at this, this is from the 2021 version as you can see, you know, below average, below average, below average. So, I tried to do that from memory. It usually works out pretty good, but I might have just ran my mouth a little too much, and I apologize. I shouldn’t have done that. So, that that probably created some confusion. Many of you called me out on it. Thank you for doing so. Uh, long story short, I apologize. Here’s what we’re going to do. This for sure is the 25 version. It is the stars and stripes one. I wanted I thought it looked cool. That’s why I got these. But I’m going to test this one for sure. I’m going to uh put it against the one that I tested just recently and we’ll view the numbers and see how different they are. I’ll throw in some other ones, you know, like the soft feel and maybe like the Bridgestone E6 and some of those numbers in there. So, let’s go ahead and dive right in. Now, when it comes to the price point, like I mentioned before, these are $25 a dozen. Uh which they do have a twofer deal where if you buy two of them, you get them for $45. So, that’s not terrible. 2250 is actually a pretty decent deal for a AAA two-piece golf ball. Uh but you know, we as golf ball addicts, we like the dollar per golf ball or you know, Pinnacle Rush was cool cuz you got, you know, 15 golf balls for 20 bucks. And so, you know, it’s just what AAA golf balls are going for and it is what it is. But I wish they had a little bit better deals. Maybe like a buy three get one free or something like that. But it is what it is. Then when we get into design, I talked about it in that previous review, but Callaway Superoft has an excellent design because first of all, if you just look at the front, the Callaway logo is great. I love it. It’s iconic at this point. If you look on the side here, here’s the two different U models. This is the previous generation. This is the new one. That’s what they look like. It’s a nice thick black line. I like it a lot. Uh, but where Callaway really distinguishes themselves is one, they have the hexagon dimple pattern, which looks really cool. This is what it looks like up close. It is different and it it kind of gives it a unique look which is great. But also look at all these, you know, custom designs. You know, I this one obviously being the stars and stripes says USA on the side. It’s got the stars, red, white, and blue. Looks great. They also have one for Florida and college team. All kinds of different stuff. I mean, it’s great. So, if you have if you want to put personality in there, you can. You know, if you want to just play a plain white ball, you can. If you want matte colors, you got them. Uh Callaway tries to cater to every single golfer in that regard, and they do a great job at it. Let’s get out to the chipping and putting green and let’s see how it does around there. All right, let’s see if there’s been any improvements made greenside or if it just has that nice kind of consistent bouncy ball feel again. Oh yeah, very bouncy ball. Yeah, not a lot of rotation, not a lot of checkup, but it did I mean it sprung off the club. It did not take very much to get it there. I’m going to go back to that putting motion again. Just using the shoulders. Oh, very nice. Not bad at all. It kind of substitutes the lack of spin by having a little bit higher of a launch. Both of these were very easy to hit, very forgiving, a nice consistent roll straight. So, I’m going to really try to get one in the hole here. I think I’ve got a shot. Not bad. Yeah, really minimal rotation. Little left. It’s very soft. It has a nice soft landing. It doesn’t have a very firm hard roll out. So that’s that’s pretty nice. I think Callaway has struck a really good balance here. It doesn’t have a ton of spin or bite, but what it, you know, does to make up for that is by having a little bit higher of a launch and a very soft landing. And it’s actually, as you can see, nothing’s rolling really past the hole. I’m going to try to really get one in here. Ah, again, too far left. See that? I mean, it does come to a stop, you know? I mean, we we’ve tested golf balls out here recently that just shot to the back of the green. That’s not the case here. These land very soft. I got to try to actually get one to the hole. There we go. That’ll get there. Get in the hole. That’s what I’m talking about, team. That’s what I’m talking about, Addicts. All right. Super soft mallet putter. I’m expecting this golf ball to come off pretty, you know, bouncy. Uh, not have a lot of feedback. Let’s see what we got. Oh man. Yeah, it just little short. That’s my fault, but I mean, no feedback. completely dead in the hands. That’s That’s how I would expect with a uh a putter like this, you know. I got to say, nice roll. I mean, it has a really nice roll so far. I’m going to run that back. I want to verify. Very nice. Just a really nice consistent roll. I do like that. If you like feedback in the putter, you’re not going to get that here. But I’ll tell you what, the roll is like a 10 out of 10. That’s great. A very true roll. Oh man, I love that. Get in the hole. Well, no pictures on the scorecard. Am I right, guys? Oh man, really nice. Yeah, these golf balls have better rolls than Granny’s Southern Cafe. I’ll tell you what, that’s that’s really nice. Callaway’s found a great blend in here. Um I would absolutely putt that. Let’s get the blade putter and let’s see how that is. Okay, I now feel it just slightly. a good roll, but just a little soft by me. So, I did actually feel the feedback, but I mean, we’re talking very minimal. It’s like a, you know what I mean? It’s just so minimal in the hands. Uh, same thing with the sound. Very minimal, but it is noticeable. So, this is just a very soft feeling golf ball. Oh man, I love that. Just a little kiss. Callaway’s done a really good job over the last couple years. I got to give them some credit. As I mentioned in the beginning of this video, you know, the Super Soft a few years ago was a golf ball I just couldn’t stand. And you know, 23 they made some improvements. Now they made some improvements. I’ll tell you what, come 2027, they have they might have this thing just figured out. I’ll tell you what, it’s it’s really nice off the putter. I’m enjoying it. Nice. I That was a miship by me, but still just a really nice solid feel. If you like that really soft, buttery feel off the putter, right? It’s not tour level. It’s not going to have that that tour level feedback or sound. But if you just want like a nice soft feel and you know it to explode off the club a little bit and have a true roll, I can’t think of too many golf balls better than this. So that’s really refreshing again. Yeah, just love it. That’s all I need to see. Super soft 7 iron. Let’s see what we got here. Yeah, you know, for the first time in my life, the super soft has some explosiveness, which is so refreshing because used to, you know, I I would hit like the 21 model, you know, a few years ago, I would hit it and it really felt like the ball just stayed on my club and just kind of guided off, you know, like just flat out, okay, here comes the club. Boom. Okay, it’s sticking to it. All right, there it go. Not the case anymore. Like, it actually has some really good explosiveness. Now, there’s no feedback if you’re looking for like muscle back type feedback. No, it’s soft. It’s squishy. It’s a bouncy ball. But there is some explosiveness there for once. And I’m I did not expect that. So, that’s great. Let’s run it back. Let’s hit a couple more. Okay. Mhit. It let me know with some slight feedback, but it really didn’t punish me. My honest thought at first is, did I really mis hit it that bad? But I know I did. So, that could get you in trouble. But, it has a great feel. I would call it a four out of five on pure hits and I would call it maybe a four out of five on m hits. I’m going to hit this one off the toe on purpose and see. Yeah, completely off the toe. I’m going to be nice and give it the four. It’s pretty close. That’s a really good feeling golf ball. I respect it. Okay, so let’s talk some data numbers. Now, real quick, I do want to mention something. Now, this could be something. This could be nothing. I don’t know. It just felt like it was worth mentioning it to you. But when I went out to do the testing of this golf ball, I had one and I put it down and I’ I’ve had to get into a habit with the 58°. I have to put it at the front of the mat to make sure it doesn’t go over the top. It’s very rare that a golf ball goes over the top, but I just do that to make sure. I also usually play it just slightly back in my stance also because that’s how I play it out on the course as well. Um, I hit the first shot with this and it went over the net and luckily it hit the tree behind my net and fell down and I was able to get it and I was like, “Okay, that’s kind of weird.” It launched high. Put another one down, hit it, it goes over the net again. And I’m like, “Okay, kind of strange. I haven’t had a golf ball do three, four, five total hits. All of them go over.” On the fifth one, it went into the woods and I lost it. And I’m sitting there thinking, “Okay, what’s going on here? I don’t I don’t understand.” So, I come back inside. I get a different golf ball. I go out there. I put it down. I hit it and it goes into like the middle high of the net. And then I hit it again and it goes into the middle high of the net. The difference between launch angle like the first golf ball I had was like 32 to 35 anywhere in there and it was launching over every single time. I went and grabbed another one from the same sleeve and now it’s launching 28. Yeah. Sorry, I just went and checked. 27.4. And so I I know Callaway has had some issues in the past with production. Most of it’s been cleaned up now. Might be something, could be nothing. There’s a human element in there. But I just thought it was worth mentioning because it’s such a difference, right? I mean, one golf ball just kept going over the net. 32, 33, 35, 32. And then this one was a consistent 27. And so I I just didn’t understand it. Let’s get into the 50-yard pitch. Backspin RPM. Let’s see what we’re working with here. As you can see, we have Okay, so many of you enjoyed when I did this for the last video, so I went ahead and threw multiple golf balls on there just so you could kind of compare them. These are other two-piece models that have done really well this year. Uh, so starting with the Callaway 2025, I did get a little bit more than the previous year version, a little bit higher of a launch uh as well. I know I just told you 27.3 a minute ago. It’s I again got the balls mixed up. It’s easy to do. Uh, but no, 28.4 four on the new model, 7,219, a little bit better. But when you look at some other two-piece models, we have in green right there, that is the Maxfly Softfly. It did average at 78.94. And then we have the Titalist True Feel at 8150, which was a really great performance, especially for a two-piece. And then the Stricksen Soft feel 7972 again in that mid-range with a little bit higher of a flight. And then that’s actually the Maxfly Straight Fly down there on the end. Another good performance from Maxfly. They’re having a heck of a year. and almost 8,000 again. So, a lot of the really top performing two-piece golf balls when it comes to the 50-yard pitch, they’re around the 8,000 mark. They’re either really close to it or just above it. So, 7200 is pretty low. You know, it is enough to stop on a green, but it’s just not enough to really get that rip back that a lot of people are going to be looking for. Okay, so with that being said, now we’ll get into the pitching wedge here. Let’s see how these numbers are. We’re looking at All right, so in that third spot on pitching wedge, we’re going to be using the Precept Latty Extreme. Guys, if you’re new to the channel and you don’t know about the Precept Lady Extreme yet, it is made by Bridgestone. It is a dollar a golf ball and for three years in a row now, it has been a top 10 golf ball on this channel. There are tons of people here that love it and use it. You got to check that out. It’s the real deal. But we’re going to use in that third spot because it is one of the best testing of the year. Looking at the 2025 Callaway, you’ll notice it’s all green, which that’s initially great, but hold the brakes for a second. If we look at the swing speed, I actually swung a little faster than the other one. So, we got to go down to smash factor. And if you look at smash factor, they’re exactly the same. In fact, they’re the same across all three models. Looking at distance, again, everything is right there in the same all three models. Looking at the launch angle, 24. The preset wanted to launch a little high, but those two Callaway models are exactly the same. Then we get into the ball speed. You know, one’s 97.2, one’s 96. But again, if you calculate that club speed, the smash factor averages it out. Really, there’s only one difference I see between the Callaway 2025 and the 2023, and that’s that spin number. It’s 7,219 compared to 6,800. Remember, we saw it with the 50-yard pitch as well. It had just a little bit more spin. And I think that’s a really smart move. If you take everything that was great about the old model, you know, the soft, the squishy, a little bit of explosiveness, the great numbers, but you add that little bit of spin that everyone seems to be looking for, and now you have a golf ball that actually, I’ll be real, I think that’s the best two-piece pitching wedge performance I’ve seen this year. That’s fantastic. So, let’s keep that rolling. That’s actually a really, really healthy spin number. I love to see that cuz that’s going to actually stop and have some ripback. And with a two-piece golf ball, that’s amazing. I don’t see that all the time. And I definitely wouldn’t have guessed it with a super soft. I promise you if you’d given me five or six guesses I would not have put super soft on my list. So kudos. That’s really good. A lot of you are going to appreciate that. Moving on to the 7iron. All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. The Precept Latty Extreme. It’s also the best 7iron performance I’ve had with a two-piece. Uh everything’s green over there. We’ll get to that in just a second. Now, the 25 version and the 23 version, you’ll notice some differences there, but again, we got to look at the swing speed. And I kind of goofed again. I apologize. I try to keep that tight, but there’s a huge difference there. And we have to go down to smash factor now. And as you can see, the 25 version has a little bit better. It’s actually that mid-range. Uh I think the energy was being transferred a little bit better on the 25 model. And that’s where the smash factor kind of shows that. I like the medium, you know, as far as average distance. That’s not bad. Now, when it comes to spin, this is where it gets kind of interesting. 5,416 compared to 5,413. A 3 RPM difference between the two models. But it gets even crazier. In order to get to yellow and get to average, it’s 5 418. So the 25 version missed it by two. The other version missed it by five. It’s so close, you know, but ball speeds average. You know, that that kind of ticks the box, if you will. I’d wish it’d been a little bit more pop off the club, but the big difference I also see is the launch angle. Keep that in mind. 17.7 compared to 18.5. This new model might launch a little lower. So, we’ll look at that on the driver as well. Um the Precept Lady Extreme, you know, long story short, that’s the perfect performance for a 7iron. Like if you said, “Hey, Nick, how how would you want a two-piece to perform off the 7ir?” I would literally tell you word for word, I would want around 117 ball speed, close to 5,800 spin, you know, increased distance and a a smash factor as close to 1.40 as I could get. That’s pretty darn close. So, you know, kudos to it. Yeah, I mean, slightly lower launch. And I mean, other than that, again, the numbers are very, very similar. There’s a slight change in feel, not much, uh, but everything is still really, really close. I know there was a a decrease in distance, but you also got to figure that swing speed in there. I swung a mile and a half out, a mile and a half hour faster with the old model, the previous generation. Uh, so that probably had something to do with it. So, I mean, those are almost pound-for-pound spoton. So, maybe the changes this year were pretty minimal. You know what I mean? I don’t know. I don’t know exactly what they did, but it could have been pretty minimal. So, uh, then getting into the driver. Let’s see how that one is. All right. And so, we have another competitor finally, and this is the Wilson Boost. If you’re new to the channel and you haven’t heard of this one, uh it’ll surprise you because it definitely surprised most of us. This is a golf ball that got number three on our top 100 last year, and that’s because it’s $10 a dozen at Walmart, and it’s consistently one of the best performing golf balls I’ve ever tested on this channel. Just insane. Right now, it’s actually top five in the driver test for the year. So, it’s an incredible golf ball. It’s an anomaly. I don’t know why it exists. It’s almost like an alien, you know? I mean, it’s like the pyramids. I I don’t get it. But, we have the Super Soft 25. We have the Super Soft 23. And you can tell that I’m now starting to overcompress those golf balls uh just because of all the yellow in there, right? And the distance on the ball speed and stuff. I mean, it’s all average, but if you look at the smash factor, it was a little less. But I’ll be honest with you, those numbers are so close together that I I I’m just going to call it the same performance. I mean, obviously, there’s a human element in here, so it’s going to be different depending on the test. I could do these tests 10 times and they’d be different, but they’re just too close. You know what I mean? The main difference I see is that launch angle. We just talked about it with the 7ir. 15.9 compared to 19.7 is a huge difference, right? Even if you take the human element out, that’s a huge difference. So, I do think that the new 25 model has a little bit lower of a launch. I think they’re trying to hit more of a mid-launch opposed to high. Maybe they got some feedback or something. Uh the Boost over there did have a 19, you know, high launch, but it doesn’t matter because it’s all green and it’s all beautiful. So, you know, the Super Soft might be a golf ball that if you’re playing on a tighter course, you don’t really need distance as much. uh but you want some nice soft feel and control and forgiveness, not a lot of side spin, things like that, this could be a really really good model for you. Again, consistently a lower launch. So, I think the Super Soft probably, I don’t know this 100%, but just based on what I’m seeing, it seems like Supersoft might have gotten some uh user feedback that maybe the ball was launching a little high because that’s such a big disparity there. Now, obviously there’s some human element in it, but I mean I’ve never seen that big from year-to-year model where one was 19.7 with the driver and one was 15.9. So, it does seem like maybe there was some feedback that hey, it just it’s launching too high and so maybe Callaway made it more of a mid to mid high launch. And actually, I think it works in its favor. I think it really does. Okay, let’s get over to the computer and let’s look at some accuracy and dispersion. Let’s see how the new model did. All right, so 50 yard pitch. You know, everything’s on a line. It’s not bad. We got some good dispersion in there. Nice and tight. And then we get to the pitching wedge and you know it is pretty spread out but it’s actually still pretty contained. That’s that’s solid. You know what I mean? That’s definitely a solid dispersion chart there. Nothing crazy either left or right or even up and down. It’s it’s uh not the tightest dispersion I’ve seen, but it’s solid. That’s for sure. 7ir, again, this has kind of been the case with the last few golf balls I’ve tested being softer models. I’ve noticed that 7 iron’s been a little rough. You know, 7 iron’s in that yellow circle there. And as you can see, it’s uh a little short, a little long, a little right, a little left. Uh, even if you take away the human element, there’s definitely some big dispersion there for sure. Uh, now driver on the other hand, I really like. There’s one over to the far far right, and if you take that one away and just look at the other ones, there’s some pretty tight dispersion there. So, I like that a lot. So, overall, this is a solid golf ball. I had no trouble finding the fairway with it. You know, seven iron and the green’s a little shaky, but other than that, I think you’ll find the green pretty easy with these. Seems to be very soft, very forgiving. there just is some distance dispersion. So, just kind of keep that in mind if you’re someone who needs a lot of consistency. I did kind of struggle with the long iron, that’s for sure. All right, let’s talk durability real quick. We’ll look at this one right here. So, uh looking at the front of this one now, this is the side I hit the most because I had the metallic dot on the other side and it’s pretty banged up, but it doesn’t feel rough. It actually still feels really smooth. It’s just got some paint missing. So, that’s not bad at all. There’s a couple little abrasion and sand marks there, but they’re not bad. You know, again, this feels really good. This actually reminds me of what I just tested a couple days ago. It looks and feels almost identical. Um, I’d call it a 9 out of 10. Now, I did have durability issues with the 2023 model last year when I tested it, but who knows? I mean, durability is one of those subjective things where you could do a durability test 10 times and get completely different results every single time. All I can do is test the golf ball. And I know some of you asked about this, this is why I’m clarifying it, but when I do the the durability testing, you know, I’m hitting it into a net. Sometimes if it has sand on it or something, it could be really scratched up or if it really hits the grooves the wrong way, it could have a cut. Sometimes it might not. And so the case here is that now two times in a row, we’ve gotten the same result. I would say the previous one, the one from last year, who knows? That’s probably the outlier at this point. So I I think it’s a 9 out of 10. It’s pretty good. I think it’s actually really good for a two-piece golf ball. Okay, so in conclusion, um again, I I apologize for all the confusion on this golf ball. It’s it’s been my kryptonite. I have called it overrated in the past. Of course, here’s a little tip for you. This is a little trivia. This is the highest selling two-piece golf ball, and it’s not close. We did a video a while back. It was the top 10 selling golf balls on Amazon. The revenue they get from this golf ball would blow your freaking mind. Like, it’s And you guys know you can’t walk three or four feet out into the woods and not see a dozen super softs. Like, they’re everywhere. Um, so I mean, of course they’re overrated in a way because unless they’re the best of the best, they’re going to be a little overrated. You know what I mean? The stakes, it’s kind of an unfair game. Um, but I like where they’re at. I like where they’re going. You know what I mean? Two, four years ago, I couldn’t stand this golf ball. I hated it with every being in my body. You know, last year test results were pretty decent. And then now this year, I think they’ve made some improvements. Also, I love the designs they do. Not wild about the price, but at least they do offer a two for discount. You know what I mean? Not a lot of golf ball companies do now. And I got to say, if you like golf balls that are, you know, maybe not Americanmade because I know this probably comes from one of the other factories, but you know, an American company at least their main factory is here in America. If you want to support that, if you’re a big Callaway fan, if you don’t mind paying 25, I know these are easy to get. You can almost get them anywhere, any retail store. They’re sold everywhere. I I mean, it’s a really accessible ball and I would play it. You know what I And what I really like is that I think Callaway has taken this golf ball from being exclusively for slow slow swingers and I think they’ve branched it out to where yeah slow swingers will see benefit but I think mid swingers can too because as a mid- swinger doing this test I saw some good things. Uh forgiveness was phenomenal. I didn’t talk about it much but man there was a couple times I hit it off the toe really bad and I thought going to have to delete that one and I turned around and I lost like two yards. So really great forgiveness. It’s a good golf ball. Where it’s going to come in the top 100, I don’t know. But you know what? I can promise you this. It’s going to be a lot higher than it was last year. That’s for sure. Guys, as always, keep watching, keep saving, keep learning. Until next time, I’ll see you soon.