Bridgestone E12 Splash Golf Ball Review | Water Doesn’t Stand a Chance

This is one of the most unique golf ball test I have ever had the pleasure of doing. The Bridgestone E12 Splash is a golf ball that features a RPL-X Coating that promises to shed water and dirt in even the wettest conditions.

Built on the same design of the E12 Straight, this golf ball is designed to eliminate sidespin, hooks, and slices. At $34.99 per dozen, it may be expensive for a two piece non urethane model, but the RPL-x coating could offer a variety of golfers a solution to dew-filled mornings and rainy days.

We are going to test this golf ball like every other so far, but also we will simulate these wet conditions. Is the E12 Splash a silly gimmick? Or is it a masterclass of progression and technology? Let’s find out!

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00:00 Intro
01:40 Pricing and Design
05:12 Chipping
07:42 Chipping Wet
10:22 Putting Dry
12:56 Putting Wet
15:36 Sound and Feel
17:08 Dirt Test
18:58 Completely Dry
20:55 Wet Vs Dry
22:15 50 Yd Pitch
23:34 Pitching Wedge
25:31 7 Iron
26:36 Driver
28:03 Accuracy and Dispersion
30:02 Durability
31:31 Conclusion
35:10 Blooper

Hello, my fellow golf ball addicts. Welcome back to the channel. I have another golf ball for you today, and this one is unlike anything else I’ve ever seen on the market. This is the Bridgestone E12 Splash. And this golf ball has a very specific purpose. It’s not your run-of-the-mill average golf ball. It actually comes with a new patented technology called Repel X that is designed to shed water and shed dirt unlike anything else on the market. So that way when you play in those morning dewy conditions that are all wet everywhere or if you’re playing in the rain, it’s supposed to give you a more consistent flight and a more consistent performance. Yeah, I know. Kind of sounded crazy to me, too. When I went to the Bridgestone factory about a month ago and they showed me this product, it sounded a little too good to be true. Now, listen, a lot of you know that I love niche golf balls, right? I have a golf ball that I play in hot weather. I have one I play in cold weather. I have one for long courses, short courses, wide open championship courses. I always look at that when I’m deciding what golf ball I’m going to play for the day. So, this is right up my alley. This is designed to be played in wet conditions, right? And I want to test this golf ball to the fullest as far as how we do our testing. And this is going to be a test unlike any other test I’ve had to do before. So, are we going to put this through the normal GBA test? Of course we are. I want to know if it’s a good golf ball from the rip. But I also want to know if there’s any truth to how it performs in those wet conditions. So, let’s go ahead and dive right in. The first thing let’s talk about is the design of this golf ball. Now, this is part of the E12 lineup. This is the E12 straight. Now, Bridgestone earlier this year, I guess it was last year, but for this season, came out with three new golf balls in the E12 lineup that are designed to be more kind of of a fitting golf ball. You have the E12 high launch, which launches high. You have the E12 Straight, which is designed to reduce hooks and slices and fly more straight, which is what this golf ball is. That’s the basis of what they used. And then there’s also the E12 Speed, which is all about ball speed. Now, when I tested these golf balls early in the year, they were actually the first review I did out of this season. And that’s always tough because you have no data to compare it to. And so at the time I wasn’t really high on them. But the reality is if we look at the numbers compared to now we have 80 85 more golf balls of data to compare to. They actually didn’t do too bad. So I’m kind of interested to see how this went. So first of all let’s talk design. Okay. Now this golf ball is very specific with the design. It has that uh dimple pattern that in the past I haven’t been too crazy about because it reminded me of the old E12 from back in the day which I’ll be completely honest I couldn’t stand. The old E12 Contact was one of my least favorite golf balls. Even though I might not have been crazy in my review earlier this year about the new E12 series, I did say that it was by far way better than that E12 Contact was. Bridgestone has made a massive improvements over the last few years with the E12. So, I’m I’m happy for that. So, the dimple pattern is unique. And if we look there on the front, you’ll notice that B is a very pretty light blue color, which I actually like. I think that’s really nice. Uh it’s kind of soft. A little bit of personality in there. If we come along the side, this is what the uh alignment tool looks like. I’m not big on this alignment tool because it’s just E12 splash. I don’t think you’re going to be able to line your ball up very good, but I do give it a pass because the Bridgestone E12 models this year came with the mindset alignment. If you’re new and you don’t know what this is, essentially Jason Day helped create this and this is basically a three- ring system that kind of just helps you get into a rhythm and I like it. A lot of people don’t. A lot of people think it’s just kind of a gimmick, but the reality is when it comes to the mindset, there’s three steps. Okay? So, what you’re going to do is first of all, you’re going to focus on your target. Then, you’re going to imagine the shot shape, and then you’re going to focus on the green dot. And that focus on the green dot is probably the most important because it helps you just focus on the ball, which a lot of guys, myself included, struggle to do sometimes. So, again, sometimes you hate it, sometimes you love it, but it’s here to stay. I can tell you because Jason Day loves it and he’s big on the Bridgestone team right now. The only other thing I can talk about when it comes to the design is that Repel X technology. I mean, if you feel this golf ball, it feels super slick. It feels like something that has I mean, all of us at this point have had something that’s water repellent or water resistant, and you feel it, and you know, you’re like, “Oh, man, that’s slick.” That’s the case there. I mean, that’s exactly how this golf ball feels. So, without further ado, we’re going to start on the chipping and putting green, which is where I’m at right now. And we’re going to simulate two different types of tests. The first one, I’m going to do normal and dry. I mean, that sun’s beating down on me, so it’s hot. It’s muggy. Yeah. Yeah. Yuck. But after that, I’m going to spray this entire green here where I do the test and simulate wet conditions and see if it does any different. Let’s dive into that. Now, real quick, I do kind of want to show you how this works. My son was nice enough to give us his little pale here that I could use for water. So, give a shout out to him. But this golf ball, if I sprinkle it with water here, one thing you’ll notice immediately, I’m going hold this up here and get my face out of frame here. Yeah. As you can see, the the ball kind of beads up the water. It doesn’t actually sit on it like a normal golf ball would. It kind of looks like it’s just repelled off. And if I shake it now, all of a sudden, the majority of that water is off of it. The other thing I clearly notice immediately is that when you go to wipe off the E12 Splash, it’s so easy to wipe off. It’s not surprising. Again, all that water is just beaded up, begging to fall off. The second you either shake it or put anything on it as far as a towel, immediately it dries up and it feels right back to its normal slick kind of I don’t want to call it RainX, but you know what I mean. That’s what it reminds me of. RainX feeling form. So really cool there. So let’s go ahead and do our dry test first. We’re going to do our normal chipping that we do out here on the green. And this is just the dry method obviously. So this is just like normal. Oh, okay. It had some grip for sure. I was kind of surprised. Now, as far as rotation, no, not really a lot of rotation there, but it felt very soft. It felt very kind of marshmallowy a little bit. I was kind of surprised. Um, it’s actually kind of dead in the hands. I didn’t really feel any feedback, so kind of a beginner intermediate type of feel. Okay, there we go. A little click. Might have hit behind it. So, again, I’m seeing a really big roll out. I know that one was slightly behind, but that’s two in a row now where I’ve seen a really, you know, treadmill effect, what I call it. It looks like it shoots off like you put something on a treadmill and it shoots off the back of it. But yeah, I mean it does have some grip which is nice. There you go. Nice low spinner. Yeah. So, did you see that? Like a lot of other golf balls would have slowed down on that low spinner. That one still shot off the back. So, rotation isn’t a lot. That’s not what this golf ball is designed for. It’s designed to go straight. So, it’s designed to have less spin. So, it’s not a bad thing. But, I just don’t want you to get this golf ball and think it’s going to check up a ton. So, if we change our perspective a little bit now and say, okay, it’s a straight golf ball. It’s not going to bend left and right. What I’m going to do is see how straight it goes. I’m going to aim right at the hole. I’m going to open the face a little bit. Oh, very nice. Right at the hole. Very forgiving, too. I kind of hit a little behind it. I love it. I’m going to do one more with the face open. Oh, baby. Get in there. Extremely consistent. Look. No, it doesn’t check up, but it goes straight to the hole. If that’s what you’re looking for is more consistency, maybe some bump and runs. What I’m going to do now is kind of close the face a little bit. Oh, again. Yeah, straight. No left spin at all. It actually ended up correcting itself and going straight. So, not a lot of spin, but it does go toward the hole. And I feel like if I really hit 10 of these shots, I think I could make two in. So, that’s good. All right, time to simulate some rain. Now, here’s my hitting area over here. Here. I want that super wet. All right. I’m going to drop these balls from here. Oh, yeah. Nice and splashy. Water all over them. All right. Okay. Solid roll out. Still rolled on the water part pretty good. And that’s really what I’m looking for here is I want to see how the golf ball reacts while it’s on a wet surface. Does it still glide across the green or does it kind of slow down? Cuz we all know that one of the biggest things when it comes to rain or water, it slows your golf ball down to a crawl on the green. So, I want to see if that’s the case here. So far, that one was pretty good. Oh, I love that. Yeah, it actually still bounced quite a ways. Yeah, that’s awesome. Wow. Yeah, it’s actually really impressive. A lot of the time, and you’ve heard me mention it a few times before, I’ll come out here during the morning and there’s still dew on the the green sometimes. And the first thing I’ll tell you is sometimes it’s going to land a little softer, and that’s the case. But here, this golf ball has a really good bounce even when it hits all that water. And you can kind of see the water come up. It’s actually cool. I don’t see that with a lot of golf balls. So obviously that Repel X technology or whatever it is obviously works somehow. That’s that’s kind of cool. Nice and low there. Oh yeah. I mean just you can see the water shedding off the golf ball. I want to try it with a couple models that aren’t this. Now this is a matte golf ball I have here. We all know what matte golf balls sometimes do. So there we go. Get these nice and wet. Oh man, that water killed it. It killed it. Not not necessarily on the roll, but when it hit initially, that hit killed it. It really did. That was that was eye opening. Let’s see if it’s the same here with this Callaway Chrome. Yeah, it does. It kills it. So, that’s the main thing I’m seeing is that that first initial bounce. I’ll try to show them here in slow motion side by side. But the first initial bounce when the golf ball hits in the wet zone, that really is killed when it comes to the chrome soft and the matte golf ball I had, it actually slows it down quite a bit. But what I noticed with the uh E12 Splash is it doesn’t it actually bounces kind of how it bounces on dry surfaces. So, I think that’s the big difference here. As far as how it rolls afterward, I didn’t really see anything. We’ll check the putter here in a second, but that’s the biggest thing I’ve noticed, and that’s actually kind of surprising. I think it’d be more consistent. All right. Now, we have our putting test. We’re starting with the mallet putter. Let’s see how it does here. Okay. Yeah, not bad. Slightly heavy. Slightly. Not not super heavy, but just feels like it kind of has a small delay coming off the putter head, but nice and smooth, though. Distance control is medium, right in the middle. I would call it normal. It’s not fast. It’s not slow, which is good. Very minimal feedback, which I like. Almost no sound. The sound is dead. Yeah. Let me run that back. Yeah. I mean, I got to give the roll a five out of five. I’m trying to get it to chug. It won’t. I mean, it it flat out has a beautiful roll. Despite whether I hit it off the toe or underneath, which again, that’s why I know a lot of your guys’ argument is, Nick, chug effect doesn’t exist. That’s from you mishhitting the putt. The reason I argue with you so much is because in a situation like this, I’m trying to put chug on it. I’m I’m hitting it off the bottom. I’m hitting it off the toe. I’m hitting it I’m pounding down into it and take and delofting the putter, I still can’t get it to do it. And that’s why chug effect does exist. And that’s why it is a real thing because there are some golf balls, no matter what I do, I can’t get it to do it. So, it is different. Just keep that in mind. Let’s move on to the blade. All right, blade putter time. Maybe I’ll make one with the blade. We’ll see. Oh, okay. Definitely firmer. I mean, I mis hit it a little off the toe. Just slightly off center. And I mean, I felt it. It was like a It was like a baseball hitting a wooden bat almost. A little bit of that type of feel. Little bit of chug on that one. Like it went in the hole, but not a lot, but just a little bit. Very nice roll right there. So, I guess the way I could describe this golf ball is I’d say it has a lot of feedback. Like especially with this blade putter here, if you hit it perfect, it lets you know it has this really soft kind of subdued. Oh yeah, like a little bit of a hollow click from the putter, but nice and smooth. Five out of five roll. Everything’s great, but when you start to mishit it a little bit, like off the toe here. Yeah, I see the chug effect immediately. It’s a lot more heavy. Um, and the other thing is is that the sound ends up becoming a lot more dead. Uh, it just doesn’t sound right. Also, you feel it in the hands. This is a golf ball that I’m feeling a lot of feedback in my hands. It It’s kind of crazy, but one more time here. Let’s just get one in here. Yeah, I think I like it a lot better with the mallet putter for sure, but it works with both. It checks the marks. There’s really no red flags. Maybe a little bit of yellow flag here with the blade, but for the most part, it gets the job done. Now, we have the putter test here. We’re going to start with a mallet. Now, what I’m going to do here is I have this whole entire area soaked. Obviously, I’m going to put the golf balls down. Let them splash. There you go. Yeah. Kind of sprinkle some water all over them. Now, I want to see how the roll is as it’s rolling off the putter. Let’s check this out with the mallet first, of course. Very smooth roll. I like that a lot, actually. Uh that’s that’s a perfect true roll. The wetness has kind of helped it out. Wow. I had to take a lot off that. I I don’t know how these other two are going to compare, but I will say that is an excellent roll. It still feels the same, acts the same, but it glides across the surface. Now, I’ve never tested a different golf ball as far as the chrome soft or a mat in this test. So, I do want to see how it compares. And just in case you’re wondering, I did putt with these a few times before I wetted it, so I know what they feel like. So, it’s not like I’m just doing this for the first time here. The matte golf ball first. Oh no. Oh no. No. No. No. No. Oh my goodness. Okay, I got to try the chrome soft. Oh wow. Okay, hold on. I got to really verify this, y’all, because this is pretty crazy. If this is true, I want to do one more time. Wow. Huh. Okay. Okay. So, end results here of what I’m seeing. The golf balls are pretty close. And in relative terms, in the grand scheme of things, they are relatively close. But I will say this, when it comes to the E12 Splash, it glides a little bit better on this surface. I don’t know if it’s that coating they have, but it actually glides almost like the surface isn’t even wet. I don’t have to change as far as hitting the golf ball any harder or anything like that. When it comes to the other two as far as the chrome soft and the matte golf ball I have, I didn’t lose much in distance control and they still had a pretty good roll. I was able to get them in, but the whole time the ball and I want to here, sorry, I want to come up close and show you. The whole time this was rolling on the surface, if you look close, it’s kind of wobbling a little bit. Like you know how if you have a tire and it’s not rolling smooth? It’s just kind of maybe you’ll see it on the highway, someone’s driving next to you and you think, “Oh, I got to get out of the but their tires just kind of wobbling a little bit. Not much, but just a smidge. That’s what both of these other golf balls looked like. The E12 actually was just as smooth as butter rolling on this surface. So, I don’t know if it’s that cover or what, but it’s just gliding. It’s really nice. All right, quick field test here with this ball. I mean, obviously feel isn’t a really important factor here. You’re buying it for a specific purpose, but still, I want to see how it is. [Applause] Long story short, you know, Pure is a three out of five only because it feels like there’s so much explosiveness behind it. But if you take away that explosiveness, it’s really not that great of a feeling just being completely transparent. Uh, mis hits are a two out of five for sure, but it it’s okay. But again, like I said, is feel really important with a golf ball like this. I feel like you’re buying it for the wet conditions. So, who really cares what it feels like as long as it’s not like a boulder, right? So, it passes. D’s get degrees, right? All right. So, before I get into the testing, I want to one tell you guys how I’m going to approach the testing. But first, before we get into that, I want to talk about the dirt test here. So, one of the things the E12 Splash says that it does better is it repels mud and dirt and, you know, other things that are going to happen from wet conditions when it comes to your golf ball landing. I want to do a little test on that real quick. Everything around here on the ground is either sugar sand or just sand in general or mulch or nasty. It’s disgusting. I mean, seriously, I It’s just all patched grass. So, what I’m going to do is I’m going to get these golf balls wet with my little watering can. And then I’m going to drop them and even throw them in the sand and see how well the dirt sticks, how well it comes off, how well it cleans off, all that good stuff. So, let’s go ahead and do that. I’m going to get the GoPro out for this so I can show you in slow-mo. All right, so this is a light drop for the E12 Splash. And as you can see, it has a little bit of sugar sand all over it, but I mean, it’s actually very light. It’s not on there. I mean, it’s it’s very minimal. This is a harder drop you just saw, and it does have a mud dober on there, but very light. I mean, not a huge mud dober, but definitely stuck. The rest of the golf ball looks good, though. This is the chrome soft from a light drop. And as you can see, the golf ball as a whole is covered more with dirt, and there’s a light mud dober on it. Now, I do it a little bit harder this time. And now that mud dober has turned into a thick mud dober and the golf ball’s just coated in sand and mud all over. Like you can see here from showing it, it’s completely gouged whereas the E12 had a little bit of room to work with. Now dropping from a height on a surface, this is kind of a light drop with the E12. As you can see, that sand really gets shaken off at impact. There’s the little bit left of the mud dober, but the rest of the golf ball looks pretty shiny. As you can see, it’s actually not got a lot of sand left on it. If I do the same thing with the chrome soft here though, the results are a lot different. So, this is the first drop with the chrome soft. Very satisfying bounce there. But, as you can see, it’s still got the mud dber on there and it’s still covered all over in sand and dirt. So, I drop it a second time a little bit higher up. Great bounce there. As you can see, it’s still pretty dirty after the second drop. It’s cleaned up a little bit, but if I show you, it’s still just coated all over in dirt. So, next up, I wanted to see how well this stuff would wipe away. You know, the chrome soft I kind of had to, you know, scrub and rub all over and and not a ton of elbow grease, but a little bit. When it comes to the E12, though, watch this. This is easy. So, one, two, and three. It’s clean. Ready to go. I mean, come on. Now, this is definitely a unique test. Like I said, the way I’m going to do this is I’m going to first of all test this golf ball dry, just completely like I normally would. Get all my setup back here, hit shots in there, you know, do the hit 16, choose the best 10, all that stuff, all the stuff I normally do. Yes. Then what I’m going to do is I’m going to test the golf ball wet. And what I’m going to do is I’m going to set the golf ball down where I need to use my little watering can, simulate some rain. There we go. Just a little bit. And then what I’m going to do as far as the club is I’m really going to just try to clean the club as little as possible. Now, if there’s dirt on it or whatever, I’ll clean that. But I want there to be a little bit of moisture. Not a ton, but a little bit just to simulate that if it’s raining on the course or if there’s dew or whatever. If there’s dew, obviously you can dry your club. But if there’s rain, it’s going to be hard to keep it there. So, I don’t want a ton of water on the club. I just want a tiny little sliver on there just that way it kind of simulates water on both sides. So, one interesting thing about this golf ball that I find awesome is we’ve all seen those compression videos where like a driver is hitting the golf ball in slow motion and you see the golf ball squish up off the driver and then it kind of shoots and boings and shoots back off of it. Well, this one obviously does that too, the E12 Splash. But when it springs off, it shoots all the water off like like bullets. Like just it’s it’s insane. And but another thing that’s really cool about it is Okay, I I soaked the golf ball here. I’ll do it again. Got water all over it. Okay. All one take here, of course. Okay. Water splashes up. Completely dry. Look, it it’s completely dry. I’m telling you. I hope this is in focus. I don’t want to cut it because I don’t want you to think that I cut it, manipulated it. But, I mean, look, it’s completely dry. There’s no water on it at all. And that happens every single time you hit it. And I noticed that during the testing, you hit it, all the water springs off of it. So, I mean, look, the claim as far as it repelling water, that’s true. It does. It repels water really good. All right, let’s talk some data real quick. Now, one question you might be asking yourself is, “Okay, Nick, we’re going to compare the wet and the dry numbers of the E12 Splash, which is great, but what does a normal golf ball do?” Like, as far as a normal golf ball, what how much, you know, distance is lost? How much spin is lost? What are the results of that? And I could have tested a few of these golf balls as far as with a Prov1 or a Callaway or Tailor Made, whatever. Um, but my Golf Spy actually already did a really good test a while back. Um, this is a, you know, water test they did where they sprayed water on the ball and then hit a full wedge shot and got RPM spin. And what they found is even the best golf ball that retained the most spin lost 35 to 36% of its spin. Golf balls like Wilson, for example, that normally got 12,000 RPM of spin went down to 6,000. Lost 50%. So the average I think was around like 45 to 50%. So you lose a ton of spin. You lose a ton of performance. You can read that article. I’ll put the link in the description. But it’s a big deal. Water really messes up the golf game. It really kind of throws a monkey wrench in there for sure. So I’m just looking for in these numbers we’re about to talk about. I’m just looking for any type of consistency whatsoever. I don’t want to see anything fall off a cliff, right? I don’t want to see the spin go from 7,000 RPM down to 5,000 or 4,000. Like that would be really rough. I hope it at least keeps it close. That’s kind of the goal in this. Right. Starting with the 50 yard pitch, backspin RPM, we are looking at the dry there is indicated by the sun. The wet is indicated by the splash. Obviously, 6,973 when it comes to your uh uh dry version, 6523 when it comes to the water. 31.1 and 31.6. Those are actually two really good consistent performances. Actually, I only lost 400 RPM. It’s not that much. That’s under 10% of a loss. That’s really impressive. I mean, that’s not bad at all. Now, I will say this, there is a little more inconsistency with the wet ball. And when it comes to launch angle, there was some inconsistency as well. In fact, there’s actually a blooper at the end of this video where I hit it the ball and it goes over the net. You’ll see it if you watch all the way to the end. But that actually happened with the wet version many times. It happened with the regular version zero times. But once the wet got introduced, I ended up seeing the golf ball fly over the net itself quite a few times. I think four or five. and the numbers were just kind of spread out all over 35 36 37 launch 26 24 25 launch whereas the dry version was just all around that 31. So even though they end up the same, I just want to bring it to a point that they are a little different. I mean there was some inconsistencies there, but that’s just from water getting between the ball and the club. It happens. So I’m surprised they actually ended up that close to be real. Then when we get into the pitching wedge, we are looking at 97.3 with the dry. Um, I actually a balanced 6,973 when it comes to spin, which is way more than I got with the original straight. That actually is going to have some checkup to it, which is kind of surprising because maybe because the slick cover, there’s a little more spin added in there. That way it kind of grips the green a little bit better. I don’t know. That’s just a guess to be honest. Um, 21.5 125.5 is in the green. 126.1. Those are actually excellent numbers. 1.25 on the smash factors. One of the best I have seen from a pitching wedge this year. and I only swung 78 mile an hour. So that that legit just take the wet and the dry out of it for a second. That’s legit one of the best pitching wedge performances I have seen this year from any golf ball. That that’s awesome. But then when we compare it to the wet, as you can see, I lost about 3 mph of ball speed, which is very common. And I lost almost uh about 900 well about 950 RPM. So that’s a decrease of what probably about uh 15% 13 to 15% somewhere in there. So again, not terrible. Not 35%, not 40%. But still holding its own really well. Still going to stop on the green, especially in wet conditions cuz the ground’s a little softer. The other thing is the launch angle. Notice I launched at 24.6 compared to 21.5. That’s 3° higher. And again, that’s just something where if you get water in between the club and the ball, it launches a little higher. That’s just pretty common. 122.5 isn’t still in the a average realm, excuse me. But 123.7 because it lost the spin with the total roll out ends up being there. I only lost three yards of total distance between the two. I would call that a success. I mean, I’ve played it before in the rain several times and I can recall calculating 10 to 15 yard differences. I mean, being like, okay, I normally hit this 150. I’m going to count for 140. It I mean, and that’s usually how it goes. So, that’s actually very sub substantial. If I can get only a three- yard loss, I’m in. That’s two thumbs up from the golf ball addict. If we get into the seven iron now, 118.4 again is one of the best I have tested this year. The swing speed was very low. Uh 5,640 is an excellent spin number. That is way more than the 5,164 I got with the original straight. But that 5,164 with the original actually makes more sense. This is supposed to be a straight golf ball. It’s supposed to be a low spin option. But I think because the fact that they intend for you to play this golf ball in water, I think they might have added a little bit more spin. That’s just a guess. But I’m here for it. I’m fine with it. 15.8 on the launch, 15.5. Not much difference there between the uh the wet. Actually, pretty close. 166.5 168.1. Um I only lost four yards on the wet. As you can see, the smash factor. Holy cow. That smash factor 1.41 compared to 1.36. Uh that’s a huge drop off. But as far as the actual distance, only four yards lost, so I’ll take it. It’s It’s in the realm of things, only losing four yards is fine. Obviously, it’s not performing as well, but I lost a little spin and that helped with the distance as well. Now, let’s get into the driver here. With the driver, ball speeds are relatively the same. You know, if you calculate the swing speed difference in there, they’re relatively the same. But this is the big big thing right here. This is when it come This is what really separates the two golf balls. the dry compared to the wet on spin. 2,469 compared to 1,978. That is substantial. That’s actually a situation where the spin is helping me by losing it because off the driver now I’m gaining distance. As you can see, I only got, you know, six yards of roll with the dry. I got almost nine with the uh wet. So, that’s a huge difference there. I actually think the golf ball performed better in wet conditions because I lost that spin. That’s surprising enough. And then I did lose uh a little bit of ball flight 16.4 compared to 15.7, I did notice that when it came to the wet golf ball wedges and high loft clubs seem to bounce the ball up a little bit more, whereas your lower lofted clubs like my 29° 7 iron or 30 somewhere in there, as well as the driver actually launched it a little lower. So kind of a topsyturvy thing there. It seems like it would be very difficult to make a golf ball designed for wet conditions because wet conditions kind of make the golf ball unpredictable. So, so far I’m actually really impressed with all those numbers as far as across the board. So, that’s great. Real quick, let’s go ahead and look at accuracy and dispersion. Let’s get over to the charts and see if there’s any difference between the dry and the wet that might spark any red flags. All right, if we start with the dry first, uh, yeah, it looks pretty good. 50-yard pitch, definitely some good stuff in there. pitching wedge is actually really cool because it it’s like really symmetrical. You got that one right in the middle and then you just got a bunch of dots all around it. Uh I’m going to pretend that one in the middle is the flag and I hold one out and then I’m just going to pretend the others are all 5 foot putts. So I I really respect that a lot. Then if we get to the seven iron, I love the distance control. Uh accuracy is just okay, but you know, as far as the distance control, I hit one really far, one really short. The rest of them are all in that middle ground, which is really nice. driver. You know, if we take the three pulls out of it, it looks like I pulled three of them. The other seven are actually really, really tight, and I like that. But, you know, there’s a little human element in there, obviously, and I think those three pulls we can kind of take with a grain of salt. But overall, not bad. Pretty good accuracy, pretty good dispersion. No red flags or anything. Let’s move on to the wet. All right. When we get to the wet, you know, looking at the 50-yard pitch, that’s actually really, really good. I think I like it slightly better. There’s the one random flyer. It looks like I hit it a mile. I don’t know what happened there, but the rest of them are really good. Pitching wedge, I think I like the dry a little bit better, but I like the distance control when it comes to the wet version. I mean, look at all those in a lineup there. That is great consistency when it comes. And you can tell that the slight m hits were the ones below that, the three little dots that are to the left there. That’s great. Uh then we get into the seven iron, seven iron, uh distance control, not as great as before, but still really good considering that there was wet conditions involved. Um, accuracy is just okay and distance control is just okay, but for being wet conditions and being 160 to 165 yards out on that shot, I I don’t mind that it passes. Then we get to the driver and again, you’ve got those pulls, but other than that, it’s really good. Uh, for the most part, you know, it looks like I did have some trouble pulling the ball when I was testing these, you know, yesterday, but overall, not bad. I I I was expecting there to be some kind of random thing with the wet test involved, but no, it actually all looks pretty good and consistent, and it seems like you’re still going to get a nice stable flight. All right, let’s talk some durability real quick. I actually have the two models. I did one dry and one wet just to see if there’s any major differences. When it comes to the dry, as you can see, the paint is fading on the bee there. So, that’s really the only major thing I see. There is a couple little tiny scratches from dirt, but the reality is this golf ball cleans up really, really well. That coating on the outside is extremely durable. Now, this did go from feeling really slick, like really slick, like that RainX I talked about earlier in the video, to now it’s a little sandpapery, like a really small grit, but it’s still really good. So, you know, I I’m going to call it a nine out of 10. It’s very solid. It’s close to an eight, but it still works after a whole round of golf. It’s still smooth. I would still trust it putting all that. My main issue is I did notice toward the end of the testing with this golf ball, this is the wet one, I noticed that after a while it didn’t repel the water as good. Still really good as far as like, you know, 100% repellent and then throughout the whole test it slowly came down and by the end it was like 85% repellent. So, still really good, but I did start to notice a difference. Now, as far as looking at the wet model, again, it looks fantastic. I’ll just keep this brief. You know, there’s some red from the target on there. Uh, there’s a little bit of scratching there. So the wet I would actually call an 8 out of 10. This one I would call a 9 out of 10. In the middle we’ll combine them eight and a half. Oh, I don’t do halves. We’ll bump it up to a nine. So I’ll be nice. But really good durability. This will last you a whole round. Absolutely. All right, closing thoughts with the Splash. Um, you know, it’s so interesting because you guys know I love golf balls. Like I absolutely adore them and I think it’s cool when companies try to be niche like you know whether it’s AAA company or direct to consumer they try to do something that’s very niche and unique to them. And as you guys know like I mentioned I play different golf balls depending on where I’m going and what I’m doing. And so when I heard about this golf ball I was skeptical. I was um but Bridgestone seemed pretty happy with the technology. They seemed pretty confident. And after they sent these to me and after I’ve had the chance to test with them over the last few weeks, I I’m pretty impressed um for a number of reasons. One, because yes, this Repel X technology, it does work. It absolutely works. It sheds the golf ball. It’s really cool to be able to hit the golf ball and watch the water just spray everywhere. It’s really cool to put the water on it and watch it all just kind of fall off. And it works that way with the dirt, too. The golf ball does exactly what it describes it’s trying to do. It does repel water really well. It does repel dirt really well. Nothing’s going to be perfect in that regard, but it does the things that it says on the back of the box, and that’s really all I can hope for. The other important thing about this is that if you take away the whole wet and dry thing, the golf ball performs well on its own. Like, it’s a really good golf ball just on its own. And that was something I didn’t even come into this review really thinking about. Earlier in the year, like I mentioned it, I wasn’t super big on this model. Granted, it was the first test of the season, which those are always rough. I got to quit giving my opinions on those because last year we got bit on that, too. But when I came into this specific golf ball, I just didn’t anticipate on and the idea of it being good out of the box dry. I didn’t even think about, hey, is this something you would go play not wet? Um, but the numbers were pretty solid. I mean, that seven iron, that pitching wedge, really solid. So, I think this is a good golf ball. I mean, who is it intended for? Well, really, I think everyone who plays in wet conditions, like if you have morning dew, if you have, you know, a little bit of drizzle, rain, Florida is notorious for being sunny on hole one, by hole six it’s storming, sideways rain, and then by hole eight it’s back to sunny again. It happens all the time. And so, this to me feels like the type of golf ball that you buy a box of, you keep a couple of them in your bag just in case for a rainy day, literally. And then when you do get those wet conditions, you can switch back to your normal ball or whatever. And I think everybody fits into that category. I thought this was going to be a niche golf ball that like only a couple people would really need. But after doing all the testing, I think actually everybody could benefit from it. Buy a sleeve, buy a box, put it in your bag, and just, you know, the few days a year where there’s really wet conditions. Let’s say a buddy invites you out at 7 a.m. You go out there, it’s completely dewy. I’ll tell you, in Florida, it’s basically just soaked in the morning. the entire ground. Play with this golf ball for the first few holes and then when it gets to the point where you notice it’s starting to dry up, 9:00, whatever, you can switch back to your other ball. Like, I think this ball has a really good purpose. I think a lot of people would benefit from it. So, the numbers are great. It works. It does as described. It’s decently affordable at 35 bucks a dozen. Considering it’s kind of a specialty golf ball, I’m really impressed. It’s It’s something that’s This is one of the most fun golf ball tests I’ve ever gotten to do. And I hope you enjoyed this as well. I hope you enjoyed coming along for the ride. As always, keep watching, keep saving, keep learning. Until next time, I’ll see you soon was when I hit the golf ball and the water went everywhere and I picked it back up. It was clean as a whistle. It felt dry as can be with no wiping off, no nothing. I mean, just the ball, let me give you an example. The ball’s soaked right now. And it’s gone, baby. It’s gone. Hit it over the net. It’s with the pigs in the pig pen.