Maxfli’s fourth Tour-model ball is a lower-spinning version of the Tour X, engineered to pull spin out of the long game without going soft
I’m honestly not sure whether it says more about where Maxfli is as a performance brand or where Ben Griffin is as a PGA Tour player. Either way, the upshot is the same. The company built a golf ball more or less around its marquee player and now that ball, the Maxfli Tour X LS, is available to the rest of us. That’s the tidy version, anyway. The reality, as it tends to be with golf balls, is a bit more nuanced.
The Griffin of it all
Let’s deal with Griffin first because Maxfli very much wants you thinking about him.
Since signing with the brand in 2024, Griffin has climbed from roughly 92nd in the world to a career-best top 10. The breakout was 2025: three PGA Tour wins (the Zurich Classic team event alongside Andrew Novak, the Charles Schwab Challenge for his first solo title and the World Wide Technology Championship in the fall), a Ryder Cup captain’s pick and a Player of the Year nod. For context, those were Maxfli’s first Tour wins since 2003. The partnership has paid off for both sides.
This year has been streakier. Two thirds (Colonial and Doral) and a T14 at the PGA Championship say the talent is still very much there. A stack of missed cuts, including the Players and a T33 finish at the Masters, says a golf ball isn’t a magic bullet. Both things are true at once. The ball didn’t make Griffin a top-10 player and it isn’t why he’s missed cuts. It’s equipment. Good equipment, but still just a piece of a much larger puzzle.
What’s actually different
On paper, the Tour X LS is a close cousin of the standard Tour X: four-layer dual-mantle construction with compression sitting right around 100. You’ll find the same 336-dimple pattern Maxfli runs on both the Tour X and the Tour S. In market terms, think of it as living in the same neighborhood as the Left Dashes and Triple Diamonds of the world, the tour balls built with distance in mind.
The difference that matters is right there in the name. LS is lower spin and the place you’re meant to notice it is the long game: driver, fairway woods, hybrids, longer irons. The stuff where extra spin quietly costs you yards and turns a small miss into a bigger one.
To achieve the lower spin profile, Maxfli increased the thickness of the inner mantle and paired it with a smaller, lower-compression core. To be clear, the softer core doesn’t mean a softer ball (at least not in this case). The Tour X LS is every bit as firm as the Tour X. It just arrives there differently, trading some core firmness for a firmer inner mantle.
The other quirk is flight. Maxfli says the LS launches a touch higher than the Tour X which is mildly counterintuitive given that when two balls share a dimple pattern, the higher-spinning one typically flies higher. With that, I wouldn’t bank on the gap being dramatic.
What about greenside spin?
Maxfli pegs greenside spin on par with the Tour X and that tracks. Spin on the short shots is driven mostly by the cover and the layer immediately beneath it, both of which carry over from the Tour X. So this is the part of the bag where the two balls should feel like twins. Which is to say, pretty good.
“Low spin” is relative
Now for a bit of fine print, I suppose. All of this low-spin talk is relative. We can reasonably assume the Tour X LS spins less than the Tour X on most shots. What we don’t know, and what matters to golf ball shoppers, is how much.
The LS category is wide. Some of these balls (Left Dash being the obvious example) spin dramatically less than their mainstream siblings and qualify as genuinely low spin against the entire market. Others are really mid-spin offerings that happen to spin a touch less than the rest of a given lineup, with the low-spin label doing some heavier lifting. Those are very different balls for very different players and the name on the side stamp won’t tell you which one you’re holding.
We’ll sort out where the Maxfli Tour X LS lands during next month’s ball test.
Still the value play
With the Tour X LS, the Maxfli Tour lineup is now four deep: Tour, Tour S, Tour X, and the new X LS. And this is where I’ll keep banging the same drum. When you weigh what actually makes a ball lineup good (multiple models that genuinely serve different player types, quality, consistency and real on-course performance), Maxfli remains the best value in the premium/tour space. Three Tour wins on a $39.99 ball doesn’t exactly weaken the case.
That’s my take. As always, you be you. Tell us in the comments where you think the LS slots in and whether it’s already in your bag.
Pricing and availability
The Maxfli Tour X LS is available now at $39.99 per dozen although Maxfli balls have a habit of selling for less, especially in bulk. The current promo offers two dozen for $70 or four dozen for $119.96.
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