Srixon Z Star Golf Ball
If you are looking for a tour-level ball with maximum spin, look no further than the Srixon Z Star. The premium 3 piece construction with SpinSkin cover gives skilled players complete tour performance from tee to green.
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Five Things to Know About the 2025 Srixon Z-Star Golf Ball Lineup
Biomass is a thing
“Tour-level” golf ball spin is a very simple recipe: a soft, thin urethane cover backed up by a firm mantle, struck aggressively. Srixon, for its part, makes some of the softest and thinnest covers in golf. For 2025, Srixon is introducing a new cover formulation that won’t be any softer or any more durable than the previous version nor will it spin more.
More separation between the three Z-STARS
2025 is the year of performance separation for the Z-STAR line. Srixon felt it needed the three Z-STARs to be a little more different so it’s making changes to each ball’s FastLayer DG Core which gives us FastLayer DG Core 2.0.
Golf ball cores are typically soft in the middle and get progressively firmer towards the surface. It’s how OEMs balance relatively low driver spin with ball speed. OEMs can adjust the soft-to-firm gradient by curing cores at different temperatures and for varying durations.
Lots of stuff is staying the same
A small amount of corn-fed urethane in the cover and new soft-to-firmness gradients in the cores may be the very definition of Kaizen. Not sexy or revolutionary but steady, predictable reliability.
Srixon is still using its proprietary Spin Skin+ coating. Spin Skin dates back to 2015. It’s a special urethane coating on the ball to increase friction. Srixon says the result is more approach-shot and greenside spin.
The Z-STAR DIVIDE rides again
Srixon introduced the ultra-colorful Q-STAR DIVIDE in 2021 and added the more limited yellow-white Z-STAR DIVIDE a year later. You may love ‘em, hate ‘em or be completely indifferent to ‘em but, what the hell, what PING started in the ‘80s is back and isn’t going anywhere.
2025 Srixon Z-STAR golf balls: Final thoughts, pricing, availability
As we said at the top, Srixon is the most predictably reliable OEM in golf (Non-Titleist Division, of course). While you will see some fireworks from Srixon next week (and Cleveland later this week), the company is as invested in the Z-STAR line as Titleist is in the Pro V1 line.