Nike Golf has returned to its core, the Speedlock RZN core technology that is. For the second time in just three years the company is looking to transform golf ball technology and it is building up its RZN core technology yet again. Nike Golf is adding four golf balls to the new RZN franchise – RZN Platinum, RZN Black, RZN Red and RZN White. These are each designed to deliver more distance thanks to interlocking geometry that helps eliminate the slipping that normally occurs between a traditional, smooth-surface core and the outer layer. This means better energy transfer through the layers and all the way to the core.
The result is more consistent and stable ball flight. It almost sounds as if Nike Golf is making it too easy.
All golfers do not feature the same skills, but all golf balls are not the same either. Maxfli looks to level the playing field with its U/6, the first ever six-piece golf ball, which has been designed to provide great distance, soft feel and greenslide spin. It further has the potential to provide golfers of all levels to hit straighter shots and control side spin on off-center hits.
Nike Golf announced that its innovative RZN technology is now available in an amateur golf ball with the ONE RZN. This ONE features the same larger, softer RZN core that is found in Nike’s 20XI tour ball, and this core replaces conventional rubber cores with a radical new “game-changing” material. The RZN features a neutralized polymer that promises to be faster and lighter, and is engineered to produce longer distance and more controlled shots.
The new proprietary RZN technology resulted in lighter, faster and a more responsive core. Nike Golf took this a step further by adding more RZN to its 20XI ball. Nike claims this larger, softer RZN core improves feel off all shots while maintaining driver distance. The added RZN mantel offers the promise to produce longer shots off irons while providing a softer short game feel, while this combination of core size and mantle could translate into two times more RZN material than the previous generation 20XI.
Remember that scene in the film Goldfinger where James Bond switched golf balls with the villain on the course? Goldfinger cheated, but Bond switched the balls and in the end made his gold-loving nemesis look stupid. That’s because Goldfinger didn’t personalize his ball enough.