Price: $49.99 per dozen
Construction: Three-piece, urethane-covered ball available in white, yellow and Mindset

The standard Tour B X is a three-piece ball with a large rubber core, a mantle layer and a soft urethane cover. The core is gradational, which means that it is very soft in the center but gets gradually firmer toward the perimeter, to help create speed off the tee and reduce spin.

This is the firmest-feeling Tour B ball in the family and is designed for golfers who have a driver swing faster than 105 mph. For heavy hitters, this ball transfers energy more efficiently off the tee for increased distance while maintaining low spin for enhanced speed and distance.

For 2024, Bridgestone enhanced the Tour B X’s ReactIV cover, but the biggest change from the previous generation is the addition of a denser mantle that Bridgestone calls XLRNT. The firmer mantle should help golfers generate more speed off the tee and spin on approach shots, but in testing, it also produced a deeper sound at impact, which Bridgestone claims enhances feel.

Shop: Bridgestone Tour B X golf balls

In 2023, Tiger Woods switched to the Tour B X ball to get more distance, and in 2024 he has stuck with it.

Bridgestone is making a Tiger Woods Edition of the Tour B X available at retail. Each ball will be a No. 1 and have TIGER printed on it. From a construction and performance standpoint, the standard Tour B X and the Tiger version are identical.

Finally, with the help of Jason Day, Bridgestone developed the three-circle Mindset graphic design and made it available on the Tour B X. Mindset is a visual cue to help golfers remember to mentally prepare for the shot, envision it and then hit it.

Price: $49.99 per dozen
Construction: Three-piece, urethane-covered ball available in white and Mindset

Like the standard Tour B X, the Tour B XS is a three-piece ball with a large gradational rubber core, a mantle layer and a soft urethane cover for players with a driver swing over 105 mph.

However, the Tour B XS was created for players who want to generate more spin off the tee and with long irons to make hitting draws and fades easier.

The Tour B XS has a ReactIV cover and was designed with the XLRNT mantle for 2024 to give it a deeper sound and more speed off the tee. However, its relationship with the standard Tour B X remains the same. The Tour B XS will feel softer and generate spin more off the tee and around the green than the Tour B X.

The Tour B XS is available in white as well as with the Mindset graphic.

Price: $49.99 per dozen
Construction: Three-piece, urethane-covered ball available in white, yellow and Mindset

While the Tour B X is made for golfers who have fast driver swings who are looking for more distance, the Tour B RX is made for the players who want the same thing but who have driver swings below 105 mph.

It is a three-piece ball with a large gradational rubber core, an XLRNT mantle layer and a soft urethane cover, but has a different ReactIV cover and a lower overall compression of the Tour B RX, so it will feel softer and allow golfers at moderate and lower swings to transfer more energy into the core for increased distance without generating excessive spin off the tee.

Around the green, the soft urethane cover should help the Tour B RX generate high spin numbers with wedges and short irons. However, with its lower compression, the Tour B RX will likely generate marginally lower spin rates than the firmer Tour B X and Tour B XS.

Price: $49.99 per dozen
Construction: Three-piece, urethane-covered ball available in white and Mindset

With a three-piece construction comprised of a gradational rubber core, XLRNT mantle layer and a urethane cover, the Tour B RXS is the softer-feel, spinnier counterpart of the Tour B RX. It is designed for golfers who have a driver swing below 105 mph who put an emphasis on feel and control, but who don’t want to sacrifice too much distance to get it.

The Tour B RXS has been designed with its own ReactIV cover, and will feel softer off the tee and around the green than the other Tour B balls, but it will create more spin than the Tour B RX.

Price: $34.99 per dozen
Construction: Two-piece ball with a Surlyn cover. Available in white, green, red and yellow

The e12 ball was updated for 2023 and re-branded as the e12 Contact, but it is still a two-piece that has a large rubber core and a Surlyn cover.

The e12 Contact is designed to provide several of the playing qualities of the Tour B series balls, but at a lower price. To make that happen, Bridgestone made the 2023 e12 Contact the first non-Tour B ball to benefit from contact science.

First, Bridgestone redesigned the dimples on the ball to help them enhance performance. According to the company, by adding an elevated area in the center of each dimple, 46 percent more surface area of the ball comes into contact with the club, so more energy can efficiently be transferred through the cover and into the core of the ball without making it firmer, so players who wanted a softer-feeling ball could get more speed. The added surface area also created more places where the grooves of wedges and short irons could grab the ball to create spin.

Next, the e12 is the first non-Tour B ball to have an impact modifier added to its cover material, however in this case, that material is Surlyn instead of urethane.

The e12 Contact’s lower compression and unique dimple design still can’t make it generate the same level of spin as the Tour B balls, but it is $15 less expensive and, according to Bridgestone, it will generate significantly more speed and spin than traditional Surlyn-covered balls.

Price: $29.99 per dozen
Construction: Two-piece, Suryln covered ball. Available in white

With a name like e9 Long Drive, you already know what this two-piece, Surlyn-covered golf ball is all about. In fact, the e9 Long Drive was created with input from the Professional Long Drivers Association (PLDA)

The seamless 330-dimple cover pattern on the e9 Long Drive took eight years to design and was originally on the Tour B balls’ processor, the B330. It is designed to reduce drag, create more that stability in flight and help the ball maintain top velocity for a long period of time.

Like all of Bridgestone’s balls, the e9 Long Drive’s core is soft in the center and firmer around the edges. However, the firmness difference between the inner and outer regions of the core on the e9 Long Drive is larger than the gradational slope in nearly all previous Bridgestone balls.

If you put a premium on short game control and want your golf ball to generate spin so you can hit draws and fades around the course, the e9 Long Drive might not be ideal for you. It won’t generation iron and wedge spin like the e12 Contact, which sells for $5 more per dozen. This is Bridgestone’s ball for golfers who are looking for flat-out speed at a budget-friendly price.

Price: $24.99 per dozen
Specs: Two-piece construction with Surlyn cover. Available in white and yellow

Who They’re For: Slow-swinging golfers who want soft feel and more distance.

The first e6 ball was released 16 years ago, and it has been a popular part of the Bridgestone ball lineup from the start. The e6 has always been made for slow-swinging golfers who want soft feel and more distance.

The current e6 was released in 2023 and it remains a two-piece ball with a large gradient core that is softer in the center and grows gradually firmer toward the outside. This helps create a more efficient energy transfer with long irons, hybrids and woods.

The thin Surlyn cover is designed to provide durability, improve aerodynamics and reduce drag off the tee, so the e6 is not pushed offline by the wind easily.

Off the tee, the e6 will fly higher and with less spin for moderate and slower-swinging players than the e9 Long Driver or the e12 Contact, which could result in more carry distance and overall distance for those players. The low spin could also reduce the effects of hooks and slices, but the e6’s cover will not allow it to produce as much greenside spin.