Kirkland Signature (Costco) golf balls (MERGED) (NO BST POSTS)

[soregongolfer]

9 hours ago, ws6 said:

Thank you Costco golf loving employees, yellow RS in stock in Albany, Oregon.  They never stocked the silver striped ones in yellow.

Nice!  I checked a few days ago to see where the closest ones to Roseburg were and it was Sparks, NV.  Gotta think our store will get them soon.  

 

Edit to add:  The site says Eugene has them as well.  I'll be at the Ducks' spring game and Civil War baseball game.  I'll sneak over and get a box of yellows.  

Edited April 26 by soregongolfer
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[ws6]

I played 9 holes today with the yellow red stripes.  It was about 60 degrees and a steady 1/2 - 1 club wind. I'm not a high spin golfer and swing the driver in the low 100 mph range. 

 

The new RS is a little longer for me than the silver model off the driver.  I felt like the RS went as far as the original KSig ball with the driver and irons.  I think the RS has a little less spin than the original KSig from 100 yards and in, flew well against the wind, and the durability was excellent.  I really like the RS yellow model, it's a great golf ball.   

[snagy2000]

From May's Costco Connection 

 

 

[ahenderX]

3 hours ago, snagy2000 said:

From May's Costco Connection 

 

 

The guy who signs off on all the Kirkland items started as a fork lift driver. 

[Nessism]

15 hours ago, ahenderX said:

The guy who signs off on all the Kirkland items started as a fork lift driver. 

 

I seem to recall that Lee Trevino worked as a driving range ball shagger at one point.

[Nessism]

After all of one round, I'm ready to post The Definitive Review of the Ksig RS Yellow.

 

Distance = 10/10. Distance was as good as any ball I've played, and definitely longer than the silver stripe Ksig.  

Spin = 10/10.  Plenty.  Decently struck full shots hit the green, spun, and stopped.  No big suck back, nor any big bounces forward.  My favorite shot, the low flight pitch from 30-50 yards, hit and stuck nicely. Just the right amount of spin.

Durability = 7/10.  Meets full expectation, not as tough as a ZStar, though.  Same as silver box.  The cover marks up with light scuffs, nothing that will affect aerodynamics.  For me, a ball will last easily for a round or two.  

Feel/sound = 8/10.  ProV1 feels better.  Hard to describe.  More of a thwack compared to some other balls.  The different feel was readily apparently compared to the silver box Ksig.  Not better, nor worse.  Low frequency, not clanky, or high-pitched.

Value = 20/10.  I'm a guy always looking for a blow out sale on tour class balls, then I stock up.  ZStars are my favorite.  With this new Ksig, the search is over for anything else.  They are a better ball than I am a player, these days.

 

The End!

[wantacigar]

5 hours ago, Nessism said:

After all of one round, I'm ready to post The Definitive Review of the Ksig RS Yellow.

 

Distance = 10/10. Distance was as good as any ball I've played, and definitely longer than the silver stripe Ksig.  

Spin = 10/10.  Plenty.  Decently struck full shots hit the green, spun, and stopped.  No big suck back, nor any big bounces forward.  My favorite shot, the low flight pitch from 30-50 yards, hit and stuck nicely. Just the right amount of spin.

Durability = 7/10.  Meets full expectation, not as tough as a ZStar, though.  Same as silver box.  The cover marks up with light scuffs, nothing that will affect aerodynamics.  For me, a ball will last easily for a round or two.  

Feel/sound = 8/10.  ProV1 feels better.  Hard to describe.  More of a thwack compared to some other balls.  The different feel was readily apparently compared to the silver box Ksig.  Not better, nor worse.  Low frequency, not clanky, or high-pitched.

Value = 20/10.  I'm a guy always looking for a blow out sale on tour class balls, then I stock up.  ZStars are my favorite.  With this new Ksig, the search is over for anything else.  They are a better ball than I am a player, these days.

 

The End!

Made a trip to Costco yesterday.  No Yellow .  Picked up a box of white tho (2 dozen).  

My gamer is the Maxfli Tour.  Switched over from the Vice Pro mainly due to availability and cost and have absolutely fell for this ball.  However, I do play courses with allot of water hazards, marsh and fescue.  On days that I don't have my best game or it's really windy (shoreline golf courses tend to be) I'm in the realm of losing 2-3 balls I use the Ksig.  I've found I don't lose anything on performance other than a different feel which the Maxfli Tour beats the Ksig on.  

Also, when I play with my son I tend to supply the balls 🤦‍♂️ sooooooo - He plays the Ksig.  The boy (24 yrs and 6'3" hits it a mile but don't always know where it's going)

[BBO]

37 minutes ago, wantacigar said:

Made a trip to Costco yesterday.  No Yellow .  Picked up a box of white tho (2 dozen).  

My gamer is the Maxfli Tour.  Switched over from the Vice Pro mainly due to availability and cost and have absolutely fell for this ball.  However, I do play courses with allot of water hazards, marsh and fescue.  On days that I don't have my best game or it's really windy (shoreline golf courses tend to be) I'm in the realm of losing 2-3 balls I use the Ksig.  I've found I don't lose anything on performance other than a different feel which the Maxfli Tour beats the Ksig on.  

Also, when I play with my son I tend to supply the balls 🤦‍♂️ sooooooo - He plays the Ksig.  The boy (24 yrs and 6'3" hits it a mile but don't always know where it's going)

They never stock yellow in my local warehouse either. Total bummer.

[wantacigar]

10 hours ago, BBO said:

They never stock yellow in my local warehouse either. Total bummer.

It's a long story but I'll try to shorten it........

There are multiple Costco's on Long Island (NY).  My two closest stock the yellow, however, only one in the region (liquor license rules) has the Kirkland alcohol (Very Very good and reasonably priced).  I drove 45 minutes to go to the one Costco that has the liquor store but I'm within 15 minutes of two other Costco's.  That Costco only had white and no other golf stuff.

[Frank_Kasule]

This ball is just so good. Since switching I'm sure I've gained distance, I'm hitting shorter clubs into most holes and I'm generally online too. Not sure if it's the ball or a lot of practice from me but the ball is surely contributing. Either way I'm not using anything else. 

I've gone from 9.8 to 6.9 index, genuinely feel sorry for anyone who wants to spend more money on something other than this ball. 

[dugue4]

I am going to play with the RS on Saturday.  Have a sleeve of AVX ready incase it doesn't work out.

[Nessism]

9 hours ago, dugue4 said:

I am going to play with the RS on Saturday.  Have a sleeve of AVX ready incase it doesn't work out.

 

Good thing you have a backup!  Nothing worse than wasting a round playing a "bad" ball!  

[ahenderX]

I played today with a Vice Pro Plus and the new Kirkland. Both are balls I have not played before. The Vice was a “mint” purchase ($17.95 a doz) . The biggest difference I noticed was how much louder the Kirkland was off the driver. Both are the firmest balls I have played this year. I did not dislike the Kirkland but did prefer the Vice today. I bought the Vice Pro Plus by mistake. I was wanting to get the Vice Pro. I’m a 70 year old with ~90mph driver swing speed. With all that said, I need to play a full round with the Kirkland to get a better gauge of how it plays. 

Edited May 9 by ahenderX

[Stanks]

Finally played the Yellow Red stripe box myself this weekend. Good decently high flying ball. Big fan of it off the woods and longer irons. I’m a decently high spinning playing on my wedges and short irons (I feel). The ball didn’t rip back all that well for me but, I think the greens were to blame. Slow and not really receptive. 

Best comparison I could give them based on the round round is a Bridgestone B RX. Definitely more to follow but, for the price, no issues. Durability was decent. 

[Desmodromic]

Used the red stripe balls for the first time this past weekend.  I thought they played quite well, will have to check my local Costco for the yellow version, they're allegedly in stock per the website.

[Av9114]

IMO the red is generally a lot better than the silver. Distance seems roughly the same as other tour balls. Short game spin is a little lacking though. Every once in a while it seems to ride up the face and doesn't spin as much. The shorter the shot the more likely it seems to be. Durability is better than the silver but still bad. 100% of full swings with 9 iron and down leave some kind of cut mark. 

[J.Bex]

On 5/4/2025 at 1:47 PM, Nessism said:

They are a better ball than I am a player

100%

 

Only played a few rounds so far but am committing to Red Stripe box for the year.  I finally used up a mix of Z Stars and XVs (about half were new from a previous year and the others were used AAAA that I never saw a difference with, but was leary of thinking they might've been sitting in a pond in their past, and they were a variation of versions).

 

RS does everything I need it to do.  It's not short from tee to green.  It spins as wanted.  The only real variable is me.  I can play just as good or bad with a premium ball that's subject to my input (which ranges from good to bad a lot right now lol).  So for me atm it's RS.  It's freakin $14 / dozen in store!  I'll give it a good run before getting into the next value-find ball, Maxfli Tour / Tour X.

 

Not gonna lie, it's fun hitting it out there and having relatively long playing partners find out it's a Kirkland past them 😆

 

Here's one that saw all 18 holes incl. a cart path, tree trouble, one greenside bunker, and one fairway bunker.  Got a bit chewed up, but it's as expected, and I'd just play it til it's lost.

 

 

 

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Gotta say I don't see a difference with the new V3. 

 

On 17 yesterday, I pulled my drive with my final old ball into the left OB. I reloaded with my first of the new V3, and I pulled THAT drive into the left OB too!

 

Ugh! I thought everyone said they were better!

[snagy2000]

9 minutes ago, betarhoalphadelta said:

Gotta say I don't see a difference with the new V3. 

 

On 17 yesterday, I pulled my drive with my final old ball into the left OB. I reloaded with my first of the new V3, and I pulled THAT drive into the left OB too!

 

Ugh! I thought everyone said they were better!

Testing has showed no improvement in the lack of talent category. 

[Desmodromic]

Gotta say, I've been pretty happy with these balls, enough that I ended up picking up a box of the yellow as well after my post here a couple weeks ago.  Definitely zero gucci factor, but I'm just out there trying to survive. 😆  Pretty solid golf ball IMHO, especially for the price.

Edited May 26 by Desmodromic

[Gr8Balls]

Finally got a box of the new RS ksigs and put them to work in the garage sim.

 

I'll be comparing against my normal gamer zstar XV, and ksig v3 which I use when warming up or just beating balls. XV gives me what I want in a ball, v3's are a bit spinny for me, especially wedges and irons (blades) and I get lower ballspeeds vs XV's. 

My sim is camera based, and launch/spin/ballspeed numbers are accurate (eyemini).  I use fresh balls - once they have any wear they get binned.  I plan on doing a more formal data driven test comparing averages in a set number of shots, but for now this is the initial result after 5+ sim sessions.

 

Quick version - The new RS are the real deal for me, and I'll be using them exclusively.

 

Feel - RS more similar than different to both xv and v3's.  Firm, but not rocks. No complaints from myself or my wife.

 

Spin - so much less than v3 across the board. I can see 11k+ with a full 56° on v3's, RS only tapped 10k a handful of times. 7i v3's sit around 7500-8k, RS is consistently 1k less. DR v3's 2400-2600, RS 2100-2300. 

Spin compared to XV's is indistinguishable for me so far.  I'm curious how it shakes out when I do a more controlled comparison.

 

Ballspeed - the RS win here too, convincingly.  I'll have to wait and see when I do a full test what the difference is with my irons (I typically don't really look at ballspeed until I'm hitting woods), but 5w through DR is a huge increase for not just me, but my wife too.  In the last few months my typical range of DR ballspeed using the v3 on a well struck ball (smash over 1.45) is 158-165.  XV gain me a few, usually 160-168.  The RS outperformed both, 164-172.  I even swapped in a fresh XV last session to compare shot for shot, and the RS was consistently 3-4mph faster.  Not just me, either.  My wife jumped from 116-120 with the XV, to 120-125 with the RS.  She refuses to play the v3's lmao.

 

Durability - so far so good.  Weirdly, I break XV's in half often (200ish drives and the XV splits, like clockwork for me), and have yet to break a v3. It's certainly because I game with a single xv but am hitting multiple v3's in a session. The RS holds up better than the v3's with wedges so far. Time will tell with driver.

 

I am stocking up on my next trip, and plan to use these going forward.  

 

[bcjim]

Fyi.  A comparison has been posted somewhere on the internet (hint). Why it took this long is anyones guess. 

[dugue4]

1 hour ago, bcjim said:

Fyi.  A comparison has been posted somewhere on the internet (hint). Why it took this long is anyones guess. 

I read it this morning.  Confirmed that I will be playing the RS for the foreseeable future.  Probably need to stock up before the Titleist lawyers get to work.

[KonaV821]

So the newer version has a red stripe on the box? 

[ahenderX]

28 minutes ago, KonaV821 said:

So the newer version has a red stripe on the box? 

Oui.

[ahenderX]

8 hours ago, dugue4 said:

I read it this morning.  Confirmed that I will be playing the RS for the foreseeable future.  Probably need to stock up before the Titleist lawyers get to work.

I bought the 24-pack Kirkland several weeks ago but have not played it a full round. After reading the MGS review, I need to play it. 

[soregongolfer]

1 hour ago, ahenderX said:

I bought the 24-pack Kirkland several weeks ago but have not played it a full round. After reading the MGS review, I need to play it. 

What am I?  Chopped liver?  I've been saying good things about that ball since November. 😉  🙂  😂

[MickeyTankBank]

Still waiting for the yellow ones to show up in stores here

[medic170979]

10 hours ago, dugue4 said:

I read it this morning.  Confirmed that I will be playing the RS for the foreseeable future.  Probably need to stock up before the Titleist lawyers get to work.

I was thinking the same thing.  I’ve found most of what was stated in the comparison to be true as it relates to this ball for my game. 

[dugue4]

I have 2.5 doz.  I bought 4 more doz. today.  That should last me 3 rounds...

 

Edited June 10 by dugue4