Our Golf Ball Fitting Quiz Matches You to Your Best Ball in 90 Seconds.

You answer a 2-minute quiz about your swing, your short game, what you want from a ball, and your budget. BallCaddie scores 79 real-world golf balls against your answers — compression, spin, cover, feel, price — and returns the ones that actually fit, not the ones with the biggest marketing budget.

The quiz and catalog are free. Advanced features like Caddie Mode on-course testing, saved fittings, and full comparison tools are part of BallCaddie Pro.

No. BallCaddie is independent and brand-neutral. Recommendations are driven purely by how well a ball matches your answers.

The catalog currently covers 79 models across Titleist, Callaway, TaylorMade, Bridgestone, Srixon, Vice, Snell, Cut, Wilson, Mizuno, and more.

Swing speed drives the compression decision: slower swings (under ~90 mph) generally benefit from lower-compression balls that deform enough at impact to transfer energy efficiently, while higher swings (95+ mph) can fully compress firmer tour balls for distance and spin control. But compression alone is not destiny — short-game priority, trajectory preference, and feel all matter. BallCaddie's quiz takes a driver swing-speed range plus your greenside priorities and scores every ball in the catalog against that whole profile. If you want the underlying chart, see our golf ball compression chart pillar — it plots every model by compression tier against typical swing-speed ranges.

Compression is a measure of how much a golf ball deforms at impact, typically rated on a scale from around 30 (very soft) to 110+ (very firm). Lower-compression balls feel softer, tend to produce lower spin off the driver for slower swings, and can actually lose energy at very high swing speeds. Higher-compression balls feel firmer, hold up to faster swings, and are typical in tour-level urethane models. Independent testing — for example MyGolfSpy's annual Ball Lab — has shown that there is no single "right" compression for a given swing speed because cover material, layer construction, and dimple design interact with it. That's why BallCaddie scores the whole system (compression, cover, layers, trajectory) instead of treating compression as a standalone number.

There is no single best mid-handicap ball. "Mid-handicap" covers golfers shooting anywhere from the mid-80s to the low 90s, with very different swing speeds, miss patterns, and short-game skill. A mid-handicapper with a 105 mph driver swing who prioritizes spin around the greens needs a very different ball than a mid-handicapper with an 85 mph swing who loses strokes to slice and cold-weather carry. BallCaddie's quiz matches a mid-handicap golfer to the specific ball that fits their swing speed, short-game priority, trajectory tendency, feel preference, and budget — instead of defaulting to whichever ball won a magazine list that season.

The fairest test is a controlled A/B on the same course in similar conditions: play one sleeve of Ball A on the front nine and one sleeve of Ball B on the back nine (or rotate every three holes), and score each ball across three buckets — drives (carry and dispersion), approach shots (flight and stopping), and greenside shots (spin and feel). BallCaddie Pro's Caddie Mode scripts exactly this protocol as three on-course missions, captures your notes, and gives a data-backed verdict at the end of the round so you aren't deciding on gut feel.