Vice Pro Golf Balls Review (2026): Pro vs Tour vs Drive vs Pro Air

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The Vice lineup, priced per ball

Prices verified August 27, 2026 from Vice’s own product pages (Pro, Pro Plus, Tour, Drive, Pro Air). Vice’s quantity selector steps down at three dozen and again at five; the bulk column is the floor price per dozen. Surlyn is an ionomer resin — Vice’s own Tour page calls the cover “enhanced mid-acid ionomer (Surlyn)” — so the Tour and Drive are the two ionomer balls in the range. That’s how MyGolfSpy classifies them, and how this article refers to them below.

The price ladder and the firmness ladder disagree

Sort the lineup by price and you get Drive, Tour, Pro, Pro Air, Pro Plus. Sort it by compression and the order scrambles: the $29.99 Tour comes out firmest at 98, the $41.99 flagship second at 97, and the $39.99 Pro lands nine points softer than the ionomer ball one rung below it.

That isn’t a quirk of our gauge. Today’s Golfer measured all five on their own robot and got a different scale with the same shape:

The two gauges read on different scales, so the numbers don’t convert — compare the rank order, never the raw values. On that basis they agree where it counts. The Tour is top-two firmest on both. The Pro Air is softest on both. And on both, the cheap ionomer ball is firmer than the urethane ball that costs $10 more a dozen.

Firmness is the thing golfers use as a proxy for “premium,” which makes the Vice range easy to shop backwards. Our golf ball compression chart shows how little compression predicts on its own, and the Vice lineup is a clean demonstration.

Vice Pro: the ball the robot picked

In MyGolfSpy’s 2026 48-ball test, the Vice Pro is the Great Buy at mid swing speed — the 102 mph driver group, the group a 10-handicap’s 95 mph sits nearest on TrackMan’s numbers. The 94 mph TrackMan gives the average male amateur falls exactly between the 86 and 102 mph groups, so read both.

It earned that on flight. Off mid-speed irons the Vice Pro was one of three balls MyGolfSpy called out for pairing good distance with a below-average peak height, inside the top 13 while flying flatter than the field. Off high-speed irons it sat in the bottom half of the spin chart despite being a firm ball, grouped with the Mizuno Pro S and Maxfli Tour.

A flat, lower-spinning urethane ball is a specific fit. If your misses balloon or you play a lot of wind, that profile helps. If you struggle to hold greens, the Pro is the wrong end of the Vice range.

At $3.33 a ball, or $2.92 buying five dozen, it undercuts a Titleist Pro V1 (~92) by about $1.50 a ball with a cast urethane cover doing the same job.

Vice Tour: the ionomer ball that beat the urethane field

Off the high-speed iron, the ionomer Vice Tour finished fourth of 48 for spin and out-spun 35 of the 38 urethane models in the test. Off the driver at 116 mph it finished 13th for total distance and beat 26 of those same 38 urethane balls. MyGolfSpy singled it out by name as a firm ionomer that “performs much more like urethane under most conditions.”

Even on the 65 mph iron condition, where high spin usually costs distance, the Tour was one of two balls that stayed inside the top 12 for distance while spinning above the field average.

The Today’s Golfer robot backs the greenside half of that. On a 40-yard pitch it measured the Tour at 5,967 rpm, ahead of the urethane Vice Pro at 5,708 and behind only the Pro Plus, ranking it 14th for that shot across their whole 2026 field:

At 114 mph, 3.4 yards separates the $41.99 flagship from the $19.99 Drive, and 4.5 yards covers all five. At 78 mph, half a yard separates all five, so driver carry isn’t what splits these balls at that speed.

The two robots disagree about this ball. MyGolfSpy has the Tour fourth of 48 for iron spin; Today’s Golfer’s 7-iron numbers put it lowest of the five Vice balls at 4,216 rpm, and longest on that same shot at 158.1 yards. Different robots, different clubs, different swing speeds. Both tests agree it’s fast and firm; they disagree about full-iron spin, and we’d rather say so than pick the flattering number.

That pitch number is a five-ball comparison, though, and the wider field tells a blunter story. Across MyGolfSpy’s 2026 field, urethane averaged roughly 1,250 rpm more greenside spin than ionomer — the largest cover-related gap they measure anywhere. Our urethane vs ionomer breakdown works through what that means shot by shot. The Vice Tour is the best argument in the range for buying ionomer anyway; it isn’t an argument that the cover is free.

Vice Pro Air: the soft one, and what it replaced

The Pro Air is the ball people land on when they search for a Vice Pro Soft. Vice retired the Pro Soft — its collection page now returns a 404, and the only listings left are 2023-dated colorways — and the Pro Air took the soft-urethane slot at ~72 compression and $39.99 a dozen.

Its 2026 numbers are consistent in one direction. It was among the lowest-spinning balls in the field off high-speed irons and again off slow irons. It was also among the longest at 65 mph, and one of three balls MyGolfSpy named for pairing top-seven mid-speed iron distance with above-average flight.

Low spin and high launch is the recipe for a slower swing that needs height to hold a green. It also puts the Pro Air last among the Vice balls on the shot where spin buys you a stopped ball: on Today’s Golfer’s 40-yard pitch it measured 5,371 rpm, the lowest of the five. MyGolfSpy’s own read points the same way: it had the Pro Air among the lowest-spinning balls in the field off irons at both the high and slow speeds. This is the softest-feeling Vice urethane rather than the grippiest.

If your driver speed is under about 95 mph and you want a urethane ball you can actually compress, this is Vice’s answer. From 95 to 105 mph the Pro fits better, and above 105 the Pro Plus does.

Vice Drive: the one with no data

Vice put four balls in MyGolfSpy’s 48-ball field. The Drive was not one of them, and it has no MyGolfSpy result to report — the only ball in the range in that position.

Today’s Golfer did test it: 93 psi, 268.5 yards of carry at 114 mph, 5,492 rpm on a 40-yard pitch. That puts it fourth of five on greenside spin and fourth of five on carry, at $1.67 a ball. A two-piece ionomer ball at half the price of the Pro is an honest trade for a golfer losing several balls a round. On that 40-yard pitch it edged the urethane Pro Air, which says more about how close these five sit on one shot than about the Drive; the cover gap shows up on full wedges and wet lies, where MyGolfSpy’s field-wide 1,250 rpm spread lives.

Where the Pro Plus fits

The flagship is a specialist. The Vice Pro Plus was MyGolfSpy’s high-spin pick at mid swing speed and finished first or second for spin in five of their six test conditions. It was also among the shortest balls in the field at 65 mph, precisely because it spins so much.

That’s a ball for a fast swing that wants spin through the bag, and a bad ball for a slow one. Our Vice Pro Plus vs Pro V1 comparison covers the head-to-head against Titleist’s benchmark.

Which one fits you

Buy the Vice Pro if you swing 95 to 105 mph and want the ball with the award behind it. Great Buy at mid speed, flat flight, $3.33 a ball.

Buy the Vice Tour if you want most of a tour ball’s full-swing performance for $2.50 and can live with an ionomer cover around the green. On the robot it carried within 0.5 yards of the flagship at 114 mph.

Buy the Vice Pro Air if you’re under 95 mph and want a urethane ball that launches high and feels soft. Accept the lowest greenside spin in the range going in.

Buy the Vice Drive if the ball’s job is to be cheap. $1.67 each, no MyGolfSpy data, no pretense.

Buy the Vice Pro Plus if you’re over 105 mph and want maximum spin. Skip it below that; it was among the shortest balls tested at slow speed.

The next step

Five balls, a $22 spread, and a firmness order that runs backwards through the middle of it. Which one fits comes down to your driver speed and where your round leaks strokes, which is what the 90-second BallCaddie fitting quiz scores you on — it ranks the full catalog, all five Vice balls included, against your answers. Or line them up side by side in the ball catalog.

For deeper dives

• Vice golf balls: the complete lineup — the brand hub, with the Munich backstory and the Pro V1 price math
• Vice Pro Plus vs Titleist Pro V1 — the flagship against the benchmark, head to head
• Golf ball compression chart — every catalog ball by compression, and how to read the bands
• How to choose a golf ball by swing speed — the fitting order that picks between these five
• Urethane vs ionomer golf balls — the cover trade the Vice Tour keeps testing
• The 2026 MyGolfSpy ball test — the 48-ball robot test read as fitting criteria

Key takeaways

• Vice’s price ladder and its firmness ladder disagree: the $29.99 ionomer Tour measures firmer than the $39.99 urethane Pro on both gauges we track, and our catalog puts it firmest in the whole range at 98.
• The Vice Pro was MyGolfSpy’s Great Buy at mid swing speed in the 2026 48-ball test, the only value award Vice took, earned on flat flight rather than spin.
• The Vice Tour finished fourth of 48 for high-speed iron spin and out-spun 35 of the 38 urethane models in the field, and beat 26 of them for driver distance at 116 mph.
• Today’s Golfer’s robot disagrees about the Tour’s full-iron spin, measuring it lowest of the five Vice balls at 4,216 rpm — both tests agree it’s fast and firm, and we report the split rather than pick a side.
• Off the driver at 78 mph, all five Vice balls carried within half a yard of each other; at 114 mph the spread was 4.5 yards.
• The Vice Pro Air replaced the discontinued Pro Soft, whose collection page now 404s, and it’s the lowest-spinning Vice ball on a 40-yard pitch at 5,371 rpm.
• The Vice Drive was not in MyGolfSpy’s 48-ball field and has no data from that test at all; at $1.67 a ball it’s priced accordingly.
• Urethane averaged roughly 1,250 rpm more greenside spin than ionomer across the 2026 field, the largest cover-related gap MyGolfSpy measures.