re: Balls and the comparison between them

At the end of the day, there's still a large gap between ProV1/x and everyone else, imo. The 2021 TP5/x balls were awful (relative to $$ and expectations) but the newly released ones are supposed to have taken a big step in the right direction. I haven't hit them yet so I won't judge the new version, but the 2019 (?) model was a great ball. I'm not sure why they changed off of those.

To me, the closest thing to the ProV1/x is the Srixon Zstar balls. They were not as long off the tee, but also not terribly shorter, either. Irons, wedges, around the green, and feel were all right up there though.