Last week, Nike Golf sent out some awesome “Masters” packages to some influential bloggers (aka not me). Luckily, my friends over at MyGolfSpy.com were one of the recipients and posted up some pics.
Nike 20XI
We’ve known about the Nike 20XI golf balls for months, and months, and months. We’ve seen players on tour sporting the logo on their hats and (presumably) playing the new ball.
But so far Nike has been pretty mum about the new balls publicly. The Nike reps I played golf with a few weeks ago weren’t interested in discussing it at all and claimed that they didn’t have any with them (they did).
However Nike is finally officially unveiling the 20XI and beginning their marketing push with a video showing player impressions of the new ball.
The 20XI will come in 2 flavors, X and S (Distance and Spin, respectively) and will have a street price of $45.99. The release date is April 29th. The resin technology looks promising and I’m definitely going to try a sleeve as soon as I can get my hands on one.
See the Press Release below the break.
[Update 2/15/11: Nike has formally announced the 20XI golf balls and released a video of tour player perspectives on the new balls]
We’ve posted about the rumors surrounding this ball back when it was code names “RZN”. Now we have pictures of the new packaging for Nike’s 20XI Golf Ball. It will be available in 2 versions hitting retailers in April 2011. The X is the “tour level” distance offering and the S is the “tour level” spin offering.
NGNation is reporting that Nike’s RZN golf ball will be named the 20XI. RZN has always been a prototype/development name, but I happen to think it’s a darn good one and that it would actually work as an official product name.
20XI is “2011″ in half numbers and half roman numerals. Perhaps RZN (resin) was too tied into the new core technology of the ball? I’m guessing the 20XI brand will better tie into other golf balls and products across their lineup. The timing on this seems right with the expected official announcement of the RZN this month with a 2011 product launch.
