Looks like TaylorMade has pulled the 2020 TP5 PIX USA "Stars and Striped" golf balls...

[NJDevils22]

They posted these on social and got a ton of negative feedback around the balls resembling the Confederate Flag.... then they turned off the comments feature on Instagram and now it looks like they have pulled the balls entirely off of social and no longer available for sale.....

[third-times-a-charm]

#cancelculture at its finest

Bunch of clowns on social media scared big ol' Taylormade lol

[GC70]

Your joking right? This world that we are live in, is getting out of control.

[ebrasmus21]

Cancel #USA

also: #EatTheRich

[bogiii]

Just wow! If my hands were half as soft as people today I'd be a phenom on and around the greens!

[mcputter]

Makes me want to buy some.

[RSinSG]

When I saw that ball I didn't think of the Stars and Bars I thought of the New England Patriots.

[Jcbgt106]

Interesting. I thought it looked great and ordered 2 dozen on Wednesday night. I wonder if they will ship...

[No_Catchy_Nickname]

I'm not American, and New England Patriots was my first thought.

Which would make the backlash more understandable

#deflategate#spygate#JohnSmith

[GHIN n Juice]

They look horrible no matter what they’re supposed to represent. I’d expect to find a ball looking like that being sold at Target, 24pk for $15.99.

[MaineMariner]

I was thinking the New England Revolution.

Whether or not they resemble the Confederate Flag, those look awful. It's hard to imagine those made it out of some sort of committee.

[Z1ggy16]

Yeah if I saw those with no context I would not think confederate flag at all, but this is the crap world we live in now. Everything must be PC, you must keep ALL parties pleased or you get canceled.

[BiggErn]

I saw it coming.

[RainShadow]

And......my post has been cancelled as well.

[Carolina Golfer 2]

Oh Hell! I hope my stars & Stripes driver that is shipping next week doesn't get pulled

[Fade]

It is probably just a business decision. Someone at TM with more sense than the designer recognized that nobody would be buying a ball so ugly and ridiculous.

[BiggErn]

I’m sure they would have sold just fine. Ricky was suppose to be playing it this week and I wonder if they made him take it out of play. I would by some now simply out of spite that someone would actually be offended by these. We all have a choice to like or not like something and that should be the end of it.

[nsxguy]

LOL

I first thought of the Houston Texans.

Not enough red to remind me of the confederate flag though but it's different times now.

 

Oh, and IBTL

[Fade]

I don't think these would sell. I find it hard to believe that patriotic golfers - who I presume are the target market - would put up with such disfigurement of the flag they love.

[CaseyC]

Just looked at the TaylorMade website. I see these golf balls

[BiggErn]

That was the previous USA version. USA themed ninja stars are apparently more offensive than their original X pattern pix models.

[SammyShaf]

I thought that putting a likeness of the flag on something intended to be on the ground was against best practices...?

[Bushwood Country Club]

They will sell just fine. They are now available on the website.

[Philomathesq]

The balls currently available are last year's design, not the design TM originally released for the 2020 balls.

[SammyShaf]

[Qqq123xx]

Balls are pretty fugly. And the only thing I can think of they look like is something pretty fugly.

 

Oh wait, maybe they could look like a three sided ninja death ball.

[Bushwood Country Club]

So I can only conclude that last year's model was "snowflake friendly", while the new version was code named "trigger"...

[nsxguy]

I can only conclude that you are determined to get this thread shut down.

[Philomathesq]

To be fair, what else needs to be said that hasn’t been?

[Bushwood Country Club]

In a free society, your are free to reach your own conclusions - so please enjoy yours (while you can).