No sugarcoating the numbers.

Every Sugar ball, on a Trackman.

Driver, 7 iron and 60° wedge. Real launch-monitor averages from the same golfer — ball speed, spin, launch, carry and how steeply it comes down. Read one ball's story, or put two of them head to head.

3 balls 3 clubs 9 measurements each 0 marketing maths

Sugar Soft — 2-piece, Surlyn cover

Soft was measured in its own session, at roughly 15 mph less club speed than the other two — it is the ball built for moderate swing speeds, so read it on its own terms. The Surlyn cover shows up plainly at the wedge: 3,354 rpm, about half what the urethane balls spin. It answers with height instead, launching highest of the three at 36.9° and landing steepest at 41.6°.

Sugar Soft Trackman averages by club
Measurement	Driver	7 Iron	60° Wedge
Club speed (mph)	91.2 ±1.6	71.9 ±0.3	41.4 ±1.2
Ball speed (mph)	129.3 ±1.9	105.2 ±1.0	40.6 ±1.3
Launch angle (°)	12.7 ±1.0	15.0 ±0.9	36.9 ±1.2
Spin rate (rpm)	3,428 ±1,035	5,726 ±267	3,354 ±421
Spin axis (°)	-3.4 ±1.0	-0.8 ±2.8	0.1 ±0.6
Height (m)	19.5 ±3.7	16.2 ±1.2	6.4 ±0.1
Carry (m)	186.5 ±5.1	136.6 ±1.7	30.7 ±1.6
Total (m)	213.0 ±5.8	157.3 ±4.0	40.4 ±1.8
Land angle (°)	30.6 ±5.6	33.2 ±1.9	41.6 ±0.9

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Sugar Pure — 3-piece, urethane cover

Pure is the control ball, and the data says so plainly: it spins more than the Quad with every club. Its 8,008 rpm from the 60° wedge is the highest spin figure anywhere in this dataset, and its 7 iron lands at 41.9° — the steepest descent in the range, which is what stops a ball near its pitch mark. It was also the most repeatable: driver carry moved by only ±1.8 m shot to shot.

Sugar Pure Trackman averages by club
Measurement	Driver	7 Iron	60° Wedge
Club speed (mph)	105.6 ±0.5	84.2 ±0.8	50.6 ±1.0
Ball speed (mph)	159.4 ±1.2	120.8 ±0.6	49.9 ±0.8
Launch angle (°)	12.6 ±0.4	17.7 ±0.2	30.8 ±0.4
Spin rate (rpm)	2,546 ±137	4,991 ±254	8,008 ±307
Spin axis (°)	-6.5 ±11.5	4.5 ±3.4	3.7 ±0.6
Height (m)	27.6 ±0.2	27.8 ±0.5	7.6 ±0.3
Carry (m)	259.4 ±1.8	174.7 ±2.0	42.7 ±1.2
Total (m)	288.9 ±2.6	184.6 ±2.2	52.0 ±1.0
Land angle (°)	32.4 ±0.4	41.9 ±0.3	38.2 ±0.5

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Sugar Quad — 4-piece, urethane cover

Quad is the distance ball and earns it honestly: the lowest spin measured anywhere here off the driver at 2,238 rpm, the highest launch at 13.6°, and the longest carry and total. Less spin plus more launch is the classic distance recipe. What surprises people is the wedge — it still spins 7,610 rpm, and did so more consistently than any other figure on this page at ±79 rpm.

Sugar Quad Trackman averages by club
Measurement	Driver	7 Iron	60° Wedge
Club speed (mph)	106.1 ±0.3	84.7 ±0.5	50.7 ±0.9
Ball speed (mph)	158.8 ±0.5	120.1 ±0.9	51.3 ±1.3
Launch angle (°)	13.6 ±1.5	18.5 ±0.1	31.0 ±0.5
Spin rate (rpm)	2,238 ±300	4,196 ±140	7,610 ±79
Spin axis (°)	2.3 ±4.6	3.5 ±2.5	1.3 ±0.5
Height (m)	29.1 ±3.2	27.8 ±0.5	8.2 ±0.7
Carry (m)	262.4 ±4.2	177.7 ±2.1	45.0 ±2.1
Total (m)	290.9 ±2.7	189.8 ±2.3	54.1 ±1.3
Land angle (°)	32.8 ±2.3	40.9 ±0.4	38.7 ±1.0

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First ball

Second ball

What the data actually says

Three metres. That's the whole gap.

Hit back to back at the same club speed, the Pure carried 259.4 m and the Quad 262.4 m off the driver. Three metres separates our 3-piece from our 4-piece — and the Pure was fractionally the faster ball off the face.

Spin is the real difference

The Pure spins more than the Quad with every club measured — 308 rpm more off the driver, 795 more with the 7 iron, 398 more with the wedge. That is the trade: the Quad buys distance with low spin, the Pure buys stopping power with high spin.

Both stop on a wedge

7,610 rpm for the Quad and 8,008 for the Pure from a 60° wedge. Low driver spin does not mean a ball that runs through greens — the urethane cover does its job where it matters.

Consistency you can see

Every figure on this page carries its shot-to-shot deviation. The Pure's driver carry moved ±1.8 m and the Quad's wedge spin ±79 rpm. We publish the spread because an average without one is only half a number.

How it was measured

The method, in plain sight

TrackmanRadar launch monitor — the same equipment tour fitters use.

One golferEvery number here came off the same player's swing, so the ball is the variable.

Session averagesNot a best shot. Each figure is the average of a set, published with its ± spread.

Pure and Quad, back to backHit in one session at matched club speed — 105.6 and 106.1 mph — so they compare directly.

Soft, measured separatelyTested on its own day at about 15 mph less club speed. Real numbers, but not a like-for-like race.

Metric by defaultDistances in metres, switchable to yards. Speeds in mph, as launch monitors report them.

One honest caveat worth stating twice: because the Soft was measured at a much lower club speed, comparing its carry against the Pure or the Quad tells you about the swing, not the ball. Where the page lets you make that comparison, it says so on the spot.

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