GM AND HEAD GOLF PROFESSIONAL CHAD JOHANSEN greets you at Blackberry Oaks where fun and golf mix together. Play “The Oaks” and enjoy post round food and beverage in Kennedy Pointe restaurant. The Chad Johansen golf academy where “KidsRule” is one of the best junior golf locations in the Chicago area. Stay tuned for updates on the CJA winter indoor golf at the Go For It Dome in Yorkville near Blackberry Oaks. Chad is the inventor of the FOURStepProcess. Details at BlackberryOaks.com    _____________________________________________________________________

PRODUCT REVIEW by RORY SPEARS-Director of Content and Creation at Golfers on Golf. Follow Rory on Twitter @GogBlogGuy or on Facebook and LinkedIn.

The new RZN golf balls, what was once Nike.

RZN golf balls, you know the name right ?

Well maybe you don’t, because what was a RZN Golf Ball in the past, came under a different name-NIKE.

What RZN did was make golf balls for NIKE from 2011 through 2016, when NIKE dropped out of the golf equipment business.

RZN HS Tour ball

During the time RZN made Nike golf balls, the ball won over 50 times on the various professional tours. That included four major championships.

It’s Resin Core has helped produce a lighter and faster golf ball, that come complete with a Micro-Dimple surface (13,558 dimples).

Since 2016, RZN has been researching technologies and looking at ways to make a better golf ball. Since NIKE is out of business in selling golf balls, RZN instead of painting a “Swoosh” on the golf balls they make, they are now putting their own name on the balls they make.

I tested out the RZN-MS and the RZN-HS golf balls in recent rounds, as I tried out several brands of balls while settling in with my new golf clubs, while looking for the right combinations. Here are my findings.

THE RZN-HS Tour Ball is longer than the RZN-MS ball. But it’s supposed to be. Against other brands of balls I have played of late, I thought the RZN-HS came out on the short-end distance wise. It’s not lagging far behind, but while playing it, when I was in between clubs, I always hit more club to get the distance I needed.

But the HS ball has a good feel when you hit, it’s a ball that I think would not leave you with a stinger in your hands on the cool days that are coming in the fall golf season. I did well hitting fairways with the HS ball, so it gets good marks for control. Some distance balls can rocket off the putter face when your on the green, but I did not experience that with HS.

OVERALL-RZN-HS is a good ball, but it could use a little more distance when being hit by the big sticks in your bag.

RZN-MS is for all swing speeds. Again my fairways hit count was good when using MS, it doesn’t have the distance of HS, but it’s very easy to control. Where I saw some interesting results, was on greenside bunker shots. I hit not one but two flagsticks from greenside bunkers. Unfortunately neither of those shots dropped into the cup, but spun away from the hole in crazy fashion, and left long par putts. But if your looking for spin around and into the green the MS ball should work for you.

MS has a great feel on the green. I had one of my better putting rounds (27 putts) of the year while using RZN-MS. I hit my new A-Wedge on four occasions during my recent round with the MS ball, I hit all four greens and held them.

If you played RZN-Nike from 2011-2016 and liked the ball, you should like the new edition RZN ball. It’s price point is better than most major top of the line golf balls. On-line reports say it’s available through Walmart’s website.

For more information see Rzngolf.com.