Srixon Q-Star Tour Divide Review: Pros & Cons to Consider

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There’s no denying that the Srixon Q-Star Tour Divide is a great ball. No, it won’t appeal to every – or even most – golfers with that two-tone cover, but that’s okay, there’s a Q-Star Tour in white or yellow for those golfers.

While the it’s up to each individual golfer to decide if the Divide pattern works for them, I would strongly recommend at least using this ball for your short game and putting practice. The instant feedback you get with the putter and greenside shots is really helpful.

Here’s what you get, inside and out, with the Q-Star Tour Divide.

We’ll go into more detail on some of the pros and cons, but here’s an overview of what I like and dislike about the Srixon Q-Star Tour Divide.

Pros:

• 360-degree alignment gives great feedback when putting
• Seeing spin on greenside shots is very helpful, even if just for practice
• Downrange visibility is the best of any ball I’ve ever tested
• Excellent feel off the club face and around the greens

Cons:

• Visibility on the ground can be tougher than a white ball
• Putting without using the alignment is very uncomfortable
• The look on full shots can also be uncomfortable

In my on-course experience with the Srixon Q-Star Tour Divide, the closer you are to the hole, the more the Divide pattern plays a role. Srixon urges you to use the Divide line as an alignment aid on the greens, and after playing a round with the Q-Star Tour Divide, I do too.

When you line up the Divide line and hit a putt, you get instant feedback on the quality of your strike. Hit it perfect and the two colors will remain perfectly on their own side of the line. Mis-hit it, however, and the Divide will look like a wobbly wheel fumbling its way toward the hole. I must say, it’s quite satisfying hitting a good putt with the Q-Star Tour Divide. 

The biggest drawback on the greens, however, is that when you don’t use the Divide to line up your putt, it’s extremely difficult, maybe even impossible, to get comfortable over a putt. I don’t typically use a line inside five feet, but on anything outside of a tap-in, the Divide leaves almost no choice.

The Srixon Q-Star Tour Divide benefits spill from the green into the greenside game. When you hit a chip or pitch shot, you can instantly see how much and what direction the ball is spinning, even when it’s not lined up on the Divide line. 

This is nice on the course, but I found it to be really helpful during practice. That feedback is actually really confidence-inspiring. I found that the thought of seeing the spin, rather than thinking about technique, helped me hit much better shots around the greens in practice. In turn, I played with an extra boost of confidence around the greens.

I wasn’t expecting to get the full effect of the Divide cover until I got near the green, but then I teed off on the first hole. I’m a big fan of talking to my golf ball, but instead of pleading with it to turn, go, cut, or begging it to stay in bounds, after teeing off on No. 1, I audibly said “Wow, that’s easy to track.”

The two-tone pattern makes the Q-Star Tour Divide incredibly easy to see as it flies downrange. If your eyes aren’t quite what they used to be, you have a hard time spotting where your ball lands, or if someone in your regular foursome struggles to track their ball, the Q-Star Tour Divide will help immensely.

The one problem I had spotting the Srixon Q-Star Tour Divide was on the ground. Even though I could easily see where it landed, I struggled from time to time to actually find it once I got up there. I played the blue and yellow version, and when it came to rest mostly blue-up, it was particularly tricky to locate, especially in the rough.

I suspect the orange and yellow version is the best in this department of the three color patterns to find on the ground.

Inside that 50/50 Divide cover is a really good, Srixon Q-Star Tour golf ball. Srixon is essentially targeting better players with moderate swing speeds with the Q-Star Tour, giving it a premium urethane cover, and 3-piece construction that allow you to spin it and stop it around the green. The compression rating of 72 helps it reach peak distances without top-end swing speeds.

The thing that stood out the most to me when playing the Q-Star Tour Divide was how it felt off the club face. The matte urethane cover seemed to really grab my grooves on wedge shots, which gave me a lot of confidence around the greens.

The Q-Star Tour is a great ball for better players who don’t have top-end swing speed. Adding the Divide cover only makes the Srixon Q-Star Tour an even better golf ball for seniors, because of how easy it is on the eyes when tracking shots downrange.

It’s also a great ball for players who like to see immediate feedback on their short game and putting strokes. For golfers who like that feedback, but can’t quite make the leap to using it full-time, I strongly recommend keeping these on hand for short game practice sessions.

Props to Srixon for releasing a ball that brazenly breaks the mold of what a golf ball looks like. Yes, PING released a similar ball in the ‘90s, but it’s been decades since anything like this has hit pro shop shelves. 

After playing a round with the Q-Star Tour Divide, I’m sold on the benefits of the 50/50 cover. While I personally find it too distracting to replace my gamer, I’ll definitely keep a sleeve in my bag to get valuable feedback when I practice chipping and putting.