Who makes Kirkland Signature Performance+ Golf Ball (V3.0, three-piece urethane)?
As of August 1, 2026, evidence points to SM Global, LLC as the manufacturer of Kirkland Signature Performance+ Golf Ball (V3.0, three-piece urethane), but no tier 1–3 source names the link directly.
The common claim
What most answers say — and what the evidence supports
Top-ranking results name three different makers — Qingdao SM Parker, Nassau Golf, even Titleist — but the only registration-grade record, the USGA List of Conforming Golf Balls, names SM Global, LLC as manufacturer of record for the current Performance+ ball; the SM Parker plant attribution rests on unverified teardown reporting, the Nassau attribution belongs to the discontinued 2016 four-piece ball, and no tier 1–5 evidence has ever linked Titleist to making it.
Evidence & sources
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Tier 3
Manufacturer column for all four current 'Kirkland Signature ... Performance +' entries (3P-1c, 338 dimples, white and yellow) reads 'SM Global, LLC' (USA) — the manufacturer of record in an official registration list, but a distribution/logistics affiliate rather than a named plant, so indirect for who physically molds the ball. Unchanged from the March 5, 2025 edition; re-checked against the edition effective July 1, 2026.
Tier 6
"The Kirkland Performance+ V3 is produced in Vietnam in the SM Parker factory that makes the PXG Xtreme ball" — teardown/industry reporting, unverified by any tier 1–4 source.
Tier 6
Reports the Kirkland ball factory "formerly known as Fantom, was sold and is now operating as Qingdao SM Parker Golf Co.", that SM Parker "is closely aligned with SM Global LLC, a warehousing, logistics, packaging and repackaging company", and that "SM Global LLC has, for some time, been listed as the manufacturer of Kirkland golf balls on the USGA Conforming Ball List" — per an unnamed industry source.
Manufacturer history
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| Period | Manufacturer | What the record says | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Present | SM Global, LLCCurrent | Current attribution — probable. See the evidence and fact sentence above. | Evidence ↑ |
| 2016 → 2017 | Nassau Golf Co., Ltd. | Original four-piece K-Sig ball, widely attributed (unverified) to Nassau Golf of South Korea; pulled from the U.S. market amid the Acushnet patent/false-advertising dispute. The litigation never names a manufacturer — it establishes only that packaging said the balls were made in Korea, and that the case settled. | CourtListener (RECAP) ↗ |
| 2018 → 2023 | Qingdao SM Parker Golf Co., Ltd. | Performance+ v2.0 three-piece era (and the 2019 four-piece reissue), attributed by teardown/industry reporting (unverified) to the Qingdao, China factory formerly operated as Fantom; dates approximate. By the V3 generation, MyGolfSpy reported production at an SM Parker factory in Vietnam. | MyGolfSpy ↗ |
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