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Head to head

Head Ultra Tour 16 vs Tourna Big Hitter Silver Rough 16

Big Hitter Silver Rough 16 leads on 3 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where Big Hitter Silver Rough 16 is 38 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Head

Ultra Tour 16

Polyester · 16 ga

Tourna

Big Hitter Silver Rough 16

Polyester · 16 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
20270th pct
20674th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
4577th pct
4577th pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
8628th pct
8629th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
4.543rd pct
4.543rd pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.39420th pct
0.45358th pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.08739th pct
0.10063rd pct

Bars are percentile against all 791 strings, and the marked side is the one that measures better, which is not always the one you want. A firmer bed is worse for your elbow and better for your control, and no measurement knows which of those you came for.

Which one wins, by problem

Each string's standing on the site's rankings, out of every measured string in the database. This is where a comparison stops being arithmetic and starts being a decision.

Swapping between them: what tension?

Bed stiffness is published at one reference tension, so the only honest conversion is to scale it. These are starting points from 52 lb, not prescriptions. The calculator takes your own tension.

Coming from Ultra Tour 16 at 52 lb

String Big Hitter Silver Rough 16 at 48.8 lb 22.1 kg

Coming from Big Hitter Silver Rough 16 at 52 lb

String Ultra Tour 16 at 56.0 lb 25.4 kg

Hybrid: what if you used both?

Estimated, not measured. No hybrid combination has been tested as a bed. These figures are the two strings' own lab measurements weighted by how much of the bed each one actually is. Treat them as a guide to which way a pairing moves, never as lab data.

Ultra Tour 16 mains / Big Hitter Silver Rough 16 crosses

Stiffness72nd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss77th pct · 1 measured
Energy return28th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential43rd pct · 1 measured
Ball bite25th pct · 1 measured
String friction48th pct · 1 measured

Big Hitter Silver Rough 16 mains / Ultra Tour 16 crosses

Stiffness72nd pct · 1 measured
Tension loss77th pct · 1 measured
Energy return28th pct · 1 measured
Spin potential43rd pct · 1 measured
Ball bite52nd pct · 1 measured
String friction57th pct · 1 measured

Open this in the hybrid builder

Which goes dead first?

Estimated from tension loss, which is the only thing the database measures about ageing. This is when the bed stops playing the way you strung it, not when the string breaks.

Ultra Tour 16

~17 hours of play

Big Hitter Silver Rough 16

~17 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Head Ultra Tour 16 Polyester16find20245864.50.3940.087
Tourna Big Hitter Silver Rough 16 Polyester16find20645864.50.4530.100

Add a third string Ultra Tour 16 in full Big Hitter Silver Rough 16 in full