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Phantom X putters by Scotty Cameron are high-tech mallets – each engineered for tour-preferred performance. Shop the ultimate lineup for mallet players now!
Identical to the Phantom X 7 but with a small slant “jet” neck to facilitate toe flow, this mallet promotes alignment, stability & higher MOI. Shop now.
A precision-milled stainless steel face & head and center-balanced aluminum sole/flange make the Phantom X 7 one of the most-requested mallets on Tour.
The Phantom X 5 provides the performance and alignment benefits of a mallet with the feel of a blade. Shop this Tour-proven putter on Titleist.com.
The Phantom X 5.5 features a self-centering sole plate design, updated graphics, and a Pistolero Plus grip. Shop this Tour-proven putter now.
The Scotty Cameron Phantom 11.5 putter is a high-MOI, near-face-balanced wingback mallet with a low-bend shaft for toe flow. Shop now on Titleist.com.
The Phantom 7.2 features a wingback mallet head shape with the popular I-beam plumbing neck to provide the stability of a mallet but with a blade-like feel.
The Phantom 5.2 features a wingback mallet head shape with the popular I-beam plumbing neck to provide the stability of a mallet but with a blade-like feel.
The Scotty Cameron Phantom 9.5 putter is a new near-face balanced high-MOI mallet with long alignment lines and a mid-bend shaft. Shop now on Titleist.com.
The Scotty Cameron Phantom 11 putter is a re-designed high-MOI face-balanced wingback mallet with a mid-bend shaft & maximum alignment. Shop now with Titleist.
The Scotty Cameron Phantom 9 putter is a new, near-face balanced high-MOI mallet with long alignment lines and a mid-bend shaft. Shop now on Titleist.com.
For players who prefer long, rail-like alignment features but favor a hint of toe flow for an arcing putting stroke, the Phantom 7.5 provides both. Shop now.
The 2024 Phantom 7 Mallet from Scotty Cameron delivers a putter with an updated Tour-trusted design that puts an emphasis on alignment, stability and MOI.
The 2024 Scotty Cameron Phantom 5s offers a straight shaft in a zero-offset position for a nearly-face balanced option with an unobstructed address view.
The 2024 Scotty Cameron Phantom 5 stays true to its compact mallet configuration and blade-like feel with an updated, more modern shape. Shop now.
The 2024 Scotty Cameron Phantom 5.5 putter is a compact wingback mallet with a small jet neck for enhanced toe flow in your stroke. Shop now on Titleist.com.
Redesigned with a new look that includes a thinned out mid-section, the latest Phantom X 12 has been updated for even more forgiveness, easier alignment, and confidence-inspiring performance. Shop now.
Identical to the Phantom X 11 except for its low-bend shaft configuration, the new Phantom X 11.5 is another compact mallet option offering players just a bit of toe flow with forgiveness. Shop now.
Updated with the 2022 sole design, this high-MOI, face-balanced wingback mallett features a mid-bend shaft and a solid precision milled steel face. Shop now.
The Phantom X 9.5 was crafted with a small slant “jet” neck, offering an additional configuration nearly identical to the Phantom X 9. Shop now
The Phantom X 9 is a solid stainless steel, near-face balanced mallet set up for maximum stability and features a single mid-bend shaft. Shop now.
Built for players with a straight-back-straight-through putting stroke, the Phantom X 5s has a straight shaft and a milled topline sight line. Shop now.
The Phantom 11 Long Design is a high-MOI, near-face-balanced, 38-inch putter with a stiffer, mid-bend shaft and is counterbalanced with a heavier, longer grip.
Celebrating the long-running success of Justin Thomas, Scotty Cameron has released an exclusive Justin Thomas Phantom X 5.5. Learn more with Titleist.
Titleist Scotty Cameron Phantom X Triple Black Golf Putter
The limited edition Phantom Black 11 mallet putter has a Tour Black finish, new chain-link face milling and custom, Tour-inspired parallel sight lines.
The limited edition Phantom Black 9.2 mallet putter has a Tour Black finish paired with the new chain-link face milling and a unique plumbing neck. Shop now.
The limited edition Phantom Black 7 mallet putter has a Tour Black finish paired with the new chain-link face milling and a unique double bend shaft.
The limited edition Phantom Black 5.5 mallet putter has a Tour Black finish paired with the new chain-link face milling and a custom sight line configuration.
Titleist's Scotty Cameron Select Putters are masterfully designed and crafted using innovative technology, and customized for precision putting performance.
Cameron & Crown putters are custom designed for players whose setup demands a 33-inch putter, with precise heel-toe weighting, a smaller grip, and refined looks to help the putter, the player and the ball work together in harmony.
Advanced, multi-material Scotty Cameron GOLO milled putter designs feature lightweight aluminum face-sole cores surrounded by solid stainless steel frames.
See previous Scotty Cameron GoLo putter models from Titleist and explore our tradition of excellent putters and other golf equipment.
Scotty Cameron Select putters blend precision milled Scotty Cameron craftsmanship with multi-material technology proven at the highest levels of competition.
The Futura putter family melds the best design characteristics of previous models with Scotty Cameron’s continued innovation in multi-material constructions.
The keys to finding the ideal putting setup. PGA Master Professional and putting coach, Phil Kenyon details the importance of a proper putting setup, including length and lie angle, that influence a putter fitting.
The Scotty Cameron Futura X putter series, released in 2015, delivers high MOI performance through multi-material construction and advanced perimeter weighting.
Scotty Cameron Dual Balance putters provide unmatched stability for golfers that struggle to make a consistent stroke with a conventional length putter.
Scotty Cameron & Crown putters are custom designed with precise heel-toe weighting, a smaller grip and refined looks for players demanding a 33-inch putter.
Discover Special Select Putters by Scotty Cameron. Continuing the evolution of classic shapes and designed for the most demanding tour professionals and golfers alike. Get fitted for the finest in milled steel putters now.
Scotty Cameron Select blade and mid-mallet putters are precision milled to meet the standards of the world’s best players. View models & features with Titleist.
Choosing the right putter neck, shaft, and bend configuration is a highly personalized process that can significantly influence a player’s setup, feel, and stroke consistency. Extensive research at the Scotty Cameron Putter Studio highlights that these design elements are crucial in shaping face awareness, alignment, hand height, and posture—all key factors that affect putting performance.
Titleist staff member Dave Phillips has worked extensively with some of the best putters on the planet and in this video, Dave shares three things that they all do on every putt they face. When you implement these three keys from Dave, your putting will be more reliable, more consistent and more athletic - attributes that all great putters have in common.
PGA Master Professional and putting coach, Phil Kenyon on the importance of sound and feel from putter contact when working with players.
Eight-time PGA Tour winner Brad Faxon is the game’s most trusted voice on putting. In this Golfer's Journal segment presented by ‪@titleist‬, Faxon offers an unconventional path to better putting—through creativity, athleticism and feel. Using a lob wedge, a 5-wood, and a putter, he introduces a drill designed to unlock flow and instinct on the greens. The goal: develop continuous motion, quiet the overthinking and regain confidence by letting go of control.
Reimagined and updated for today's golfers, explore limited release Scotty Cameron Teryllium T22 putters: T22 Newport, T22 Newport 2 and T22 Fastback 1.5.
Scotty Cameron Concept X premium golf putters blend the visual characteristics of a blade putter with the playability of a mallet putter.
Phil Kenyon Shares Putting Insights and Working with Russell Henley
In this video, a PGA TOUR putting coach Phil Kenyon simplifies the science behind torque and shows how it plays a key role in your putting performance.
Superior balance without sacrificing rhythm and timing. The NEW Scotty Cameron 38” Phantom 11 Long Design and Super Select Squareback 2 Long Design offer
The most significant re-design of Scotty Cameron's putter offering in recent history.
The Science Behind Putter Torque with Phil Kenyon
Choosing the right putter neck, shaft, and bend configuration is a highly personalized process that can significantly influence a player’s setup, feel, and stroke consistency. Extensive research at the Scotty Cameron Putter Studio highlights that these design elements are crucial in shaping face awareness, alignment, hand height, and posture—all key factors that affect putting performance.
In this video, a PGA TOUR putting coach Phil Kenyon simplifies the science behind torque and shows how it plays a key role in your putting performance.
Discover the all new Scotty Cameron Champions Choice putters, reimagined from one of his most iconic design. Check out Titleist Champions Choice specs here.
The Scotty Cameron Super Select Newport putter is a rounded, solid stainless steel blade with a new I-beam plumbing neck and dual-milled face. Shop now.
The Titleist guide to selecting a Scotty Cameron putter for improved performance on the green, emphasizing length, toe flow, shape, weight, loft and lie.
Explore new Scotty Cameron Special Select Jet Set putters with Titleist. This limited-release, four-model collection offers golfers a taste of what the Pros play.
The Super Select Newport Plus putter is a wider-bodied, high-performance blade with a 6061 aluminum sole plate and stainless steel sole weights. Shop now.
The Super Select Newport 2 putter is a tour-inspired, dual-milled blade with a new tri-sole design, tungsten weights & refined I-beam plumbing neck. Shop now.
The Super Select Squareback 2 is a wider-bodied, angular mid-mallet with an aluminum sole plate, refined I-beam plumbing neck & dual-milled face tech. Shop now.
Scotty Cameron’s venerable GOLO putter returns with its familiar shape and name in a brand-new size as the Super Select GOLO 6. Shop now with Titleist.
Scotty Cameron's Super Select GOLO 6.5 putter is designed for players who favor a putting stroke with the more arcing toe flow properties of a blade putter.
Scotty Cameron's Super Select Del Mar is a compact mallet putter with a classic shape that favors feel players who appreciate more toe flow. Shop now.
Scotty Cameron's Super Select Fastback 1.5 returns as a solid mid-mallet performer designed for players who prefer the setup and feel of a blade. Shop now.
Precisely engineered with over thirty shape and blend improvements. The California Golf Putter from Titleist is the best choice for the best golfers.
The Studio Xperimental Limited Fastback 2 brings an I-Beam Plumbing neck, a unique sight line configuration, and a Steel Gray finish to this mid-mallet design.
The Studio Xperimental Limited Squareback 2 brings an I-Beam Plumbing neck, a unique sight line configuration, and a Steel Gray finish to this mid-mallet design.
A special release Scotty Cameron putter with a compact mallet crafted in a limited run with a brilliant Chromatic Bronze finish and a tour inspired plumbing neck configuration.
The Super Select Newport 2 Plus putter is a wider-flanged solid stainless steel blade with an I-beam plumbing neck and dual-milled face technology. Shop now.
The Super Select Newport 2.5 Plus putter adds Scotty Cameron’s new sculpted I-beam-style jet neck and dual-milled face technology. Shop now with Titleist.
The Super Select Squareback 2 Long Design is longer & heavier to help quiet the hands for enhanced stability and is counterbalanced with a heavier, longer grip.
A special release of some classic Scotty Cameron putter designs reimagined for today’s player with updated technology and a Triple Black finish.
Scotty Cameron Studio Select Putters feature adjustable circular weights to provide proper headweight to shaft length combination. See specs with Titleist.
The Studio Select Kombi putter is engineered to provide a great roll and alignment thanks to a precision milled shape that flows perfectly from topline to back.
Titleist Bulls Eye Putters were originally introduced by John Reuter Jr. and purchased by Acushnet/Titleist in 1962. View Bulls Eye Putter model specs here.
Scotty Cameron Select GoLo S, 5, S5 putter specifications and benefits. Browse our collection of previous club models and putters to find your old favorite.
Cameron Select Putter - Precisely engineered putting surfaces and edges with over thirty shape and blend improvements and select weighting for a perfect set up.
Cameron Select Mid Long Putter - This putter is designed with refined shapes and cosmetics and a deep face mill for a Tour-preferred feel and sound.
Golfers experience the feel of the golf ball in different ways, from firmness to softness, to the location where they are making their shot on the course.
Moment of Inertia (MOI) measures a golf club’s resistance to rotation, MOI contributes to what golfers commonly experience as “forgiveness.”
Spin Slope is a term used within Titleist Golf Ball R&D to describe the comparative performance of different golf ball models. Spin Slope is the differential between a golf ball's long game spin and short game spin. The objective is to find a golf ball that delivers low driver spin for distance off the tee and high wedge spin for maximum control in the short game.
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Tour-inspired mallet lineup is redesigned for 2026 to deliver softer feel and sharper distance control in a variety of setup options Precision-milled with full-face Studio Carbon Steel inserts, Scotty Cameron’s new Phantom mallet lineup delivers softer feel and sharper distance control in a variety of setup configurations to meet the widest range of player needs. Three tour-inspired head shapes — Phantom 5 , 7 and 9R — and nine unique putter head, neck and shaft combinations have been created and refined to inspire confidence over the ball and provide exceptional performance off the putter face. The next generation of Scotty’s tour-proven Phantom family features: New full-face Studio Carbon Steel face inserts and chain-link face milling to soften sound while preserving feedback for the golfer and ball speed off the face; More shaft and neck configurations, from plumbing and jet necks, mid- and double-bend shaft setups and a low-torque Onset Center build, all designed for different putting strokes and styles; and Tour-influenced shaping and refinements to improve consistency and confidence at address. “The popularity of mallets continues to grow, both on tour and with dedicated golfers everywhere,” said Austie Rollinson, Scotty Cameron's Senior Director of Putter R&D . “With so many different players looking to take advantage of mallet designs, we need to provide multiple options that all perform — while looking and feeling every bit as good. There’s no one ‘right’ way to putt, and the new Phantom line is a great example of that.” Phantom Features & Technology Overview New full-face Studio Carbon Steel (SCS) inserts Each 2026 Phantom mallet features a new full-face Studio Carbon Steel (SCS) insert with chain-link face milling, fine-tuning sound and feel while preserving ball speed off the face. SCS inserts first debuted in the 2025 Studio Style lineup after extensive testing to find the optimal combination of material and milling. Carbon steel, which has a greeter damping capacity than metal inserts like Teryllium, stainless steel and aluminum, softens sound by limiting the duration of the tone of the strike. The chain-link milling technology reduces the number of touchpoints with the golf ball at impact to further soften sound while maintaining feel and feedback for the golfer — a key hallmark of Scotty Cameron putters. More neck and shaft configurations Across the three head shapes, the new Phantom lineup offers five unique neck and shaft configurations, providing a wide range of options to match different stroke types and player preferences. Brand-new to the Phantom family is a low-torque Onset Center (OC) configuration in the Phantom 5 OC . This setup is ideal for players seeking a square, straight-back-and-through path with the head shape of the 5. Also making its in-line debut is the double-bend shaft configuration of the Phantom 7. Designed with extensive tour player input, the double-bend provides a more face-balanced feel with an alternative look at address compared to the mid-bend shaft setup previously offered in the 7. Phantom 5 , 7 and 9R head shapes are all offered with a “.2” plumbing neck configuration for players seeking moderate toe flow. Phantom 5 and 9R models feature a mid-bend shaft while the 5 and 7 shapes are both offered in “.5” jet neck configurations as well for maximum toe flow. Tour-influenced shaping New Phantom putters feature several head shape and profile refinements, all of which were directly informed by tour player feedback. Deeper faces and modified crowns: New Phantom putters have a taller height at face center and an increased radius on the topline, both of which affect subtle visuals at address and can translate to better path into the ball. “Getting the right balance for face depth is important,” Rollinson said. “On this design, we decided to radius that top line. The heel and toe are the same height as they were before, but it's taller in the center to give the putter a really nice look from address.” “The response has been overwhelmingly positive,” said Paul Vizanko, Scotty Cameron’s Director of Putter Fitting & Player Development , on tour player reactions to early prototypes. “Face height is an important variable, especially when you see players hitting up on the ball too much with a face that’s too shallow. This design looks just right at address.” Redesigned soles: New Phantom putters feature a flatter sole design with more surface area to sole the putter consistently, particularly across different slopes and grass types. Justin Thomas played a key role in its development, providing feedback to create a shape that helps keep the putter soled in a solid and square position for a more repeatable setup. Said Rollinson on Thomas’ input: “We learned a lot from working with him and decided to bring that element into this new design. The flat section of the sole is extended more so that no matter where the hands are, it's going to sit much more flush to the ground and not move around.” Modified jet neck: The jet neck for the new Phantom 5.5 and 7.5 models features a less aggressive forward lean, producing a more subtle look at address. The new neck is longer to achieve the same offset and toe flow offered in the previous generation. Model Overview Phantom 5 A longstanding favorite of Scotty Cameron’s mallet head shapes across the worldwide professional tours, the Phantom 5 is a modern wingback mallet with a compact profile. Players like Justin Thomas , Russell Henley and the 2025 FedEx St. Jude champion won on the PGA TOUR last season with Phantom 5 tour prototype putters. The new Phantom 5 features a single sightline for alignment, and for the first time, it will be available in an Onset Center (OC) configuration for golfers seeking low-torque performance. Phantom 5 models: Phantom 5 (mid-bend shaft) Phantom 5.2 (plumbing neck) Phantom 5.5 (jet neck) Phantom 5 OC (Onset Center low-torque design) Phantom 7 The Phantom 7 is a sharp-angled wingback mallet with a larger footprint from front to back compared to the 5. The 7 offers rail-like alignment with its longer wings, and the shape is trusted by players like recent PGA TOUR winner Michael Brennan (7.2 tour prototype) and the 2021 FedExCup champion (7.2 tour prototype). New for 2026 is a double-bend shaft configuration on the Phantom 7, designed with tour player feedback to provide a more face-balanced feel with an alternative look at address. Phantom 7 models: Phantom 7 (double-bend shaft) Phantom 7.2 (plumbing neck) Phantom 7.5 (jet neck) Phantom 9R Also a favorite on tour, the Phantom 9R is the next evolution of the Phantom 9 head shape that debuted in 2024. The 9R (“R” denoting rounded) features softer, more rounded contours and edges compared to its predecessor. A modified “R” version of the 9 head shape was first played on tour by Justin Thomas and is currently gamed by Cameron Young, who trusted the profile of a 9R model to win his first PGA TOUR title last season. In addition to its more rounded shape and new Phantom features, the 2026 9R shape offers two alignment cues: a long single sightline in the 9R model and a shorter, abbreviated sightline in the 9.2R. Phantom 9R models: Phantom 9R (mid-bend shaft) Phantom 9.2R (plumbing neck) Specs Loft: 3.5 degrees Lie: 70 degrees Stock lengths: 33”, 34”, 35” New Phantom putters come equipped with a gray Full Contact grip. Availability New Scotty Cameron mallets will be in golf shops worldwide beginning Feb. 27 for $499 and $549 (Phantom 5 OC only).
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New Phantom 11R OC and Studio Style Fastback OC models deliver new approach to low-torque putter design, expanding Scotty Cameron’s range of offerings New Scotty Cameron OC (Onset Center) putters combine low-torque performance with exceptional feel and feedback, promoting a square-to-the-path delivery while keeping golfers connected to the putting stroke. Two new models — the Phantom 11R OC and Studio Style Fastback OC — bring OC technology to each of Scotty Cameron’s putter families in familiar mallet and mid-mallet profiles. “Onset Center” refers to the putters’ shaft position, which is set back of the putter head’s leading edge (Onset) and in line with its center of gravity (Center). This tour-validated setup minimizes torque and simplifies the putting stroke, and its addition to the Studio Style and Phantom families gives golfers a new option within Scotty Cameron's range of existing shaft and neck configurations. “In the last few years, we’ve seen a growing number of golfers who want to minimize the feel of face rotation in the stroke via putter setup,” said Austie Rollinson , Scotty Cameron’s Senior Director of Putter R&D. “And as a designer, what excites me most about OC is that it gives golfers options. We now have an entirely new configuration for golfers who want to feel a square, straight-back-and-through path.” In addition to shaft placement, OC’s design features – such as the tour-proven head shapes, chain-link face milling, minimal shaft lean and precisely-selected shaft and grip – facilitate a natural transition from traditional putting styles for players seeking reduced face rotation and consistency on the greens without losing connection to the stroke. “When we went to work on low-torque designs, as with all products, we started with tour player feedback,” said Rollinson. “It became clear that low-torque putters often come at the cost of feel, so we designed our OC models to minimize face rotation while maintaining responsiveness and feedback.” OC TECHNOLOGY AND FEATURES Low-torque design: Scotty Cameron OC putters feature shaft placement set back from the leading edge (Onset) and in line with the putter head’s front-to-back CG (Center). This minimizes torque and creates a square feel for golfers looking to eliminate face rotation. Traditional feel and feedback: The Phantom 11R OC model features Scotty Cameron’s chain-link face milling design across the face, while the Fastback OC model features the Studio Style lineup’s Studio Carbon Steel (SCS) face insert, also with chain-link face milling. Both designs dial in feel by softening sound while preserving feedback, which is essential in identifying strike location — especially in low-torque setups. Minimal shaft lean: OC putters feature one degree of shaft lean, promoting a neutral setup and a natural hand position familiar to many of the best putters in the game. The subtle shaft lean also delivers unimpeded topline views at address. Loft and lie customization: Adjusting the loft and lie angle on OC putters does not compromise low-torque performance, allowing golfers to make spec changes as needed. Heavier head weight, custom shaft and grip: New OC models offer connection to the putting stroke through 15-gram heavier head weights (compared to standard Scotty Cameron models) and a custom black shaft with flex properties designed to match the weight increase without dulling feel. OC putters are also equipped with a tapered Matador Mid grip. MODEL BREAKDOWN Phantom 11R OC The new Phantom 11R OC is built off the Phantom 11 platform, a stable, high-MOI multi-material mallet design. The tour-inspired 11R shape features softer, more rounded edges than the Phantom 11 head, and the new model features a full chain-link milled face. The 11R has a single alignment line, which extends back to the shaft placement. Phantom 11R OC is available as a left-handed option as well. Studio Style Fastback OC The new Studio Style Fastback OC model shares the footprint of the 2025 Fastback model, a ring-weighted mid-mallet design with high-contrast alignment. Like all Fastback offerings in the Studio Style family, the new Fastback OC is constructed from 303 stainless steel and 6061 aircraft aluminum, and it features a Studio Carbon Steel face insert with a chain-link milling pattern for better feel and roll performance. A single sight line delivers a clean, simple alignment cue at address. SPECS Available lengths: 33, 34, 35 inches Loft: 5 degrees Lie angle: 70 degrees Shaft lean: 1 degree Dexterity: RH (Phantom 11R OC, Studio Style Fastback OC), LH (Phantom 11R OC) FAQ Are OC models zero-torque putters? OC putters are low torque, as the act of putting introduces torque, no matter the design. Compared to other Scotty Cameron offerings — even the existing Phantom lineup’s most face-balanced models — OC putters deliver the lowest torque design for a square-to-the-path delivery. What kind of golfers would benefit most from OC? OC putters will best fit players looking to minimize face rotation and feel a straight-back-and-through stroke. Design elements like minimal shaft lean (one degree), familiar head shapes from the Studio Style and Phantom families and a conventional grip style (tapered Matador Mid) help facilitate a smooth transition from more traditional putter setups. How do OC putters maintain feel and feedback? A priority throughout the OC design process was to mitigate loss of feel and feedback. OC putters feature a slightly stiffer shaft that complements the 15-gram heavier head weights and maintains flex properties that preserve the feel of the clubhead. The Fastback OC’s SCS insert and Phantom 11R OC’s full-face chain-link milling pattern provide Scotty Cameron's familiar soft feel off the face at impact, and a tapered Matador Mid grip offers a comfortable connection to the stroke through the hands. AVAILABILITY AND PRICE New Scotty Cameron OC putter models will be in golf shops worldwide on Friday, November 14 for $549.
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PGA TOUR | Bank of Utah Championship TITLEIST BRAND AMBASSADOR MICHAEL BRENNAN WINS IN 1ST PGA TOUR START AS A PROFESSIONAL In his third-ever PGA TOUR start and first as a professional, Titleist Brand Ambassador Michael Brennan delivered a career-changing week with power and precision, gaining over 10 strokes tee to green on his way to a four-shot victory in southern Utah. Gaming a Pro V1 golf ball and full bag of Titleist equipment , including his GT3 9.0° driver, Brennan recorded the TOUR’s best driving performance of the year with +7.614 strokes gained off the tee, combining a 351.1-yard driving distance average with 89% driving accuracy. Brennan, who became just the seventh player since 1970 to win his first PGA TOUR title in three starts or less, also hit 79.2% GIR with an average proximity of 31’8” (15th) and was T5 in Scrambling (73%). Adding to his +10.788 SG: Tee-to-Green, Brennan gained another +5.392 strokes putting, using his Scotty Cameron Phantom 7.2 to roll in over 311 feet of putts. The 23-year-old Wake Forest graduate, who was playing on a sponsor invite, recorded 25 birdies and two eagles while posting rounds of 67-65-64-66 to finish the week at 22 under. He earns PGA TOUR membership through 2027 following a dominant summer on PGA TOUR Americas, where he posted 12 top-10s in 16 starts including three victories to finish atop the tour’s point list. What’s in the Bag? | Michael Brennan Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: GT3 9.0° | Project X HZRDUS Smoke Blue RDX 70 TX Fairway Metal: GT1 14.5° | HZRDUS Yellow HandCrafted 80 TX Irons: NEW T150 3 | Project X HZRDUS Black 105 HY TX, NEW T100 4-5 | Project X 6.5, and 620 CB 6-9 | Project X 6.5 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.12F, 54.10S, WedgeWorks 60K* wedges | Project X 6.5 (46°), Dynamic Gold S400 (50°-60°) Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 7.2 tour prototype BRENNAN RECORDS TOUR’S SEASON-BEST DRIVING PERFORMANCE WITH GT3 DRIVER, NEWLY-ADDED GT1 3-WOOD With his GT3 driver and newly-added GT1 3-wood in the bag, Michael Brennan put on the driving performance of the year in Utah, gaining over 7.5 shots (+7.616, 1st) off the tee — more than any other player on TOUR in 2025 for a single tournament. For the week, Brennan ranked second in driving distance and T7 in driving accuracy, hitting 50 of 56 fairways for the week (89%) while averaging over 350 yards (351.10). Looking to build on his lead on the back nine Sunday, Brennan showed no signs of playing it safe off the tee. He pulled driver on No. 11 — the hardest hole on the course — and delivered a 401-yard drive right down the middle of the fairway to set up a stress-free par. On the very next hole, while his playing partners laid back, Brennan let another driver rip. His Pro V1 finished greenside, 418 yards from the tee. He made birdie. According to Titleist Tour Rep Nick Geyer, Brennan likes to hit several different kinds of shots with his GT3, varying trajectories and adjusting tee height as he sees fit. The GT3 has given him the perfect blend of speed and workability without sacrificing forgiveness, unlocking all the shots he needs out on the course. Brennan’s other option off the tee was his GT1 14.5° fairway, a brand-new addition to the bag. The 23-year-old worked with Geyer this week in Utah to dial in his fairway wood setup, and after testing multiple options, they landed on the GT1 in the D•1 SureFit setting (-0.75 degrees of loft, standard lie angle) with the model’s heavier movable weight placed in the forward position. Brennan loved the GT1’s shallower face height, which allowed him to elevate the ball easily off the turf and hit his preferred flight window off the tee. Brennan called on his new 3-wood on the drivable 312-yard par-4 14th before finding the putting surface with his tee shot to set up a two-putt birdie — his final birdie of the week. 1-2 FINISH FOR PRO V1 GOLF BALL + GT DRIVER PLAYERS Also gaming a Pro V1 golf ball and GT driver ( GT2 8.0°) was the runner-up, who recorded a career-best solo second-place finish. He carded rounds of 68-68-63-67 (18 under), gaining over four shots off the tee (+4.264, 9th) and over seven shots approaching the green (+7.685, 2nd). The 30-year-old switched to Pro V1 from a competitive golf ball model at the start of the year before having an outstanding season of ball-striking. He leads the TOUR this year in Total Driving and ranks second in both Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green (+1.237) and Greens in Regulation (72%). He moved into his GT2 driver from a competitive model at the Zurich Classic. In addition to his Pro V1 golf ball and GT2 driver, he games Vokey SM10 wedges and a Scotty Cameron Phantom 11 prototype putter. 10TH WIN IN 11 EVENTS FOR VOKEY SM10 LOB WEDGE PLAYERS Michael Brennan brought three Vokey Design SM10 wedges to the winner’s circle on Sunday: 46.10F, 50.12F, 54.10S, WedgeWorks 60K*. Dating back to The Open Championship in July, 10 of the last 11 PGA TOUR events have now been won by a player gaming a Vokey SM10 lob wedge: The Open Championship : SM10 60.06K Barracuda Championship | Ryan Gerard : SM10 60.04T 3M Open : SM10 WedgeWorks 60K* Wyndham Championship | Cameron Young : SM10 WedgeWorks 60K* (@ 62) FedEx St. Jude Championship : SM10 60.06K BMW Championship: SM10 60.06K Procore Championship : SM10 60.06K Sanderson Farms Championship : SM10 60.12D Baycurrent Classic : SM10 60.04T Bank of Utah Championship | Michael Brennan : SM10 WedgeWorks 60K* Brennan ranked T5 in Scrambling this week in Utah, getting up-and-down for par 11 of 15 attempts (73%). BRENNAN WINS WITH NEW T-SERIES MODELS, BLENDED SET OF TITLEIST IRONS Of the Titleist Brand Ambassadors currently playing on the PGA TOUR, approximately 80 percent are playing blended sets of at least two Titleist iron models, demonstrating the importance of custom fitting and optimization throughout the bag. Michael Brennan won on Sunday with three different Titleist iron models: NEW T150 3-iron, NEW T100 4-5 irons and 620 CB 6-9 irons. Like many tour players, Brennan strategically pairs precision-focused scoring irons with more forgiving long irons. “When a gap is identified in a player’s bag — whether they need more speed, higher launch, or tighter dispersion — we can look to the next model to fill that need,” said Marni Ines, Director of Titleist iron development. On Sunday in Utah, Brennan hit 15 of 18 GIR on his way to a closing 5-under 66 and four-shot win. BRENNAN ROLLS TO FIRST TOUR WIN WITH PHANTOM 7.2 Michael Brennan was exceptional on the greens on his way to his first career PGA TOUR win, gaining +5.392 strokes on the field (8th) with his Scotty Phantom Phantom 7.2 tour prototype putter. Over four rounds in Utah, he made over 311 feet of putts. The Phantom 7.2 is a tour-proven mallet with a modern wing-back head shape and dual-purpose “rail” alignment on the inside of the wings. The .2 signifies its plumbing neck configuration, which offers increased toe flow (compared to a single-bend shaft setup) for golfers seeking a more blade-like feel with the performance of a mallet. LPGA | Hanwha LIFEPLUS International Crown KYRIACOU GOES UNDEFEATED AS TEAM AUSTRALIA WINS INTERNATIONAL CROWN Titleist Brand Ambassador Stephanie Kyriacou helped Team Australia to victory, earning an undefeated 3-0-2 record in her five foursomes matches. Kyriacou and her partner punched Australia’s ticket to the finals by defeating their Team World opponents in 20 holes in Sunday morning’s semifinal foursome match. What’s in the Bag? | Kyriaco Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: GT3 10.0° Fairway Metal: GT2 15.0° and 18.0° Hybrid: TSR2 24.0° Irons: T150 5 and T100 6-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 48.10F, 54.08M, WedgeWorks 58K* Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5.5 AMATEUR | Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship APAC CHAMPION MOUNTS COMEBACK VICTORY WITH PRO V1; PUNCHES TICKET TO MASTERS, OPEN The 2025 Asia-Pacific Amateur champion erased a six-shot deficit at the start of the final round, closing in 4-under 68 before winning on the third extra hole. He rolled his Pro V1 in for birdie on the final two holes of regulation as well as all three playoff holes. The 20-year-old is the first Thai winner in championship history. With the win, he will receive an invitation to the 2026 Masters and an exemption into The 154th Open Championship at Royal Birkdale. TITLEIST IS #1 BALL, MOST PLAYED IN EVERY MAJOR CLUB CATEGORY AT ASIA-PACIFIC AM TItleist was the the overwhelming #1 ball at the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship with 101 competitors (84%) teeing up a Titleist golf ball at the Emirates Golf Club in Dubai, more than 11 times that of the nearest competitor (9). Titleist was also the top choice of players in every major club category across the elite amateur field: driver (39%), fairway (35%), hybrid (41%), utility (69%), iron (39%), wedge (55%) and putter (33%). DP World Tour / KPGA | Genesis Championship JUNGHWAN LEE (PRO V1x) BREAKS THROUGH TO WIN ON HOME SOIL Junghwan Lee (Pro V1x) stormed back from a four-shot deficit to start the final round, closing in 7-under 64 to complete the come-from-behind victory and earn his first DP World Tour title. The 34-year-old from Gwangjiu, South Korea, posted 11 under to win by three on home soil. Lee’s Sunday 64, which featured five straight birdies from holes 3-7, was the low round of the day by two. For the week, he made a field-best 22 birdies and gained +5.52 shots from tee to green (18th). Lee led a 1-though-6 finish for Titleist golf ball players on the final leaderboard. PRO V1 LEFT DOT + VOKEY LOB WEDGE: TITLEIST BRAND AMBASSADOR JORDAN GUMBERG HOLES OUT FOR EAGLE TO EARN DPWT CARD Calling it “the best shot I've hit in my career so far,” Titleist Brand Ambassador Jordan Gumberg holed his 58-yard approach on the last for an eagle 3, securing his place in the top 115 of the Race to Dubai Ranking to earn his DPWT card. With the 72nd-hole eagle, Gumberg finished T7 at 6 under and closed in 3-under 68 on Sunday, his best round of the week. What’s in the Bag? | Jordan Gumberg Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Left Dot Driver: GT3 8.0° Fairway Metal: GT2 13.5° Hybrid: GT2 18.0° Irons: NEW T250 4, 620 CB 5-6, and 620 MB 7-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.08F, 54.10S, WedgeWorks 60A+ Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 11 tour prototype PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | Simmons Bank Championship STEVEN ALKER (PRO V1) WINS WIRE-TO-WIRE Steven Alker (Pro V1) closed in 3-under 69, including a hole-out eagle on the par-5 10th, to complete the wire-to-wire, seven-shot victory. PGA TOUR OF AUSTRALASIA | Webex Players Series SA TITLEIST BRAND AMBASSADOR MATIAS SANCHEZ BREAKS THROUGH FOR 1ST WIN Titleist Brand Ambassador Matias Sanchez earned a two-shot win, breaking through for his first career PGA Tour of Australasia title. What’s in the Bag? | Matias Sanchez Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: GT2 8.0 Fairway Metal: GT2 15.0°, 18.0° Irons: T250 3 and T100 4-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.12F, 54.12D and WedgeWorks 60K* JLPGA | NOBUTA GROUP MASTERS GC LADIES SAKUMA (PRO V1x) WINS IN 11-SHOT RUNAWAY Shuri Sakuma (Pro V1x) shot four rounds of 67 or lower (66-66-64-67) to post 25 under, 11 shots clear of second place. The win is Sakuma’s fourth of 2025. ... #TeamTitleist
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LPGA | BMW Ladies Championship Sei Young Kim (Pro V1) posted a final-round 5-under 67 to earn the four-shot win and her 13th career LPGA title. For the week, Kim hit 85% (61/72) GIR -- with 89% (16/18) GIR on Sunday. She missed only one GIR (94%) in her opening-round 62. ASIAN TOUR | SJM Macao Open TITLEIST BRAND AMBASSADOR DOMINIC FOOS CLAIMS 1ST ASIAN TOUR TITLE Dominic Foos (Pro V1x) carded a final round 7-under 63 to post 17 under and force playoff with Wei-hsuan Wang (Pro V1x) . He clinched his first Asian Tour victory with a birdie on the first extra hole. What’s in the Bag? Golf Ball : Titleist Pro V1x Driver : GT3 9.0° Utility Irons : NEW U•505 2-3 Irons : T250 4-5, T100 6-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.08F, 54.12D, 60.08M KPGA | The Charity Classic TITLEIST BRAND AMBASSADOR SEUNGBIN CHOI WINS 2ND KPGA TITLE A bogey-free 5-under 67 saw Seungbin Choi (Pro V1x) reach 17 under and win his second KPGA title by one shot. Choi led a 1-through-6 finish for Titleist golf ball players; GT driver players swept the top-3 positions on the final leaderboard. Titleist was the #1 ball (66%) and most played driver (45%), fairway (37%), hybrid (36%), iron (40%), wedge (64%) and putter (45%). What’s in the Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver : GT3 9.0° Fairway Metals : GT2 13.5° and 18.0° Irons : NEW T250 4, and 620 MB 5-9 Wedges : Vokey Design SM10 56.10F, 52.08F, 56.10S, 60.08M Putter : Scotty Cameron Phantom 11 Long tour prototype CHINA TOUR/HOTEL PLANNER TOUR | Hangzhou Open SEBASTIAN GARCIA (PRO V1x) EARNS BREAKTHROUGH WIN IN CHINA Sebastian Garcia (Pro V1x) closed in 5-under 67 to join a three-man playoff. He won on the second extra hole, earning his first career title. KLPGA | Sangsangin·Hankyung Wownet Open 2025 YOOLLYN LEE (PRO V1) CAPTURES 1ST CAREER KLPGA TITLE Yoollyn Lee (Pro V1) won a five-hole playoff to claim her first career KLPGA title. She posted a course-record 9-under 63 in Round 3 to take the lead into Sunday. ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | Sanderson Farms Championship Steven Fisk stuck his Pro V1x to within 4 feet on his final two approach shots Sunday to seize control and claim his first PGA TOUR title. Tied for the lead in the 17th fairway Sunday, Fisk hit his 102-yard approach to 2 feet, 11 inches. Up one on 18, he hit his 152-yard approach to 3 feet, 10 inches to finish off the low round of the day (8-under 64) and two-shot victory. Fisk, who played the weekend in 15 under par (65-64) with only one bogey, gained over 11 strokes tee to green (+11.911) over the four days in Mississippi, with nearly eight of them coming on approach shots (+4.216) and around the green (+3.756). Fisk topped a leaderboard that featured nine Titleist golf ball players in the top 10. In total, 103 players (78%) teed up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x this week at The Country Club of Jackson, more than eight times the nearest competitor with 12 (9%). DP WORLD TOUR | Alfred Dunhill Links Championship Conquering a week of Scottish wind, rain and cold, Titleist Brand Ambassador Robert MacIntyre thrived in the elements, carding his third-straight 66 on Sunday to win on home soil. MacIntyre, gaming his Pro V1 golf ball, TSR2 driver, 620 CB irons and four Vokey Design wedges, was unrelenting during his final round on the Old Course, making seven birdies to reach 18 under and win by four shots. The win marks the 29-year-old Oban-native's fourth career DP World Tour title and second win in Scotland following the 2023 Scottish Open. Over three rounds split between The Old Course, Carnoustie and Kingsbarns (the tournament was shorted to 54 holes due to weather), MacIntyre made a field-best 21 birdies, while hitting 83% greens in regulation and getting up-and-down for par at an 83% clip. The European Ryder Cupper also ranked third in Strokes Gained: Approach (+2.24 per round) over two measured rounds. Thirteen of the top 14 finishers on the final leaderboard gamed a Pro V1 and Pro V1x, and they were among the 130 in total (77% of the field) to trust a Titleist golf ball this week at the Dunhill Links. What’s in the Bag? | Robert MacIntyre Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSR2 9.0° | C•3 SureFit hosel | Graphite Design Tour AD DI-7 X Irons: 620 CB 4-9 | Dynamic Gold X100 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, SM9 50.08F, 56.10S, WedgeWorks 60.06K wedges | Dynamic Gold X100 (46-50), S400 Onyx (56-60) HOW THE RYDER CUP INFLUENCED MACINTYRE’S MOVE TO TITLEIST www.youtube.com/watch Robert MacIntyre made the move to a Titleist golf ball in late 2023, having played a competitor’s brand throughout his professional career. The impetus to make such a major equipment change came in Rome at the 2023 Ryder Cup, when MacIntyre was playing with Justin Rose — who had also made the switch to Titleist golf ball from a competitor two years earlier, in 2021. Said MacIntyre: “For me, I changed golf ball after the Ryder Cup. I was playing with Rosie and obviously you're playing against all the best in the world. I remember hitting a shot into the 10th hole in Italy and Rosie's gone first — iron shot into 10 — and it looks like a good shot. I’ve hit one, I’m thinking I’ve knocked it stone dead right next to the hole. Got up there, both balls have landed right beside each other. His ball’s stopped, my ball’s through the back of the green.” “It wasn’t until we had a team chat the week later — I was like, I think I need to change golf ball. My coach and performance coach both stood up on the Zoom call and clapped. They were like, we were waiting on you to realize it... And then when I look back at the week [in Rome], I remember hitting shots that were taking big bounces before it would actually grip. And to be honest, that’s the reason I changed golf ball.” MacIntyre won his first PGA TOUR event at the RBC Canadian Open in June 2024 and won again at the Genesis Scottish Open just a month later. Over the past two seasons, he has risen in the Official World Golf Ranking, eventually climbing to a career-high No. 8 in August 2025 (currently No. 9). This year on the PGA TOUR, MacIntyre ranks 15th in Strokes Gained: Overall and eighth in Scoring Average (Adjusted). He also recorded his best-ever finish in a major this season, turning in a solo runner-up performance at the U.S. Open at Oakmont. 73 PLAYERS TEE UP TITLEIST DRIVERS AT DUNHILL LINKS Robert MacIntyre was one of 73 players (44%) competing this week at the Dunhill Links with a Titleist driver in the bag, more than double the nearest competitor’s total with 34 (20%), including five of the top 10 finishers. It was the same story across the pond, where 62 competitors (46%) gamed a Titleist driver at the PGA TOUR’s Sanderson Farms Championship, compared to 27 (20%) for the nearest competitor, including five of the top seven finishers. Titleist drivers are the top choice of players on both the PGA TOUR and DP World Tour. MACINTYRE WINS WITH VOKEY WEDGES Among MacIntyre's winning bag is a full set of Vokey Design wedges: SM10 46.10F, SM9 50.08F, 56.10S, WedgeWorks 60.06K. Over three rounds in Scotland, the 29-year-old finished T12 in Scrambling, getting up-and-down for par at an 83% clip. MacIntyre is one of many players across the worldwide professional tours to play an .06K Grind lob wedge, which features a wide, full sole that excels out of the bunker and six degrees of bounce, affording extra versatility off tight lies. Vokey .06K Grind lob wedges are also in the bags of the OWGR No. 1, who used the grind to win two majors this year, and the 2025 FedEx St. Jude champion, who helped Europe win the Ryder Cup alongside MacIntyre. JGTO | Vantelin Tokai Classic Titleist Brand Ambassador Suguru Shimoke broke through for his maiden victory on the JGTO, making seven birdies and an eagle on Sunday to close out the one-shot win. Gaming his Pro V1 golf ball, GT2 driver, NEW U•505 utility and T100 irons, Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron putter, the 23-year-old began the final round tied for the lead before closing in 64 and reaching 17 under for the week at Miyoshi Country Club West Course. What’s in the Bag? | Suguru Shimoke Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: GT2 9.0° Utility Iron: NEW U•505 4 Irons: T100 5-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 46°, 50°, 54°, WedgeWorks 60° Putter: Scotty Cameron Timeless tour prototype ASIAN TOUR | Jakarta International Championship After forcing a playoff with a clutch par putt on the last to finish at 12 under, Titleist Brand Ambassador Wade Ormsby prevailed in extra holes to claim his fifth Asian Tour title. The 45-year-old Australian, who games a Pro V1x Left Dash golf ball, GT3 driver and GT fairways, T-Series irons, Vokey SM10 wedges and a Scotty Cameron Newport 2 -style putter among his all-Titleist bag, made par in the first hole following regulation play to clinch the win. He now moves to fifth in the Asian Tour Order of Merit and second in the International Series rankings. Ormsby led a clean sweep of the top 10 positions on the final leaderboard for Titleist golf ball players, which included Scott Vincent (Pro V1), who finished runner-up. Also in the bag among the top 10 finishers were five GT2 or GT3 drivers. What’s in the Bag? | Wade Ormsby Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Left Dash Driver: GT3 9.0° Fairway Metals: GT2 15.0° and GT3 18.0° Irons: T200 3-4 and T100 5-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 48.10F, 54.10S, WedgeWorks 58L Putter: Scotty Cameron Timeless tour prototype KPGA | KPGA Gyeongbuk Open Taehoon Ok (Pro V1) picked up his third KPGA win of 2025 in a runway, five-shot victory. Ok closed in 8-under 64 — his fourth round of 68 or better for the week — to reach 22 under. This week on the KPGA, Ok was one of 73 players to tee up a Titleist golf ball , the overwhelming #1 ball on the KPGA. Titleist was also the most played driver , fairway , hybrid , iron , wedge and putter at the Gyeongbuk Open. KLPGA | Dongbu Corporation · KOREIT Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Minsol Kim secured her second KLPGA title of the season, recording 51 points in the event’s modified stableford format. Kim, whose all-Titleist setup includes her Pro V1 golf ball, GT2 driver and fairway, GT3 hybrid, 620 CB irons, Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron Phantom putter, made eight birdies on Sunday to come from behind and win by three points. What’s in the Bag? | Minsol Kim Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: GT2 9.0° Fairway Metal: GT2 13.5° Hybrid: GT3 19.0° Irons: 620 CB 4-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 50.08F, 54.10S, 58.08M Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 5s AMATEUR | Women’s World Amateur Team Championship Team USA took home the Espirito Santo Trophy, with the WAGR No. 11 rolling in her Pro V1 golf ball for clutch birdies on each of her final three holes. That finish saw the Americans reach a team score of 18 under and match Spain and Korea before winning in a tiebreaker. Overall, 83 players (77%) teed up a Titleist golf ball in Singapore, more than six times the total of the nearest competitor (12). Titleist was also the most played driver (31%), fairway (28%), utility (79%), iron (32%), wedge (52%) and putter (28%). JLPGA | Japan Women's Open Golf Championship This week’s winner on the JLPGA brought home the Japan Women's Open while gaming her Scotty Cameron Futura X Dual Balance Long putter. ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | Procore Championship Outpacing the field with exceptional ball-striking and control, the OWGR No. 1 trusted his Pro V1 golf ball and set of three Vokey wedges to PGA TOUR victory No. 6 of 2025. His Pro V1 and a full set of Vokeys have now been in the bag for all 19 of his victories on the PGA TOUR, as well as the 2024 Olympics title. On Sunday in Napa, the champion began the final round two shots back of the lead. His closing 5-under 67 showcased elite control over his golf ball, as he hit 17 of 18 greens in regulation and gained over four shots on the field from tee to green (+4.144) while reaching 19 under to complete the comeback, one-shot victory. Over four rounds at Silverado Resort’s North Course, the reigning Champion Golfer of Year led the field in Strokes Gained: Approach (+8.797) and hit 81% GIR (58/72, T5) on his way to 26 birdies (T1). KORN FERRY TOUR | Simmons Bank Open In his first week playing a 2025 Pro V1 golf ball, Zach Bauchou opened with a bogey-free 5-under 65 and followed with three consecutive rounds of 64 to claim his first Korn Ferry Tour title – and secure his 2026 PGA TOUR card. While the KFT schedule was on break for the last three weeks, Bauchou took some time at home to test the 2025 Pro V1 against his prior generation model. In the days leading up to this week’s Simmons Bank Open, he asked Titleist reps to put 2025 Pro V1’s in his locker. The 2025 Pro V1 features a faster high gradient core, reformulated to maintain low long game spin, increase ball speed and add spin on shots into and around the greens. Teeing up the ball in competition for the first time on Thursday, Bauchou hit 15 of 18 GIR (83%) and was a perfect 3-for-3 in Scrambling, while making five of the 25 birdies he totaled over the 72 holes in Nashville. Bauchou’s rounds of 65-64-64-64 put him at 23 under for the week, while leading a 1-2-3-4-5-6 finish for Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x players. In total, 101 competitors (74%) teed up a Titleist, more than six times the nearest competitor with 16 (12%). AMATEUR | PGA TOUR, EPSON TOUR KOIVUN, CLEMENTE RECORD TOP FINISHES ON PGA TOUR, EPSON TOUR One week after helping the U.S. Walker Cup team to victory at Cypress point, Jackson Koivun continued his exceptional form, recording his career-best PGA TOUR finish – for the fourth start in a row. The 20-year-old amateur, whose all-Titleist setup includes his Pro V1 golf ball, GT2 driver and fairway, NEW T250 , NEW T100 and 620 MB irons, Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron Phantom putter, carded rounds of 67-66-68-71 this week in Napa to finish T4. Koivun’s result makes it four straight top-15 finishes on the PGA TOUR and three straight top-10's: T4 | Procore Championship T5 | Wyndham Championship T6 | ISCO Championship T11 | John Deere Classic Koivun’s ball-striking and putting were dialed in at the Procore, as he gained over seven shots with his approach play (+7.460, 3rd) and over five and a half shots on the greens (+5.653, 11th). He made two eagles and 21 birdies on his way to posting 16 under. What’s in the Bag? | Jackson Koivun Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: GT2 9.0° | A•1 SureFit hosel | Fujikura Speeder 661 TR X Fairway Metal: GT2 13.5° | B•1 SureFit hosel | Graphite Design Tour AD DI-8 X Irons: NEW T250 3 | Graphite Design Tour AD HY-95 X, NEW T100 4 | Project X 6.5 , and 620 MB 5-9 | Project X 6.5 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.08F, 54.08M, WedgeWorks 60L | Project X 6.5 (46°, 50°), Project X 6.0 (54°), Project X IO 6.0 (60°) Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 9R tour prototype Clemente Finishes Solo Second On the Epson Tour, Gianna Clemente finished solo second as an amateur, going toe-to-toe with the eventual winner in a five-hole playoff. Clemente, just 17 years of age, carded a bogey-free final round 68 to post 13 under for the week. What’s in the Bag? | Gianna Clemente Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x golf ball Driver: GT3 10.0° | Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Pro White 50 S Fairway Metals: GT1 3Tour 14.5° | Mitsubishi Kuro Kage Black Dual Core 55 R, and GT2 18.0° | Mitsubishi Kuro Kage Black Dual Core 55 R Hybrid: GT2 21.0° | Mitsubishi Kuro Kage Black 70HY R Irons: T350 5 | Nippon N.S. Pro 850GH R and T200 6-P irons | Nippon N.S. Pro 850GH R Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 48.10F, 54.12D, 60.08M | Nippon N.S.Pro 850GH R (48°) 950GH R (54°-60°) Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 5.2 tour prototype putter PGA TOUR AMERICAS | ATB Classic Titleist Brand Ambassador Michael Brennan won for the third time in four starts, securing an immediate three-victory promotion to the Korn Ferry Tour. Brennan, fully exempt for the 2026 KFT season, has had a banner year on the PGA TOUR Americas in which he recorded 10 top-10 finishes in 14 starts, including six top-5's and three wins. The 23-year-old, gaming an all-Titleist setup that includes his Pro V1 golf ball, GT3 driver and fairway, T100 and 620 CB irons, Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron Phantom putter, opened the week at Northern Bear Golf Club with an 11-under 61. He closed in 68, posting 19 under for a one-shot win. Brennan hit 81% greens in regulation (58/72, T3), which helped set himself up for 22 birdies and two eagles. What’s in the Bag? | Michael Brennan Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: GT3 9.0° Fairway Metal: GT3 15.0° Hybrid: TS2 19.0° Irons: T100 4-5 and 620 CB 6-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.12F, 54.10S, 60.04T or WedgeWorks 60K* Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 7.2 tour prototype CHINA TOUR | Golfjoy Open Titleist Brand Ambassador Yanhan Zhou prevailed in extra holes to win his seventh career China Tour title – and third of 2025 – at just 17 years of age. Gaming a full bag of Titleist equipment including his Pro V1x golf ball, GT2 driver and fairway, blended set of T200 , T100 and 620 MB irons, Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron Studio Style putter, Zhou shot rounds of 68-68-68-71 to match the 13-under clubhouse lead before taking the title on the second playoff hole. For the week, Zhou was one of 101 (83%) players to tee up a Titleist golf ball. What’s in the Bag? | Yanhan Zhou Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: GT2 10.0° Fairway Metal: GT2 15.0° Irons: T200 3, T100 4-6, and 620 MB 7-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.08F, 54.10S, WedgeWorks 58L Putter: Scotty Cameron Studio Style Squareback 2 tour prototype LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR | VP Bank Swiss Ladies Open Titleist Brand Ambassador Alice Hewson cruised to her third career LET victory, successfully defending her title in Switzerland with a five-shot win. Hewson, whose setup included her Pro V1x golf ball, TSR3 driver, T200/ T150 irons and Vokey SM10 wedges, closed with three straight birdies on Sunday to reach 13 under. The 28-year-old was in full control of her golf ball, hitting 17 greens in regulation in the final round. With the win, Hewson climbs to 8th in the LET’s Order of Merit. What’s in the Bag? | Alice Hewson Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR3 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSR2 18.0° Hybrid: TSR1 20.0° Irons: T200 5-6 and T150 7-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 50.08F, 56.10S, 60.04T SUNSHINE TOUR | Vodacom Origins of Golf - Gowrie Farm Lodge & Golf Course Haydn Porteous shot rounds of 66-69 to win by one shot at this week's 36-hole, weather-shortened tournament. Porteous, gaming his Pro V1 golf ball, GT2 driver and fairway, 620 MB irons and Vokey Design wedges, made two key back-nine birdies, which proved to be the difference-maker in the end. What’s in the Bag? | Haydn Porteous Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: GT2 10.0° Fairway Metal: GT2 15.0° Hybrid: TSR3 19.0° or U•505 2 Irons: 620 MB 4-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.12F, 54.10S, WedgeWorks 58A+ ... #TeamTitleist
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LPGA | FM Championship Playing the 71st hole tied for the lead, Miranda Wang stuck her Pro V1x in close with her approach shot before calmly rolling in the go-ahead birdie putt. One hole later, the LPGA rookie became a winner on tour, beating out a strong field at TPC Boston with a 20-under total. Wang was dialed in from the jump this week, as she carded a second-nine (TPC Boston’s front nine) 29 on Thursday that included eight birdies. “Honestly, on the back nine of my first round I started hitting really good shots,” she said on the 18th green after her win. "The shots and putts were going so well for me, I [felt] like this could be my week.” The 26-year-old followed her strong start with a second-round 67 and third-round 65. She remained steady on Sunday, hitting 11 of 14 fairways and 14 of 18 greens in regulation en route to a 2-under 70. Wang was one of 104 players this week at TPC Boston to tee up the #1 ball in golf, a total that accounted for 72% of the field and was more than six times the nearest competitor (15). DP WORLD TOUR | Omega European Masters Thriston Lawrence (Pro V1) closed in 66 to claim his 5th DP World Tour victory – and second Omega European Masters title. The South African’s Sunday was highlighted by a mid-round surge that included five birdies and an eagle from Nos. 6-14. Four pars to finish out saw Lawrence reach 22 under and win by two. For the week in Switzerland, Lawrence ranked 8th in Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green (+8.6), which help set him up for 24 birdies (T3). He also got his Pro V1 up-and-down for par 13 of 17 attempts (T5, 76%). Eight of the last 10 winners on the DP World Tour have played a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball, as did 113 players (72%) this week at Crans-sur-Sierre GC, totaling more than seven times the nearest competitor (15). PGA TOUR AMERICAS | CRMC Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Michael Brennan prevailed in a playoff to win his second PGA TOUR Americas title in his last three starts. The 23-year-old shot a closing round 8-under 63 to set the clubhouse lead at 26 under before making a winning par on the first extra hole. Brennan was dialed off the tee and with his approach play this week, ranking T9 in Driving Accuracy (77%) and T2 in GIR (89%). His ball-striking helped set up 28 birdies and two eagles over four rounds in Minnesota. With three events remaining on the schedule, Brennan is firmly in control of the top spot on the Fortinet Cup standings, having recorded five top-5 finishes and nine top-10 finishes in 2025. The top 10 finishers by season’s end earn full status on the Korn Ferry Tour for 2026. Last year’s top finisher in the Fortinet Cup, Titleist Brand Ambassador Johnny Keefer , has already locked up PGA TOUR status for next season through his play this year on the Korn Ferry Tour. What’s in the Bag? | Michael Brennan Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: GT3 9.0° Fairway Metal: GT3 15.0° Hybrid: TS2 19.0° Irons: T100 4-5 and 620 CB 6-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.12F, 54.10S, 60.04T or WedgeWorks 60K* Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 7.2 tour prototype Titleist Was the Overwhelming #1 Ball at the CRMC Championship Titleist was the overwhelming #1 ball for the week, with 129 players (89%) choosing to tee up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball. Titleist was also the most played driver , fairway , hybrid , utility , iron , wedge and putter . KPGA | Dong-A Membership Group Open Titleist Brand Ambassador Sanghyun Park won for the 13th time on the KPGA, closing in 68 to win by two. The 42-year-old, who was gaming an all-Titleist setup that included his Pro V1 golf ball, GT3 driver and fairways, NEW U•505 and T250 long irons, Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron putter, shot all four rounds in the 60’s (64-63-64-68) to post 21 under for the week. Park led a sweep of the top 5 positions on the final leaderboard for Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf ball players as well as a 1-through-4 finish for players gaming Titleist drivers and T-Series irons. Across the entire field for the KPGA’s first event of the second half of the season, Titleist was the overwhelming #1 ball and most played driver , fairway , hybrid , iron , wedge and putter . What’s in the Bag? | Sanghyun Park Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: GT3 10.0° Fairway Metals: GT3 15.0° and 18.0° Utility Iron: NEW U•505 3-iron Irons: NEW T250 4, 620 CB 5, and 620 MB 6-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 52.08F, 58.06K Putter: Scotty Cameron Del Mar tour prototype ASIAN TOUR | Mandiri Indonesia Open Titleist Brand Ambassador Suteepat Prateeptienchai won in a runaway, claiming his fourth Asian Tour title by seven shots. Prateeptienchai, the top-ranked player in the field coming into the week, won with a setup included his Pro V1 golf ball, GT3 driver, NEW T250 and T150 irons and Vokey SM10 wedges. On Sunday, the 32-year-old Thai left no doubt, shooting the low round of the day: an 8-under 64 that included five birdies and two eagles. What’s in the Bag? | Suteepat Prateeptienchai Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: GT3 10.0° Irons: NEW T250 4 and NEW T150 5-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 WedgeWorks 44F, 50.08F, 54.08M, WedgeWorks 60K* JGTO | Sansan KBC Augusta Golf Tournament Yuwa Kosaihira (Pro V1x) broke through on the JGTO, winning his first tour title after closing in 5-under 67. The 27-year-old made 22 birdies for the week and finished at 18 under, good for a one-shot win. PGA TOUR OF AUSTRALASIA | NT PGA Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Andrew Martin posted 12 under for the week to record a one-shot win, the third PGA Tour of Australasia title of his career. With the win, Martin moves to second in the Order of Merit. Including Martin, 82% (98 players) of the field played a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball this week, while more than half (57%) gamed a Titleist driver (68 players). What’s in the Bag? | Andrew Martin Golf Ball : Titleist Pro V1 Driver: GT3 10.0 Fairway Metal: GT1 3Tour 14.5° Utility Iron: NEW U•505 3 Irons: NEW T100 4-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.12F, 54.12D, 60.08M or WedgeWorks 60L CHINA TOUR | Shaanxi Open Kakeru Ozeki (Pro V1) closed with a bogey-free 6-under 65, winning his first China Tour title in just his fourth career start. Ozeki finished the week at 18 under, two shots clear of second place. Eighty-five percent of the field trusted a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball, including nine of the top 10 finishers on Sunday’s final leaderboard. JLPGA | Nitori Ladies Ai Suzuki (Pro V1x) shot 12 under for the week to win by one, closing out her 21st JLPGA victory with a 5-under 68 on Sunday. ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | BMW Championship A model of consistency and excellence, the OWGR No. 1 trusted his Pro V1 golf ball to a field-best 21 birdies and two-shot victory in the second event of the FedExCup Playoffs. Leading a 1-2-3 finish for Titleist golf ball players at Caves Valley, the BMW Championship winner continued his historic run with four rounds of 67 or better (66-65-67-67), using his Vokey Design SM10 60.06K lob wedge to hole a 27-yard chip for birdie at the par-3 17th on Sunday that put the outcome beyond doubt. The champ led the field with nearly 15 strokes gained tee to green (+14.960/1st), with the majority coming on approach shots (+5.314/5th) and around the green (+4.344). He also led the field with 78% (56 of 72) GIR. 1-2-3 FINISH FOR PRO V1 The World No. 1, a longtime Titleist golf ball player who has used a Pro V1 golf ball to win all of his 18 PGA TOUR titles and four major championships, led a 1-2-3 finish for Pro V1 players Sunday at Caves Valley: 1. 2025 BMW Champion: Pro V1 2. Robert MacIntyre : Pro V1 3. 2024 RSM Classic Champion: Pro V1 Eight of the last 10 events on the PGA TOUR have been won by Titleist golf ball players, including last week’s victory by Justin Rose (Pro V1x) to open the FedExCup Playoffs. Seventy-three percent of all competitors this season on the PGA TOUR have teed up a Titleist golf ball. AMATEUR | U.S. Amateur Playing a Pro V1 golf ball, the winner of the 125th U.S. Amateur completed the testing seven-day competition with a decisive 7-and-6 victory Sunday at The Olympic Club. The champion, who survived a 20-for-17 playoff to qualify for match play and then went on to defeat two of the top six players in the WAGR in the first two rounds, was among the 265 competitors (85%) who teed up a Titleist golf ball to begin the week in San Francisco, more than 10 times at the nearest competitor (26). In the 36-hole final, the champ raced to a 4-up lead after the first 18 holes before closing things out on the 12th hole of the afternoon session. With the victory, the 18-year-old high school senior and Georgia commit secures his spots in the 2026 Masters, U.S. Open and Open Championship. Earlier this summer, he was the youngest player in the field at the U.S. Open Oakmont, having posted a pair of a bogey-free 63’s in final qualifying at Piedmont Driving Club in Atlanta. TITLEIST IS OVERWHELMING #1 BALL; MOST PLAYED IN EVERY MAJOR EQUIPMENT CATEGORY AT U.S. AMATEUR At the 125th U.S. Amateur, more of the game’s best amateurs once again put their trust in Titleist golf balls and golf clubs . Among the elite 312-player field that competed at The Olympic Club, 85% (265) played a Titleist golf ball, more than 10 times at the nearest competitor (26). Titleist was also the top choice in every major equipment category, with more players gaming Titleist drivers (44%), fairway metals (36%), hybrids (37%), utility irons (65%), iron sets (44%), Vokey Design gap, sand and lob wedges (57%) and Scotty Cameron putters (31%) than any other brand. DP WORLD TOUR | Danish Golf Championship Marco Penge (Pro V1) birdied the 71st and 72nd holes late on Sunday to close out his second career win on the DP World Tour – and his second of 2025. Penge’s clutch birdie-birdie finish helped him reach 16 under for the week, which was good for a one-shot margin of victory. The 27-year-old Englishman was dialed in over the four rounds, shooting in the 60’s each day (64-68-69-67). He led the field in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green (+16.8), with over eight of his strokes coming from his play off the tee (+8.72, 2nd) and seven coming from approach play (+7.48, 3rd). Penge also ranked 1st in Greens in Regulation (79%) and 2nd in Scrambling (12/15, 80%). With the win, Penge moves to No. 2 in the Race to Dubai Rankings and finishes on top of the DP World Tour’s ‘Closing Swing Rankings,’ a stretch that spanned from the Scottish Open until this week’s Danish Golf Championship. KORN FERRY TOUR | Albertsons Boise Open After watching his Pro V1x find the hole for an eagle-two on the par-4 first, Emilio Gonzalez closed in 10-under 61 Sunday to win his first Korn Ferry Tour title – the 10th consecutive win for Pro V1 and Pro V1x players on the KFT. With the win, Gonzalez locked up his 2026 PGA TOUR card, joining J ohnny Keefer (Pro V1x) , Neal Shipley (Pro V1) and the BMW Charity Pro-Am & Memorial Health Championship winner (Pro V1x) as the fourth player to secure status so far this season. On Sunday, Gonzalez completed the comeback victory with a birdie-eagle-birdie-par finish over his final four holes to win by one shot. Titleist golf ball players have now won 19 of the 22 events played this season. PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | Rogers Charity Classic Richard Green (Pro V1) claimed his first PGA Tour Champions title, closing in 5-under 65 with a clinching birdie on the par-5 18th to win by one. It marks the fifth consecutive Champions victory for Titleist golf ball players, with Padraig Harrington (U.S. Senior Open, Senior Open) and Steve Allan (DICK’s Open, Boeing Classic) each winning two times during that stretch. PGA TOUR OF AUSTRALASIA | PNG Open Cory Crawford (Pro V1x) closed in 7-under 65 to win his third PGA Tour of Australasia title. Crawford, who began the day five shots back of the lead, finished the week at Royal Port Moresby Golf Club at 11 under, good for a four-shot win. Eighty percent of the field this week (94 players) teed up the #1 ball golf. SUNSHINE TOUR | Vodacom Origins of Golf - Parys Golf & Country Estate Herman Loubser (Pro V1x) captured the Vodacom Origins of Golf title with a birdie on the first playoff hole at Parys Golf & Country Estate. Loubser, one of 101 players (80%) in the field gaming a Pro V1 or Pro V1x , posted a final-round 69 to tie for the lead at 8 under before sealing victory on the first extra hole. JGTO | ISPS HANDA Explosion in the Summer This week’s winner on the JGTO brought home the title gaming a Scotty Cameron Phantom 9 tour prototype putter. The Phantom 9 model features a mid-bend shaft along with an angular, ring-weighted profile to deliver forgiveness and feel with high MOI. He also had a U•505 4-iron in his winning setup. KLPGA | MEDIHEAL · HANKOOKILBO Championship In complete control of her Pro V1x golf ball, Jungmin Hong won in a 9-shot runaway and set the record for the lowest 72-hole score in KLPGA history. Hong carded rounds of 65-64-65-65 (259) to post a commanding 29-under total for the week. She ranked first in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green (+15.52). With the win, Hong rises to first place on the money list for 2025. She had previously won the CREAS 47th KLPGA Championship in May this year. ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | FedEx St. Jude Championship Zeroed in down the stretch with his 2025 Pro V1x golf ball, Justin Rose birdied four of his final five holes in regulation and two of the three extra holes to capture his 12th PGA TOUR victory. Leading the field in Proximity with an average of 26 feet, 9 inches, Rose was unrelenting as he headed home at TPC Southwind, forcing the playoff with birdie putts of 15 feet, 1 inch (No. 14), 8 feet, 9 inches (No. 15), 5 feet, 11 inches (No. 16) and 22 feet, 9 inches (No. 17) to reach 16 under. On the second extra hole, he stuck his Pro V1x to 6 feet, 10 inches. On the third, his Pro V1 stopped 11 feet, 6 inches from the cup. Posting four rounds of 67 or better, Rose gained over eight strokes tee to green (+8.756/3rd) with over five and a half of them coming on approach shots (+5.660/8th). Rose was among the overwhelming majority of players who teed up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x this week in Memphis, with six players finishing T9 or better. That list included: The World No. 1 (T3), who has won each of his 17 PGA TOUR titles and four major championships playing a Pro V1 golf ball. Cameron Young , who followed up last week’s victory at the Wyndham Championship with a fifth-place finish, closing with Sunday’s best round (64). Young remained dialed in his second start playing a Pro V1x prototype golf ball, gaining over six strokes off the tee (+6.473/1st) and over three strokes on approach shots (+3.231/16th). Rickie Fowler , whose T6 finish moved him up 16 spots in the FedExCup Rankings to 48th to qualify for next week’s BMW Championship. Fowler, who finished last season 108th in the FedExCup, made the switch to a Pro V1 golf ball from a competitive brand to start 2025. JUSTIN ROSE’S MOVE TO 2025 PRO V1 x Justin Rose made a field-best 26 birdies this week at the FedEx St. Jude Championship, gaming the 2025 Pro V1x golf ball he moved to earlier this season after early-week testing at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. During a session on the range at Bay Hill, Rose, who had been playing a higher-spinning Pro V1x+ prototype, found more optimal spin numbers throughout the bag with ‘25 Pro V1x. He then brought it to the golf course, where he saw improved distance control and even better performance in the wind. “It's a great golf ball,” Rose said in the week leading up to this summer’s Open Championship. “I've kind of gone through the gears a little bit. I've gone from the lowest spinning end that Titleist makes to almost the highest spinning end. It is the perfect combination of high spin around the greens and that beautiful spin in my short irons. And then as I get towards the driver, the spin starts to come down for me. Maximum distance on the long end of the clubs, tons of spin with the short end of the game — so it gives me a lot of control everywhere.” “Links golf (for example) is all about flighting a golf ball. So in moments you want to have high spin, downwind or stopping on firm links turf, you need spin. And at other times you need to trust that you can take a little bit of spin off. Or if you're making calculations into the wind, if you're playing into a 10 mile per hour wind and in your head you go, ‘OK, this is going to take 20 to 25 yards off of the shot,’ you need to know that that spin rate's consistent. Because if suddenly you drop spin, the wind isn’t going to affect the ball quite the same way. So having trust in your spin numbers is absolutely paramount in terms of playing in the wind.” Rose has been playing a Titleist golf ball since switching from a competitive brand at the Open Championship in 2021. “I have massively high demands of myself, and actually the way I try to operate with my swing at the moment is that I'm very, very, very precise with how I'm dealing with my baseline and my swing,” Rose said. “We're kind of dealing with zeros, if I'm more than one degree out with my swing path, we're making adjustments to that. So obviously if I'm dealing with a degree of tolerance, I want to make sure that there's something on the other end of that swing that has zero tolerance as well. The ball is your ultimate teacher. What you do to it is what it does. It doesn't have a mind of its own. It does what we tell it to do. That's all you want from your golf ball. When you put the correct move on it, it does exactly what you want.” DP WORLD TOUR | Nexo Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Grant Forrest earned a decisive four-stroke win on home soil, taking home his second DP World Tour title this week in Scotland. Forrest, whose equipment setup includes his 2025 Pro V1 golf ball, GT3 driver, NEW T250 and T100 long irons, Vokey Design SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron putter, was the only player to reach double digits under par, finishing at 10 under for the week. He shot the low round of the week on Friday, a course record-setting 6-under 66. Every aspect of Forrest’s game was dialed this week. Across four rounds in Aberdeenshire, he led the field in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green (+13.0), with over seven strokes (+7.24, 2nd) coming from his approach play. He hit 72% greens in regulation (T6) and finished T3 in Scrambling (65%). The 32-year-old Scot also gained on the greens, where he picked up +4.08 strokes on the field with the flatstick. What’s In the Bag? | Grant Forrest Golf Ball : 2025 Titleist Pro V1 Driver : GT3 9.0° | Mitsubishi Diamana WB Irons: NEW T250 2-3 | Project X LZ 7.0, NEW T100 4 | Project X LZ 7.0, and 620 MB 5-9 | Project X LZ 7.0 Wedges : Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 54.10S, WedgeWorks 58L | Project X LZ 7.0 (46), 6.5 (54-58) Putter : Scotty Cameron Tour Rat 1 tour prototype KORN FERRY TOUR | Pinnacle Bank Championship Christo Lamprecht jarred his 2025 Pro V1 golf ball from the greenside bunker on the 72nd hole, making a clutch birdie to earn his breakthrough Korn Ferry Tour victory by one shot. Lamprecht's electric hole-out put the finishing touches on a bogey-free 5-under final round, which saw him reach 19 under. For the week in Omaha, the 24-year-old South African carded four rounds in the 60’s (67-67-65-66). Lamprecht put on a ball-striking exhibition all week long, as led the field in Greens in Regulation (83%, 60/72) and Driving Distance. He also got up-and-down for par on nine of 12 attempts (75%, T11). With the win, Lamprecht jumps to 10th in the Points List, up 21 spots from his position entering the week. PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | Boeing Classic Steve Allan (Pro V1) claimed his third Champions Tour title of the season, closing in 7-under 65 to win by one shot. Allan's bogey-free Sunday change was punctuated by three birdies in his final four holes, which saw him post the clubhouse lead and eventually fend off Stewart Cink (2025 Pro V1) who finished at 14 under. The 51-year-old Aussie hit 42 of 54 greens in regulation for the week (78%, 6th) and got his Pro V1 up-and-down for par 9 of 12 attempts (75%, 11th). PGA TOUR AMERICAS | BioSteel Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Michael Brennan earned his first professional title with a runaway, wire-to-wire victory in Ontario. Brennan, who was gaming his 2025 Pro V1 golf ball, GT3 driver and fairway, blended set of T100 and 620 CB irons along with four Vokey Design SM10 wedges, opened the week with a 9-under par 61 before following it up with rounds of 65-65-64. Twenty-five birdies (2nd) and one eagle saw him finish the four rounds at 25 under, five shots clear of second place. Nobody dropped fewer shots than Brennan, who only surrendered two bogeys all week. The 23-year-old also hit 83% greens in regulation, ranking T2. With the win, Brennan climbs to the top of the Fortinet Cup standings. He has eight top-10 finishes in 2025 on the PGA TOUR Americas, and he has made 12 straight cuts dating back to last year’s Fortinet Cup Championship, currently the longest-running made cut streak among PGA TOUR Americas members. What’s in the Bag? | Michael Brennan Golf Ball: 2025 Titleist Pro V1 Driver: GT3 9.0° Fairway Metal: GT3 15.0° Hybrid: TS2 19.0° Irons: T100 4-5, and 620 CB 6-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.12F, 54.10S, 60.04T or WedgeWorks 60K* SUNSHINE TOUR | FNB Eswatini Challenge Titleist Brand Ambassador Michael Hollick earned his fourth career Sunshine Tour title, closing in 4-under 68 to post 16 under and win by two. Hollick’s all-Titleist setup includes his 2025 Pro V1 golf ball, GT3 driver and GT2 fairway, NEW T250 long irons and NEW T100 mid to short irons, Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron Cameron Squareback 2 putter. NEW T-Series irons debuted this week on the Sunshine Tour, and the new models are now one-for-one on the heels of Hollicks’ performance. The win was also Hollick’s second victory of 2025, having won the Courier Guy DNi Tour Championship back in March. What’s in the Bag? | Michael Hollick Golf Ball: 2025 Titleist Pro V1 Driver: GT3 10.0° Fairway Metal: GT2 15.0° Irons: NEW T250 3-4, and NEW T100 5-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 52.08F, 56.10S, 60.08M Putter: Scotty Cameron Cameron Squareback 2 LET | PIF London Championship LET CHAMPION GAMES 2025 PRO V1x, GT METALS, VOKEY WEDGES, SCOTTY CAMERON PUTTER The winner of the PIF London Championship broke through for her first career LET win, making birdie on the last to take the title by one shot. The champion, who trusted her 2025 Pro V1x , GT3 driver, GT2 fairway and hybrids, Vokey Design SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron Phantom putter to victory, was the only player to finish double digits under par. Rounds of 67-70-72 saw her finish at 10 under for the week at the Centurion Club. KLPGA | The 12th JejuSamdasoo Masters Titleist Brand Ambassador Jiwon Ko closed with a steady, bogey-free 3-under 69, good for a two-shot win and her breakthrough KLPGA title. Ko, gaming her 2025 Pro V1x , GT2 driver, NEW U•505 , T250 and T150 irons along with three Vokey SM10 wedges, shot 21 under for the week. What’s in the Bag? | Jiwon Ko Golf Ball: 2025 Titleist Pro V1x Driver: GT2 10.0 Fairway Metals: TSR2+ 14.5° and TSR2 18.0° Utility Iron: NEW U•505 4 Irons: NEW T250 5, and NEW T150 6-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 48.10F, 52.08F, 58.08M AMATEUR | U.S. Women's Amateur TITLEIST IS OVERWHELMING #1 BALL, MOST PLAYED DRIVER, IRON, WEDGE AT U.S. WOMEN’S AMATEUR The past week at Bandon Dunes for the 125th U.S. Women’s Amateur, 120 competitors teed up the #1 ball in golf (77%), more than seven times the nearest competitor (16). Titleist drivers (40%), iron sets (29%) and Vokey gap, sand and lob wedges (42%) were also the top choices of the elite amateur field. Twenty-six percent of competitors (T-1) gamed Scotty Cameron putters . ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | Wyndham Championship From his GT metals to Scotty Cameron Phantom putter, Titleist Brand Ambassador Cameron Young had every shot in the bag this week in Greensboro, running away with his first PGA TOUR victory after making the move to a Titleist Pro V1x prototype golf ball. Young, whose all-Titleist equipment setup includes his Pro V1x golf ball model, GT2 driver, GT3 fairway, GT2 hybrid, blended set of T200 , T100 and 631.CY prototype MB irons, Vokey Design SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron Phantom putter, gained over 19 shots on the field (+19.184) on his way to rounds of 63-62-65-68 and a six-shot victory. From tee to green, Young gained nearly nine shots (+8.852/3rd) on the field, showing total control from off the tee (+4.571/2nd) and on approach (+3.107/22nd). On the greens, he was lights-out, gaining over 10 shots (+10.335) while making 110 feet of putts with his Phantom mallet. What’s in the Bag? | Cameron Young www.youtube.com/watch Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x prototype Driver: GT2 9.0° | A•1 SureFit hosel setting | Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Pro Orange 70 TX Fairway Metal: GT3 15.0° | A•1 SureFit hosel setting, Neutral CG | Mitsubishi Tensei 1K White 80 TX Hybrid: GT2 21.0° | A•1 SureFit hosel setting, Heel 5g, Toe 7g weights | Fujikura Ventus HB Black Velocore+ 10 X Irons: T200 4 | True Temper Dynamic Gold X7, T100 5 | True Temper Dynamic Gold X7, and 631.CY 6-9 | True Temper Dynamic Gold X7 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 48.10F, 52.12F, 56.14F, WedgeWorks 60K* | True Temper Dynamic Gold X7 Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 9.5R tour prototype MEISSNER FINISHES RUNNER-UP, 8 OF TOP 10 PLAY TITLEIST GOLF BALL Runner-up and fellow Titleist Brand Ambassador Mac Meissner recorded his best career TOUR finish, making it a 1-2 finish for players gaming Pro V1x , GT drivers, T-Series irons, Vokey wedges and Scotty Cameron Phantom putters. Eight of the top 10 also played a Pro V1 or Pro V1x . What’s in the Bag? | Mac Meissner Golf Ball: 2025 Titleist Pro V1x Driver: GT3 9.0 | Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Red 70 TX Fairway Metal: GT2 15.0° | Mitsubishi Tensei 1K White 80 TX Irons: NEW T250 3 | Graphite Design Tour AD DI 105 X, and NEW T100 4-9 | | Nippon N.S. Pro Modus3 120 X Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 48.10F, 52.12F, 56.14F, 60.04T | Nippon N.S. Pro Modus3 120 X Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 9.2 tour prototype INSIDE CAMERON YOUNG’S MOVE TO PRO V1 x PROTOTYPE Cameron Young's breakthrough PGA TOUR victory at this week’s Wyndham Championship began with a crucial decision to tee up a Pro V1x prototype golf ball for the first time, following recent testing sessions with the Titleist Golf Ball R&D team. Titleist R&D is constantly soliciting feedback from the world's best players on the performance of their golf ball and their evolving performance needs. This process will often result in the development of new prototypes, some of which are designed to finely tune very specific flight, spin and feel characteristics. These Custom Performance Options (CPOs) – such as Pro V1 Left Dot and Pro V1x Left Dash – play an important role in the discovery of new technological advancements that are frequently incorporated into next generation Pro V1 and Pro V1x models. CPOs also provide key learnings in the continued development of more robust custom performance options for all golfers and their unique launch conditions. During a visit to the Titleist Performance Center at Manchester Lane (Acushnet, Mass.), Young, who was previously playing Pro V1 Left Dot, spent a range session with Fordie Pitts, Titleist’s Director of Tour Research & Validation , testing early iterations of what would eventually become the ball he used to win his first PGA TOUR title. This week at the Wyndham Championship marked the first opportunity for Young to test the final Pro V1x prototype on site at a TOUR event and potentially play it in competition. “We weren't sure if he was going to test it this week, but as he was warming up, he asked to hit a couple on the range,” Pitts said. “He was then curious to see some shots out on the course.” Young, accompanied by Pitts, teed off Sedgefield’s first hole with both his gamer and the Pro V1x prototype. By the second hole, he was exclusively hitting shots with the Pro V1x. Said Pitts: “Performance-wise, he was hitting tight draws everywhere. His misses were staying more in play. He hit some, what he would call ‘11 o'clock shots,’ where again he's taking a little something off it. He had great control there.” Further validation came on the seventh hole, a par 3 that played between 184 and 225 yards during the tournament. The setup on Tuesday's practice round called for a 5-iron from Young, who thought there was “no way” he could fly a 6-iron to the flag with his Left Dot. “He then hits this 6-iron [with the Pro V1x prototype] absolutely dead at the flag, and it lands right next to the pin, ending up just past it,” Pitts said. “And his response was, ‘remarkable.’ He couldn't believe that he got that club there.” After the nine-hole practice round on Tuesday, Pitts walked with Young for nine more holes on Wednesday. Following the round, Young asked the team to put the Pro V1x prototypes in his locker. The results were immediate. Young opened the week 63-62, making 16 birdies over the two rounds before running away with a six-shot victory. “I think it definitely contributed to some of the good play this week,” he said in his press conference following the win, “so I’m excited about the next few weeks.” HOW CAMERON YOUNG MARKS HIS GOLF BALL Sixty percent of PGA TOUR players who play a Titleist golf ball use alignment aids when putting. Cameron Young is one of many professionals who elect to mark their golf ball with a long, straight line – the common marking that inspired Titleist’s new AIM Performance design now available on Pro V1 , Pro V1x and Pro V1x Left Dash golf balls. Said Young: “I go back and forth whether I'm using the line to putt, and I've had short stints of trying other colors if the ball just will not go in the hole. I've tried blue, I've tried green for a week or two here and there, but I always come back. The line on my putter is black, and so I just always come back to a black line and lining those two up and hitting a putt.” “I guess the other thing I do with it is on the tee, I'll put [the line] kind of on whichever side I'm working it away from for whatever reason. When I go to hit a draw, I put the line on the outside. Same thing when I putt, if I'm not using a line, when I get a right to left putt, I'll put the big black stripe on the outside, kind of on the high side for whatever reason. It's just how it makes sense in my head to look down at it.” YOUNG DIALED OFF THE TEE WITH GT2 DRIVER, GT3 FAIRWAY, GT2 HYBRID Cameron Young's victory marked the 12th win for TItleist drivers this season on the PGA TOUR, more than any other brand, and the third victory for GT drivers in the last three weeks (3M Open, Barracuda Championship). The top end of Young’s bag consists of three GT metalwoods: a GT2 9.0° driver, a GT3 15.0° fairway and GT2 21.0° hybrid. He used that setup to gain over 4.5 shots on the field off the tee (+4.571), ranking second this week. He also ranked second in Driving Distance and T14 in Driving Accuracy. “I've just got a GT2 9-degree set on A•1... I feel like I was more comfortable with this right off the bat than really anything previously. So it was a very easy switch. I went from the 3 [model] to the 2 and I, I've really had no trouble doing that and making that switch. And I've driven it pretty well thus far.” After driver, Young typically decides between two different 3-wood setups: a 15-degree GT3 or a 13.5° GT2. “Currently, I will decide which one to use any day, but I've got a 13.5 GT2 and a 15-degree GT3. That GT2 is a little bigger head, kind of more geared toward just consistency off the tee,” explained Young back in late June. In Young’s past three starts, he has opted for the 15-degree GT3 3-wood, which gives him more workability than the stronger-lofted and larger GT2: “For me, sometimes I feel like I need a little more versatility. I just think that I need the ability to manipulate it a little bit more than I do with that 13.5-degree 3-wood.” Finally, Young moves to a 21° GT2 hybrid, which he first added to the bag at the Travelers Championship this year and has played in each start since. He was previously gaming a T350 3-iron in its place. According to Young, the hybrid fits better for tee shots that call for a 250-yard carry and a softer landing, where the 3-iron carries the ball closer to 245 yards but with more roll. INSIDE YOUNG’S CUSTOM BLADE IRONS, BLENDED SET For his irons, Young plays a blended set comprised of a T200 4-iron, a T100 5-iron and 631.CY prototype 6-9 irons. Young's T-Series long irons give him optimal peak heights and gapping through the top end of his iron setup. Young’s custom blades were designed with a pre-worn leading edge and a slightly wider sole to help reduce dig and improve turf interaction for Young’s delivery. Titleist R&D also moved weight lower in the head for slightly higher launch and peak height. Said Young on the development process: “It started just as basically a question. It was, ‘Hey, if your irons could do anything different what would they do?’ I said, ‘help me not dig quite as quickly into the ground at impact, and if anything, launch a little higher.’” “I think it was one year from then they came and handed me a blank iron and said, ‘here, hit this,’” Young continued. “And I hit about three shots. They said, ‘what do you think?’ I said, ‘that seems great.’ Didn't hear from him for about six more months. And then they handed me a 6-iron and I said, ‘that feels great.’ And then all of a sudden, bang, I had my own set, and I wouldn't change anything about them. They’re honestly everything I could have ever asked for.” This week, Young’s ball-striking was dialed into the greens, as he gained over three shots on the field with his approach play (+3.107, 22nd). He hit 57 of 72 greens in regulation (72%), ranking T11. YOUNG GAINS WITH VOKEY SM10 SETUP; ANOTHER WIN FOR K* GRIND PLAYERS Gaming four Vokey Design SM10 wedges (48.10F, 52.12F, 56.14F (@ 57), WedgeWorks 60K* (@ 62)), Cameron Young got up-and-down for par 11 of 15 attempts (5th) and gained 1.171 shots on the field around the greens (28th). Over the past four years, Young has worked closely with Vokey Tour Rep Aaron Dill to dial in his wedge setup. One of the key changes involved moving from 56-degree (@ 57) M Grind to, eventually, a 56.14F (@ 57), which improved consistency in carry numbers from distance and gave him more purpose greenside with his sand wedge. Young’s victory also makes it back-to-back wins on the PGA TOUR for Vokey K* Grind lob wedge users, with the winner of the 3M Open also gaming a WedgeWorks 60K* lobber. Aldrich Potgieter won the Rocket Classic in late June with a 60K*, while the men’s world No. 1 won two majors in 2025 with a 60.06K lob wedge, the wedge from which K* originated. Instead of the full, smooth sole of the .06K Grind, the sole of the K* Grind features a steeper pre-wear on the leading edge to provide forgiveness from the square-faced position. K* – now one of the most popular lob wedge grinds on the PGA TOUR – also has heel, toe and trailing edge relief, which allows the leading edge to sit closer to the ground when the face is opened. And like all K Grind variations, K* has a wide sole that excels out of the bunker. For Cameron Young, bunker performance was the primary motivation to move to K* last May from his previous lower-bounce T Grind lob wedge setup: “The 62 is a 60 bent a little weak just to get the bounce right, but that's what I use mostly around the greens,” Young said. “So I've got a little bit more bounce than I used to have. Probably last time we did this, I was on a very low bounce version of it, and we went to this just to help improve bunker play... That one was a switch we made just over a year ago, PGA Championship Valhalla. I came to Aaron Dill and was having some issues and he said, ‘Hey, try this.’” “Cameron's 60T lob wedge was doing well but lacked the effortless height around the greens that he needed,” said Dill. “We built a 60K* that day, and it performed exactly as he had hoped. The added height around the greens freed him up to swing harder. He hit the ball higher and produced more spin and stopping power.” Said Young: “I think I went 10 for 10 out of bunkers that week, and [K* has] been in ever since.” YOUNG LEADS SG: PUTTING WITH SCOTTY CAMERON PHANTOM PUTTER Cameron Young was locked in on the greens with his Scotty Cameron Phantom 9.5R tour prototype putter, gaining over 10 shots on the field on the greens (+10.335, 1st). Young also ranked second in Putts per GIR (1.61). Young began this year with Scotty Cameron Phantom 5 head shape but moved into a Phantom 9 head at the Cognizant Classic. While he started with a 9.2R (.2 models feature a plumbing neck), he quickly switched to a 9.5R model that featured a short jet neck. Young has stuck with his gamer since, which features a single black line for alignment and rounded contours. “I've actually had a really, really good year putting, and I’ve always been one to switch around a little bit with the putter, but I'm pretty well on this one for now,” said Young on his gamer back in late June. “I feel like it’s just a really, really nice clean look. The long line helps with my alignment and yeah, I've putted really nicely lately.” Young currently ranks 10th on TOUR in SG: Putting (+0.534) for the 2025 season. “Scotty's the best,” he continued. “I think they've always had a reputation for extremely high quality, and I think it feeds into all the feel stuff that you guys at Titleist do. I mean, the feel to me is just what I want. Kind of just that milled face, solid piece of metal. That's what I've always liked.” TOP-RANKED AMATEUR KOIVUN FINISHES T5 The world’s top-ranked amateur Jackson Koivun made it three straight starts of recording his best-ever finish on the PGA TOUR, bettering his T11 finish at the John Deere and his T6 finish at the ISCO with a T5 finish this week. Koivun shot rounds of 68-66-65-67 around Sedgefield Country Club, posting 14 under for the week after draining a 25-foot birdie putt on the 72nd hole. The 20-year-old's game was dialed across the board, as he gained strokes off the tee, approaching the green, around the green and on the green. He led the field in Driving Accuracy (46 of 54 fairways, 82%) and ranked 3rd in Putts per GIR (1.65). What’s in the Bag? | Jackson Koivun Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: GT2 9.0° | Fujikura Speeder 661 TR X Irons: NEW T250 3-iron | Graphite Design Tour AD HY 95 X, NEW T100 4-iron | Project X 6.5, and 620 MB 5-9 | Project X 6.5 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.08F, 54.08S, WedgeWorks 60L | Project X 6.5 (46°-50°), Project X 6.0 (54°), Project X I/O 6.0 (60°) Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 9 tour prototype KORN FERRY TOUR | Utah Championship Julian Suri (Pro V1) made five birdies over his final eight holes to come home in 31 on Sunday and stage a comeback win. Suri carded rounds of 64-63 over the weekend en route to an 18-under total, good for a two-shot margin of victory. The win is his first career PGA TOUR-sanctioned title. Suri is projected to climb 40 spots in the season-long Points List, up to No. 16 from No. 56 with six events left on the schedule. JGTO | Richard Mille Charity Tournament Tomoyo Ikemura (2025 Pro V1) carded four sub-70 rounds (65-66-69-64) to post 24 under and win by two. The 29-year-old rallied for a come-from-behind victory on Sunday, carding a bogey-free 8-under final round that featured four birdies and an eagle on the back nine. The win marks Ikemura’s third career JGTO title. KLPGA | 2025 Aurora World Ladies Championship Gaming an all-Titleist setup that included her 2025 Pro V1x golf ball, GT3 driver, GT2 fairway, NEW T250 and T100 irons, Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron Newport 2 prototype putter, Titleist Brand Ambassador Sohyun Bae earned her fourth career KLPGA title. Bae closed in 5-under 67 on Sunday to post 19 under and win by one. What’s in the Bag? | Sohyun Bae Golf Ball: 2025 Titleist Pro V1x Driver: GT3 9.0° Fairway Metal: GT2 13.5° Hybrid: TSR3 19.0° Irons: NEW T250 4, NEW T100 5-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 48.10F, 54.14F, 58.10S Putter: Scotty Cameron Newport 2 CS tour prototype AMATEUR | Western Amateur The winner of the 123rd Western Amateur cruised to a 6-and-5 victory, tying the largest margin of victory for the championship match in the history of the Western Am. The champion, gaming his 2025 Pro V1 golf ball, GT3 driver, blended set of T100 and 620 CB irons, Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron Phantom putter, made it to match play after posting a 1-under total in medal play. It was an all-Pro V1 final, as the No. 9-ranked amateur took down this year’s winner of the Amateur Championship (No. 3 in WAGR). What’s in the Bag? | Western Amateur Champion Golf Ball: 2025 Titleist Pro V1 Driver: GT3 10.0° Irons: T100 4-5, and 620 CB 6-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 50°, 54°, 60° Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 9.2 tour prototype ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR / DP WORLD TOUR | The 153rd Open Championship Conquering Royal Portrush with surgical consistency and superior trajectory control, the World No. 1 gained over nine strokes on approach shots (+9.059) with his Pro V1 golf ball to win The 153rd Open Championship in a four-shot runaway. The Champion Golfer of the Year, also with three Vokey Design wedges in the bag, posted rounds of 68-64-67-68 to finish at 17 under, leading the field with 32 birdie chances inside 20 feet. Over the four days in Northern Ireland, he hit 78% GIR (56 of 72), making 19 birdies and an eagle. He played the weekend with only one bogey. The Open Champ has used a Pro V1 golf ball and Vokey gap, sand and wedges to win each of his 17 PGA TOUR titles and four major championships. What’s in the Bag? | 2025 Champion Golfer of the Year Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Wedges: Vokey Design SM8 50.12F, 56.14F, SM10 60.06K | Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 CHAMPION, RUNNER-UP, 5 OF TOP 6 PLAY PRO V1 OR PRO V1 x The 153rd Open Champion topped a leaderboard that featured a 1-2 finish for Titleist golf ball players, with five of the top six and 10 of the top 13 finishers gaming a Pro V1 or Pro V1x : 1. 2025 Open Champion : Pro V1 2. Harris English : Pro V1 T4. Matt Fitzpatrick : Pro V1x T4. Haotong Li : Pro V1 T4. Wyndham Clark : Pro V1x T7. Robert MacIntyre : Pro V1 T10. 2024 U.S. Open Champion : Pro V1x T10. Corey Conners : Pro V1 T10. Brian Harman : Pro V1 T10. Russell Henley : Pro V1x The World No. 1 (+9.059) and runner-up Harris English (+5.270) were also part of the nine Titleist ball players who finished atop the Strokes Gained: Approach Shots category. In total, 107 competitors (69%) at Royal Portrush teed up a Titleist golf ball, more than five times the nearest competitor with 18 (12%). PGA TOUR / DP WORLD TOUR | Barracuda Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Ryan Gerard entered the PGA TOUR winner’s circle for the first time Sunday, converting a pair of eagles and four birdies on his way to 13 final-round points and a three-point victory in the Modified Stableford event. Gaming a NEW 2025 Pro V1 golf ball and Titleist setup that includes his GT3 driver, T-Series irons, Vokey wedges and Scotty Cameron Phantom 5.2 putter, the 25-year-old Gerard posted rounds of 68-64-66-68 on his way to a total of 47 points. It was his 47th career PGA TOUR start. The victory – Gerard’s fourth top-10 of the season – punctuated a season of consistency (20 of 23 cuts made) and pushed him to No. 28 in the FedEx Cup Rankings with two events left in the regular season. What’s in the Bag? | Ryan Gerard Golf Ball: NEW 2025 Titleist Pro V1 Driver: GT3 11.0° | Fujikura Ventus Black TR 6 X Irons: T200 4 | Mitsubishi MMT Hybrid 100 TX and T100 5-9 | KBS C-Taper 125 S+ Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 50.08F, 54.10S, SM10 60.04T | KBS C-Taper 125 S+ (46), Dynamic Gold S300 (50-60) Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 5.2 tour prototype RYAN GERARD ON WHY HE PLAYS PRO V1 “I love the Pro V1 because of the feel. It hits the trajectories that I want. The spin is kind of just slightly on the lower side compared to that X, which benefits me a little bit more with my bag setup, and I really love it. I feel confident every time I show up and hit the golf ball, and it's a very consistent thing and it's the one thing I use on every shot, so it's very important.” “Spin is a very finicky word in the golf business. You don't want too much, and you don't want too little. So you're kind of looking for those thresholds and ranges on certain clubs. And the Pro V1 kind of hits every single one that I'm looking for, especially on and around the greens. I feel very confident with the feel and kind of the control and how much it checks and the different shots and the playability that I have with it. So I really love it.” GERARD ON HIS GT3 DRIVER “I'm playing the GT3. I play an 11-degree driver, but I play a Ventus shaft in it and I've been playing it since this December. It took me a couple months to get rid of my TSR, but this new GT3 is fantastic. It's the best driver I've ever hit just in terms of consistency, it flies exactly kind of the way I want to. It hits the windows that I want to, and I feel very confident every time I tee it up I'm going to hit that slight baby fade that I'm looking for.” “I feel like this one really holds its flight nicely. It kind of stays in the trajectory that I'm looking for and just, it never really goes offline. It kind of hangs or falls offline instead of diving offline, which I really like.” “Just knowing that the TSi series, the TSR's and now the GT's, there's just been such drastic improvement. I felt like for a while there, Titleist was just kind of on the way up. And with this GT, it really has kind of set the standard for what you want in a driver. I feel like it's very consistent. I feel like the speed is there, the height is there, but more importantly, when you look down it looks good. You have that confidence in it and that traditional kind of setting that you get with a title is the way it looks and you can step up and make a good swing and it does exactly what you want it to do.” GERARD ON HIS BLENDED IRON SETUP “4-iron is T200. I just need a little bit more height with the 4-iron coming into the greens on the tour. They're a little bit firm for the most part. So it gives me more stopping power into some of these greens when you're looking for a shot from 225 yards. But then we go to the meat of the bag, these T100's... I've been playing them since they handed them to me on the truck at LACC, and I put them in play that week at a major. That's rare to put something brand new in play major week, but they were that good that I just had to do it. They've been in the bag ever since.” GERARD ON HIS VOKEY WEDGE SETUP “I play a 46-degree pitching wedge (46.10F)... it goes about 155 yards, just kind of a standard full one. What I like about the 46-degree wedge is it gives me a little bit more versatility in flight. I feel like I can control trajectory a little bit better with it. And when I'm looking at a pitching wedge, I'm not just trying to hit it 155 yards. Sometimes you need to hit it 133 yards into the wind and sometimes you need to hit it 142 yards high and soft. So it really gives me the versatility that I'm looking for and gives me the most confidence in the amount of shots that I can hit with it. “50-degree (50.08F), this one flies about 140 yards kind of stock full, but then again, you're looking at hitting it from 125 that kind of scoots, to just hitting it downwind from 150 and trying to hit it high and get it stopped... The 54-degree (54.10S), 128 [yards] is kind of the max number on that. It definitely spins a little bit more than the 50. So it is just something that I'm aware of when I'm picking the shot and choosing what I want to hit, knowing that it's going to give me more stopping power and give me kind of that extra height and spin. Sometimes if I need to hit something 132, I'll swing hard at 54 instead of kind of smoothing a 50 just because it gives me a little bit more wiggle room and room for error.” Gerard also plays a Vokey Design SM10 60.04T lob wedge, which he recently added to the bag at the Memorial after spending time working with Vokey Tour Rep Aaron Dill . According to Dill, the session revealed that Gerard’s technique was best suited to a low-bounce, thinner-flange setup, which he found in the T Grind. The T Grind, one of the most popular lob wedge grinds on the PGA TOUR, is designed for players seeking ultimate creativity and versatility around the greens. The low-bounce wedge is ideal for those with shallow and precise deliveries, as well as those playing off firm conditions. Compared to the L Grind, another popular low-bounce Vokey offering, the T Grind features a narrower forward sole and more aggressive heel, toe and trailing edge relief. GERARD ROLLING ON GREENS WITH SCOTTY CAMERON PHANTOM 5.2 PUTTER For the week at Tahoe Mountain Club, Gerard finished 6th in Putts per GIR, averaging 1.66. On Sunday, he used his Scotty Cameron Phantom 5.2 tour prototype putter to drain a lengthy eagle putt from off the green on No. 11 to extend his lead and jump to +14 on the day. The Phantom 5.2 is a compact, wing-back mallet with a plumbing neck configuration, which is designed for slightly more toe flow than the mid-bend shaft of the Phantom 5, but slightly less toe flow than the jet neck of the Phantom 5.5 . The familiar lines and angles of the plumbing neck also provide additional body alignment assistance at address, familiar to players transitioning from a blade to a mallet setup. According to Scotty Cameron Tour Rep Drew Page , Gerard is drawn to the Phantom 5.2 as it gives him the forgiveness of a mallet with the setup and look of a blade. KORN FERRY TOUR | Price Cutter Charity Championship After opening the week with back-to-back 62’s, Chandler Blanchet (Pro V1x) closed out his first career KFT victory in wire-to-wire fashion, winning by three shots in Missouri. Blanchet shot 27 under for the week, which included four rounds in the 60’s (62-62-69-68). He is projected to climb 20 spots in the season-long Points List, up to No. 7 with eight events remaining in 2025. The 29-year-old's ball-striking was dialed all week long, as he ranked T1 in greens in regulation (65/72, 90%) and T11 in driving accuracy (39/56, 70%). He converted 25 birdies and three eagles over four rounds at Highland Springs Country Club. AMATEUR | U.S. Girls' Junior Amateur Gaming her NEW 2025 Pro V1x golf ball, the winner of the U.S. Girls’ Junior Amateur closed out the 36-hole, all-Pro V1x championship match, 2 and 1, on Saturday at Atlanta Athletic Club. The champion, who is now exempt into the 2026 U.S. Women’s Open at Riviera Country Club and the 2025 and 2026 U.S. Women’s Amateur Championships, found herself in control at the mid-way point of the match having made five birdies in the morning. She never relinquished her lead in the afternoon, making a par on the 35th hole to secure the victory and become the championship’s first-ever Canadian winner. Ninety-seven players this week teed up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball (62%), including seven of the eight players who advanced to at least the championship quarterfinals. ... #TeamTitleist
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Special Release Features Four Tour-Inspired Mallet Designs with Tour Black Finish Titleist announces new Scotty Cameron Phantom Black putters, a limited release lineup of four new Phantom mallets made with tour-inspired modifications and features, each in an elegant Tour Black finish. In select Titleist golf shops worldwide beginning Friday, July 25, the new Phantom Black putters will be offered in four models: the Phantom Black 5.5 (available in right-hand and left-hand), Phantom Black 7 , Phantom Black 9.2R and Phantom Black 11 . These special release models showcase new, tour-developed setups, player-preferred shapes, custom alignment cues, unique shaft configurations, chain-link face milling, modern head weights and a Tour Black finish. QUOTING FOUNDER AND MASTER CRAFTSMAN SCOTTY CAMERON “With last year’s B3 Triple Black Design LTD putters, we re-introduced to dedicated golfers our Tour Black finish on some very desirable blades. This time, we focused on the mallets, notably the Phantom models we most commonly modify for tour players. With the Phantom Black 5.5, 7, 9.2R and 11 mallets, we have created four new models that incorporate specific feedback from the pros related to alignment, overall shape, neck configuration and, of course, the Tour Black finish.” QUOTING SENIOR DIRECTOR OF PUTTER R&D AUSTIE ROLLINSON “With the Phantom Black putters, we’ve created new models based on the prototype Phantom designs we developed for tour players. For example, the double bend shaft used on the Phantom Black 7 was crafted specifically for a player looking to emulate the way a plumbing neck provides alignment. Many players have ordered the Phantom 5.5 and Phantom 11 in our Tour Black finish with different alignment configurations. And the Phantom Black 9.2R is a completely new model with a custom plumbing neck and rounded contours. Each Phantom Black putter is a response to a tour player request. From the Tour Black finish to new sight line configurations and neck designs, we’re excited to offer these tour-inspired models to dedicated golfers looking for a tour-like mallet putter.” PHANTOM BLACK MODELS Each one of the four new Phantom Black models features the line’s Tour Black finish as well as chain-link face milling, delivering a clean, tour-inspired look with exceptional feel and feedback at impact. Phantom Black 5.5 The Phantom Black 5.5 maintains the popular mid-mallet’s wing-back shape and jet neck while incorporating a custom sight line configuration. A limited run of left-hand models will also be offered. Phantom Black 7 The Phantom Black 7 includes custom alignment features and a unique, double bend shaft configuration that was originally developed with a prominent tour player to promote a precise setup and near-face balanced performance. Phantom Black 9.2R Originating from tour player feedback and designed with a custom sight line, rounded features and a custom “009-inspired” plumbing neck that is slightly shorter and set farther back toward the heel for additional face awareness compared stock plumbing neck, the all-new Phantom Black 9.2R is a tour-inspired mallet in an all-new shape and setup. Phantom Black 11 The face balanced Phantom Black 11 is a multi-material mallet with high MOI, stability and forgiveness. The setup includes a mid-bend shaft and parallel sight lines for laser-straight alignment. TOUR BLACK FINISH The Tour Black finish on the Phantom Black models comes from a PVD treatment applied to the 303 stainless steel putter head, resulting in a dark look that reduces glare. The 6061 aircraft grade aluminum components are misted and anodized black. CHAIN-LINK FACE MILLING TECHNOLOGY Chain-link face milling reduces the putter face’s touch points at impact with the ball, using a texture that softens the sound and provides tour-preferred roll characteristics while preserving feel and feedback off the putter face. WEIGHTING The Phantom Black putter line features performance balanced weighting with two, customizable stainless steel heel-toe sole weights. The 10-gram, 15-gram and 20-gram weights are matched to the associated putter lengths of 33 inches, 34 inches and 35 inches. The loft on each model is 3.5 degrees and the lie angle is 70 degrees. ACCESSORIES Each Phantom Black putter features a custom-designed, urethane-coated Matador grip and a matching Phantom Black headcover and shaft band. AVAILABILITY Phantom Black putters will be available worldwide on July 25, at select Titleist authorized golf shops, while supplies last. MSRP: $750.
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PGA TOUR | ISCO Championship In full control of his Pro V1x golf ball, William Mouw closed in 9-under 61 to earn his first career PGA TOUR victory. Mouw’s final round, which featured nine birdies and zero dropped shots, was the low round of the day by four and beat the field’s Sunday scoring average by 9.5 shots. His ball-striking masterclass saw him gain over five strokes (5.017) on the field from tee to green on Sunday alone. For the week in Louisville, the 24-year-old hit 52 of 72 greens in regulation (72%, T3) while getting up-and-down for par 14 of 20 attempts (70%, 2nd). He converted 20 birdies, ranking second. With the win, Mouw rises 70 spots up to No. 83 in the FedExCup ranking. MOUW LEADS 1-THROUGH-13 FINISH FOR TITLEIST GOLF BALL PLAYERS At week’s end, Mouw finished on top of a final leaderboard that featured a clean sweep of the top 13 positions for Titleist golf balls players: 1. William Mouw : Pro V1x 2. Paul Peterson : Pro V1x 3. Manuel Elvira : Pro V1x T4. Vince Whaley : Pro V1 Left Dot T4. David Skinns : Pro V1x T6. Jackson Koivun (a): Pro V1 T6. Patrick Fishburn : Pro V1 T8. Ben Kohles : Pro V1x T8. Chad Ramey : Pro V1 T8. Nick Hardy : Pro V1x T8. Kevin Kisner : Pro V1x T8. Taylor Montgomery : Pro V1 Left Dot T8. Luke List : Pro V1 The top 13 finishers were among the 123 players this week in Louisville playing the #1 ball in golf, accounting for 79% of the field and totaling more than eight times the nearest competitor (14). JACKSON KOIVUN FINISHES T6 One week removed from his best career PGA TOUR finish – a T11 at the John Deere Classic – top-ranked men’s amateur Jackson Koivun closed in 2-under 68 to finish T6. Koivun, whose setup includes his Pro V1 golf ball, GT2 driver, NEW T250 and T100 long-irons, Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron Phantom putter, gained a combined 7.525 strokes on the field off the tee and with his approach play, while gaining an additional 2.165 strokes on the greens. What’s in the Bag? | Jackson Koivun Golf Ball : Titleist Pro V1 Driver : GT2 9.0° | Fujikura Speeder 661 TR X Irons : NEW T250 3 | Graphite Design Tour AD HY 95 X, NEW T100 4-iron | Project X 6.5, and 620 MB 5-9 irons | Project X 6.5 Wedges : Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.08F, 54.08S, WedgeWorks 60L | Project X 6.5 (46-50), Project X 6.0 (54), Project X I/O 6.0 (60) Putter : Scotty Cameron Phantom 9 tour prototype LPGA | The Amundi Evian Championship The winner of the Amundi Evian Championship rolled in her winning eagle putt in a playoff with her Scotty Cameron Squareback plus tour prototype putter. WAGR NO. 1 FINISHES T3, EARNS LPGA MEMBERSHIP Just seven days after winning on the Ladies European Tour, the world’s top-ranked women’s amateur finished T3, one shot out of the playoff, to officially earn her final two requisite points in the LPGA’S new LEAP program (LPGA Elite Amateur Pathway) and unlock status on the LPGA tour. The 21-year-old, whose equipment setup consists of her NEW 2025 Pro V1 golf ball, TSR3 driver, GT2 fairway, T150 irons and Vokey Design SM10 wedges, made a Sunday push to put herself squarely in contention, closing in 7-under 64 and reaching 13 under for the week. The Englishwoman earned low amateur honors at this year's U.S. Women’s Open at Erin Hills as well as last summer’s AIG Women’s Open Championship. Her resume also includes her victory at the 2024 Augusta National Women’s Amateur. The first player to reach the 20-point threshold, she has the option to accept LPGA membership for the remainder of the 2025 season as well as the 2026 season or defer membership to the 2026 season only. What’s in the Bag? | WOMEN’S WAGR NO. 1 Golf Ball: NEW Titleist 2025 Pro V1 Driver: TSR3 9.0° | Fujikura Ventus Red TR 6 S Fairway Metal : GT2 15.0° | Mitsubishi Diamana BB 63 S Hybrids: TSR2 18.0, 21.0° | HZRDUS Smoke Black RDX 80HY 5.5 Irons: T150 5-PW | KBS Tour 120 S Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 50.08F, 54.10S, 58.06K | Nippon N.S. Pro 950GH S KORN FERRY TOUR | The Ascendant presented by Blue In his first week gaming his NEW 2025 Pro V1x golf ball, Neal Shipley earned his second Korn Ferry Tour title of the season, closing in 8-under 64 to win by one. Shipley, now one victory away from an immediate promotion to the PGA TOUR, rises to No. 4 in the season-long Point List, with the top 20 at the season’s end earning TOUR cards. On Sunday at TPC Colorado, Shipley made eight birdies and an eagle to stage his come-from-behind victory. This season on the Korn Ferry Tour, 14 of 17 events have been won with the #1 ball in golf. PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | DICK'S Open Steve Allan (Pro V1) closed in 6-under 66 to post 18 under and earn a four-shot win. The Australian, who earned his maiden PGA Tour Champions title back in March at the Galleri Classic, was steady all week long, making 18 birdies (T1) and an eagle while only surrendering two bogeys (T1). He hit 43 of 54 greens in regulation (80%, T4) and led the field in scrambling, getting his Pro V1 up-and-down for par on 10 of 11 attempts (91%). PGA TOUR AMERICAS | Bromont Open presented by Desjardins Dillon Stewart (NEW 2025 Pro V1x) earned his first career PGA Tour Americas victory in just his second career start, returning on Monday morning after a weather delay to make a closing par and finish off a one-shot win. Stewart made 23 birdies and an eagle for the week in Bromont on his way to carding rounds of 63-63-66-67 and posting 21 under. AMATEUR | Trans-Mississippi Amateur Playing his NEW 2025 Pro V1 golf ball and a full bag of Titleist equipment , including his GT2 driver and fairway , T100 irons, Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron putter, the Trans-Miss Amateur champion closed out a four-shot win after carding his fourth sub-70 round (64-67-67-69) and posting 17 under. The winner showed no letup, playing his final 53 holes without a bogey – and only dropping one shot all tournament long. For the 121st playing of the Trans-Mississippi Amateur, 120 players (83%) teed up a Titleist golf ball, including eight of the top 10 finishers. Titleist was also the most played driver (44%), iron (48%), wedge (57%) and putter (31%). What’s in the Bag? | Trans-Miss Amateur champion Golf Ball : NEW 2025 Titleist Pro V1 Driver : GT2 10.0° | Mitsubishi Tensei AV Raw Orange 65 TX Fairway Metal : GT2 15.0° | Mitsubishi Tensei AV Blue 75 TX Irons : T200 3, T100 4-9 | Dynamic Gold Mid Tour Issue X100 Wedges : Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.12F, 54.12D, 60.08M | Dynamic Gold Mid Tour Issue X100 (46), Dynamic Gold S400 (50-60) Putte r: Scotty Cameron Flowback 5 AMATEUR | U.S. Adaptive Open The men's champion at Woodmont Country Club captured his third straight U.S. Adaptive Open, becoming the fourth male competitor to win the same USGA event in three consecutive playings. Among his winning setup was his Pro V1 golf ball, GT2 driver and GT3 fairway, blended set of T200 and T150 irons, Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron putter. The women’s champion, who became the event’s first two-time female winner after staging a come-from-behind victory, was also gaming her Pro V1. What’s in the Bag? | U.S. Adaptive Open Champion Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: GT2 9.0° Fairway Metal: GT3 15.0° and TSR2 18.0° Iron: T200 4-iron, T150 5-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 48, 54, SM9 WedgeWorks 58 Putter: Scotty Cameron Newport 2.5 ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | John Deere Classic Calm and collected under pressure, Brian Campbell (Pro V1x) prevailed in extra holes to win his second PGA TOUR title of the season – and his career. Campbell, who also won in a playoff in February at the Mexico Open, flushed his 193-yard approach shot on his second trip around the par-4 18th, stopping his Pro V1x golf ball 16 feet from the hole to set up a stress-free, tournament-winning par. For the week at TPC Deere Run, Campbell shot four rounds of 68 or better (65-66-68-67) to finish at 18 under. His approach play all week was stellar, as he gained +5.655 shots on the field, ranking eighth. He picked up an additional +2.873 strokes (11th) around the greens while ranking second in Scrambling, getting his Pro V1x up-and-down 12 of 14 attempts for par (86%). The 32-year-old hit 75% fairways in regulation (11th) and 81% greens in regulation (5th) as well. T3 FINISHER SECURES CAREER-BEST RESULT WITH NEW T-SERIES IRONS Gaming a setup that includes his Pro V1 golf ball and a blended set of NEW T250 (4) and T100 (5-9) irons, the now 71st-ranked player in the FedExCup shot a bogey-free final round 65 to record a career-best T3 finish. With the tournament hanging in the balance late on Sunday, the 35-year-old flushed his approach on the 72nd hole from 172 yards to inside six feet, setting up a must-have birdie that gave him the clubhouse lead at 17 under. He eventually finished one shot outside the playoff. NEW T-Series irons are a recent addition to his setup, as he first moved into the T250 4-iron and T100 5-9 irons at the RBC Canadian Open. Since the move, he has recorded three straight top 20 finishes, each with positive Strokes Gained: Approach numbers: RBC Canadian Open: T18 finish | 13th SG: App (+4.151), T3 GIR (85%) Rocket Classic: T8 finish | 3rd SG: App (+7.579), T20 GIR (78%) John Deere Classic: T3 finish | 21st SG: App (+3.230) Prior to making the move to NEW T-Series in Canada, he ranked 93rd in SG: Approach (-0.013 per round). Since adding the irons to his setup, he has jumped 54 spots in the rankings, now ranking 39th in SG: Approach (+0.308). DP WORLD TOUR | BMW International Open Daniel Brown (NEW 2025 Pro V1) picked up his second career DP World Tour title with a two-shot win in Munich. Brown went low over the weekend, posting a 7-under 65 on Saturday before a bogey-free 66 on Sunday saw him reach 22 under. Over 72 holes at Golfclub München Eichenried, Brown put on a ball-striking display. He led the field in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green, gaining over 13 shots on his competitors (+13.16). He also finished first in GIR (83%) and Driving Accuracy (77%) while ranking second in Scrambling (10/12, 83%). The 30-year-old Englishman rose 35 spots in the Race to Dubai rankings with the victory, up to No. 15. TITLEIST GOLF BALL PLAYERS SWEEP TOP 10 POSITIONS The final leaderboard in Germany featured a clean sweep of the top 10 positions by Pro V1 and Pro V1x players: 1. Daniel Brown (NEW 2025 Pro V1) 2. Jordan Smith (NEW 2025 Pro V1) 3. Kazuma Kobori (NEW 2025 Pro V1x) T4. Joost Luiten (Pro V1) T4. Davis Bryant (NEW 2025 Pro V1x) T4. Kristoffer Reitan (NEW 2025 Pro V1) T7. Frederic Lacroix (Pro V1) T7. Laurie Canter (NEW 2025 Pro V1) T7. Matti Schmid (Pro V1) T7. Francesco Laporta (NEW 2025 Pro V1) LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR | KPMG Women's Irish Open WAGR NO. 1 WINS ON LET The world’s No. 1-ranked amateur claimed her first career LET title in runaway fashion as she posted 21 under to win by six in Ireland. Playing her NEW 2025 Pro V1 golf ball, TSR3 driver and GT2 fairway, T150 irons and Vokey Design SM10 wedges, the 2024 ANWA champion turned in four rounds in the 60’s (68-67-67-69) for the week at Carton House. Just one month ago, the 21-year-old amateur earned low amateur honors at the U.S. Women’s Open at Erin Hills. She also finished as the low amateur at last summer’s AIG Women’s Open Championship. The Englishwoman is two points away from earning her LPGA Tour card through the LPGA Elite Amateur Pathway (LEAP), a new initiative for 2025 that gives amateurs the opportunity to earn LPGA membership (by accumulating 20 points over the current year plus previous three calendar years). What’s in the Bag? | Women’s Irish Open Champion Golf Ball: NEW Titleist 2025 Pro V1 Driver: TSR3 9.0° | Fujikura Ventus Red TR 6 S Fairway Metal: GT2 15.0° | Mitsubishi Diamana BB 63 S Hybrids: TSR2 18.0°, 21.0° | HZRDUS Smoke Black RDX 80HY 5.5 Irons: T150 5-PW | KBS Tour 120 S Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 50.08F, 54.10S, 58.06K | Nippon N.S. Pro 950GH S ASIAN TOUR | International Series Morocco Scott Vincent (Pro V1) closed in 3-under 70 on Sunday to claim his second career Asian Tour title. Vincent, who finished with three birdies over his final four holes, posted a 14-under total for the week at Royal Golf Dar Es Salam, four shots clear of second place. With the victory, the 33-year-old Zimbabwean rises to the top of the 2025 Asian Tour Order of Merit. PGA TOUR AMERICAS | Explore NB Open Gaming his NEW 2025 Pro V1 golf ball, David Perkins broke through on the PGA TOUR Americas, winning his first career title this week in New Brunswick. Perkins, who had a runner-up result in May at the Peru Open, turned in a clutch finish on Sunday, coming home with a bogey-free, 4-under 32 to reach 19 under and win by one. The 27-year-old American finished T11 this week in GIR (59/72, 82%) and Scrambling (10/13, 77%). Nobody made more birdies than Perkins, as he converted 22 (T1) plus an eagle en route to rounds of 65-65-68-67. KLPGA | The 15th LOTTE Open Hyejun Park (NEW 2025 Pro V1) earned her first career KLPGA title, carding a final-round 70 to post 17 under and win by one. Park’s ball-striking was dialed in all week long, as she led the field in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green (+4.23 per round average). With the victory, Park moves to No. 12 in the season-long KLPGA rankings. JLPGA | SHISEIDO・JAL LADIES OPEN JLPGA CHAMP WINS WITH VOKEY SM10 LOB WEDGE, SCOTTY CAMERON PHANTOM PUTTER This week’s champion on the JLPGA took home the title on Sunday while gaming her Vokey Design SM10 58-degree lob wedge and her Scotty Cameron Phantom 5s tour prototype putter. AMATEUR | Japan Amateur Championship With 56 players teeing up a Titleist golf ball at Yokohama Country Club, the #1 ball in golf was the #1 ball at the Japan Amateur Championship. Titleist was also the most played driver , with 34 in play. ... #TeamTitleist
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LPGA | Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give With clutch birdies on the 71st and 72nd holes of the tournament, Carlota Ciganda (Pro V1x) claimed a one-shot victory in Michigan. Ciganda’s finish put the final touches on a 5-under 67 – her fourth sub-70 round of the week (69-67-69-67) – which saw her reach 16 under, one shot clear of Hye-Jin Choi (NEW 2025 Pro V1) . The win marked Ciganda’s third career LPGA victory to pair with eight LET titles. Ciganda was in control of her golf ball all week long, hitting 79% greens in regulation (57/72) and converting 23 birdies. PGA TOUR | U.S. Open This week at Oakmont, 58 players (37%) gamed a Titleist driver , 12 more than the total of the nearest competitor. Among that group was Titleist Brand Ambassadors Robert MacIntyre , who finished runner-up with his TSR2 9.0° driver; and Cameron Young , who finished T4 with his GT2 9.0° driver. Titleist has been the most played driver brand on the PGA TOUR for six seasons and counting. LOW AMATEUR PLAYS PRO V1x GOLF BALL, FULL BAG OF TITLEIST CLUBS The winner of the 2025 Latin America Amateur Championship earned low amateur honors at Oakmont after carding rounds of 73-73-73-76. Gaming his NEW 2025 Pro V1x golf ball, GT2 driver , blended set of T-Series irons , Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron Phantom putter, the 21-year-old was the only amateur out of 15 competing this week to make the cut. What's in the Bag? | 2025 U.S. Open Low Amateur Golf Ball: NEW 2025 Titleist Pro V1x Driver: GT2 10.0° Fairway Metal: NEW GT1 14.5° Irons: T200 3, T150 4, T100 5-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 50.08F, 56.12D, WedgeWorks 60L Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 5 tour prototype JGTO / KPGA | Hana Bank Invitational Shaun Norris (Pro V1x) made four birdies in his final five holes – including two playoff birdies – to claim his eighth career JGTO title. Norris, who started Sunday four shots back, carded a Sunday 66 to post 18 under, matching the total of fellow Pro V1x player Yusuke Sakamoto . A pair of birdies on the par-5 18th following regulation clinched the victory for the 43-year-old South African, his second title on the JGTO in eight months. Norris' win also marked the sixth victory in eight events this season on the JGTO for Titleist golf ball players. JLPGA | Ai Miyazato Suntory Ladies Open Golf Tournament Sayaka Takahashi (NEW 2025 Pro V1x) shot a steady closing 2-under 70 on Sunday to post 16 under and win by one shot. The win marked her second career JLPGA title. LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR | Hulencourt Women's Open Darcey Harry trusted her Pro V1 golf ball to three consecutive rounds of 68 to close out her week at 13 under, three shots clear of second place. The win marked the 22-year-old rookie’s first career LET title. Ten of the first 11 LET events this season have been won with the #1 ball in golf. ... #TeamTitleist
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LPGA | ShopRite LPGA Classic Jennifer Kupcho (NEW 2025 Pro V1) converted a walk-off birdie on No. 18 – her seventh birdie of the day and 14th of the weekend – to shoot 66 and earn her fourth career LPGA win. Kupcho shot 15 under for three rounds in New Jersey (68-64-66) to win by one shot over Ilhee Lee (NEW 2025 Pro V1) . Sei Young Kim finished at 12 under, making it a 1-2-3 finish for NEW 2025 Pro V1 players. The trio was among the 115 players this week teeing up a Titleist golf ball , accounting for 80 percent of the field and more than 11 times the total of the nearest competitor (10). KUPCHO ON HER PRO V1 “Pro V1 is just the ball I’ve always played. The ball flight is so consistent, I love how it flies off the tee, and around the greens I’m able to really control my spin and hit the shots I need to.” HOW KUPCHO MARKS HER PRO V1 “I mark my Pro V1 with a pink line (over the sidestamp) and three pink dots (above the Titleist script, to the right of the last “t”). The line is to help me with alignment when I’m on the putting green. The dots – I used to mark it with one dot when I was in college, but all my teammates did the same. So now I just put three.” DP WORLD TOUR | KLM Open Hunting his first win on the DP World Tour through wind and rain, Connor Syme (NEW 2025 Pro V1) was steady on Sunday, closing in 1-under 70 to win by two shots. Syme was the only player to finish in double-digits under par, as he posted 11 under for the week in the Netherlands. Syme was in control of his golf ball all week long, ranking 2nd in Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green (+12.64), with over eight of those strokes coming from his approach play (+8.08, 3rd). The 29-year-old Scot also led the field in Scrambling (76%, 16/21), and he only surrendered seven bogeys over four rounds (2nd). With his victory, Syme rises from No. 89 to 18th in the Race to Dubai Rankings. KORN FERRY TOUR | BMW Charity Pro-Am Titleist was the most played golf ball this week in South Carolina, with 118 players gaming a Pro V1 , Pro V1x or Pro V1x Left Dash , accounting for 74% of the field. PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | American Family Insurance Championship Darren Clarke (NEW 2025 Pro V1x) helped his team to victory, as they posted 32 under for three rounds to win by four shots. JGTO | BMW Japan Golf Tour Championship Mori Building Cup Taiga Semikawa (NEW 2025 Pro V1x) made birdie on the first hole of a playoff, closing out his third career JGTO victory. Semikawa was clutch down the stretch prior to extra holes as well, birdieing two of his final three holes in regulation to post the clubhouse lead at 10 under. The only player to shoot all four rounds in the 60’s, Semikawa carded scores of 68-69-69-66 for the week. LET | Tenerife Women’s Open Titleist Brand Ambassador Sara Kouskova won her second career LET title in as many events, going back-to-back with an all-Titleist setup that includes her NEW 2025 Pro V1x golf ball, GT3 driver, T-Series irons, Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron Phantom putter. Kouskova posted rounds of 71-68-69-71 to post 9 under and win by one. Kouskova now rises to No. 2 in the Order of Merit, only trailing Mimi Rhodes (NEW 2025 Pro V1 golf ball) , who has won three times this season. Nine of the 10 events this season on the LET have been won with a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball. What’s in the Bag? | Sara Kouskova Golf Ball: NEW 2025 Pro V1x Driver: GT3 10.0° Fairway Metal: GT2 15.0° Hybrid: GT2 21.0° Irons: T200 5-6 and T150 7-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 52.08F, 56.10S, 60.04T Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 9.5 tour prototype JLPGA | Yonex Ladies Golf Tournament 2025 Gaming her NEW 2025 Pro V1 golf ball, Aihi Takano carded three rounds in the 60’s (69-68-64) to post 15 under and win by four. ... #TeamTitleist
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LPGA | U.S. Women's Open Calm and consistent under major pressure, Maja Stark (Pro V1) claimed her first career major championship title Sunday over a demanding U.S. Women’s Open setup. The 25-year-old Swede entered the final round at Erin Hills with a one-shot lead before carding an even par round of 72 to finish 7 under and win by two. Stark was in full control of her ballstriking, gaining +6.72 shots on the field with her approach play (4th) over the 72 holes. She hit 54 of 72 greens in regulation (75%/T8) and converted 16 birdies (T3). Stark was one of 102 players who teed up a Titleist golf ball this week in Wisconsin, six times the nearest competitor (17). Vokey Design was also the most played wedge among competitors at the U.S. Women’s Open with 169 gap, sand and lob wedges in play. LOWEST FINAL ROUND BY AN AMATEUR IN TOURNAMENT HISTORY Gaming a NEW Pro V1 and full bag of Titleist equipment, Kiara Romero , a rising junior at the University of Oregon, posted both Sunday’s low round and the lowest final round by an amateur in the tournament’s history with a 5-under 67. What’s in the Bag? | Kiara Romero Golf Ball : NEW Titleist 2025 Pro V1 Driver : GT3 9.0°| Mitsubishi Tensei AV Blue XLink 55 S Fairway Metal : GT2 13.5° | Mitsubishi Diamana WB 63 S Hybrid : TSR2 18.0° | Mitsubishi Tensei AV Raw Blue 75HY S Irons : T100•S 4-PW | Nippon N.S. Pro 950GH S Wedges : Vokey Design SM10 48.10F, 54.14F, WedgeWorks 58° | Nippon N.S. Pro 950GH S Putter : Scotty Cameron Masterful 1.5 tour prototype PGA TOUR | The Memorial Tournament Titleist was the most played golf ball at the Memorial Tournament with 48 players teeing up a Pro V1 , Pro V1x or Pro V1x Left Dash , compared to the nearest competitor with 9. Eight of the top 11 finishers played a Titleist golf ball. AMATEUR | NCAA D1 Men's Championship The overwhelming #1 ball at the NCAA Division 1 Men’s Championship was also the choice of the individual champion and every player on the title-winning team this week at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa. Of the 156 players who teed it up in last Friday’s first round of stroke play chasing college golf history, 138 (88%) of them put their trust in the #1 ball in golf, more than 17 times the nearest competitor with 8 (5%). Titleist was also the most played driver (44%), iron (47%), wedge (51%) and putter (31%) among the elite amateur field. Crowned after 72 holes of stroke play, the individual champion, playing a Pro V1 golf ball, led a 1-2-3-4-5-6 finish for Titleist golf ball players, with 11 of the top 12 individual finishers gaming a Pro V1 or Pro V1x In Wednesday's championship match, all 10 players across both teams teed up the #1 ball in golf – with each of the five players on the National Champions trusting a NEW 2025 Pro V1 model to bring home their program's 12th NCAA men's golf title. Three of the five players on the winning team also gamed a Titleist driver, iron set and Vokey Design SM10 wedges. Two played a Scotty Cameron putter. DP WORLD TOUR | Austrian Open Titleist Brand Ambassador Nicolai von Dellingshausen earned a breakthrough win on the DP World Tour, carding four rounds of 66 of lower (65-66-65-65) to post 19 under and win by two in Austria. Von Dellingshausen’s all-Titleist setup included his NEW 2025 Pro V1x golf ball, GT3 driver, blended set of T100 and T100 irons, Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron Phantom putter. The 32-year-old German remained steady with the lead down the stretch, going bogey-free over his final 12 holes. He only dropped four shots all week, which were offset by two eagles. Key to von Dellingshausen’s victory was his play with his Scotty Cameron Phantom 9.5 tour prototype putter, which helped him to lead the field in Strokes Gained: Putting (+12.92). What’s in the Bag? | Nicolai von Dellingshausen Golf Ball : NEW Titleist 2025 Pro V1x Driver : GT3 9.0° | Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Pro Blue 70 TX Fairway Metal : GT2 15.0° | Tour Zfive 80 M5 Hybrid : GT3 19.0° | Graphite Design Tour AD VF Hybrid 95 X Irons : T150 4-5 and T100 6-9 | Dynamic Gold 120 X100 Wedges : Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.12F, 54.08F, 58.06K | Dynamic Gold 120 X100 (46°-54°), Dynamic Gold S300 (58) Putter : Scotty Cameron Phantom 9.5 tour prototype KORN FERRY TOUR | UNC Health Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Trace Crowe ran away with his second career KFT victory, posting 21 under to win by five. Crowe, gaming his Pro V1 golf ball, Titleist driver, T100 irons and Vokey wedges, shot rounds of 68-62-64-65 for the week at Raleigh Country Club, making 27 birdies and an eagle in the process. The 28-year-old was in full control of his ballstriking, hitting 57 of 72 greens in regulation (79%, T6). Crowe is projected to jump 32 spots all the way up to fifth in the season-long Korn Ferry Points List. What’s in the Bag? | Trace Crowe Golf Ball : Titleist Pro V1 Driver : TSR2 10.0° | Fujikura Ventus Blue TR 6 X Irons : T100 4-9 | Project X 6.5 Wedges : Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.08F, 54.10S, 60.08M | Project X 6.5 (46-54), 6.0 (60) JGTO | Gate Way To The Open miz Open Titleist Brand Ambassador Mikiya Akutsu conquered 40mph wind gusts on Sunday to win his breakthrough JGTO title by four shots. Akutsa’s setup included his NEW 2025 Pro V1x golf ball and NEW GT1 driver, along with a GT1 hybrid, blended set of T200 and 620 CB irons, Vokey Design wedges and Scotty Cameron putter. The 30-year-old – who was one of just 16 players to break par on Sunday – shot rounds of 67-69-68-71 to post 13 under for the week at the JFE Setonaikai Golf Club. With his victory, Akutsa locked up a spot in the field at Royal Portrush for the 153rd Open Championship. What’s in the Bag? | Mikiya Akutsu Golf Ball : NEW 2025 Pro V1x Driver : NEW GT1 9.0° Hybrid : NEW GT1 23.0° Irons : T200 5-iron, 620 CB 6-9 Wedges : Vokey Design SM9 46°, 50°, 54°, WedgeWorks 60° Putter : Scotty Cameron Super Select Del Mar SUNSHINE TOUR | Gary & Vivienne Player Challenge Titleist Brand Ambassador Malcolm Mitchell made birdie on the first extra hole to claim his second career Sunshine Tour victory. Mitchell, who was gaming his NEW 2025 Pro V1x golf ball and GT3 driver among his full bag of Titleist equipment, carded rounds of 67-66-71 around Benoni Country Club to post 12 under. Mitchell made birdie on his second trip around the par-5 18th to close out the title. The lone change to Mitchell’s setup this week was with his 4-iron. Titleist Tour Rep Rudy Mertz made a shaft change (Mitsubishi MMT Hybrid 90 TX) to give Mitchell more launch, spin and ball speed, and the new 620 CB 4-iron setup went right in the bag. What’s in the Bag? | Malcolm Mitchell Golf Ball : NEW 2025 Pro V1x Driver : GT3 10.0° Fairway Metals : GT2 15.0°, 21.0° Irons : 620 CB 4-6, 620 MB 7-PW Wedges : Vokey Design SM10 52.12F, 56.14F, 60.08M Putter : Scotty Cameron TourType Timeless 2.5 tour prototype KLPGA | Suhyup Bank MBN Ladies Open Yunji Jeong (NEW 2025 Pro V1) went wire-to-wire, claiming her second career KLPGA victory. Jeong began the week with rounds of 64-65 to open up a four-shot lead heading into Sunday. A 2-under round of 70 saw her reach 17 under and win by one. ... #TeamTitleist
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Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x players swept the top four positions at Quail Hollow, with six of the top seven finishers gaming a Titleist golf ball: 1. 2025 PGA Champion : Pro V1 T2. 2024 U.S. Open Champion : Pro V1x T2. Davis Riley : Pro V1 T2. Harris English : Pro V1 T5. Jhonattan Vegas : Pro V1x T5: J.T. Poston : Pro V1x Every player in the top 10 of Strokes Gained: Approach also played a Titleist golf ball. In total, 101 competitors gamed a Pro V1 , Pro V1x or Pro V1x Left Dash this week at Quail Hollow, more than five times the nearest competitor (18). A total of 73 percent of players this season on the PGA TOUR have teed up a Titleist golf ball. TITLEIST IS #1 BALL & MOST PLAYED DRIVER, IRON, WEDGE AT QUAIL HOLLOW There were 101 players who teed up a Titleist golf ball this week at Quail Hollow, more than five times the nearest competitor with 18. Titleist was also: The most played driver , with 63 Titleist drivers in play (40%). The nearest competitor had 37 in play (24%). Titleist has been the most played driver on the PGA TOUR for six seasons and counting. The most played iron , with 47 Titleist iron sets being gamed this week (30%). The nearest competitor’s total was 26 (17%). Titleist has been the most played iron for 11 seasons and counting – and 20 of the last 21. Titleist was also the most played hybrid (46%) and utility iron (59%). The most played wedge , with Vokey Design accounting for 227 (50%) of the gap, sand and lob wedges in players’ bags this week, including three in the bag of the champion. Vokey has been the most played wedge on the PGA TOUR since 2004. KORN FERRY TOUR | AdventHealth Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador S.H. Kim was dialed in from tee to green as he claimed his first career KFT victory. Kim, playing his Pro V1x golf ball, GT2 driver, blended set of Titleist irons and Vokey Design wedges, made 23 birdies (T1) along with two eagles (T1) for the week at Blue Hills Country Club. Rounds of 66-65-66-71 saw him reach 20 under, three clear of his nearest challenger. With the win, Kim rises to No. 1 on the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour Points List. What’s in the Bag? | S.H. Kim Golf Ball : Titleist Pro V1x Drive r: GT2 9.0° | Ballistic TP D40 X Irons : T200 3 | Dynamic Gold 120 X100; 620 CB 4-5 and 620 MB 6-PW | Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 Wedges : Vokey Design SM9 52.08F, 56.10S, WedgeWorks 60K* | Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 JGTO | Kansai Open Golf Championship Kota Kaneko (NEW 2025 Pro V1) finished eagle-birdie-par to lock up his breakthrough JGTO victory by one shot. Kaneko began the week with a 7-under 63, and he followed it up with rounds of 69-66-67 to reach 15 under for the week. CHINA TOUR | Chongqing Open Titleist Brand Ambassador Yanhan Zhou opened the 2025 China Tour season with a five-shot win and his fourth Chongqing Open title in as many years. The 17-year-old, who played his NEW 2025 Pro V1x golf ball, GT2 driver and fairway, blended set of T200 , T100 and 620 MB irons , Vokey Design SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron Phantom putter, now has five China Tour victories to his name, the first of which he won at age 14. This week, 119 players teed up a Titleist golf ball, accounting for 83 percent of the field and more than 11 times the nearest competitor (10, 7%). What’s in the Bag? | Yanhan Zhou Golf Ball: NEW 2025 Pro V1x Driver: GT2 10.0° Fairway Metal : GT2 15.0° Irons : T200 3-iron, T100 4-5 irons, 620 MB 6-9 irons Wedges : Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.08F, 54.14F, WedgeWorks 58L wedges; Scotty Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 7.2 tour prototype SUNSHINE TOUR | Kit Kat Cash & Carry Pro-Am Luis Carrera (NEW 2025 Pro V1x) ran away with the title, winning the first two Sunshine Tour events of the season after gaining membership through his victory at Qualifying School. He is the first player in Sunshine Tour history to do so. This week, Carrera never took his foot off the gas as he posted 30 under for a 10-shot margin of victory. His closing round of 10-under 62 was the lowest round of the week, and he finished the tournament with 41 holes of bogey-free golf, a streak that began on the 14th hole in Friday’s second round. LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR | Dutch Ladies Open Mimi Rhodes (NEW 2025 Pro V1) claimed her third LET title of the season, shooting three consecutive rounds of 3-under 69. The 23-year-old rookie, who was already on top of the LET’s Order of Merit rankings entering the week, further strengthened her position on top of the season-long race with the victory. AMATEUR | NCAA Division I Men's Regionals (6 sites combined) The NCAA Division I Men’s Regionals concluded this week with Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x players winning all six individual titles. It was the same story last week at the NCAA D1 Women’s Regionals, making it a 12-for-12 sweep for Titleist golf ball players across the dozen sites. Eight of the 12 champions also played a Titleist driver (5 men, 3 women), with six (3 each) gaming Titleist irons and full sets of Vokey Design wedges. Four of the six men’s champions this week gamed a Scotty Cameron putter. Over the six men’s regional sites, 399 players teed up a Titleist golf ball, accounting for 89 percent of the field and more than 15 times the nearest competitor (25, 6%). In addition to being the overwhelming #1 ball, Titleist was also the most played driver (43%), fairway (37%), utility (62%), iron (48%), wedge (55%) and putter (27%). AMATEUR | NCAA Division I Women's Championship Omni La Costa Resort & Spa plays host to the NCAA Division I Women’s Championship this week. Out of the 156 competitors teeing it up with the hopes of winning a national championship, 137 of them are putting their trust in the #1 ball in golf. Titleist golf ball players make up 88 percent of the field, more than 13 times the nearest competitor (10, 6%). Titleist is also the most played driver (40%), fairway (33%), utility (78%), iron (37%) and wedge (46%). AMATEUR | U.S. Amateur Four-Ball The U.S. Amateur Four-Ball championship kicked off on Saturday at Plainfield Country Club and Echo Lake Country Club in New Jersey. There were 228 competitors who teed up a Titleist golf ball, accounting for 89 percent of the field and 13 times the nearest competitor’s total (17, 7%). Titleist was also the most played in every major equipment category: golf ball (89%), driver (44%), fairway (36%), hybrid (44%), utility (65%), iron (38%), wedge (68%) and putter (26%). ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | RBC Heritage Titleist Brand Ambassador Justin Thomas followed a course record-tying 61 Thursday with a decisive playoff victory Sunday at Harbour Town, rolling his Pro V1x golf ball in from just over 21 feet for birdie on the first extra hole to claim his 16th PGA TOUR victory. Gaming a Titleist setup that includes his GT2 driver, T-Series long irons, 621.JT prototype blades and Scotty Cameron Phantom 5 putter, JT made a field-best 23 birdies, 11 of them coming during his 10-under opening round. He added three more during his bogey-free Sunday 68 – plus a final birdie on the first extra hole. For the week, Thomas gained nearly four strokes on approach shots (+3.847/5th) into Harbour Town’s small targets. On those greens, he gained over five shots on the field (+5.512/3rd) with his trusty Scotty Cameron Phantom 5 mallet. 7-WIN WEEKEND FOR TITLEIST GOLF BALL PLAYERS From Hilton Head to Shanghai to Punta Cana to Los Angeles — Titleist golf ball players combined for seven victories this weekend across the worldwide professional tours: PGA TOUR | RBC Heritage: Justin Thomas (Pro V1x) PGA TOUR | Corales Puntacana Championship: Garrick Higgo (NEW 2025 Pro V1) LPGA | JM Eagle LA Championship: Ingrid Lindblad (Pro V1) DP WORLD TOUR / CHINA TOUR | Volvo China Open: Ashun Wu (Pro V1) KORN FERRY TOUR | LECOM Suncoast Classic: Neal Shipley (Pro V1) KPGA | 20th DB Insurance Promy Open: Baekjun Kim (NEW 2025 Pro V1x) JLPGA | KKTcup VANELIN Ladies Open: NEW 2025 Pro V1x player So far in 2025, Titleist golf balls have been trusted over 7,000 times across the worldwide professional tours, accounting for 75 percent of all golf balls played — more than eight times the nearest competitor’s total (846/9%). What’s in the Bag? | Justin Thomas Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver : GT2 10.0° | Mitsubishi Diamana Prototype Fairway Metals: TS3 15.0° | Mitsubishi Tensei AV Raw Blue 85 TX and 915Fd 18.0° | Fujikura Motore Speeder VC 9.2 Tour Spec X Irons: T200 4 | True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100, T100 5-iron | True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100, and 621.JT 6-9 prototype | True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 46.10F (@ 47.5), 52.12F (@ 52.5), 56.14F (@ 57), 60.04T (@ 60.5) | True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 (46), S400 (52-60) Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 5 tour prototype WHY JUSTIN THOMAS PLAYS PRO V1 x www.youtube.com/watch Longtime Pro V1x player Justin Thomas topped a leaderboard that featured Titleist golf ball players in nine of the final top 12 positions – while 49 competitors in the 72-player field teed up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball, more than six times the nearest competitor (8). Titleist golf ball players also won both events this week on the PGA TOUR, with Garrick Higgo (Pro V1) capturing his second career victory at the Corales Puntacana Championship. Justin Thomas on His Pro V1x Golf Ball: “The Pro V1x, it fits my game for a lot of reasons, but I mean my first test is always around the greens chipping. I like the sound and I like the feel of it chipping.” “Feel is everything. If I don't like the feel of a golf ball, I will not use it hands down. The first thing I do is I'll hit chips and putts with it and if I don't like the feel and the sound when I'm chipping with it, it won't even get to the range to my irons. It's the first thing I do. So feel is everything with me.” “I feel like if I strike the ball how I want to or how I intend to, then the ball reacts that way. I feel like I can control the trajectory. I feel like I can hit it high, hit it low, and the spins kind of match up with that. The ball doesn't do something that I don't expect it to. If I do everything I want – I want it to apex maybe a certain height, whatever it may be – I feel like the golf ball is exactly able for me to do that.” "Every single week, every place we play, it's different grass, it's different conditions, different temperature. So I mean all of that factors in. When I'm playing East Lake, it's hot. The ball goes a little further. I'm playing Zoysia grass and the ball generally goes a little further off Zoysia grass. If I compress it a little bit more, I can maybe get 3, 4, 5 yards more out of it. So a 9-iron that I normally hit a 158, 160 yards stock, I can get 170 yards almost out of it if I want to. Versus, I go to the Scottish Open where maybe it's 48 degrees and the ball's sitting pretty tight, I may only be able to get 153 yards out of a 9-iron just because it's cold, I'm not moving as well. So it's really, really taking in the environment and the climate and the conditions and everything and going from there. And the reason why I know I can hit those shots is because of the consistency of the golf ball and the consistency of what I'm creating and making the golf ball do is exactly what it does." www.youtube.com/watch TWO-WIN WEEKEND FOR GT2 DRIVERS ON PGA TOUR Titleist GT drivers were brought to the winner’s circle at both PGA TOUR stops this weekend, with Justin Thomas and the winner of the Corales Puntacana Championship each trusting GT2 models to victory. Winners on the DP World Tour and KPGA (Baekjun Kim) both won with a GT3 driver in the bag, making it a four-win Sunday for players gaming GT drivers. For Thomas, the winning setup was a GT2 10.0° model (D•1 SureFit hosel, Mitsubishi Diamana Prototype shaft). He first moved into the GT2 at last year’s Genesis Scottish Open, having played both the prior generation TSR2 and TSR3 models in 2024. According to Titleist’s Senior Director of Club Promotion J.J. Van Wezenbeeck , GT2 checked all the boxes for Thomas during initial testing. “Right away he loved the ball speed and spin consistency he was seeing from GT2,” Van Wezenbeeck said. “With his swing the GT2 really shined in giving him easier launch compared to GT3 – and he naturally gravitated to it as it still gave him tremendous ball speed, with that clean, classic look and better launch-to-spin ratio.” The Corales Puntacana Championship played a GT2 11.0° model (A•4 SureFit hosel, Graphite Design Tour AD DI 7 X). Titleist has been the most played driver on the PGA TOUR for six seasons and counting. THOMAS CONTINUES STRONG FORM WITH SCOTTY CAMERON PHANTOM 5 PUTTER This week at Harbour Town, Justin Thomas turned in another stellar putting performance with his Scotty Cameron Phantom 5 tour prototype putter, gaining +5.512 strokes on the field (3rd). His confidence on the greens was on full display on the first extra hole following regulation, when he poured in a walk-off 21-foot birdie putt for the win. Four holes prior, on No. 15 in regulation, Thomas had drained a 24-footer to reach 17 under, the eventual clubhouse lead. “Man, I putted the ball beautifully today,” said Thomas after the round. “I played really, really well... I felt like I had control of everything. It never felt like I needed to force things out there or was hoping things were happening. I just was kind of like, let's just keep playing and I'll make birdies when I can. The patience was great, but those par putts and putts I made on the front nine were huge for my momentum and keeping them.” By week’s end, Thomas finished 6th in Putts per GIR (1.59) and 2nd in Feet of Putts Made (94’8” average per round). During Thursday’s course record-tying opening round 61, he made over 165 feet of putts. Thomas’ putting this week was on par with his season-long performance on the greens. In 2025 so far, he ranks: 24th in SG: Putting (+0.459 per round) 1st in Putting Average (1.651) 5th in Putts per Round (27.63) 6th in One-Putt Percentage (45.69%) 2nd in Birdie or Better Conversion Percentage (45.69%) Compared to his 2024 and 2022-23 season-end rankings, he has jumped at least 25 spots in each one of those statistical categories. JT has won two major championships and the majority of his PGA TOUR titles playing a Scotty Cameron Phantom-style head shape, which provides him the feel of a blade with the stability of a mallet. Thomas’ current Phantom 5 model features a prototype .5 shaft bend neck, which helped JT get his hands in a more comfortable position and a good starting point for the stroke, according to Scotty Cameron Tour Rep Drew Page . He also loves how square the putter sits at address, which has helped improve his alignment. THOMAS REMAINS DIALED WITH BLENDED IRON SET Justin Thomas' iron set consists of two T-Series long irons – a T200 4-iron and T100 5-iron – and a set of custom prototype blade irons ( 621.JT ). “Justin is always looking for workability in his short irons, but when it comes to his long irons he wants more forgiveness and launch,” Van Wezenbeeck said. “This is where T100 and T200 fit perfectly in terms of ball speed gapping and control, and really helping with his descent angle on long iron shots. “The higher launch lets him stretch it when he needs to stretch it, but when he has to take something off he still feels like he can hold a green.” The 621.JT models were developed by the Titleist Golf Club R&D team in collaboration with Thomas to better understand some key design variables – such as shaping, sole design and CG placement – that ultimately may find their way into future Titleist iron development. “Yeah, obviously I love them. I love the look of them, the feel of them, the way they go through the ground,” JT said. “And most importantly, too, they do what I feel like they should be doing when I hit them. In terms of specifics, I like very, very little offset. But when you get to a lot of the other stuff, I don’t know how they do it. I give the feedback to the team, like ‘I want to go through the ground a little bit differently here, or I want the weighting this way, or I want it to go through whatever window’ and then they design it. It’s really cool.” Titleist has been the most played iron on the PGA TOUR for 20 of the last 21 seasons, including each of the last 11. JT’S TRUSTY FOUR-WEDGE VOKEY SETUP Justin Thomas has trusted a steady setup of four Vokey wedges throughout his PGA TOUR career. His winning wedges this week in Hilton Head – Vokey Design SM10 46.10F (@ 47.5), 52.12F (@ 52.5), 56.14F (@ 57) and 60.04T (@ 60.5) – helped him gain nearly six shots combined on approach shots (+3.847) and around the green (+2.151). “I've used four wedges since college,” Thomas said. “This is something I feel like it's very important for me to have this area in my bag be very precise in terms of gapping. It's not like I try to get 15 yards here or there, but it's just more of I want to be able to feel like there's not a yardage, say under 145 that I can't hit with all my wedges and I have full faith and trust in Voke and AD to get me the bounces and everything that I need.” When it comes to his lob wedge, Thomas goes back-and-forth between his 60.04T and WedgeWorks 60K*, depending on course conditions. PGA TOUR | Corales Puntacana Championship Gaming his NEW 2025 Pro V1 ball, Garrick Higgo conquered high winds and demanding conditions to claim his second career PGA TOUR title. Higgo closed with a steady level-par 72 to post the clubhouse lead at 14 under, which was good for a one-shot win. The 25-year-old South African was in control of his ballstriking all week long, leading the field in greens in regulation (79.17%, 57/72). His solid approach play helped set up 21 birdies over 72 holes (T5). WHY HIGGO PLAYS PRO V1 This week in the Dominican Republic, Garrick Higgo (NEW 2025 Pro V1 ) was one of 103 players who teed up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball, which accounted for 78 percent of the field. That total was more than nine times the nearest competitor’s total (11, 8%). For Higgo, Pro V1 checks all the boxes, as it gives him lower spin in the long game and the softer feel around the greens that he likes. Pro V1 also flies in his preferred window, which is a touch lower than the window he gets with Pro V1x: “It kind of brings the flight down a little bit with the launch, which is what I like, but it doesn't look low if you know what I mean,” said Higgo. “It just kind of penetrates a bit more.” Higgo also likes playing a lower-spinning golf ball, as he finds it easier to add spin when needed, as opposed to taking spin off a shot. “It's easier for me to put more spin on it than take off for sure,” he said. "Just a bit more speed through the ball. Sometimes I struggle taking speed off and still hitting it straight, so for me it's easier to put a bit more speed on it than to take off.” LPGA | JM Eagle LA Championship In just her fourth start as an LPGA member, rookie Ingrid Lindblad (Pro V1) earned her breakthrough victory, closing in 4-under 68 to post 21 under and win by one. The former WAGR No. 1 was in full control of her golf ball for the week, as she hit 61 of 72 greens in regulation (85%). For the week in Los Angeles, 106 players (74%) teed up a Titleist golf ball compared to 13 for the nearest competitor (9%). With Lindblad’s victory, Titleist golf ball players have now won six of the first eight events on the 2025 LPGA schedule. DPWT | Volvo China Open Ashun Wu (Pro V1) closed in 6-under 65, claiming victory on home soil. The 39-year-old, whose victory today marked his fifth career DPWT title, posted 14 under for the week at Enhance Anting GC, one shot clear of runner-up Jordan Smith (NEW 2025 Pro V1) . Wu’s win also marked his second China Open title, as he won the same event a decade prior in 2015. Wu’s ballstriking was dialed, as he gained +12.4 strokes on the field from tee-to-green (5th). More than six of those strokes (+6.2, 1st) came from his play around the greens, and he also led the field in Scrambling (13/15, 87%). Wu hit 79 percent greens in regulation (T5) and 84 percent fairways in regulation as well (T16). WU LEADS 1-THROUGH-7 FINISH FOR TITLEIST GOLF BALL PLAYERS Ashun Wu (Pro V1) topped a leaderboard that featured Titleist golf ball players in each of the top 7 positions: 1. Ashun Wu (Pro V1) 2. Jordan Smith (NEW 2025 Pro V1) 3. Yannik Paul (NEW 2025 Pro V1) T4. Haotong Li (Pro V1) T4. Eugenio Chacarra (Pro V1) T4. Zecheng Dou (NEW 2025 Pro V1x) 7. Tapio Pulkkanen (Pro V1x) For the week in Shanghai, 124 players (80%) teed up a Titleist golf ball , more than 10 times the nearest competitor with 12 (8%). KORN FERRY TOUR | LECOM Suncoast Classic Neal Shipley (Pro V1) prevailed on the fifth extra hole following regulation, making birdie to win his first career professional title. Shipley closed in 7-under 64 – the same score he opened with on Thursday – to set the clubhouse lead at 18 under for the week at Lakewood National Golf Club. Over the 72 holes of regulation play and five playoff holes, the 2023 U.S. Amateur runner-up hit 50 of 57 fairways in regulation (88%, 5th) and 57 of 77 greens in regulation (74%, T21). Nobody made more birdies all week than Shipley, who converted 30 plus one eagle. The victory saw Shipley just 50 places on the season-long Points List, as he now sits third behind Hank Lebioda (NEW 2025 Pro V1x) and Josh Teater (Pro V1x) . KPGA | 20th DB Insurance Promy Open Titleist Brand Ambassador Baekjun Kim closed out his first career KPGA title, winning the first event of the 2025 KPGA season by two shots. Kim, whose setup included his NEW 2025 Pro V1x golf ball, GT3 driver and GT2 fairways, U•505 utility, T100 irons and Vokey SM10 wedges, shot a level-par 71 in the final round, finishing at 11 under for the week. Titleist was the overwhelming #1 ball at Lavie estbelle Golf & Resort, with 93 players (65%) teeing up a Titleist golf ball this week. Titleist was also the most played brand in every major club category for the week as well: driver (47%), fairway (41%), hybrid (47%), iron (47%), wedge (62%) and putter (41%). What’s in the Bag? | Baekjun Kim Golf Ball: NEW 2025 Pro V1x Driver: GT3 9.0° Fairway Metals: GT2 15.0, 18.0° Utility Iron: U•505 2 Irons: T100 4-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 50.08F, 56.10S, 60.08M ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | Valero Texas Open Titleist Brand Ambassador Brian Harman outmaneuvered one of the PGA TOUR’s toughest setups this season, trusting his Pro V1 golf ball through gusty winds of up to 30 mph Sunday at a firm-and-fast TPC San Antonio to capture the three-shot victory and his fourth PGA TOUR title. Taking control with his blended set of Titleist irons ( U•500 4-5, T100 6-iron, 620 CB 7-PW) and Vokey Design wedges, including a new Vokey SM10 WedgeWorks 60L lob wedge that he put in play for the first time this week, the 2023 Open Champion gained nearly eight strokes combined on approach (+6.143/2nd) shots and around the green (+1.751/24th). “It’s been pretty good, controlling my distances nicely,” Harman said Friday after his second-consecutive 66 to open the tournament. “It’s one of the demands this place makes on you, you have to really have control of your ball. Ball lands on the green, they're a lot firmer than they seem, and if you're playing from out of position it's really tough.” TITLEIST IS OVERWHELMING #1 BALL AT VALERO TEXAS OPEN; MOST PLAYED DRIVER, IRON, WEDGE AND PUTTER The trusted tee-to-green equipment choices of champion Brian Harman were also the favorites of the Valero Texas Open field: Titleist was the overwhelming #1 ball at TPC San Antonio with 78 percent (113 players) of the field playing a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball – including eight players who finished T5 or better. Titleist golf ball players have now won eight times this season on the PGA TOUR, compared to two for the nearest competitor. Titleist was also the most played driver (62/42%), iron (51/35%) and wedge (251/59%), with Harman using his Titleist setup to gain a total of +7.620 strokes tee to green (5th). More players in the field also used a Scotty Cameron putter (46/32%) than any other brand. What’s in the Bag? | Brian Harman Golf Ball : Titleist Pro V1 Driver : TSi2 9.0° | Graphite Design Tour AD IZ 5 S Fairway Metal : TS2 13.5° | Fujikura Speeder 661 Evolution 2 S and TS2 16.5° | Fujikura Speeder 757 Evolution 2 X Utility Irons : U•500 4-5 | Project X HZRDUS Smoke Black 90HY 6.0 (3-4); True Temper Dynamic Gold S300 (5) Irons : T100 6 | True Temper Dynamic Gold S300 and 620 CB 7-PW | True Temper Dynamic Gold S300 Wedges : Vokey Design SM9 50.08F, 54.10S, SM10 60.04L | True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 THE STORY BEHIND BRIAN HARMAN’S SWITCH TO PRO V1, TITLEIST EQUIPMENT Prior to the start of 2017, Brian Harman had been playing a competitive golf ball and equipment (the only Titleist club in his bag at the end of 2016 was a Vokey pitching wedge). During that offseason, he made a call to Titleist Tour Rep Jim Curran , asking for a set of Titleist irons, similar to the ones he had played as a junior golfer and in college at the University of Georgia. Said Curran: “Brian called me during the offseason holidays (December of 2016) and said he played Titleist irons before he turned professional and has not had that feel in his iron ball striking since then. He ordered a set of 716 CB’s and we agreed to meet on the range in Palm Springs the Monday of CareerBuilder. It was then that we dialed in his loft, lies and yardages. From there, Brian was low maintenance all season. I would check his grips, lofts and lies roughly once a month and he did the rest.” Harman put his new set of CB’s in play for the first time that Thursday at PGA West’s Nicklaus Course. (He now plays the 620 CB models.) Said Harman in 2018: “Very first time when I played (the CB’s) was in Palm Springs. I worked with Mr. Jim Curran and we got them figured out. Finished third that week and I was having a pretty nice year.” Three months later, the 2012 Sony Open Champion asked Harman, who was still playing a competitive golf ball, if he wanted to team up at the Zurich Classic (the first year that the Zurich went to the team format). “He was kind of curious as to what ball we wanted to play,” Harman said. “I said, ‘I played Titleist balls in college and everything. We’ll just play your ball (a Titleist Pro V1, in alternate shot), no problem. “We had a nice tournament... It got really windy. I was hitting some shots with (his) ball, shots that I just couldn’t hit with the ball I was playing. After that round, I decided to switch to the Pro V1…” “I hit one shot on the second hole the last day in New Orleans (with the competitive ball) that spun up into the wind. I hit it flush but it came up 10 yards short and plugged in the bunker. And I just remember thinking, ‘That’s the last time I’m going to hit that ball. I’m switching balls.’ So, I switched, man, and I’m back. When I switched (to Pro V1), I want to say I was right around 90th in the world, and now I’m 30th, I think.” (Prior to Wells Fargo, Harman was 93rd in the OWGR. He ended 2017 at 25th.) The following week, Harman teed up Pro V1 at the Wells Fargo Championship. On Sunday, he birdied 17 and 18 at Eagle Point GC to win by one shot. “I won the next week with it (Pro V1), the very first week I played it,” Harman said. Harman reiterated the significance of his switch prior to the 150th Open Championship at St. Andrews, where he finished T6: “The reason I switched back to Titleist was because of windy days and with Open Championships and major championships in mind. To flight the ball and not have to worry about it getting up and getting out of hand was a big deal.” “I switched to this ball in 2017 from a different company and the effects were immediate. You know, the last four years on tour have been my best four put together,” Harman said prior to the 2022 U.S. Open. “I just was never able to flight my old ball. I had trouble controlling and especially in the wind and we ended up playing so much wind out here. The effects for me were immediate switching to this Pro V and I mean, it’s been a complete 180. The way that I flight iron shots, the way that I control it around the green, it saves me, I don't know how many shots it’s saved me.” When Harman arrived at the winners-only Sentry Tournament of Champions to open 2018, there were several new additions to his bag, including a new Titleist driver , fairways and full set of Vokey Design wedges. HARMAN GAINS WITH VOKEY DESIGN WEDGES Brian Harman brought three Vokey Design wedges to the winner’s circle on Sunday: a Vokey Design SM9 50.08F gap wedge, a 54.10S sand wedge and a new SM10 WedgeWorks 60L lob wedge that he added to the bag this week. Harman won the 151st Open Championship with a similar wedge matrix, including a 60-degree L Grind lob wedge. This week, however, Harman moved from his SM9 lob wedge gamer to the SM10 version after working with Vokey Tour Rep Aaron Dill . Harman was looking for fresh grooves to prepare for The Masters, and after testing the SM10 L Grind around the practice area on Tuesday this week, it went straight in the bag. The L Grind is a common choice for players who want a low bounce option with heel, toe, and trailing edge relief. Its leading edge sits close to the ground and works well on tight or firm lies, in a square or open position. Compared to other low bounce options in the Vokey lineup, the L Grind offers slightly more protection from excessive digging. “The L Grind is for the player looking for the versatility of a low bounce wedge,” said Aaron Dill, Vokey Tour Representative. “It's really the perfect balance of ‘I want versatility, but I also want a little forgiveness to go with it.’ The forward bounce on the L helps reduce dig, but players are still able to open it up and slide under the ball easily. It's a great option for players looking for a little bit less bounce.” The 2023 Champion Golfer of the Year used his Vokey wedge setup to gain 1.757 shots around the greens this week (24th). RYAN GERARD FINISHES RUNNER-UP, CONTINUES STRONG FORM Titleist Brand Ambassador Ryan Gerard’s momentum continued this week at the Valero Texas Open, closing with a 3-under 69 to leap into second place and claim his best-ever PGA TOUR finish. It also marked his first back-to-back top-10's on TOUR, following last week’s ninth-place finish at the Texas Children’s Houston Open. Gerard’s recent run also earned him the top spot in the Aon Swing 5 standings, qualifying him for the next Signature Event, the RBC Heritage. So far in 2025, Gerard ranks 17th on TOUR in Strokes Gained: Approach, picking up an average 0.607 strokes on the field per round. This week in San Antonio, Gerard’s Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron putter were on fire, as he ranked second in both SG: Around the Green (+5.948) and SG: Putting (+7.628). He also ranked T2 in Putts per GIR (1.60), and he got his NEW Pro V1 golf ball up-and-down 25 of 35 attempts (71%, T7). What’s in the Bag? | Ryan Gerard Golf Ball : NEW 2025 Titleist Pro V1 Driver : GT3 11.0° | Fujikura Ventus Black TR 6 X Hybrid : NEW GT1 20.0° | Fujikura Ventus VeloCore+ Red HB 9 X Irons : T200 4 | Mitsubishi MMT Hybrid 100 TX and T100 5-9 | KBS C-Taper 125 S+ Wedges : Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.08F, 54.10S, 60.08M | KBS C-Taper 125 S+ (46), True Temper Dynamic Gold S300 (50-60) Putters : Scotty Cameron Tour Rat tour prototype KORN FERRY TOUR | Club Car Championship Jeremy Gandon (Pro V1x) made birdie on the first hole of a playoff, earning his breakthrough victory on the Korn Ferry Tour. Gandon finished regulation play with a flurry of three birdies in his final five holes, posting 17 under for the week at the Landings Golf & Athletic Club. That 72-hole total matched that of Rick Lamb’s (NEW 2025 Pro V1) , who closed in 5-under 67. The two returned to the 18th hole, where Gandon’s birdie 4 sealed the win. With his win, Gandon climbs up 45 spots to No. 3 in the season-long Points List, with the top 20 finishers earning PGA TOUR cards at season’s end. PGA TOUR AMERICAS | 70th ECP Brazil Open Titleist Brand Ambassador Maxwell Moldovan drained a 50-foot eagle putt on the 72nd hole of the week to secure his first victory as a professional. Moldovan, whose setup includes his Pro V1x golf ball, GT2 driver, blended set of T200 and T100 irons, Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron Phantom putter, shot rounds of 63-67-68-68 for the week at the Rio Olympic Golf Course. His 18-under total was good for a one-stroke margin of victory. Moldovan turned professional in the summer of 2024, having finished No. 20 in the PGA TOUR University graduating class. With his victory today, the 23-year-old locked up exempt membership on the PGA TOUR Americas through the 2026 Latin America Swing. What’s in the Bag? | Maxwell Moldovan Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: GT2 8.0° | Fujikura Ventus Red TR 6 X Fairway Metal: TSR3 13.5° | Fujikura Ventus Blue 7 X Utility Irons: T 200 3-iron | HZRDUS Smoke Black 90HY 6.5 Irons: T200 4 | Nippon N.S. Pro Modus3 Tour 120 X and T100 5-9 | Nippon N.S. Pro Modus3 Tour 120 X Wedges : Vokey Design SM10 48.10F, 52.08F, 56.08M, 60.08M | Nippon N.S. Pro Modus3 115 Wedge Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 9.2 tour prototype LET | Joburg Ladies Open Ladies European Tour rookie Mimi Rhodes (Pro V1) followed up her breakthrough win at the NSW Open with another victory, claiming back-to-back LET titles. The 23-year-old carded a steady 2-under 71 in the final round, which saw her reach 14 under for the week and win by one. The Englishwoman now leads the Order of Merit early in the 2025 LET campaign. AMATEUR | Augusta National Women’s Amateur On the game’s biggest stages, at every level of competitive golf, more competitors put their trust in the performance of the #1 ball in golf than any other brand. This past week at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, an overwhelming majority of the field (49 competitors, 69%) teed up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball. Titleist was also the most played driver (37%), fairway (33%), hybrid (38%), utility iron (81%), iron (35%) and wedge (42%) at the ANWA, while Scotty Cameron putters were tied for the most played putter brand in the field (31%, T-1). ... #TeamTitleist
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LPGA | Ford Championship After posting Sunday’s best round, Hyo Joo Kim (Pro V1x) stuck her approach on the first playoff hole to 6 feet and rolled in the birdie putt to claim her seventh career LPGA title. Kim made nine birdies in regulation, carding a final round 8-under 64 to post the clubhouse lead (22 under) and force the all-Pro V1x playoff with third-round leader Lilia Vu (Pro V1x) . Kim led a 1-2-3 finish for Titleist golf ball players: 1. Hyo Joo Kim (Pro V1x ) 2. Lilia Vu (Pro V1x) 3. Allisen Corpuz (Pro V1) Lilia Vu (Pro V1x) They were among the 73 percent (105) of players this week who teed up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x , more than eight times the nearest competitor (13, 9%). Five of the first six events this season on the LPGA Tour have been won with a Pro V1 or Pro V1x: Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions: A Lim Kim (NEW 2025 Pro V1) Founders Cup: Yealimi Noh (Pro V1) Honda LPGA Thailand: Angel Yin (Pro V1) HSBC Women's World Championship: Lydia Ko (NEW 2025 Pro V1) Ford Championship: Hyo Joo Kim (Pro V1x) PGA TOUR | Texas Children's Houston Open More than half of the gap, sand and lob wedges in play this were Vokey Design (245/54%), compared to 54 (12%) for the nearest competitor. Vokey has been the most played wedge on the PGA TOUR since 2004. DP WORLD TOUR | Hero Indian Open Eugenio Chacarra (Pro V1) claimed his breakthrough DPWT title, earning a two-shot victory over a leaderboard that finished with just three players in red numbers. Chacarra’s final round was highlighted by a run of five birdies between Nos. 6-14 at the exacting DLF G&CC, which saw him regain and extend the lead with which he started the final round. The Spaniard closed in 71, his third sub-par round of the week (70-70-73-71), to finish the week at 4 under. No other player in the field had more than two. Chacarra was one of the 113 players to tee up a Titleist golf ball this week, 82 percent of the field. That total was more than 10 times the nearest competitor (11, 8%). PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | The Galleri Classic Steve Allan (Pro V1) earned his first career PGA TOUR Champions title, posting rounds of 69-65-67 to post 15 under and win by one. The Australian was in full control of his ballstriking, hitting 46 of 54 greens in regulation (85%, 2nd) en route to a field-best 19 birdies (T1). SUNSHINE TOUR | DNI Tour Championship Michael Hollick (NEW 2025 Pro V1) closed in 8-under 64 to take home the 2024-25 Sunshine Tour season finale by two shots. Hollick made nine Sunday birdies – including one on the par-5 18th – to post 19 under for the week. The victory is the second of the season for Hollick, who won the FBC Zimbabwe Open last May. TITLEIST BRAND AMBASSADOR DANIEL VAN TONDER WINS SUNSHINE TOUR ORDER OF MERIT Daniel van Tonder finished on top at the end of the 2024-25 Sunshine Tour season, winning Order of Merit honors. Van Tonder recorded four victories dating back to August 2024. What’s in the Bag? | Daniel van Tonder Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR3 8.0° Fairway Metals: TSi2 13.5° and 18.0° Irons: 620 CB 4-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.08F, 56.08M, 60.06K Putter: Scotty Cameron tour prototype PGA TOUR OF AUSTRALASIA | The National Tournament In total control of NEW 2025 Pro V1x golf ball, Titleist Brand Ambassador Harrison Crowe conquered high winds and difficult conditions to claim his first victory as a professional. Crowe, gaming a Titleist setup that includes his GT3 driver and GT2 fairway, T100 irons, Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron putter, turned in the only bogey-free round on Sunday, a 4-under 68, to win by two in Victoria. “It was very testing out there and I just kind of had to keep bringing myself back and just stay really in the moment,” said Crowe after the round. “It was easy to wander off – what the lead was, what the score was – and trying to look too far ahead but I think I did a really, really good job today of just being present and staying really, really patient.” The 23-year-old shot 19 under for the week, the final event of the 2024-25 season. His victory saw him finish 8th in the Order of Merit. Crowe was one of 105 players this week teeing up a Titleist Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball, 84 percent of the field. Titleist drivers were in the bags of 74 players, more than half the field (59%). What’s in the Bag? | Harrison Crowe Golf Ball: NEW 2025 Titleist Pro V1x Driver: GT3 10.0° Fairway Metal: GT2 16.5° Utility Iron: T200 3-iron Irons: T100 4-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.12F, 56.10S, 60.04T Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5 PGA TOUR AMERICAS | 93 Abierto del Centro Ryan Grider (NEW 2025 Pro V1x) broke through in the PGA TOUR Americas season opener, prevailing in extra holes. The 26-year-old turned in rounds of 65-66-68-69 for the week around Cordoba Golf Club, and he made birdie on the par-4 18th twice on Sunday: the first forcing a playoff and the second defeating Joey Vrzich (NEW 2025 Pro V1) , who had also posted 16 under. … #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | Valspar Championship Viktor Hovland went flag-hunting with his Pro V1 golf ball Sunday to capture his seventh PGA TOUR victory, making three birdies over his final five holes – including the first two holes (16 and 17) of Innisbrook’s infamous “Snake Pit” – to secure the one-shot win. On one of the PGA TOUR’s toughest closing holes – the par-4 16th – Hovland stuck his 185-yard approach to 5 feet, 9 inches. He followed with another clutch swing on the 222-yard par-3 17th, his Pro V1 finishing just under 12 feet from the cup to set up back-to-back birdies. Over the weekend at Innisbrook, Hovland’s average proximity to the hole was 25 feet, 8 inches, while gaining over four (+4.379) shots on the field on approach. For the week, he gained over six shots tee to green (+6.268/11th). Hovland was among the 75 percent of the field who teed up a Titleist golf ball in Tampa, including five of the top-7 finishers – including Justin Thomas (Pro V1x/2nd) and Bud Cauley (Pro V1/4th) , who matched Sunday's best rounds with 66’s. HOVLAND ON HIS PRO V1 GOLF BALL “It’s not a fluke that Titleist is the #1 ball. It’s been #1 for so long, I don’t think that’s a coincidence. Knowing that I have the best product when I go out there and play, that gives me confidence. I don’t have to wonder or think that I’m playing a ball that’s sub-optimal, or I’m giving shots away before I’ve even started the round. So I think that’s a nice thing to have with you.” “I like the Pro V1 because the ball flight tends to be a little bit more penetrating. It doesn't spin as much as the Pro V1x. What it does for me into the wind particularly, I can still launch it fairly high, but it's not overspinning. It's actually flying through the wind pretty penetrating, so on really firm greens, I can launch it up in the air and still not lose all my distance into the wind.” “The spin is very important. If I’m hitting a full 9 iron, I want the 9 iron to spin around 8,800 to 9,000 rpms. You need to hit a good shot, but if the spin’s not right, it’s not going to go the distance you need it to. I’ve always played the ball and love it, so, there’s no reason to change.” “[Pro V1] gives me a lot of consistency around the greens. I like how it feels off the face. I like how I'm able to spin the ball around the greens, but I don't sacrifice anything to the full shots. When I hit a drive on a par five and I'm trying to get after it, I don't have to worry about the spin creeping up too high. I can still hit a high launch with low spin – and then if I miss the green in two, I can still hit a short-sided shot with a lot of spin. “So I think just the versatility is the key with the Pro V1 ball for me, and especially in the wind because we do play in a lot of wind. And I think that's kind of the biggest challenge. If you don't have a good ball in the wind, it really plays a big difference. And so I think just the consistency in the wind, knowing how much it's going to curve in certain wind directions and stuff like that – it plays really well for me.” DP WORLD TOUR | Porsche Singapore Classic T itleist Brand Ambassador Richard Mansell closed out his maiden DPWT title with authority, birdieing the last to post 16 under and secure a one-stroke victory. Playing a setup that included his Pro V1 golf ball, TSi3 driver, T100 and 620 MB irons, Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron Phantom putter, the 29-year-old Englishman turned in rounds of 68-66-66 around Laguna National Golf Resort Club for the weather-shortened 54-hole event. Mansell’s game was dialed in from start to finish, ranking 2nd in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green (+13.88). Over four of those strokes came from his play off the tee (+4.04, 9th) and over six from his approach play (+6.64, 7th). He also led the field in greens in regulation (85%) and scrambling (7/8, 88%). What’s in the Bag? | Richard Mansell Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSi3 9.0° Irons: T100 4-5 and 620 MB 6-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.12F, 56.10S, WedgeWorks 60A+ Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 7 SUNSHINE TOUR | Serengeti Playoffs Titleist Brand Ambassador George Coetzee earned victory No. 15 on the Sunshine Tour, closing in 3-under 69 to win by three. Coetzee, whose Titleist setup includes his NEW 2025 Pro V1x golf ball, GT3 driver and fairway, 620 CB irons and three Vokey SM10 wedges, was the only player to card all four rounds in the 60’s, posting 19 under for four rounds around the Serengeti Estates. His victory in the penultimate event of the 2024-25 Sunshine Tour season earned him a spot at the field at next week’s DNi Tour Championship. What’s in the Bag? | George Coetzee Golf Ball: NEW 2025 Titleist Pro V1x Driver: GT3 9.0° Fairway Metal: GT3 15.0° Irons: 620 CB 4-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 50.08F, 56.08M, 60.08M PGA TOUR OF AUSTRALASIA | Heritage Classic James Conran (Pro V1x) broke through on the PGA Tour of Australasia, making birdie on the last to secure a one-shot victory. Conran’s closing 65 with his fourth straight sub-70 round, finishing the week at 22 under. TITLEIST BRAND AMBASSADOR ELVIS SMYLIE WINS ORDER OF MERIT TITLE Titleist Brand Ambassador Elvis Smylie locked up the season-long Order of Merit on Sunday, securing a spot in the 153rd Open Championship at Royal Portrush this summer in the process. Smylie won for the first time on the PGA Tour of Australasia last October at the WA Open before following it up with a win at the Australian PGA Championship, a co-sanctioned event with the DP World Tour. Smylie won both events gaming his Pro V1x golf ball, GT3 driver, GT2 fairway, T150 and T100 irons, Vokey SM10 wedge and Scotty Cameron Phantom 11 tour prototype putter. LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR | Ford Women's NSW Open Mimi Rhodes (Pro V1) turned in a bogey-free final round 69 on Sunday to lock up her first career LET title in just her fourth start as a full LET member. The rookie’s four-round 17-under total for the week was good for a two-shot win. ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard Titleist Brand Ambassador Russell Henley conquered Bay Hill Sunday with a clutch and controlled finish, playing his final seven holes in 4 under par – including a chip-in eagle on the par-5 16th – to earn a one-shot victory over the PGA TOUR’s best. Henley was in total control of his Pro V1x golf ball, trusting a Titleist setup that includes his GT3 driver, T-Series i irons and Vokey Design SM10 wedges to more than nine strokes gained tee-to-green (+9.108/3rd), while gaining over three more strokes on the greens with his Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5 (+3.613/10th). Henley, who also led the field in Strokes Gained: Around the Green (+6.382) and was T2 in Greens in Regulation (67%), finished the week at 11 under par, posting rounds of 72-68-67-70 to claim his fifth PGA TOUR victory – and his third finish of T6 or better in his last four starts. What’s in the Bag? | Russell Henley Golf Ball : Titleist Pro V1x Driver : GT3 10.0° | HZRDUS Smoke Black 70g 6.5TX Fairway Metal : GT3 16.5° | HZRDUS Smoke Black 80g 6.5TX Hybrid : TSi2 21.0° | Mitsubishi MMT Hybrid 100 TX Utility Iron : T200 4 | AMT Tour White X100 Irons : T100 5-9 | AMT Tour White X100 (5-6), Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 (7-9) Wedges : Vokey Design SM10 48.10F (@ 47°), 50.08F (@ 51°), 54.10S (@ 55°), 60.04T | Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 (48°), S400 (50°-60°) Putter : Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5 HENLEY ON HIS MOVE TO A TITLEIST GOLF BALL After starting his PGA TOUR career playing a competitive brand, Russell Henley made the move to a Titleist golf ball toward the end of the 2016 season. “The minute that I changed to Titleist in 2016, the first thing I realized was how good my practice became. They sent me a bag of Pro V1x golf balls to play with and to practice with, and immediately, I just remember with the wedge play, I was hitting 60-, 70-, 80-yard shots on the TrackMan with the same spin numbers and just spinning it like crazy. And I would put them in these little small areas, I could throw a towel over. And the confidence I got from my practice was just immediate for me. And the feel of the golf ball was just tremendously better. So I feel like that’s where I’ve gotten a lot more confidence. When I go home and I’m practicing with this stuff, I’m able to see exactly what’s going to happen. When I hit a wedge shot on Sunday at PGA National [last week], I know I’ve practiced that shot. I know what it’s going to do and my confidence has just gotten more and more since then.” This week in Orlando, Henley was one of 47 players teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball, more than five times the nearest competitor (9). HENLEY ON WHY HE PLAYS PRO V1 x “I’m looking for spin. Ninety percent of the time I see just a medium-low kind of shot, and I don't spin the ball a ton. So the Pro V1x has given me the ability to feel like I'm consistently spinning the ball a lot. And so for me, I'm trying to hit one shot as much as I possibly can, get really good at that one. And then if the lie gives me an opportunity, be able to throw it up in the air or do something different with it. But medium-low with a lot of spin, that’s what the Pro V1x gives me.” “I lived in Charleston, South Carolina, for seven years right after college, and it's always windy there. And so wedge play for me was always about control and spin and taking spin off, but then also downwind, being able to really spin it. So the Pro V1x has just really given me the ability to do both. And so that’s what I’m looking to do. Be able to hit it hard and spin it a ton and then take a bunch off.” “Definitely the V feels softer and the X is clickier, but I think the more I just have practiced with the X, the more I just prefer the way it feels. And sometimes I think feel is good, but when I'm looking out and I see the ball have the proper spin, that means more to me than the way it feels. Some guys might be a little more sensitive to it. I’m a little less sensitive to it.” HENLEY WINS WITH GT3 DRIVER; WINS IN BACK-TO-BACK WEEKS FOR GT3 ON PGA TOUR Following Joe Highsmith’s victory at last week’s Cognizant Classic, Russell Henley became the second player in as many weeks to bring a GT3 to the winner’s circle on the PGA TOUR. Henley first put his GT3 10.0° driver (HZRDUS Smoke Black 70g 6.5TX) in play at this year’s Sentry after testing the model in the offseason. Henley was particularly drawn to the added spin stability that GT3 offered and the ball speed gains he experienced compared to his previous gamer. His preferred spin window is in the mid-2000 RPMs, which gives him an ideal combination of distance and control. “Yeah, I love the control – and [when it comes to technique/teeing it up higher] I don't feel like gaining six yards is quite as important as having that tighter window. That’s why you’ll see me tee it up real low sometimes or just kind of like medium... But I think around 25[00 RPMs] is pretty great, and I think if you want to hit bombs, you want to launch it high and spin it at 2,000. But for me, I like launching it a little more 10-11 [degrees], spin at 24, 25[00]. ... I try to let the club just send it out there for me.” In six events with his GT3 in the bag, Henley has four top 10’s, including his victory today as well as T5 and T6 finishes at Pebble Beach and PGA National, respectively. He ranks 9th on TOUR in Driving Accuracy (69%) so far in 2025. At last week’s Cognizant Classic, Henley worked with J.J. Van Wezenbeeck, Titleist’s Senior Director of Club Promotions , to dial in his setup even more. Looking for slightly more fade in his ball flight, Henley was able to see immediate results using GT3’s SureFit CG track, moving the weight from Neutral to T1 (Toe). This week at Bay Hill, Henley gained +1.339 shots off the tee (21st). He was among the 40 percent (29) of players gaming a Titleist driver, compared to 18 (25%) for the nearest competitor. Titleist has been the most played driver on the PGA TOUR for the last six seasons and counting. HENLEY LEADS FIELD AROUND THE GREENS WITH VOKEY WEDGES Gaming four Vokey Design SM10 wedges – SM10 48.10F (@ 47), 50.08F (@ 51), 54.10S (@ 55), 60.04T – Russell Henley led the field in Strokes Gained: Around the Green, picking up 6.382 shots on his competitors. He also finished 8th in Scrambling, getting his Pro V1x up-and-down 17 of 24 attempts (71%). The 35-year-old's most consequential wedge shot of the week came on Sunday on the par-5 16th, when he found himself in the greenside rough, 54 feet from the hole for his third shot. Henley holed it for eagle, vaulting himself to the eventual winning number of 11 under. For his wedge setup, Henley primarily uses his pitching and gap wedges as distance clubs for approach shots. For greenside shots, he relies on his S Grind sand wedge and his T Grind lob wedge. “Russell plays four SM10 wedges, and these models have changed very little in our time together,” said Vokey Tour Rep Aaron Dill. “His 48.10F (@ 47) and 50.08F (@ 51) are his distance wedges and he has always liked the feel of speed through the turf, which is why he has chosen to play the lower bounce F Grind in the 50-degree. These are manipulated very little, so their sole job is to hit a distance number while managing trajectory and spin.” Henley’s 54.10S (@ 55) has been in the bag since day one of working with the Vokey team, but he has experimented with his lob wedge in the past. Originally, Henley was gaming a 58-degree M Grind, but after testing grinds about a year ago with Dill, he found T Grind was a better fit for his short game needs. “The most important thing for Russell with his 60 is knowing he has the most versatility when greenside. It was this time last year when he first tested the 60.04T and added it to the bag. Right away Russell mentioned confidence when he opened the face, and he loved the way the wedge felt gliding through sand.” Due to grainier Bermudagrass conditions at previous stops this year, Henley started his season with a WedgeWorks 60L Grind lob wedge in the bag. He returned to his trusty T Grind at Torrey Pines for The Genesis, and it immediately brought back some familiar feels around the green. Overall, there were 111 Vokey Design gap, sand and lob wedges in play at Bay Hill (53%). HENLEY DIALED ON GREENS WITH PHANTOM PUTTER Gaming his Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5 tour prototype putter, Russell Henley gained 3.613 strokes on the field this week, ranking 10th. He also finished T8 in Putts per GIR (1.69). On No. 17, Henley faced a testy 5-foot, 8-inch par putt to stay one shot ahead with one hole to play. He calmy rolled it in, and then two-putted from 42 feet, 9 inches on the last for the win. “I knew I was going to have to make some putts if I wanted to win,” said Henley. “So I just tried to stay focused, and I did a really good job of going back to my same process, my mental process, how I read the putt, and committing to my line and picked the right line.” DP WORLD TOUR / SUNSHINE TOUR | Joburg Open Calum Hill (Pro V1x) shot the low round of the day – an 8-under 62 – and prevailed in a playoff to claim his second career DPWT title. Hill began Sunday at Houghton GC eight shots off the pace before charging up the leaderboard with ten final round birdies. When the 30-year-old Scot’s score of 14 under was matched twice, the trio of competitors headed back to the 18th tee. Two pars later, Hill was crowned champion. In total control of his golf ball for the week, Hill ranked 2nd in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green, gaining over 10 shots on the field (+10.36). He picked up 4.96 shots on the field (10th) with his approach play while gaining over two off the tee (+2.92, 9th) and around the green (+2.52, 5th). He hit 70% fairways in regulation (T4) and 76% greens in regulation. Titleist was the overwhelming #1 ball at the Joburg Open, with 83 percent of the field (130 players) teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x. That total is more than nine times the nearest competitor (14/9%) Titleist was also the field’s top choice in each of those equipment categories: 48% of the drivers in play (75) were Titleist, more than double the nearest competitor (31/20%). 44% of the iron sets in play were Titleist (68), also more than double the nearest competitor (25/16%). There were 334 Titleist/Vokey Design pitching, gap, sand and lob wedges in play (54%), more than all other brands combined. PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | Cologuard Classic Gaming his NEW 2025 Pro V1 golf ball, Steven Alker birdied the par-4 18th in a playoff, earning his ninth career PGA Tour Champions win. Alker came home in 30 on Sunday, carding a final round 66 to post 12 under. That total was matched by Jason Caron (NEW 2025 Pro V1) before Alker’s birdie 3 on the first extra hole closed out the tournament. Alker led the field in Driving Accuracy (88%) and Greens in Regulation (78%) for the week at La Paloma Country Club. PGA TOUR OF AUSTRALASIA | New Zealand PGA Championship Holding onto a one-shot lead in the fairway of the 72nd hole, Titleist Brand Ambassador Tyler Hodge flushed a 7-iron to 12 feet, setting up a stress-free par and a breakthrough win. Hodge, gaming his NEW 2025 Pro V1x golf ball along with his TSR2 driver, T100 irons, Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron Phantom putter, shot rounds of 69-64-70-69 to post 16 under, good for a one-shot victory. What’s in the Bag? | Tyler Hodge Golf Ball: NEW 2025 Titleist Pro V1x Driver : TSR2 Fairway Metal : TSi2 Irons : T100 Wedges : Vokey Design SM10 Putter : Scotty Cameron Phantom 7.5 ... #TeamTitleist
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Line extension includes NEW Phantom 5.2 and 7.2 models along with left-handed versions of the Phantom 5, 11 and 11 Long Design models. Scotty Cameron adds five new configurations to the Phantom mallet putter lineup , introducing the NEW tour-inspired Phantom 5.2 and Phantom 7.2 models to the mallet family, as well as offering the Phantom 5 , Phantom 11 and Phantom 11 Long Design models in left-handed setups for the first time. The all-new Scotty Cameron Phantom 5.2 and 7.2 putters, featuring the popular wingback Phantom 5 and Phantom 7 mallet head shapes, are crafted with an I-beam-style plumbing neck. The plumbing neck setup provides players with alternative toe flow properties and alignment benefits to the shaft and neck configurations already offered in the Phantom lineup. Joining the Phantom 5.2 and 7.2 in the lineup are three new left-handed offerings for 2025: the Phantom 5, Phantom 11 and Phantom 11 Long Design. The Phantom 5, a compact, winged mallet, features a near-face balanced setup with a mid-bend shaft. The Phantom 11 is a face balanced, high-MOI, multi-material mallet, while the Phantom 11 Long Design shares the same head shape but is built to a 38-inch counterbalanced configuration with a longer and heavier grip, a stiffer mid-bend shaft and a heavier headweight. All five new offerings will be available in Titleist golf shops beginning February 14, 2025. www.youtube.com/watch QUOTING FOUNDER AND MASTER CRAFTSMAN SCOTTY CAMERON : “The Phantom 5.2 and 7.2 models come directly from our team’s work on the worldwide professional tours with some of the most discerning players in the game. As the demand for mallet putters has increased, so have the requests for different configurations of our models. The plumbing neck is a familiar, confidence-inspiring design to so many players, so its inclusion on the Phantom 5 and 7 putters is a natural evolution for both models. In addition, we wanted to add more left-handed putters to our lineup. We felt that the Phantom 5, 11 and 11 Long Design models gave our left-handed golfers a range of options with three unique setups.” SENIOR DIRECTOR OF PUTTER R&D AUSTIE ROLLINSON ON PLUMBING NECK-MALLET CONFIGURATIONS : “The combination of the plumbing neck and our Phantom mallet shapes has become increasingly popular on tour, and we’ve learned a lot about its benefits from listening to players like Justin Thomas , Cameron Young and Davis Riley who have used this style of putter on Tour. It’s a great setup for players coming from a blade into a mallet, or really for any golfer looking for blade-like feel and alignment with the benefits of a larger head.” PHANTOM 5.2 AND 7.2 MODEL OVERVIEW Phantom 5.2 www.youtube.com/watch Built on the tour-proven Phantom 5 head shape, a compact mallet that features refined wing angles and sight dot alignment, the Phantom 5.2 has a new I-beam-style plumbing neck, designed for slightly more toe flow than the mid-bend shaft of the Phantom 5 model but slightly less toe flow than the jet neck of the Phantom 5.5. The familiar lines and angles of the plumbing neck also provide additional body alignment assistance at address. Phantom 7.2 www.youtube.com/watch The Phantom 7 head shape, with its longer wings and dual-purpose “rail” alignment, is now offered with a new I-beam-style plumbing neck in the 7.2 model. The configuration offers alignment, stability and MOI and delivers the same performance benefits of a plumbing-style neck as does the 5.2. LEFT-HANDED MODEL OVERVIEW Phantom 5 : The near-face balanced, compact wingback mallet features sight dot alignment and a mid-bend shaft. It is crafted with a 303 stainless steel face and an aluminum sole plate. Phantom 11 : The Phantom 11 is a high-MOI, face-balanced mallet with a mid-bend shaft and arrow alignment features. Its multi-material construction consists of a solid precision milled 303 stainless steel face, topline, body and wings that are integrated with an aluminum flange and sole component. Phantom 11 Long Design : Built longer with a stiffer, 38-inch mid-bend shaft and a heavier head equipped with tungsten sole weights, the Phantom 11 Long Design is designed to help quiet the player’s hands and engage the shoulders for a smoother putting stroke. AVAILABILITY AND PRICING The new Scotty Cameron Phantom 5.2, 7.2 and left-handed Phantom 5 , 11 and 11 Long Design putters will be available in golf shops worldwide beginning February 14, 2025.
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PGA TOUR | The RSM Classic In his first start with the NEW 2025 Pro V1 golf ball, the winner of The RSM Classic birdied the 18th hole Sunday, hitting his 6-iron to 5 feet, 5 inches to close out the one-shot victory. Just five weeks since the official launch of the 2025 Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf balls on the PGA TOUR (Shriners Children’s Open), the champion was one of 37 players already gaming the new Pro V1 (16) and Pro V1x (21) models at Sea Island, more than the nearest competitor’s total number of golf balls (14) in play. He first hit the new 2025 Pro V1 on the range at the Shriners Children’s Open, bringing a dozen home with him for further testing. “I said once I locked up Top-60, I would switch balls,” he said Sunday after the victory. “Obviously Bermuda we didn’t have the ball shipped over there, so I didn’t have access to it. I said I’ll play it in Sea Island, see how it does under the gun. Then in the wind on Thursday it performed unbelievably well. I was really excited, every ball came out exactly how I wanted to, held the wind, went through the wind and that gave me a ton of confidence.” For the week (over the three rounds tracked by ShotLink), the RSM champ gained +6.858 shots tee to green (4th), while ranking T2 in GIR at 79% (57/72). He also finished second in Proximity on Approach (29’, 1”), highlighted by his winning approach on 18. In total, 116 players (74%) at The RSM played a Titleist golf ball – including the winner, every player in the top seven, and 12 of the top 14 finishers. RSM CLASSIC CHAMPION LEADS 1-THROUGH-7 FINISH FOR TITLEIST GOLF BALL PLAYERS; 34th PGA TOUR WIN OF 2024 FOR PRO V1 & PRO V1x The winner of The RSM Classic led a sweep of the top seven positions on Sunday’s final leaderboard for Titleist golf ball players, with 12 of the 14 finishers all playing a Pro V1 or Pro V1x . Titleist golf balls continue to be the overwhelming #1 choice of players on the PGA TOUR, with players teeing up a Pro V1 and Pro V1x a total of 4,103 times (70%) this season, compared to 649 (11%) for the nearest competitor. Sunday’s victory marked the 34th win of the season for Titleist golf ball players on the PGA TOUR, more than six times the nearest competitor (5). Additionally, four of the top seven finishers were playing a NEW 2025 Pro V1 or Pro V1x model – including the champion and Nico Echavarria , who finished T2 following his victory with ‘25 X three weeks ago at the ZOZO Championship. 1. RSM Classic champion: NEW 2025 Pro V1 T2. WAGR No. 1: Pro V1 T2. Nico Echavarria : NEW 2025 Pro V1x T2. Daniel Berger: Pro V1 T5. J.T. Poston: NEW 2025 Pro V1x T5. Lee Hodges: NEW 2025 Pro V1 T5. Mackenzie Hughes: Pro V1x+ prototype TITLEIST MOST PLAYED DRIVER, IRON, WEDGE ON PGA TOUR IN 2024 Titleist was the most played driver on the PGA TOUR for the sixth straight season, with Titleist drivers being used 2,193 times this campaign (37%). The nearest competitor was played 1,317 times (22%). Titleist has now been the most played iron on the PGA TOUR for 20 of the last 21 seasons, including each of the last 10. This year, Titleist irons (1,986, 32%) more than doubled the total of the nearest competitor (870, 14%). Titleist was also the most played hybrid (596, 42%) and utility iron (1,437, 53%). Vokey Design wedges have been the most played wedge on the PGA TOUR since 2004. This year, over half the gap, sand and lob wedges on TOUR were Vokey (9,185, 53%), more than four times the nearest competitor (1,884, 11%). DPWT / PGA TOUR OF AUSTRALASIA | BMW Australian PGA Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Elvis Smylie broke through on the DP World Tour with a wire-to-wire victory in Brisbane. Smylie – gaming his Pro V1x golf ball and 14 Titleist clubs , including his NEW GT3 driver, GT2 fairway, T150 and T100 irons, Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron Phantom 11 putter – went bogey-free on Sunday, closing in 4-under 67 to win by two shots. Smylie, who in 2019 was one of two players to receive the Cameron Smith Scholarship, held off his countryman and fellow Titleist Brand Ambassador, who finished runner-up at 12 under. The 22-year-old's first DP World Tour title comes on the heels of his first professional victory, which came a month ago at the Western Australia Open on the PGA Tour of Australasia. What’s in the Bag? | Elvis Smylie Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x golf ball Driver: NEW GT3 10.0° driver | Fujikura Ventus Blue 6 X Fairway Metal: NEW GT2 15.0° fairway | Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Black 85 X Irons: T150 3-iron, T100 4-9 irons | True Temper Dynamic Gold 120 X100 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.12F, 56.10S, 60.04T wedges | True Temper Dynamic Gold 120 X100 Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 11 tour prototype putter (center shaft) SMYLIE ON HIS TITLEIST SETUP - ON HIS NEW GT DRIVER AND FAIRWAY: “I made the change to the GT3 at Troon this year at the British Open. I noticed a difference in the trajectory of the ball flight, a little bit higher, which I like because I’m quite a low spin player. So I've got the GT head number 3 with a Blue Ventus shaft as well, and that's in a 10-degree head. The 3-wood, I have the GT2. I used to have a 5-wood, and I kept the 5-wood shaft and I'm now using it in the 3-wood. So that little bit of a shorter shaft length actually helps with the control. So I'm using a black Tensei shaft and it's on a 15-degree setting with a D4 setting.” - ON HIS T-SERIES IRONS: “From 3-iron, I use a Titleist T150 with a Dynamic Gold 120 grams X100. I've been using this especially around Royal Troon and those Scotland courses where you have to hit it quite low and flight the ball, it comes out really low and just hunts, so it's nice. Then going into the irons, I use the T100 from 4-iron to 9-iron as well as the same shafts. I use the Dynamic Gold 120 grams in the X100 with the Golf Pride Multi Compound groups. So I've been using these for the last two years and I can't see myself getting out of them for a very long time. I love the flight that it comes out at, and I love the control that it has as well.” - ON HIS VOKEY SM10 WEDGES: “With my wedges, I’ve been using this setup: I use a 46, 50, 56 and 60. So my 46 is 10 degrees [of bounce] with an F grind. My 50 is a 50-degree with 12 degrees of bounce with an F grind. And then the 56 is 10 degrees with an S grind, and then my 60 degree is probably one of my favorite clubs in the bag. It's a T grind with four degrees of bounce. So when I'm playing in conditions that are really tight firm, it's a great tool to have, especially when you want to open the club up and you don't want to use too much bounce. So having that low bounce really helps clip the ball off the turf really nicely.” - ON HIS SCOTTY CAMERON PHANTOM 11 PUTTER: “Moving into probably what my new favorite club is in the bag is my putter... I [had] been using a blade for a very long time. So going from a blade putter back to a mallet putter is something a little bit different, but it's got a little center shaft as well... It helps sit your hands in a really nice position. And I've been using this for the first three events of the season here in Australia, and I've managed to get my first professional win with it. And this has definitely been a reason why I got over the line, so I can't see myself changing this anytime soon.” www.instagram.com/.../ ASIAN TOUR | Link Hong Kong Open After racing out to the 54-hole lead with a third round 11-under 59, the winner of the Hong Kong Open closed in 66 to win by three shots. The champion, who was gaming a Pro V1x+ prototype golf ball as well as a NEW GT3 driver, GT2 fairway, Vokey SM10 wedges and a Scotty Cameron putter, shot 22 under for the week en route to capturing his first Asian Tour title. What’s in the Bag? | Link Hong Kong Open Champion Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x+ prototype Driver: NEW GT3 8.0° | Accra TZ Six ST 75 M5 Fairway Metal: NEW GT2 15.0° | Accra TZ Six ST 75 M5 Utility Iron: 718 T-MB 2-iron | True Temper Dynamic Gold X100 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 56.08M, 60.04T wedges | True Temper Dynamic Gold S400 Putter : Scotty Cameron Timeless 2.5 plus tour prototype putter JGTO | Casio World Open Golf Tournament Gaming his NEW 2025 Titleist Pro V1x golf ball, Hiroshi Iwata made five back-nine birdies to come from behind and win by one, posting 14 under for the week after closing in 68. The win is Iwata’s seventh career JGTO title and his second of the season. Iwata's win with 2025 Pro V1x comes in his fourth start with the new model, having moved into it at the ZOZO Championship. SUNSHINE TOUR | PGA Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Pieter Moolman shot a bogey-free final round 67 to capture the South African PGA Championship by one shot. Moolman, whose all-Titleist setup includes his Pro V1 golf ball, NEW GT3 driver, T150 irons, Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron Newport putter, made the cut on the number this week before storming up the leaderboard with a course record-setting Saturday 62. Five birdies and a clean card on Sunday helped Moolman reach 15 under and narrowly beat out 22-year-old Barend Botha (Pro V1x Left Dash). What’s in the Bag? | Pieter Moolman Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: NEW GT3 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSR3 15.0° Hybrid: TSR3 19.0° Irons : T150 4-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.08F, 54.10S, 60.04T Putter: Scotty Cameron Newport CHINA TOUR | Straits Cup Xiamen Open Titleist Brand Ambassador Yanhan Zhou shot 20 under for the week to win by five shots and lead a 1-through-8 finish for Titleist golf ball players. The 16-year-old, gaming his Pro V1x golf ball and full bag of Titleist equipment, became the youngest three-time China Tour winner, having previously captured titles in 2022 and 2023 (both as an amateur). What’s in the Bag? | Yanhan Zhou Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR2 10.0° Fairway Metal: TSR3 15.0° Irons : T200 2-3, T100 4-6, and 620 MB 7-9 irons Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.08F, 54.10S, 58.08M Putter: Scotty Cameron Super Select Squareback 2 tour prototype ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | World Wide Technology Championship An 11-birdie Sunday for Austin Eckroat (Pro V1) ended with his second PGA TOUR victory of the season, as he closed with a field-best 63 to win by one shot in Mexico while leading a 1-2-3 finish for Titleist golf ball players. A longtime Pro V1 player, Eckroat showed total control from tee to green, ball-striking four rounds in the 60’s (68-67-66-63) while hitting 91 percent of his fairways and 83 percent greens in regulation (60 of 72). He made a field-best 30 birdies for the week. Eckroat was one of 89 players (74%) who teed up a Titleist golf ball at the World Wide Technology Championship, more than eight times the nearest competitor (10) – including 12 of the top 13 finishers: 1. Austin Eckroat (Pro V1) T2. Justin Lower (Pro V1x) T2. Carson Young (Pro V1x) 5. Joe Highsmith (Pro V1) T6. Garrick Higgo (Pro V1) T6. Sam Stevens (Pro V1) T6. 2017 RBC Heritage champion (NEW 2025 Pro V1x) T6. 2015 Haskins Award winner (Pro V1) T6. David Lipsky (Pro V1x Left Dash) T6. Nico Echavarria (NEW 2025 Pro V1x) T12. Kevin Chappell (Pro V1) T12. Patrick Fishburn (Pro V1) ECKROAT ON HIS PRO V1 GOLF BALL “I've been playing the Pro V1 since I was a kid, it's always been good for me. I feel like I have the control around the greens, [it] has the high ball speed numbers. It does everything I want it to do.” “I mean, the consistency within the ball is something that you really need. It's something I've never worried about playing a Pro V1. Never even crossed my mind to wonder if the bad shot I just hit was my golf ball.” “I mark my Titleist with a three-dimple line and then an orange dot [to the top right of the play number] – the orange is for Oklahoma State. It's an alignment thing – I’ve bounced back and forth from full lines, no lines. I’ve done it all. I think most golfers have, and it’s just something that I could kind of – it doesn’t seem as precise – something that I can do and I feel comfortable with. And I probably started doing that maybe my junior year of college and I’ve stuck with it.” LPGA | LOTTE Championship A Lim Kim (Pro V1) closed in 4-under 68 to claim her second career LPGA title while leading a 1-2-3 finish for Titleist golf ball players in Hawaii: 1. A Lim Kim (Pro V1) 2. Nataliya Guseva (Pro V1x) 3. Auston Kim (Pro V1x) Kim, who finished the week at 18 under par to win by two shots, jumped 43 spots in the Race to the CME Globe standings, locking up a spot in the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship. Perhaps the shot of the week for Kim came in Round 3, when she sent a 9-iron right at the pin on the 140-yard par-3 9th, her Pro V1 dropping into the cup for an ace. The 2020 U.S. Women’s Open champion kept the pressure on, making nine birdies over her next 27 holes, with no player bettering Kim’s 9-under total for Rounds 3 and 4. Kim was one of 90 players (75%) who teed up a Titleist golf ball, more than five times the nearest competitor (16, 33%). NEW 2025 PRO V1, PRO V1x MODELS LAUNCH ON LPGA The seeding and validation process for the NEW 2025 Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf balls continued this week on the LPGA Tour, with the new models available to players for the first time to play in competition. With just two events left in the 2024 campaign, seven players made the immediate move to ‘25 V or X, including Sofia Garcia (Pro V1x) , Gina Kim (Pro V1x) and Danielle Kang (Pro V1x) . DP WORLD TOUR | Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship Paul Waring (Pro V1x Left Dash) finished birdie-birdie on Sunday to cap off a bogey-free 66 and earn the biggest title of his career, posting 24 under to win by two shots. Waring’s second career DPWT title moved him up 43 spots to No. 5 in the Race to Dubai ranking with one event remaining – and 10 PGA TOUR cards up for grabs. In addition to his flawless final round, Waring made headlines in Round 2, when he set the course record at Yas Links, an 11-under 61 highlighted by nine birdies and an eagle. Over four rounds in Abu Dhabi, Waring made 25 birdies and an eagle, while only dropping three shots. He finished second in Strokes Gained: Approach (+1.31 per round) and third in SG: Tee to Green (+1.70 per round). He hit 86% of his greens in regulation (T13) and finished T8 in Scrambling (70%). PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | Charles Schwab Cup Championship In the final Champions Tour event of the year, Bernhard Langer rolled in his Pro V1x for birdie on the last to claim his 47th career Champions Tour title and make it 18 consecutive years with at least one victory. Langer, the winningest player in Champions Tour history, closed with a 5-under 66 to post 18 under and win by one. The 67-year-old led the field in birdies, making 28 over 72 holes. One back of Langer was Steven Alker (Pro V1) , who finished atop the season-long Schwab Cup standings. It is Alker’s second career Schwab Cup victory. KPGA | KPGA Tour Championship Daihan Lee (Pro V1x) earned his maiden KPGA victory in the 2024 season finale, closing in 5-under 66 to win by three. Lee shot four consecutive rounds of 67 or lower (67-67-66-66) to post 18 under. Finishing T2 this week was Titleist Brand Ambassador Yubin Jang , who claimed the season-long Genesis Grand Prize and finished on top of the 2024 KPGA money list. He also led the KPGA in scoring average, top-10 finishes and driving distance. Titleist was the overwhelming #1 ball at the KPGA Tour Championship, with 52 players teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball (77%) compared to eight (12%) for the nearest competitor. Titleist was also the most played driver (52%), fairway (40%), hybrid (52%), iron (50%), wedge (76%) and putter (41%). What’s in the Bag? | Yubin Jang Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: NEW GT3 9.0 ° Fairway Metal: NEW GT3 15.0° Irons: 718 T-MB 2-3, 620 CB 4-5, and 620 MB 6-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 52.08F, 58.08M Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 5s KLPGA | SK Telecom Championship 2024 Dasom Ma (Pro V1) emerged victorious from a playoff, winning her second event in as many weeks and her third event of the season. Ma shot a final round 5-under 67 to post 7 under before making birdie on the second extra hole to seal the win. China Tour | Hengdian Celebrity Pro-Am Golf Championship Zihao Jin (Pro V1) made it back-to-back wins while claiming his fourth China Tour title of the year. Jin shot rounds of 67-65-68-67 to post 21 under, one shot clear of Titleist Brand Ambassador Zecheng Dou . Titleist was the overwhelming #1 ball in play, with 53 players teeing up a Titleist, more than 13 times the nearest competitor with 4. ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP Having made the move to the NEW 2025 Pro V1x golf ball, Nico Echavarria delivered in Japan, winning his second career PGA TOUR title with immense precision and shotmaking. The 30-year-old birdied two of his final three holes to close in 67, posting 20 under to win by one. Echavarria was in total control of his golf ball over four rounds at Accordia Golf Narashino Country Club, gaining over 10 shots on the field from tee to green for the week (10.276, 2nd). Over seven of those shots came from his approach play (7.992, 2nd). He also ranked second in birdies (24). On Sunday, Echavarria stood on the 196-yard par-3 16th tee at 18 under, one shot back of the lead. He pulled 6-iron and stuck his Pro V1x 12 feet below the hole, setting up a clutch birdie. Two holes later, he hit the 559-yard 18th green in two and two-putted for the victory. Titleist was the overwhelming #1 ball this week at ZOZO, with 48 players teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x , more than five times the nearest competitor (9). INSIDE ECHAVARRIA’S MOVE TO 2025 PRO V1 x A total of 28 players have already made the move to 2025 Pro V1 and Pro V1x , including this week’s champion, Nico Echavarria , and last week’s runner-up, Doug Ghim . While the new models officially launched on TOUR at last week’s Shriners Children’s Open – marking the start to year No. 25 for the game’s most trusted and best-selling golf ball models – a few PGA TOUR players were able to test the 2025 models at Titleist’s fitting and testing facilities as they dialed in their setups prior to the start of their fall seasons. That list included Hayden Springer (Pro V1) and Zac Blair (Pro V1x) , who after testing the new models at the Titleist Performance Institute in California asked to put them in play to begin the PGA TOUR’s fall season at the Procore Championship. When Tyson Alexander heard about the new models in Napa, he asked Titleist reps for some 2025 Pro V1x to test at home during the following off week. A couple of those sleeves ended up in Echavarria’s hands. “I was actually playing 18 holes with Tyson in Jacksonville back home,” said Echavarria at the Shriners. “It was in between Napa and Sanderson Farms, and I was actually low on balls. I didn't grab balls from my house, and he had some extra and they were the new ones, and I just tried it out.” “[‘25 Pro V1x was] maybe just the hair faster and something a touch spinner around the greens is what I felt. It worked very well last week [at the Black Desert Championship] with altitude. I've struggled hitting my numbers in altitude and this was very good how the numbers were.” Echavarria put the new ball in play in his next start at the Sanderson Farms Championship. ECHAVARRIA ON HIS GOLF BALL TESTING PROCESS “One of the only things we have in control is the ball, as golfers, and for me it's more playing and seeing it while I'm playing than on the range because when I'm hitting balls, I don't go to where it landed. I prefer trying them out in the golf course, seeing if the numbers that I felt were the right ones, where it landed on the green, how it reacted on the green, how it flew with the wind, what I thought, maybe it pitched short of what I thought, maybe it pitched long and then you adjust and see if you like it or not.” Echavarria on his go-to shot: "It's relying on that fade, especially on those off days where we're not feeling a hundred percent with our game, and I have to rely on that shot because I don't have the draw that day. I just hit fades out there and luckily, I have a ball that does what I feel like it should do.” DP WORLD TOUR / KPGA | Genesis Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Byeong Hun An prevailed in a playoff, making birdie on the par-5 18th both in regulation and in extra holes to win on home soil. An turned in rounds 67-66-71-67 to post 17 under, a total matched by fellow Brand Ambassador Tom Kim . The two headed back to the 18th tee for an all- Pro V1x playoff, which ended after An got up-and-down from in front of the green for a birdie 4 and his second career DP World Tour win. Perhaps the shot of the day for An came on the 577-yard par-5 15th. Faced with 290 yards to the pin, which was cut at the back of an elevated, water-guarded green, An pulled driver. He picked his Pro V1x clean and flew it onto the surface of the green, his ball settling within 20 feet. A two-putt birdie brought him closer to the lead, and two more birdies over his final three holes helped him force extra holes. “I think I was two shots back. I hit a great driver off the deck on the front nine on the par 5, so I’m like, ‘you know what, this is the one to do it,’” said An of the shot. “The layup is not that easy hitting close to the flag, and the driver was exactly how I planned it... I think that was the shot I needed in that moment... It’s a little aggressive, but I knew I could pull it off.” An ranked third for the week in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee (+1.13 per round). He hit 72% of his greens in regulation and got his Pro V1x up-and-down 70% of the time. Tom Kim led the field in Strokes Gained: Approach, gaining an average of 2.64 strokes per round. What’s in the Bag? | Byeong Hun An www.youtube.com/watch Golf Ball : Titleist Pro V1x Driver : TSR4 9.0 | Fujikura Motore X F1 6 X Utility Iron : U•505 1 | Graphite Design Tour AD VF-95 Hybrid X Irons : T200 3-iron | Mitsubishi MMT Utility Iron 105-TX, T150 4-5 | Project X 6.5, and 620 MB 6-9 | Project X 6.5 Wedges : Vokey Design SM10 48.10F, 52.08F, 56.08M, SM9 WedgeWorks 60T | Project X 6.5 (48-52), Project X 6.0 (56), True Temper Dynamic Gold S400 (60) What’s in the Bag? | Tom Kim Golf Ball : Titleist Pro V1x Driver : NEW GT3 9.0° | Graphite Design Tour AD VF-6 X Hybrid : TSR3 21.0° | Graphite Design Tour AD DI-105 Hybrid X Irons : T200 4 | Project X 6.0, and T100 5-9 irons | Project X 6.0 Wedges : Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.12F, 54.14F, WedgeWorks 58L | Project X 6.0 (46-50), Dynamic Gold Tour Issue Onyx X100 (54-58) Putter : Scotty Cameron 2024 Phantom 9.2 tour prototype TITLEIST GOLF BALL, DRIVER, IRON, VOKEY WEDGE PLAYERS FINISH 1-2-3-4 It was a sweep of the top-4 positions on the final leaderboard at the Genesis Championship for Titleist golf ball , driver , iron and Vokey wedge players: 1. Byeong Hun An : Pro V1x golf ball; TSR4 9.0 driver; T150 4-5 irons, 620 MB 6-9 irons, Vokey Design SM10 48.10F, 52.08F, 56.08M, SM9 WedgeWorks 60T wedges 2. Tom Kim : Pro V1x golf ball; NEW GT3 9.0 driver; T200 4-iron, T100 5-9 irons; Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.12F, 54.14F, WedgeWorks 58L wedges 3. Ricardo Gouveia : Pro V1x golf ball; NEW GT3 10.0 driver; T100 4-9 irons; Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 52.12F, WedgeWorks 58.06K wedges 4. Antoine Rozner : Pro V1x golf ball; NEW GT3 10.0 driver; T100 4-5 irons, 620 MB 6-9 irons; Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 52.08F, 58.08M wedges PGA TOUR AUSTRALASIA | WebEx Players Series SA Titleist Brand Ambassador Jack Buchanan picked up his second PGA Tour of Australasia title in three weeks, closing with a course record-setting 62. Buchanan, gaming his Pro V1x golf ball, NEW GT3 driver and fairway, 620 MB irons, Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron putter, posted a four-round total of 14 under, which was good for a three-shot victory. What’s in the Bag? | Jack Buchanan Golf Ball : Titleist Pro V1x Driver : NEW GT3 10.0° Fairway Metal : NEW GT3 16.5° Irons : T200 2, and 620 MB 4-9 Wedges : Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.12F, 56.14F, 60.04T Putter : Scotty Cameron Newport PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | Simmons Bank Championship Padraig Harrington (Pro V1) made birdie on his final hole Sunday to cap off his ninth Champions Tour title in style. Harrington carded rounds of 67-65-67 around Pleasant Valley Country Club to post 17 under, two shots clear of second place. The victory marked his third of the season, and it moves him to No. 4 in the season-long Schwab Cup standings. Harrington was in control all tournament long, leading the field in driving distance and greens in regulation (87%, 47/54). He made 17 birdies and two eagles over the three rounds. LET | Hero Women's Indian Open Liz Young (Pro V1) finished on top in India, posting 2 under for the week around the difficult DLF Golf and Country Club. Young was one of just five players to finish under par after four rounds. Young's round of the week came on Saturday, when she made eight birdies en route to a 67, vaulting her up the leaderboard before Sunday’s final round. CHINA TOUR | China Sports Lottery Championship Match Play Titleist Brand Ambassador Shunyat Hak made birdie on the final hole of Sunday’s championship match to win, 2 up. Hak’s winning setup included his Pro V1 golf ball, NEW GT2 driver and GT3 fairway, 620 CB and MB irons, Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron putter. Titleist was the overwhelming #1 ball with 89 players teeing up a Titleist, more than 12 times the nearest competitor with seven. What’s in the Bag? | Shunyat Hak Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: NEW GT2 9.0° Fairway Metal: NEW GT3 15.0° Irons : T200 2-3, 620 CB 4-6, and 620 MB 7-9 Wedges : Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 54.10S, WedgeWorks 60A Putter: Scotty Cameron 009 tour prototype ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | Shriners Children’s Open In total control of his Pro V1x golf ball, Titleist Brand Ambassador J.T. Poston posted four rounds of 67 or better in Las Vegas to close out his third PGA TOUR victory. Poston, whose all-Titleist winning setup included his NEW GT3 driver, T100 irons, Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron GOLO 5 putter, made three birdies over a four-hole stretch from Nos. 12 through 15 Sunday on his way to a winning total of 22 under, one shot clear of Doug Ghim (NEW 2025 Pro V1x) . By week’s end, Poston had gained over 2.5 strokes on the field in every major Strokes Gained category, while finishing fourth overall in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green (+9.816). SG: Off the Tee: +2.918 (15th) SG: Approach: +2.930 (20th) SG: Around the Green: +3.968 (6th) SG: Putting: +5.472 (8th) He hit 79% of his greens in regulation (T16) and got up-and-down 12 of 15 attempts (80%, 5th). The 31-year-old made as many eagles (3, T1) as he did bogeys (3, 3rd). What’s in The Bag? | J.T. Poston Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: NEW GT3 9.0° | Mitsubishi Diamana BF 60 TX Fairway Metal: TS2 15.0° | Graphite Design AD IZ-7 X Hybrid: TS2 19.0° | Graphite Design AD DI-95 Hybrid X Utility Iron: U•500 4 | True Temper Project X 6.5 Irons: T100 5-9 | True Temper Project X 6.5 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.08F, 56.10S (@ 55), WedgeWorks 60L wedges | True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 Putter: Scotty Cameron GOLO 5 tour prototype J.T. POSTON ON HIS PRO V1 x GOLF BALL “I play the Pro V1x, [I] play it because I think it's the best ball that I've come across, and I'm looking for every advantage against the rest of the field. For me, it's easier to take spin off the ball than it is for me to create it, especially with the longer clubs. I would rather have a ball that has more spin, or I have the ability to really spin it and get it to stop faster, than the other way around.” “You know that if it doesn't do what you want it to do, it was me and it's never the (Titleist) golf ball. You know that the golf ball's going to perform exactly how you want it to, as long as you hit it exactly how you want it to. Being able to take that factor or check that box before you even swing the club is huge. Knowing that it's going to perform, you're doing yourself a favor and giving yourself as much of an advantage as you can by playing that golf ball.” ON HIS GOLF BALL TESTING PROCESS: “I’m a feel player, so a lot of the initial feedback is what does it feel like? What does it look like when it's flying through the air? So we've played golf enough, like I know exactly what window I want certain clubs to come out of, and so I'll know if it's a little bit higher, a little bit lower. I’m looking at how does it feel off the face when I hit it good. How does it look? How does it react? How does it do in some wind? I live in Sea Island, Georgia, so a lot of times that's a little bit more of the last test. If the numbers are good with no wind and everything and I can hit all my numbers and windows, how does it perform when I get down there and it's blowing 15 (mph), and do I feel like I still have the same control.” 23 PLAYERS TEE UP 2025 PRO V1 & PRO V1 x IN VEGAS; GHIM EARNS SEASON-BEST FINISH WITH NEW PRO V1 x The NEW 2025 Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf balls were officially introduced on the PGA TOUR this week in Las Vegas, with 23 players teeing up the new models at TPC Summerlin. That list included runner-up Doug Ghim , who earned his best finish of the season while gaming 2025 Pro V1x. Ghim led the field in both Strokes Gained: Approach (+6.710) and Greens in Regulation (87.5%), missing just nine greens all week at TPC Summerlin and only two over the weekend. With the result, he jumped 23 spots to No. 70 in the FedExCup Fall standings. Ghim, as well as the winner in Vegas, J.T. Poston , were among a large group of PGA TOUR players who tested the last round of 2025 prototypes earlier this season with Fordie Pitts, Titleist’s Director of Tour Validation and Research , before final selections were made. Poston plans to test the NEW Pro V1x at home over the offseason as he dials in his game for 2025. Said Poston: “I think it’s great – doing the due diligence and trying to get it as good as you possibly can. The golf ball's already so good, every year, I’m like, ‘I don’t know, how do you make it better?’ But then a new one comes out and you feel like you notice little things that are like, ‘yeah, OK, that might be a little more consistent, that might be a little bit better.’ And so I think getting a head start and getting to test the prototypes and going through the process of finalizing it is huge.” Titleist was the overwhelming #1 ball this week at the Shriners, with 72 percent of the field (95 players) teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x , more than seven times the nearest competitor with 13 (10%). Of the 23 players who teed up 2025 models this week, nine played Pro V1 and 14 Pro V1x. 1-2 FINISH FOR NEW GT DRIVERS IN VEGAS It was a 1-2 finish for NEW Titleist GT drivers in Las Vegas, with more players in the field using a Titleist driver (52/39%) than any other brand. The champion, J.T. Poston , who gained 2.918 shots off the tee (15th) this week at TPC Summerlin, was among the first players to make the move to a NEW GT driver this summer, putting his GT3 9.0° (Mitsubishi Diamana BF 60 TX shaft) in play straightaway when the new models launched the Memorial. Since then, his average driving distance has increased from 288.4 to 291.9 yards. www.instagram.com/.../ POSTON’S WEDGE SETUP: FOUR VOKEY SM10’S J.T. Poston brought four Vokey Design SM10 wedges to the winner’s circle on Sunday: 46.10F, 50.08F, 56.10S (@ 55), WedgeWorks 60L. He used his scoring clubs to gain +3.968 strokes on the field around the green (6th), while ranking 5th in Scrambling (12/15, 80%). Versatility in Poston’s wedge setup has been key since his first wedge fitting with Vokey Tour Rep Aaron Dill at the Titleist Performance Institute in Oceanside, Calif. By having different grinds in his sand and lob wedge, Poston has a wider range of shots at his disposal around the greens. "What I took away from [the fitting], and I still use today, is [Dill] asked me ‘why is your bounce the same on your sand wedge and your lob wedge?’ And I didn't have an answer for it. It was just ‘That's what I've used as a kid in junior golf and college golf.’ I'm not one for change usually. And so, if I know that it's working, I'm like, ‘I'm going to keep doing it.’ But there was no real method, no real reason to why I was doing it. And [Dill] made a great point. If you kind of give one maybe a little more [bounce] and one that has a little less, it gives you more of a variety around the greens without having to really change too much other than just how the club reacts.” Poston’s 56-degree S Grind has 10 degrees of bounce, while his 60-degree L Grind lob wedge has 4 degrees of bounce. www.youtube.com/watch POSTON KEEPS IT ROLLING WITH SCOTTY CAMERON GOLO 5 J.T. Poston captured the third PGA TOUR title with his Scotty Cameron GOLO 5 tour prototype putter in the bag, gaining over five shots on the field on the greens (+5.472, 8th) while averaging 1.68 putts per GIR (T15). Poston began his PGA TOUR career with a Scotty Cameron Circa 62 No. 2 blade putter that was in his bag for 11 years straight, dating back to his middle school days. The streak ended at The PLAYERS Championship in 2019, when Poston moved into a mallet for the first time: a black GOLO 5 tour prototype. One of the key motivations for the switch was the alignment line on the GOLO head, having previously used a sight dot on his Circa 62: “The line on the back is a huge difference inside of 10 feet. I know exactly where I'm looking,” said Poston. “The line, it's not on the top of the putter, it's on the back, so it's not directly lining up to the ball. So it still kind of feels like I can putt with my path that I see when I read greens. It just gives me a general direction and it doesn't stick out as much because it's all blacked out. To me, a white line would look a little more glaring, especially on a white or on a black putter head. And I think that would almost catch my eye too much where I'd be too focused on where the line's lined up as opposed to everything's black, so I can still kind line the putter head up wherever I feel is comfortable and then just can use the line on the back of the mallet as sort of a visual aid as far as where I'm stroking it.” Poston went on to capture his first career victory at the 2019 Wyndham Championship a few months after switching. The black GOLO 5 model was also in the bag at the 2022 John Deere Classic. MICHAEL KIM DIALS IN GT2 DRIVER, CLOSES IN 62 Titleist Brand Ambassador Michael Kim tied his career low with a closing 10-under 62 Sunday in Las Vegas to finish T5 on the final leaderboard and jump 17 spots to No. 112 in the FedEx Cup Fall standings. Kim was cruising off the tee at TPC Summerlin with +3.857 strokes gained on the field (10th), having worked with Titleist Tour Reps the last two weeks to dial in the performance of GT2 11.0° driver (Graphite Design AD DI-6 X shaft). Kim has worked to add swing speed to his game, which necessitated a few adjustments at the top end of his setup. The result was an adjustment to his shaft length (0.5” shorter) and adjustments to CG positioning, which allowed for more consistent spin and flight direction. During his Sunday 62, Kim hit 11 of 14 fairways (T6). DP WORLD TOUR | Estrella Damm N.A. Andalucía Masters Titleist Brand Ambassador Julien Guerrier prevailed in a marathon nine-hole playoff to earn his first DP World Tour victory. Guerrier, playing his Pro V1 golf ball, NEW GT2 driver, 620 CB irons and SM10 wedges, opened the week with a 10-under 62 on his way to a 21 under total. After his 72-hole total was matched, Guerrier went back to the 18th tee for an all- Pro V1 playoff. Nine holes later, he was a DP World Tour champion for the first time. For the week in Andalucía, Guerrier ranked 3rd in Strokes Gained: Approach, gaining 1.73 strokes per round. He hit 79% of his greens in regulation (T7) and got up-and-down on 12 of 15 attempts (80%, 5th). The Frenchman also ranked 7th in Driving Distance (308.12). What’s in the Bag? | Julien Guerrier Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: NEW GT2 9.0° | Mitsubishi Tensei AV Raw White 65 TX Irons: T100 3 and 620 CB 4-9 | Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 52.12F, WedgeWorks 58L | Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 (46°), S300 (52°-58°) PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | Dominion Energy Charity Classic Tim O’Neal (Pro V1 Yellow) closed in 7-under 65 to earn his first career PGA Tour Champions victory, winning by two in Virginia. O’Neal made two clutch birdies over his final three holes, taking care of the par-5 16th and par-5 18th with stellar wedge approaches. For the week, O’Neal ranked 1st in Greens in Regulation (46/54, 85%) and 5th in Driving Distance. Nobody made more birdies than O’Neal (T1, 18) or surrendered fewer bogeys (T1, 3). PGA TOUR OF AUSTRALASIA | Bowra & O’Dea Nexus Advisernet WA Open Titleist Brand Ambassador Elvis Smylie broke through with his first professional victory, sticking his Pro V1x golf ball in tight for birdie on the first hole of a playoff to seal the victory. Smylie, also playing a NEW GT3 driver and GT2 fairway, T-Series irons, Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron Phantom putter, turned in rounds of 67-64-65-69 to post 19 under before winning on the first extra hole. Smylie’s first win on the PGA Tour of Australasia, which follows a third-place finish at last week’s CKB WA PGA Championship, puts him atop the Order of Merit. For the week at Mandurah Country Club, Titleist was the overwhelming #1 ball, with 81 percent of the field (107 players) teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x . Titleist also accounted for more than half of the drivers , fairways , irons and wedges in play. Each of the top 4 finishers played a Titleist golf ball, driver, T-Series irons and Vokey wedges. What’s In The Bag? | Elvis Smylie Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: NEW GT3 10.0° Fairway Metal: NEW GT2 15.0° Irons: T150 3 and T100 4-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.12F, 56.10S, 60.04T Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 11.5 SUNSHINE TOUR | Fortress Invitational Titleist Brand Ambassador Robin Williams successfully defended his title at the Fortress Invitational, posting 22 under for the week and cruising to a three-shot win. The 23-year-old, gaming his Pro V1 golf ball, NEW GT3 driver and fairway, T100 irons and Vokey SM10 wedges, shot rounds of 64-65-70-67 around Glendower Golf Club to win his third Sunshine Tour title. What’s in the Bag? | Robin Williams Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: NEW GT3 10.0° Fairway Metal: NEW GT3 15.0° Irons: T100 4-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.12F, 54.10S, WedgeWorks 60.06K KLPGA | Sangsangin HankyungTV Open 2024 Bokyeom Park (Pro V1) closed with a stellar 6-under 66 to erase a four-stroke deficit at the start of the final round and win by one at 15 under. Nine of the 11 players finishing inside the top 10 played a Titleist golf ball. JLPGA | NOBUTA GROUP MASTERS GC LADIES Playing a Pro V1 golf ball, the winner of the Nobuta Group Masters GC Ladies carded a 1-under 71 on Sunday to post 14 under and win by one shot. She also gamed a NEW GT3 9.0° driver, which she switched to two weeks ago from a competitive driver, as well as two TSR3 fairways (15.0°, 18.0°), a TSR3 21.0 hybrid, a T200 4-iron and two Vokey Design SM10 wedges (52°, 58°). ... #TeamTitleist
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LPGA | Walmart NW Arkansas Championship Jasmine Suwannapura was in total control of her Pro V1x golf ball Sunday in Arkansas, hitting 12-of-13 fairways and 17-of-18 greens in regulation on her way to a closing 10-under 61, before claiming the victory with an eagle on the second playoff hole. Suwannapura also eagled the par-5 18th in regulation to shoot a back-nine 28 and force extra holes at 17 under par. In the playoff, she played the same hole in birdie-eagle to earn her third LPGA title. Including the playoff, Suwannapura’s Sunday totaled 20 holes, nine birdies and two eagles. PGA TOUR | PRESIDENTS CUP EQUIPMENT NOTES The United States took home the Presidents Cup, 18.5 to 11.5, with eight of the 12 players on the winning roster gaming a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball. That includes Patrick Cantlay , who earned a team-leading (T1) four points (4-1-0) with his Pro V1x , capped by a 3-and-1 victory in his Sunday singles match. Cantlay, who played all five sessions, finished the week second in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green (+2.54), according to Data Golf. Titleist drivers (5 players), irons (5), and wedges (9) were also the top choice of the U.S. side. Nine of the 12 players on the United States had at least one Vokey wedge in the bag, with Vokeys making up 24 of the 35 gap, sand and lob wedges in play for the U.S. Russell Henley earned 3 points (3-1-0) in his Presidents Cup debut, while leading the event in SG: Putting (+3.87), according to Data Golf. Henley, who games a Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5 tour prototype model, is second this season on the PGA TOUR in 3-Putt Avoidance (0.99%), having recorded just 13 three-putts over 1,314 holes. Max Homa – playing a Pro V1x golf ball and equipment setup that includes his GT3 driver, blended set of Titleist irons ( T100•S / T100 / 620 MB ) and Vokey SM10 wedges – improved his Ryder Cup/President Cup singles record to 3-0-0, gaining an event-best +4.16 strokes tee to green in Sunday singles, according to Data Golf. DP WORLD TOUR | Acciona Open de España Playing his Pro V1x golf ball, Angel Hidalgo prevailed in extra holes to win his maiden DP World Tour title on home soil. Hidalgo, who posted 14 under for the week at Club de Campo Villa de Madrid, made birdie twice in the playoff to clinch the victory. For the week in his home country, Hidalgo ranked 4th in Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green (+2.83 per round), with 1.49 of those strokes coming from his approach play (6th). He also ranked T8 in greens in regulation (67%). JGTO | Vantelin Tokai Classic Titleist Brand Ambassador Takahiro Hataji closed in 6-under 65 to earn his second JGTO victory of the season and his career. Hataji, gaming his Pro V1x Left Dash golf ball, NEW GT driver and fairway, 620 MB irons, Vokey Design SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron Phantom 11s putter, made four back nine birdies to pull ahead of the chasing pack and post 17 under, good for a one-shot win. What’s in the Bag? | Takahiro Hataji Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Left Dash Driver: NEW GT4 10.0° Fairway Metal: NEW GT3 16.5° Hybrid: TSR2 18.0° Utility Iron: U•505 2 Irons : 620 MB 4-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 52.12F, 56.10S, WedgeWorks 60.06K @ 61 Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 11 tour prototype CHINA TOUR | Shandong Cultural and Tourism Jinan Open Zihao Jin (Pro V1) captured his second China Tour title, posting 13 under for the week to win by three and lead a complete sweep of the top 15 by Titleist golf ball players. In total, 126 players teed up a Titleist golf ball, more than 12 times the nearest competitor with 10. KLPGA | Hana Financial Group Championship Dasom Ma (Pro V1) closed in 11-under 62 to lap the field, posting 19 under and winning by nine shots. Ma's flawless, bogey-free final round featured nine birdies and an eagle, propelling her to her second career KLPGA title. LET | Lacoste Ladies Open de France Chiara Tamburlini (Pro V1x) made birdie on the first hole of a playoff to earn her second LET victory of the season and extend her lead in the season-long Order of Merit standings. Tamburlini recorded rounds of 68-67-71 to post 7 under before making the tournament-winning birdie in extra holes. AMATEUR | U.S. Mid-Amateur The winner of the U.S. Mid-Amateur played a Pro V1x golf ball and Titleist equipment setup that included his Titleist TSR1 driver and fairways. He beat his opponent (Pro V1) 9&8 in the 36-hole, all-Titleist golf ball championship match, earning an exemption into the 2025 U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club and a likely invitation to the 2025 Masters Tournament. What's in the Bag? | U.S. Mid-Amateur Champion Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR1 10.0° Fairway Metals: TSR1 18.0°, 20.0° Utility Iron: U•505 4 Irons: 718 AP2 5-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM8 52°, 56°, 50° TITLEIST IS OVERWHELMING #1 BALL AT U.S. MID-AM Titleist was the overwhelming #1 ball at the U.S. Mid-Amateur, with 89 percent of the field – including the champion (Pro V1x) – teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball. Titleist was also the most played driver (34%), hybrid (43%), utility iron (57%), iron (35%), wedge (65%) and putter (28%) for the week at Kinloch: In a field of 312 players, 261 teed up and Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball (84%), more than 10 times the nearest competitor (25). 91 players (34%) gamed a Titleist driver, compared to 79 for the nearest competitor (30%). Titleist was also the most played hybrid (59, 43%). Titleist iron sets were in the bags of 92 players (35%), over 50 more than the nearest competitor (40, 15%). More than half the utilities in play were Titleist (66, 57%). Of all the gap, sand and lob wedges at Kinloch, 65 percent were Vokey Design (503), over five times the nearest competitor (88/11%). On the greens, there were 73 Scotty Cameron putters in play (28%), compared to 63 (24%) for the nearest competitor. ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | Procore Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Patton Kizzire closed out a five-shot victory Sunday in Napa, making three birdies over his final seven holes to secure his third PGA TOUR title. With a Titleist setup that included his Pro V1 golf ball, NEW GT3 driver, T-Series irons and Vokey SM10 wedges, Kizzire gained more than eight shots (+8.052/4th) on the field tee-to-green while making 24 birdies and an eagle over the four days at Silverado. Around the green, Kizzire gained over 3 ½ shots (+3.618/6th), including his chip-in eagle Sunday on the par-5 fifth. For the week, he got his Pro V1x up-and-down on 15 of 18 attempts (83.3%/T1), including a perfect 3-for-3 in sand saves in the final round. What's in the Bag? | PATTON KIZZIRE Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: NEW GT3 9.0° | Fujikura Motore X F1 6 X Irons: T200 3-4 | True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 , T100 5 | True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100, 620 CB 6 | True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100, and 620 MB 7-9 | True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 48.10F, 52.08F, 56.08M, 60.04T | True Temper Dynamic Gold Onyx Tour Issue X100 KIZZIRE ON HIS PRO V1 “It’s soft on the green, soft on the putter and the wedge and flies great through the wind. You never want to be hitting a tee shot into the wind and feel like you’ve got to do something a little different. This ball is so stable, I feel like I can just hit my shot and just trust it and it flies through the wind, and in the crosswinds it just holds really nice.” “I have such a greater appreciation for what goes into making the Titleist golf ball (after taking a tour of Titleist Ball Plant 3 in New Bedford, Mass). It starts from scratch, and we get these beautiful, perfectly round, seamless, white Titleist golf balls. I would say that if you really want to appreciate how good your Titleist golf ball is, you have to go through the plant, because they're so precise with every little detail, you can't even believe it until you see it.” TITLEIST GOLF BALL PLAYERS SWEEP TOP SIX POSITIONS Patton Kizzire led a 1-through-6 finish for Titleist golf ball players in Napa, while 11 of the top 12 on the final leaderboard played a Pro V1 or Pro V1x : 1. Patton Kizzire (Pro V1) 2. David Lipsky (Pro V1x Left Dash ) 3. Patrick Fishburn (Pro V1) T4. Ben Silverman (Pro V1), Mackenzie Hughes (Pro V1x+ prototype), Greyson Sigg (Pro V1 ) T7. Tom Hoge (Pro V1 Left Dot), Justin Lower (Pro V1x), Sahith Theegala (Pro V1), Corey Conners (Pro V1) 12. Keith Mitchell (Pro V1 ) KIZZIRE WINS WITH NEW GT3 DRIVER Patton Kizzire's victory comes in the seventh start since adding his NEW Titleist GT3 9.0° driver (Fujikura Motore X F1 6 X) to the bag. Kizzire made the immediate move to GT3 from his TSR3 driver at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, his first start since the models launched on TOUR. Overall, 61 players (42%) had a Titleist driver in the bag this week in Napa, with 47 of those drivers being NEW GT models. The nearest competitor had 34 drivers in play. KIZZIRE WINS WITH FOUR DIFFERENT IRON MODELS IN THE BAG Patton Kizzire's blended iron set features four different iron models: T200 3-4 irons, T100 5-iron, 620 CB 6-iron, 620 MB 7-9 irons (all with True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 shafts). Of the Titleist Brand Ambassadors currently playing on the PGA TOUR, approximately 80 percent are playing blended sets of at least two Titleist iron models, demonstrating the importance of custom fitting and optimization throughout the bag. For the week, Kizzire gained 3.454 strokes on the field with his approach play (15th). KIZZIRE LEADS IN SCRAMBLING WITH VOKEY SM10 WEDGES Patton Kizzire , carrying a set of four Vokey Design SM10 wedges (48.10F, 52.08F, 56.08M, 60.04T), finished the week T1 in Scrambling, getting his Pro V1 up-and-down 15 of 18 attempts (83%). He gained over 3 ½ strokes on the field around the greens (+3.618, 6th) and was 6-for-7 in sand saves (86%, T7). Each of the top-3 finishers in Napa gamed at least two Vokey SM10 wedges: Patton Kizzire : Vokey Design SM10 48.10F, 52.08F, 56.08M, 60.04T wedges 2nd place finisher : Vokey Design SM10 56.10S, 58.04T wedges 3rd place finisher : Vokey Design SM10 52.12F, 56.10S, 62.08M wedges LPGA | Solheim Cup Facing a critical 104-yard approach into the 18th hole, Lilia Vu flighted her Pro V1x golf ball to perfection, setting up the tap-in birdie that clinched the Solheim Cup for Team U.S.A. Sunday in Virginia. Vu’s final approach left no doubt, landing perfectly on line before checking up and finishing just a couple feet from the hole. She birdied both the 17th and 18th to halve her singles match, earning the final ½-point the United States needed to win the Cup. Vu was one of 17 players who played a Titleist golf ball this week at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club (8 on Team U.S.A. and 9 on Team Europe) more than five times the nearest competitor with three. PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | Sanford International Steve Stricker (Pro V1x) prevailed on the fourth hole of a playoff, making it three consecutive wins for Stricker at the Sanford International. Stricker shot rounds of 67-68-67 to post 8 under, matching the 54-hole total of Richard Green (Pro V1). After the two matched each other for three straight holes, Stricker broke the deadlock with a winning birdie on the fourth playoff hole. The win is his 18th on the PGA Tour Champions. KORN FERRY TOUR | Simmons Bank Open Paul Peterson (Pro V1x) closed in 4-under 66 to win his first career Korn Ferry Tour title and put himself in position to earn a PGA TOUR card for 2025. Peterson, who made 25 birdies for the week, opened with rounds of 64-63 to lead by one going into the weekend. Peterson followed with weekend rounds of 67-66 to reach 20 under, good for a one-shot win. After entering the week at No. 51 on the KFT Points List, Peterson jumps to No. 15 with just two events remaining on the schedule. The top 30 players earn PGA TOUR cards for 2025. SUNSHINE TOUR | Bain's Whisky Ubunye Championship Titleist Brand Ambassadors Jean Hugo (Pro V1x) and Ruan Korb (Pro V1) claimed victory in the two-player team event after a closing best-ball 63. The duo, each playing a Titleist golf ball and 14 Titleist clubs , finished the week 20 under, four clear of the runner-up team. The win is Hugo’s 21st of his career and Korb’s third. What’s in the Bag? | Jean Hugo Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: NEW GT3 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSR3 15.0°, TSR2 18.0° Irons: T100 4-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM8 50.08F, WedgeWorks 54.08M, WedgeWorks 58T or 58L Putter: Scotty Cameron Craftsman tour prototype What’s in the Bag? | Ruan Korb Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: NEW GT2 9.0° Fairway Metal: NEW GT2 15.0° Irons: T200 3-iron, T100 4-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.08F, 56.10S, 60.04T Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 12 KLPGA | OK Financial Group OK MAN Open Seunghui Ro (Pro V1x) made seven Sunday birdies to come from three back at the start of the day and win her second KLPGA title of the season. Ro shot rounds of 67-68-67 to post 14 under and win by one shot. AMATEUR | U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur Gaming her Pro V1 golf ball, the champion of the 37th U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur clinched victory with a 5&4 win in the 18-hole final at Brae Burn Country Club. The winner, who also played a TSR driver, T100•S irons and Vokey wedges, entered match play as the No. 6 seed after two rounds of stroke play. Six match victories later, she was the champion, claiming the trophy and a spot in the field at the 2025 U.S. Women’s Open at Erin Hills. For the week, 116 players (88%) played a Titleist golf ball . That includes the champion (Pro V1) and the runner-up (Pro V1). Titleist was also the most played driver (32%), hybrid (29%), utility iron (100%), iron (26%), wedge (57%) and putter (33%). ... #TeamTitleist
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LPGA | ISPS Handa Women’s Scottish Open Lauren Coughlin (Pro V1) earned her second LPGA Tour victory in three weeks, playing her final five holes in 3 under to pull away from the field for an emphatic four-shot win, the largest margin of victory this season on the LPGA. Over the 72 holes in Scotland, Coughlin carded rounds of 69-69-66-69 to finish the week at 15 under, which included a stretch of 47 consecutive holes of bogey-free golf. She also continued her under-par streak which now stands at 18 consecutive rounds. Coughlin was dialed all week at Dundonald, hitting 83 percent of fairways (47/56) and 76 percent greens in regulation (55/72). She surrendered just four bogeys all week (T1) while making 19 birdies (T1). Over her last four starts on the LPGA Tour, Coughlin has recorded finishes of 4th (Amundi Evian Championship), 1st (CPKC Women’s Open), T9 (Portland Classic) and 1st (ISPS Handa Women’s Scottish Open), while averaging over four strokes gained on the field per round (+4.29) and 83 percent GIR. COUGHLIN’S MOVE FROM PRO V1 x to PRO V1 It was one year ago at the 2023 Scottish Open when Coughlin made an important equipment change, moving from her Pro V1x golf ball to Pro V1 . Having been a longtime Pro V1x player, Coughlin started testing both models early last season to make sure she was still dialed in. She put the lower-flying, lower-spinning Pro V1 in play for the first time in Scotland, and found she was able to better control her flight and spin, especially in windy conditions. Said Coughlin: “For the Scottish last year I was like, ‘okay, I'm going to give the regular Pro V a try to see if that'll help, especially into the wind.’ And I saw a huge benefit and an improved ball flight with [Pro V1]. So then I just kind of stuck with it the rest of the year and I've been using it ever since. ...” “Controlling my distance I would say is my biggest strength, in terms of I can take a little bit off this if I need to and [the ball] can go a couple yards shorter, or if I really need to step on something, it can go a couple yards longer. Just having that confidence that it’s going to do what I want it to do is very high.” Coughlin reiterated the importance of trusting her ball flight in the wind in her press conference Sunday evening: “I really struggled in the wind up until last year when I came to this event, and it's something that I've struggled with. But I've started to kind of get figured out and a lot of it is just trying to not fight it too much and let the wind do what it needs to do and trust it as much as you can.” AMATEUR | U.S. AMATEUR The 124th U.S. Amateur began with 84 percent of the field teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball – and ended with a Pro V1 player holding the trophy at Hazeltine National Golf Club. Holding to a 1-up lead, the champion found the fairway on the 36th hole of the championship match before sticking his Pro V1 to approximately 20 feet from the hole. The approach ensured a winning par and a place in history for the 124th U.S. Amateur champion, who finished off his opponent with 2-up match victory on Sunday. TITLEIST IS #1 BALL, TOP CHOICE TEE-TO-GREEN AT HAZELTINE Titleist was the overwhelming #1 ball at the U.S. Amateur, with 84 percent of the field – including the champion (Pro V1) – teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball. Titleist was also the most played driver (45%), fairway (38%), hybrid (32%), utility iron (51%), iron (44%), wedge (55%) and putter (29%) this week at Hazeltine, topping the counts in every major equipment category: In a field of 312 players, 261 teed up and Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball (84%), more than 10 times the nearest competitor (25). 142 players (45%) gamed a Titleist driver, more than double the nearest competitor (64/20%). Titleist was also the most played fairway (138/38%) and hybrid (28/32%). Titleist iron sets were in the bags of 137 players (44%), over 80 more than the nearest competitor (54, 17%). More than half the utilities in play were Titleist (90, 51%). Of all the gap, sand and lob wedges at Hazeltine, 55 percent were Vokey Design (507), over three times the nearest competitor (147/16%). On the greens, there were 90 Scotty Cameron putters in play (29%), compared to 74 (24%) for the nearest competitor. DP WORLD TOUR | D+D Real Czech Masters Carding the low round of the day, Titleist Brand Ambassador David Ravetto earned his maiden DP World Tour title with a final round 8-under 64 to claim a four-shot victory. Ravetto, playing his Pro V1 golf ball and 14 Titleist clubs , began his final round with six front-nine birdies to go out in 30, before adding three more birdies on his way home. The Frenchman finished the week with a field-best 27 birdies. Over four rounds in Prague, Ravetto ranked first in Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green, gaining 11.6 strokes on the field. More than seven of those shots came from his approach play (+7.08, 2nd). Ravetto hit 87.5 percent greens in regulation (T1) and finished 14th in SG: Putting (+3.92). What’s in the Bag? | David Ravetto Golf Ball : Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSi3 9.0° Fairway Metal: NEW GT3 16.5° Irons: T150 3 and 620 CB 4-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 50.08F, 56.08M, 60.08M Putter: Scotty Cameron Squareback 2 tour prototype PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | Rogers Charity Classic Ken Tanigawa (Pro V1x) closed in 6-under 64 to earn his third career PGA Tour Champions title while leading a 1-through-6 finish for Titleist golf ball players. Tanigawa, who shot the low round of the week on Saturday with a 9-under 61, made 18 birdies and two eagles over three rounds in Calgary. His 17-under total was good for a two-shot victory. KLPGA Tour | The Heaven Masters Titleist Brand Ambassador Sohyun Bae emerged victorious from a three-hole, sudden-death playoff to earn her second win of the season. Bae – gaming her Pro V1 golf ball, NEW GT3 driver, GT2 fairway, T100 irons, Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron putter – shot rounds of 71-62-68 for a 15 under total before prevailing in extra holes. What’s in the Bag? | Sohyun Bae Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: NEW GT3 9.0° Fairway Metal: NEW GT2 13.5° Hybrid: TSR3 19.0° Irons: T200 4 and T100 5-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 48.10F, 54.14F, 58.10S Putter: Scotty Cameron Newport 2 (center shaft) tour prototype PGA TOUR AMERICAS | Elk Ridge Saskatchewan Open Monday qualifier A.J. Ewart (Pro V1) shot rounds of 63-66-67-67 to post 17 under and win his first career PGA Tour Americas title. Ewart’s one-shot victory projects him to rise to No. 14 in the season-long Fortinet Cup standings with three events remaining this year. What's in the Bag? | A.J. Ewart Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSR2 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSR3 15.0° Utility Iron: U•505 2 Irons: T200 4 and T100 5-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.08F, 56.08M, WedgeWorks 60V Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5 SUNSHINE TOUR | Vodacom Origins of Golf - Highland Gate Titleist Brand Ambassador Jean Hugo birdied the last to earn his 20th career Sunshine Tour title and his 12th career Vodacom Origins of Golf title. Hugo, playing his Pro V1x golf ball, NEW GT3 driver, T100 irons, Vokey wedges and Scotty Cameron putter, shot rounds of 66-67-70 to post 13 under and win by one. What’s in the Bag? | Jean Hugo Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: NEW GT3 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSR3 15.0° and TSR2 18.0° Irons: T100 4-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM8 50.08F, WedgeWorks 54M, SM9 WedgeWorks 58T Putter: Scotty Cameron Craftsman tour prototype PGA TOUR OF AUSTRALASIA | PNG Open William Bruyeres (Pro V1x) earned his first career PGA Tour of Australasia title, shooting a final round 4-under 68 to win by two. Bruyeres finished in style, making birdie on three of his final five holes on his way to posting 17 under for the week. For the week in Papua New Guinea, 82 percent of the field played a Titleist golf ball . ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | Wyndham Championship Aaron Rai capped off a remarkable regular season of ball striking with his first PGA TOUR victory Sunday in North Carolina, hitting his Pro V1 golf ball to 6 feet, 7 inches on the 72nd hole and then draining the putt to win by two shots. Rai, who ranks No. 4 on the PGA TOUR in Strokes Gained: Total, gained a field-best +11.347 strokes gained tee-to-green, with more than eight of those strokes coming on approach shots (+8.747/1st). On Sunday, he led all competitors with more than four strokes gained on approach shots (+4.118), while hitting 15 of 18 greens with a field-best average proximity of 20 feet, 3 inches. For the week, Rai hit 59 of 72 (82%) greens in regulation, with a tournament-best average proximity of 25 feet. He also got up-and-down on 10 of 13 attempts (77%/T6). Rai’s victory was the 28th win for Titleist golf ball players this season on the PGA TOUR, seven times the nearest competitor with four. AARON RAI ON WHY HE PLAYS PRO V1 “I don't have many equipment deals because I want the freedom to choose what I feel is best regardless of contracts, regardless of any other incentives. And I certainly wouldn't be using the Titleist ball if I didn't think it was the best regardless of any other factor.” “A lot of the golf courses that we play week in, week out, the margin between hitting great shots and being in bad spots is so, so small. And there’s a lot of variables that go into hitting the ball. But certainly when I do my job well, it’s paramount that the ball is in the area that I want it to be. And I don’t think I’ve hit a shot where the ball hasn't been where I’ve wanted it to be when I feel like I've done my part. And again, the ball plays a massive role in that. And that's the reason that I’ve used the Titleist ball for pretty much the whole time that I’ve played golf. And that’s the reason why I’m still using it now.” “The flight, it has a great balance of height and spin. I’ve probably been using Pro V1 since I was nine or 10 years old, and I can’t really see myself ever moving from it. I just feel if I do my job, I feel like the ball hits the windows that I expect them to be in.” “The feel of it around the greens is second to none. Feel is also associated with sound. Hearing a certain note off the irons, hearing a certain note off the wedges, same off the driver. I quite like softness and I feel like it really gives that, even with the fuller shots. I probably feel it more around the greens, but it’s just got that nice balance of softness, and just what it does as soon as it’s off the face is just in the right area for me.” AARON RAI ON HOW HE MARKS HIS PRO V1 www.youtube.com/watch “I get the Pro V mark, put my device around it, put a line around the whole ball. It gives me feedback for line, gives me feedback for roll in practice. I also like to add a black mark in line with the Titleist, so that gives me a focal point to look at when I'm over the ball. It helps keep my head a little bit more steady. Then to finish off, I put four initials, which signify family members. Those are L-O-N-F, and I do that around the Titleist.” TITLEIST IS MOST PLAYED DRIVER AT WYNDHAM, MOST PLAYED ON TOUR IN 2024 This week at the Wyndham Championship, 40 percent of the drivers in play were Titleist (63). NEW GT drivers , available now for fittings worldwide, accounted for 45 of those Titleist drivers, more than the nearest competitor’s total number of drivers (34, 22%). So far this season on the PGA TOUR, Titleist drivers have been played in competition 1,744 times (37%). The nearest competitor has been played 1,025 times (22%). LPGA TOUR | LYDIA KO MAKES HISTORY BY QUALIFYING FOR THE LPGA HALL OF FAME Lydia Ko , adding to a career that includes 20 LPGA titles and two major championships, has officially secured her place in history, earning the final point she needed for qualification into the LPGA Hall of Fame. KO ON HER TITLEIST GOLF BALL “I’ve used the Titleist ball for a really long time and I can speak from my experience that every time I’ve tried something new I’ve been able to see a difference, and I just love how it is the #1 golf ball. It’s not just an advertisement. It is something that I believe and something that I really trust. The golf ball is such a crucial part of the equipment standpoint and in the game.” PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | Boeing Classic Stephen Ames (Pro V1) made four back-nine birdies to close in 67 and win his 9th title on the Champions Tour. Ames’ ballstriking was dialed in this week, as he hit 42 of 54 greens in regulation (78%, T3). The win marked his third of the season. JGTO | Yokohama Minato Championship Playing his Pro V1x golf ball along with his TSR2 driver, blended set of T-Series irons, Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron GOLO putter, Titleist Brand Ambassador Ren Yonezawa shot four rounds of 67 or lower (66-67-65-64) to earn his second JGTO victory of the year. Yonezawa’s 22-under total was good for a three-stroke victory. What’s in the Bag? | Ren Yonezawa Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR2 11.0° Fairway Metal: TSR2 18.0° Utility Iron: U•505 3 Irons: T200 4 and T100 5-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 46°, 52°, 58° Putter: Scotty Cameron GOLO 6.2 tour prototype GT MOMENTUM CONTINUES ON JGTO Titleist was the most played driver this week on the JGTO, with 44 drivers in play (29%) compared to 37 (24%) for the nearest competitor. GT2 , GT3 and GT4 drivers were in the bags of 29 players, making GT the most played driver line at the event. ASIAN TOUR | International Series England Titleist Brand Ambassador Peter Uihlein closed with a bogey-free 8-under 63 to close out a runaway seven-shot victory. Uihlein – who played a Pro V1x golf ball, NEW GT3 driver, a NEW GT2 fairway metal, 620 MB irons, four Vokey SM10 wedges and a Scotty Cameron putter – shot rounds of 71-61-69-63 to reach his winning 20 under total. The victory marked his first on the Asian Tour. Seven of the top-8 finishers played a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball. What’s in the Bag? | Peter Uihlein Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver : NEW GT3 10.0* Fairway Metal: NEW GT2 15.0° Hybrid: TSR3 21.0° Irons: 620 MB 4-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 48.10F, 54.14F, WedgeWorks 58L, 60.04T Putter : Scotty Cameron Fastback 1.5 tour prototype CHINA TOUR | Wuhan Modern-Land Beyond Sky Open Titleist Brand Ambassador Bowen Xiao earned his third career China Tour title, closing in 4-under 68 to win by one. Xiao – gaming a Pro V1 golf ball, NEW GT3 driver, two NEW GT2 fairways, 620 MB irons, Vokey SM10 wedges and a Scotty Cameron Phantom 5.2 putter –finished atop a leaderboard that saw 10 of the top-11 finishers play a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball. What’s in the Bag? | Bowen Xiao Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: NEW GT3 10.0° Fairway Metal: NEW GT2 13.5°, 18.0° Irons: T200 4-iron and 620 MB 5-PW Wedges : Vokey Design SM10 50°, 54°, 58° Putter : Scotty Cameron Phantom 5.2 tour prototype AMATEUR | Women’s Amateur TITLEIST IS #1 BALL, TOP CHOICE TEE-TO-GREEN AT SOUTHERN HILLS Titleist was the overwhelming #1 ball at the U.S. Women’s Amateur, with 84 percent of the field – including the stroke play medalist (Pro V1x) – teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball. Titleist was also the most played driver (37%), fairway (30%), hybrid (36%), utility iron (83%), iron (33%), wedge (53%) and putter (31%) this week at Southern Hills, topping the counts in every major equipment category: In a field of 156 players, 131 teed up and Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball (84%), more than 10 times the nearest competitor (12). 58 players (37%) gamed a Titleist driver, 24 more than the nearest competitor (34/22%). Titleist was also the most played fairway (83/30%) and hybrid (59/36%). Titleist iron sets were in the bags of 51 players (33%), compared to 32 (21%) for the nearest competitor. More than 80 percent of the utility irons in play were also Titleist (34, 83%). Of all the gap, sand and lob wedges at Southern Hills, 53 percent were Vokey Design (250), over three times the nearest competitor (67/14%). On the greens, there were 49 Scotty Cameron putters in play (31%), compared to 39 (25%) for the nearest competitor. AMATEUR | Elite Amateur Golf Series The 2024 Men’s Elite Amateur Golf Series concluded with last week’s Western Amateur. The winner of the series-long Elite Amateur Cup played a Pro V1 golf ball in each of the seven Elite Amateur events. He finished with over 62 points, five clear of second place. The winner of the Women’s Elite Amateur Cup series, which concluded last month at the LNGA Amateur, also played a Pro V1 golf ball. ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | 3M Open With a clutch birdie on the last, Jhonattan Vegas (Pro V1x) earned his fourth career PGA TOUR victory, posting 17 under to win by one in Minnesota. Vegas, who carded rounds of 68-66-63-70 around TPC Twin Cities, was dialed in with his approach play, gaining over six strokes on the field (+6.386, 8th) and hitting 79% of his greens in regulation (57/72, T7). He also gained +2.564 strokes off the tee (18th). “Golf is about hitting your numbers, right? So, to me it's about being able to fly the ball consistently and hit the numbers that you’re trying to shoot, or as close as you can to that number,” Vegas said. “If you have 150, 142, 145 – I mean, the closer you can hit your numbers, the more confidence you gain from doing that. And [the Titleist golf ball] just frees you up to play really good golf.” VEGAS WINS IN 4TH START AFTER MOVE TO PRO V1x The 3M Open marked Jhonattan Vegas' fourth start since making the move to a Pro V1x golf ball, having put the model in play for the first time at the Canadian Open. Vegas, who had played a Pro V1x Left Dash since 2021, was looking to gain more spin and control into and around the green and had been discussing possible options with Titleist’s golf ball reps on the PGA TOUR. In Canada, Titleist’s Jim Curran walked several holes with Vegas during one his practice rounds to test different models side by side with his gamer. That Thursday at Hamilton G&CC, Vegas teed up 2023 Pro V1x for the first time. “He immediately gained more spin and check in the short game, while maintaining his speed and a strong ball flight off the tee,” Curran said. Vegas said he also really liked the feel of Pro V1x off the putter face. In his four starts since making the change, Vegas has:- Finished T27 or better in four straight starts, including Sunday’s victory; - Averaged 67.9 over those 16 rounds including his best round of the year (Saturday’s 63) - Registered his best rounds of the season in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee (RBC Canadian, Rd. 4, +2.340); Approach (John Deere, Rd. 2, +3.745); Around the Green (John Deere, Rd. 2, +1.924); Tee-to-Green (John Deere, Rd. 2, +6.166); and Putting (RBC Canadian, Rd. 1, +2.281). LPGA | CPKC Women’s Open Lauren Coughlin (Pro V1) broke through for her first career LPGA title, winning by two shots in Calgary. Coughlin, who began the day one shot back, found herself in a three-way share for the lead stepping to the tee on the 195-yard par-3 17th. She pulled 6-iron and hit the shot of the day, landing her Pro V1 on the green and watching it release to within 10 feet of the back left pin. She rolled in the birdie putt to seize the solo lead and never looked back. “It was kind of a tweener of a club,” said Coughlin. “I could really only hit 6 [iron] and I needed to take some off it or else it might have gone over, especially considering how jacked up I was at the time. But I hit it pretty perfect.” Coughlin carded rounds of 68-70-66-71 (13 under) for the week in Canada. With her victory, she climbs to No. 5 in the Race to the CME Globe standings. COUGHLIN ON HER PRO V1 GOLF BALL “Controlling my distance I would say is my biggest strength, in terms of I can take a little bit off this if I need to and [the ball] can go a couple yards shorter, or if I really need to step on something, it can go a couple yards longer. Just having that confidence that it's going to do what I want it to do is very high.” “In 2021, I needed to finish top 25 at the last event of the year to keep my card for the next year. And I had this shot into the 18th hole – basically, couldn't be short, wind really in off the left. And I decided instead of hitting a 6-iron, which probably would've been enough club, I hit this huge slice 5-hybrid and just knowing that it was going to cut and do exactly what I thought it was going to do and I hit it to 8 feet. ... I was like, yeah, this is one that it did exactly what I wanted to do in the pressure situation as well.” KORN FERRY TOUR | NV5 Invitational Titleist Brand Ambassador Thomas Rosenmueller shot four rounds of 66 or lower (66-64-63-66) on his way to posting 25 under and winning his first KFT title. Rosenmueller, whose winning setup included his Pro V1x golf ball, TSR4 driver, 620 MB irons and Vokey SM10 wedges, was in full control from tee to green, hitting 70 percent of his fairways (39/56, T4) and 82 percent greens in regulation (59/72, T10). On the back nine Sunday, Rosenmueller made a clutch birdie on the 530-yard par-4 14th before holing his 33-yard approach on the par-4 15th for eagle to separate from the chasing pack. What’s in the Bag? | Thomas Rosenmueller Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR4 9.0° | LIN-Q Blue M40X 7F5 X Fairway Metal: TSi3 13.5° | LIN-Q White M40X 8F5 X Hybrid: TSi3 18.0° | Recoil Prototype Hybrid 100F5 Irons: 620 MB 4-9 | True Temper Project X 6.5 LS Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.08F, 54.10S, WedgeWorks 60A wedges | True Temper Project X 6.5 LS (46-54), Nippon N.S. Pro Modus3 125 WV Tour Only (60) PGA TOUR AMERICAS | Commissionaires Ottawa Open Barend Botha (Pro V1x) made birdie on each of his final two holes to reach 26 under and win in just his second PGA TOUR Americas start. Botha, 22, carded rounds of 63-65-67-67 for the week at Eagle Creek Golf Club. AMATEUR | U.S. Junior Amateur The 76th U.S. Junior Amateur champion – playing a Pro V1 golf ball, TSR3 driver and a Scotty Cameron Phantom 5.5 tour prototype putter – closed out his opponent, 4 and 3, in Saturday’s championship match to seal the victory at Oakland Hills Country Club. The winner was solid all week, trailing for only three of the 91 holes played over his five matches to get to the 36-hole finale. On Saturday, he made seven birdies and an eagle (a hole-out from 106 yards on the par-4 6th) on his way to claiming the title. With the win, he earns exemptions into the 2025 U.S. Open as well as the 2024 and 2025 U.S. Amateur Championships. TITLEIST IS #1 BALL, TOP CHOICE TEE-TO-GREEN AT OAKLAND HILLS Titleist was the overwhelming #1 ball at the U.S. Junior Amateur, with 79 percent of the field – including the champion – teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x . Titleist was also the most played driver , fairway , hybrid , utility iron , iron , wedge and putter this week at Oakland Hills, topping the counts in every major equipment category: In a field of 264 players, 208 teed up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball (79%), more than six times the nearest competitor (33). 116 players (44%) gamed a Titleist driver, 54 more than the nearest competitor (62, 23%). Titleist was also the most played fairway (121, 37%) and hybrid (30, 34%). Titleist iron sets were in the bags of 112 players (42%), compared to 55 (21%) for the nearest competitor. More than half of the utility irons in play were also Titleist (70, 53%). Of all the gap, sand and lob wedges at Oakland Hills, 59 percent were Vokey Design (464), over three times the nearest competitor (142, 18%). On the greens, 41 percent of all putters were Scotty Cameron (107), compared to 22 percent (58) for the nearest competitor. AMATEUR | Pacific Coast Amateur The winner of the Pacific Coast Amateur (Pro V1) prevailed on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff to claim the title at Chambers Bay. The champion, who made five birdies to zero bogeys on the final day, carded rounds of 71-70-65-66 to post 12 under before winning in extra holes. ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR / DP WORLD TOUR | Genesis Scottish Open “I’ve not been shy in saying it,” Titleist Brand Ambassador Robert MacIntyre said after Saturday’s third round. “The Scottish Open is the one I want.” On Sunday, he went out and won it – playing his final five holes in 4 under par to win by one shot. Playing a Pro V1 golf ball and a Titleist setup that includes his TSR2 driver, 620 CB irons and Vokey Design wedges, the 27-year-old Scot eagled the par-5 16th to tie the lead, then birdied 18 to claim his second PGA TOUR victory, both coming in his last five starts. MacIntyre gained more than eight shots tee-to-green (+8.7/4th) over the four days at The Renaissance Club, including more than five shots with his approach play (+5.307/6th). What’s in the Bag? | Robert MacIntyre Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSR2 9.0° | Graphite Design Tour AD DI 7 X Fairway Metal: NEW GT3 15.0° | Graphite Design Tour AD DI 8 X Irons: 620 CB 4-9 | True Temper Dynamic Gold X100 Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, SM9 50.08F, 56.10S, WedgeWorks 60.06K | True Temper Dynamic Gold X100 Onyx (46-50), Dynamic Gold S400 Onyx (56-60) 24 WINS THIS SEASON FOR TITLEIST GOLF BALL PLAYERS Robert MacIntyre's victory on Sunday in Scotland marked the eighth consecutive week that a Titleist golf ball player has won on the PGA TOUR. In total, 24 events this season have been won with a Pro V1 or Pro V1x model, more than eight times the nearest competitor with three. GT DRIVER MOMENTUM CONTINUES ON PGA TOUR Since launching at the Memorial Tournament in June, over 100 players have already gamed a GT driver on the PGA TOUR. This week at the Genesis Scottish Open, there were 35 GT drivers in play, while there were 44 in play at the ISCO Championship. Titleist was the most played driver at both the Genesis Scottish Open (55, 35%) and the ISCO Championship (66, 42%). Among those who have moved into GT metals is the 2013 Masters champion, who plays a NEW GT2 10.0° driver and added a NEW GT2 15.0° fairway to his bag at the start of the week. He finished runner-up at 17 under, gaining 4.124 strokes on the field off the tee (5th). His solo second-place finish was his best of the season. MACINTYRE WINS WITH FOUR VOKEY WEDGES Robert MacIntyre gamed four Vokey wedges in his winning setup: NEW Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, SM9 50.08F, 56.10S, WedgeWorks 60.06K. MacIntyre relied on the same loft and grind configurations to win his first PGA TOUR start at the RBC Canadian Open last month. This week, he gained 0.695 shots around the greens and went 11-for-16 in up-and-downs. MacIntyre’s victory makes it 21 wins this year on the PGA TOUR for players gaming at least one Vokey wedge, including eight of the last ten. This week in Scotland, six of the top-nine finishers had a Vokey in the bag: 1. Robert MacIntyre : NEW Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, SM9 50.08F, 56.10S, WedgeWorks 60.06K 2. 2013 Masters Champion : Vokey Design SM9 48.10F, NEW SM10 54.08M, WedgeWorks 58L T4. Ludvig Åberg : NEW Vokey Design SM10 50.08F, 54.10S, WedgeWorks 60.06K T4. Sungjae Im : Vokey SM9 48.10F (@ 47), 54.14F (@ 53), SM7 60.04L T4. OWGR No. 2 : NEW Vokey Design SM10 WedgeWorks 58.06K (@ 59) T4. FedExCup No. 50 : Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 48.10F, 54.14F, 60.04L KORN FERRY TOUR | The Ascendant presented by Blue Cristobal Del Solar (Pro V1x) played his final four holes in 4 under to pull away from the chasing pack and become a Korn Ferry Tour champion for the first time. Del Solar, who is projected to move to No. 5 in the season-long points race with the victory, shot four rounds in the 60’s (66-68-66-66) and posted 22 under, good for a four-shot win. He was in total control of his Pro V1x over the four rounds at TPC Colorado, hitting 59 of 72 greens in regulation (82%, T2). DEL SOLAR’S MOVE TO 2023 PRO V1 x Del Solar began the 2023 Korn Ferry Tour season playing a competitive golf ball brand. In late May at the AdventHealth Championship, Del Solar made a mid-season move to Titleist, switching to a Pro V1x Left Dash . Two months later, Del Solar worked with Jeff Beyers of Titleist Golf Ball R&D , looking for more spin at the bottom end of his bag. He moved to 2023 Pro V1x at the Price Cutter Championship and went on to record his then-best finish on the Korn Ferry Tour – a solo 5th at the NV5 Invitational – in his next start. “Cristobal really liked Left Dash but we thought he could benefit from a little bit more spin with his short irons and wedges,” Beyers said. “He tried 2023 Pro V1x and it was a pretty easy change for him. The numbers were great. He played really well, made a late season push to get his TOUR card and now he’s off to a great start this year.” 2023 Pro V1x is engineered with a high gradient dual core design that delivers lower long game spin for increased distance and a more consistent flight – helping golfers hit the ball longer and straighter while maintaining the Drop-and-Stop greenside control that Pro V1x players rely on to play their best. KPGA | Gunsan CC Open Titleist Brand Ambassador Yubin Jang defended the title he won last year as an amateur, posting 16 under for four days to win by two. Jang, playing a Pro V1x golf ball and full bag of Titleist equipment, made four birdies and an eagle on Sunday to pull away from the field. What’s in the Bag? | Yubin Jang Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR3 9.0° Fairway Metal: NEW GT3 15.0° Utility Irons: 718 T-MB 2-3 Irons: 620 CB 4-5 and 620 MB 6-9 Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 52.08F, 58.08M Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 5s GT DRIVERS LAUNCH ON KPGA Titleist was the most played driver this week at the Gunsan CC Open, with more than half the field (73, 51%) playing a Titleist driver. In the first week GT drivers were available, 31 players made the immediate move to a GT2 , GT3 or GT4 model. KLPGA | High1 Resort Ladies Open 2024 Jiu Ko (Pro V1) earned her second career KLPGA victory, shooting four rounds in the 60’s (67-66-67-69) to post 19 under and win by two. AMATEUR | Trans-Mississippi Amateur Playing his Pro V1x golf ball and NEW GT2 driver among his Titleist setup, Drew Goodman won on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff, having shot a final round 64 to post the clubhouse lead at 14 under. What’s in the Bag? | Drew Goodman Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: NEW GT2 9.0° Hybrid: TSR2 18.0° Irons: 620 MB 4-9 Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.08F, 56.10S, WedgeWorks 60L ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | Rocket Mortgage Classic Strong in the clutch, Titleist Brand Ambassador Cam Davis played his final two holes in 1 under par – getting his Pro V1 golf ball up-and-down on Nos. 17 (birdie) and 18 (par) – to win by one shot on a gusty day at Detroit Golf Club. Gaming a full bag of Titleist equipment, Davis gained more than eight shots on the field tee-to-green (+8.674/4th), with more than seven of them coming on approach shots (+4.352/12th) and around the green (+3.052/9th). He gained over three more strokes on the green (3.677/19th), using a Scotty Cameron TourType Special Select Masterful tour prototype putter that he put in play for the first time last week at the Travelers Championship. What’s in the Bag? | Cam Davis Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSR3 10.0° | Fujikura Ventus Blue TR 7 X Fairway Metal: TSR3 15.0° | Fujikura Ventus Blue TR 8 X Irons: T100 3 | KBS Tour V 120 X and 620 CB 4-PW | KBS Tour V 120 X Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM10 52.12F, 56.14F, WedgeWorks 60L | True Temper Dynamic Gold S400 Putter: Scotty Cameron TourType Special Select Masterful tour prototype SIX WINS IN A ROW FOR TITLEIST GOLF BALL PLAYERS Cam Davis' victory at the Rocket Mortage Classic was the sixth in a row for Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf ball players on the PGA TOUR – and the 22nd overall for the 2024 season, 19 more than the nearest competitor (3). The last six winners: Charles Schwab Challenge: Davis Riley , Pro V1 RBC Canadian Open: Robert MacIntyre , Pro V1 The Memorial Tournament: Pro V1 U.S. Open: Pro V1x Left Dash Travelers Championship: Pro V1 Rocket Mortgage Classic: Cam Davis , Pro V1 DAVIS ON HIS PRO V1 GOLF BALL “The Pro V1 was the first high quality ball that I ever used. I mean, after I got through the stage of just being happy to find a good quality ball in the trees as a junior, this is the first ball that I really kind of started using. I used it because Adam Scott was the guy when I was growing up (in Australia), and he was a Titleist guy. But ever since then, it’s just been the feel and the flight – it's just been what I've been used to ever since, and I love it.” “[The consistency] is through the bag, from the feel of striking a putt out of the middle, to spin on the wedges, to being able to control your ball flight and distance with the irons, all the way up to getting the most reliable ball flight out of your driver to keep the ball in play. I mean, you're hitting it on every shot, so you want it to be reliable on each shot.” DAVIS WINS WITH VOKEY SM10 WEDGES, L GRIND LOB WEDGE Cam Davis' Vokey wedge setup consists of three NEW SM10 wedges: a 52.12F gap wedge, 56.14F sand wedge and WedgeWorks 60L lob wedge that helped him gain over three strokes on the field around the greens (+3.052, 9th). The L Grind is a common choice for players who want a low bounce lob wedge with heel, toe, and trailing edge relief. Its leading edge sits close to the ground and works well on tight or firm lies, in a square or open position. Compared to other low bounce options in the Vokey lineup, the L Grind offers slightly more protection from excessive digging. “The L Grind is for the player looking for the versatility of a low bounce wedge,” said Aaron Dill, Vokey Tour Representative . “It's really the perfect balance of ‘I want versatility, but I also want a little forgiveness to go with it.’ The forward bounce on the L helps reduce dig, but players are still able to open it up and slide under the ball easily. It's a great option for players looking for a little bit less bounce.” Reigning Champion Golfer of the Year Brian Harman as well as Max Homa , Sungjae Im , Emily K. Pedersen , J.T. Poston and Albane Valenzuela are among those players also gaming the L. Read more about L Grind here: https://mediacenter.titleist.com/en-US/237473-vokey-wedgeworks-launches-2024-l-grind With Davis’ victory, six of the last seven PGA TOUR events have been won by a player gaming at least two Vokey wedges: Rocket Mortgage Classic | Cam Davis : NEW Vokey Design SM10 52.12F, 56.14F, WedgeWorks 60L wedges Travelers Championship : Vokey Design SM8 50.12F, 56.14F, SM9 WedgeWorks 60T wedges The Memorial : Vokey Design SM8 50.12F, 56.14F, SM9 WedgeWorks 60T wedges RBC Canadian Open | Robert MacIntyre : NEW Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, SM9 50.08F, 56.10S, WedgeWorks 60.06K wedges Charles Schwab Challenge | Davis Riley : NEW Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.08F, 56.08M, WedgeWorks 60A+ wedges PGA Championship: NEW Vokey Design SM10 56.10S, WedgeWorks 60.06K wedges 31 MORE PLAYERS SWITCH TO GT DRIVERS AT ROCKET MORTGAGE The rapid adoption of NEW Titleist GT drivers continued this week in Detroit, as 31 players added a new GT2 , GT3 or GT4 model to the bag at the Rocket Mortgage Classic. That includes 25 players who gamed a GT driver in their first PGA TOUR start since the new models launched at the Memorial. Titleist was the most played driver at Detroit Golf Club with 62 drivers in play (39%) – and 44 of them were GT models, more than the nearest competitor’s total number of drivers (33). Last week, GT drivers made their DP World Tour debut with 28 players making the immediate switch. A week earlier on the Korn Ferry Tour, 25 players put GT in play in their first week of availability. Among the NEW GT drivers making their TOUR debut at Rocket Mortgage: Tyson Alexander: GT2 9.0° driver, GT2 21.0° fairway Anders Albertson: GT2 10.0° driver Rafael Campos: GT2 9.0° driver, GT3 15.0° fairway Bud Cauley: GT2 9.0° driver Trace Crowe: GT2 10.0° driver Tyler Duncan: GT2 9.0°, GT2 15.0° fairway Chesson Hadley: GT3 10.0° driver Garrick Higgo: GT4 10.0° driver Charley Hoffman: GT2 9.0° driver Michael Kim: GT2 11.0° driver S.H. Kim: GT2 9.0° driver Patton Kizzire: GT3 9.0° driver Troy Merritt: GT2 9.0° driver, GT2 15.0° fairway C.T. Pan : GT2 9.0° driver, GT3 16.5° fairway Raul Pereda: GT2 10.0° driver, GT3 15.0° fairway Webb Simpson: GT3 10.0° driver Callum Tarren: GT3 9.0° driver, GT3 15.0° fairway Ben Taylor: GT3 10.0° driver, GT3 15.0° fairway Tom Whitney: GT3 11.0° driver Carson Young: GT3 10.0° driver Jackson Koivun (a): GT3 9.0° driver Kyle Martin (PGA Professional): GT3 10.0° driver 2021 Wyndham Championship winner: GT2 10.0° driver 2023 Sanderson Farms Championship winner: GT3 9.0° driver 2022 Valero Texas Open champion: GT2 9.0° driver 2014 Travelers Championship winner: GT3 9.0° driver, GT2 13.5° fairway 2023 Butterfield Bermuda Championship winner: GT3 11.0° driver 2016 PGA Champion: GT3 8.0 driver FedExCup No. 116: GT3 9.0° driver FedExCup No. 117: GT3 9.0° driver FedExCup No. 199: GT2 9.0° driver DP WORLD TOUR | Italian Open Marcel Siem (Pro V1) earned his sixth-career DP World Tour title, prevailing in extra holes at Adriatic Golf Club Cervia. Siem shot rounds of 69-68-66-71 to post 10 under, capped off with a playoff-forcing birdie on the 72nd hole. He made birdie on the 18th once more following regulation to seal the win. For the week, he gained 1.77 shots per round from tee to green on the field (8th). DP WORLD TOUR CHAMP PLAYS THREE VOKEY WEDGES The winner of the Italian Open had three Vokeys in his winning setup: NEW Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.08F, 58.04T wedges. GT DRIVERS ON DP WORLD TOUR GT drivers launched last week on the DP World Tour at the KLM Open, with 28 players making the immediate move to a GT2 , GT3 or GT4 model, including Titleist Brand Ambassador Marcus Kinhult , who put a GT3 9.0° driver in the bag before finishing T2 in a sudden-death playoff. This week at the Italian Open, Titleist was the most played driver with 61 (39% of the field) in play, compared to 43 (28%) for the nearest competitor. Thirty-three of those were NEW GT drivers, with 15 more players making the move, including: Todd Clements: GT2 9.0° driver Grant Forrest: GT2 10.0° driver Julien Guerrier: GT2 9.0° driver Yuto Katsuragawa: GT2 10.0° driver Masahiro Kawamura: GT3 10.0° driver Francesco Laporta: GT3 9.0° driver Zander Lombard: GT2 8.0° driver Yannik Paul: GT3 9.0° driver Garrick Porteous: GT3 10.0° driver Jason Scrivener: GT3 10.0° driver Jordan Smith: GT3 8.0° driver Andy Sullivan: GT3 10.0° driver PGA TOUR AMERICAS | ATB Classic Titleist Brand Ambassador Frederik Kjettrup made it back-to-back victories to start the Canada swing of the 2024 PGA TOUR Americas season. Kjettrup, who plays a Pro V1 golf ball as well as a TSR3 driver, blended set of T-Series and 620 MB irons, three NEW Vokey SM10 wedges and a Scotty Cameron Newport putter, was the only player to card all four rounds in the 60’s, posting 16 under for the week at Northern Bear Golf Club. He hit 63% of his fairways (T10) and 76% of his greens (T13) in regulation. He averaged just 1.62 putts per GIR (2nd). What’s in the Bag? | Frederik Kjettrup Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSR3 9.0° Irons: T200 3, T100 4-5 and 620 MB 6-PW Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM10 50.12F, 54.10S, 60.04T or 60.08M Putter: Scotty Cameron Newport Super Select KPGA TOUR | Bizplay-One the Club Open Hur Inhoi (Pro V1 Yellow) earned his sixth career KPGA title with a playoff victory. Inhoi shot a final round 6-under 65 to force extra holes with Titleist Brand Ambassador Jang Yubin , with both players posting 17 under. Inhoi made two birdies in the playoff, crowning him the champion. Titleist golf ball players swept the top-6 positions on the final leaderboard this week. KLPGA | Mona Yongpyong Open Hyunkyung Park (Pro V1) made it back-to-back wins on the KLPGA, earning her second victory in two weeks and her third of the 2024 season. After carding rounds of 67-67-69 (13 under) for the week, Park made birdie on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff to clinch the title. Eight of the top-11 finishers on the final leaderboard played a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball. CHAMPION GAMES VOKEY WEDGES The winner of the Mona Yongpyong Open won for the second time in two weeks with two Vokeys in the bag: NEW SM10 52.08F and 58.10S wedges. LET | VP Bank Swiss Ladies Open Titleist Brand Ambassador Alice Hewson closed out her second LET victory in dramatic fashion, making eagle on No. 17 and birdie on No. 18 to post a Sunday 65 and force extra holes at 11 under. Another birdie on 18 in the playoff finished the job for Hewson, who now jumps to No. 5 in the LET Order of Merit. HEWSON’S MOVE TO PRO V1x In 2023, Hewson worked with the team at Titleist to dial in her golf ball model. She had previously been playing Pro V1 , but through a Tour level ball fitting, she found that the added spin and height from Pro V1x would give her more control and stopping power with her approach play. “It’s made such a big change to my game,” said Hewson last summer on her ball model change. Hewson also gamed a TSR2 driver, TSR2 fairway, TSR1 hybrid, blended set of T-Series irons and three New Vokey Design SM10 wedges. What’s in the Bag? | Alice Hewson Golf Ball : Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR2 10.0° Fairway Metal: TSR2 18.0° Hybrid: TSR1 20.0° Irons: T200 5-6 and T150 7-PW Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM10 50.08F, 56.10S, 60.04T AMATEUR | North & South Amateur The winner of the North & South Amateur defeated his opponent, 2&1 in the championship match. The champion, gaming a Pro V1 golf ball, TSR3 driver and fairway, blended set of T-Series irons and NEW Vokey SM10 wedges, advanced to match play after two rounds of stroke play (Round 1 at Pinehurst No. 8, Round 2 at Pinehurst No. 2). Five match victories around Pinehurst No. 2 saw him crowned champion. What’s in the Bag? | North & South Amateur champion Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSR3 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSR3 15.0° Utility Iron: U•505 3 Irons: T200 4, T150 5, T100 6-PW Wedges : NEW Vokey Design SM10 50°, 54°, 58° AMATEUR | European Amateur Playing a Pro V1x golf ball, TSR3 driver, Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron Phantom putter, the winner of the European Amateur made history in becoming the first American to win the event. The victory officially punches the champion’s ticket to the Open Championship in three weeks’ time at Royal Troon, which will be his first start in a professional event. The winner shot 9 under for the week at The Scandinavian Golf Club in Denmark and beat out two opponents in an all-Titleist golf ball playoff. What’s in the Bag? | European Amateur champion Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR3 9.0° Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM10 52°, 56°, 62° Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 5.5 tour prototype ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | Travelers Championship The Travelers Championship ended with a 1-2-3-4 finish for Titleist golf ball players on the final leaderboard: It’s the fifth straight victory on the PGA TOUR for Titleist golf ball players, with seven of the top-eight finishers at TPC River Highlands gaming a Pro V1 or Pro V1x . In total, Titleist golf ball players have now won 21 times this season. GT DRIVER ADOPTION CONTINUES; 6 OF TOP-12 GAME GT DRIVERS AT TRAVELERS; KIM, YOUNG, HARMAN HAVE BEST DRIVING ROUNDS OF ‘24 The NEW Titleist GT drivers made their PGA TOUR debut three weeks ago at the Memorial Tournament, where 13 players made the immediate switch to the new GT2 , GT3 and GT4 models at the 73-player Signature Event. The following week at the U.S. Open, 19 players had a GT driver in the bag. The rapid adoption continued this week at the Travelers, as four more players made the move to GT drivers, including reigning Open champion Brian Harman , Lee Hodges , this season’s Mexico Open winner and the World’s 53rd-ranked player (heading into the event). Of the 71-player field, there were 30 Titleist drivers (42%), more than any other competitor – and 18 of them were GT2, GT3 or GT4 models: Playing his NEW GT2 10.0° driver, Brian Harman finished the week second in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee, gaining more than five shots on the field (+5.086) while recording his two best driving rounds of the year – on Sunday (+1.888) and Friday (+1.610). Tom Kim, who made the immediate move to his NEW GT3 9.0° driver at the Memorial, also had his best driving round of the year Sunday at Travelers. Facing off against the World No. 1 in the final group, Kim gained a season-best 1.903 strokes off the tee while hitting a season-best 13 fairways (92.86%), posting a back-nine 31 to make the playoff. On Saturday, Cameron Young became the 12th player in PGA TOUR history to shoot a sub-60 round – and he did so with his best Strokes Gained: Driving round of the season (+2.552) playing his NEW GT3 9.0° driver. Since putting GT3 in play at Memorial, Young has seen an increase in ball speed with improved spin numbers, according to J .J. Van Wezenbeeck, Titleist Director of Player Promotions . Since Memorial, Young has also adjusted his SureFit settings, moving from D•1 (-.75* loft, Std lie) and T•1 (Fade) at Memorial to A•1 (Standard) and Neutral this week in Hartford. The adjustment helped stabilize his flight and dial in the right spin and launch directions, Van Wezenbeeck said. The World’s 53rd-ranked player (heading into Travelers), who made the move to a NEW GT2 this week from a competitive model, also had his best driving round of the year Sunday, with 1.704 strokes gained off the tee. GT drivers also launched this week on the DP World Tour at the KLM Open. Titleist was the most played driver at the event, with 60 in play (39%) compared to 43 for the nearest competitor. Twenty-eight players made the immediate move to a GT model, including Titleist Brand Ambassador Marcus Kinhult , who put a GT3 9.0° driver in the bag before finishing T2 in a sudden-death playoff. 14 VOKEY WEDGES AMONG TRAVELERS TOP 4 Ten of the top-12 finishers on the final leaderboard at TPC River Highlands played at least one Vokey wedge, including each of the top four, who all gamed a full set of Vokeys: 1. Champion : Vokey Design SM8 50.12F, 56.14F, SM9 WedgeWorks 60T wedges 2. Tom Kim : NEW Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.12F, 54.12D, WedgeWorks 60L wedges T3. Tom Hoge : NEW Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 52.08F, 56.08M, 60.04T wedges T3. Sungjae Im : Vokey Design SM9 48.10F, 54.14F, SM7 60.04L wedges Finishing T5 was the 2023 Mexico Open champion, who gamed his NEW SM10 60.04T lob wedge while gaining over four shots (+4.016, 2nd) on the field around the greens. Five of the last six PGA TOUR events have been won by a player gaming at least one Vokey wedge. CAMERON YOUNG SHOOTS 59 Titleist Brand Ambassador Cameron Young made history on Saturday, shooting just the 13th ever sub-60 round on the PGA TOUR. Young, playing a Pro V1 Left Dot golf ball and 14 Titleist clubs , including his NEW GT3 driver and GT2 fairway, began the day with back-to-back birdies on Nos. 1 and 2. On the par-4 3rd, he jarred a wedge from 142 yards in the fairway. He went on to make five more birdies and another eagle to close out a bogey-free 11-under third round. Young gained 2.55 strokes off the tee (1st) and another 2.57 from his approach play (2nd) for the day, while going a perfect 3-for-3 in scrambling. He also ranked eighth in putting (+2.23) and needed just 1.4 putts per GIR (1st) with his NEW Scotty Cameron Phantom 5.5 tour prototype putter. What’s in the Bag? | Cameron Young Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Left Dot Driver: NEW GT3 9.0° | Mitsubishi Tensei 1K White 70 TX Fairway Metal: NEW GT2 13.5° | Mitsubishi Tensei 1K White 80 TX Irons: T200 3-4 | Mitsubishi MMT Utility Iron 105 TX (3), True Temper Dynamic Gold X7 (4), T100 5 | True Temper Dynamic Gold X7, and 631.CY Prototype 6-9 | True Temper Dynamic Gold X7 Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM10 48.10F, 52.12F, WedgeWorks 58.06K, WedgeWorks 60.06K (@62) | True Temper Dynamic Gold X7 Putter: NEW Scotty Cameron Phantom 5.5 tour prototype LPGA | KPMG Women’s PGA Championship Playing a Pro V1x golf ball, Amy Yang earned her place in major championship history with a three-shot victory at Sahalee Country Club. Yang shot rounds of 70-68-71-72 around the demanding and exacting setup, posting a four-round total of 7 under to win by three shots. Major champions Lilia Vu (Pro V1x) and Jin Young Ko (Pro V1) were among those tied for second at 4 under. The win marks Yang’s sixth LPGA victory, including the CME Group Tour Championship to end last season. WHY AMY YANG PLAYS PRO V1 x Amy Yang has played Pro V1x for several generations, preferring the higher spin and peak height she gets with X versus Pro V1. According to Jeff Beyers of Titleist Golf Ball R&D , Pro V1x helps optimize her numbers throughout the bag, affording her the confidence to execute on firm, difficult setups, like this week at Sahalee. ASIAN TOUR / KPGA | Kolon the 66th Korea Open Titleist Brand Ambassador Minkyu Kim shot a final round 5-under 66 to win by three, capturing his second Korea Open title in three years. Kim, who gamed a Pro V1x golf ball, TSR2 driver and fariway, 620 CB irons and NEW Vokey SM10 wedges, earned a tee time at Royal Troon for next month’s Open Championship with his finish. Younghan Song (Pro V1) also earned a spot in the field from this week’s event. What’s in the Bag? | Minkyu Kim Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR2 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSR2 15.0° Hybrid: TSi2 18.0° Irons: T100 4 and 620 CB 5-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 50.08F, 54.10S, WedgeWorks 60.06K PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | Dick’s Open Padraig Harrington (Pro V1) closed in 4-under 68 to earn his eighth career PGA TOUR Champions title and third win in as many years at the DICK’s Open. Harrington made four birdies and an eagle on Sunday, finishing 54 holes at 15 under, which was good for a one-shot win. For the week, Harrington hit 47 of 54 (87%) of his greens in regulation, ranking him second in the field. PGA TOUR AMERICAS | The Beachlands Victoria Open Playing a Pro V1 golf ball, the winner of the Beachlands Victoria Open posted 21 under over four rounds, good for a one-shot victory in just his second career PGA TOUR-sanctioned start. The champion, who also had a TSR3 driver, blended set of T-Series and 620 MB irons, three NEW Vokey SM10 wedges and a Scotty Cameron Newport putter in his winning setup, hit 73% of his fairways (2nd) and 82% of his greens (T7) in regulation for the week. What’s in the Bag? | Victoria Open Champion Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSR3 9.0° Irons: T200 3-iron, T100 4-5, and 620 MB 6-PW Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM10 50.12F, 54.10S, 60.04T or 60.08M Putter: Scotty Cameron Newport Super Select LET | Tipsport Czech Ladies Open Marta Martin (Pro V1x) shot a final round 63, capping off a three-round total of 17 under and securing a four-shot win. She made 10 birdies on Sunday, including a stretch of seven straight from holes 5-11, en route to claiming her maiden LET title. Martin led a 1-7 finish for Titleist golf ball players. KLPGA | Hankyung Ladies Cup Hyunkyung Park (Pro V1) made birdie on the fourth hole of an all-Titleist playoff, earning her second victory of the season and sixth career KLPGA title. Park’s 12 under total for the week matched that of Ina Yoon (Pro V1) and Jiyoung Park’s (Pro V1). AMATEUR | The Amateur Championship Jacob Scov Olesen sealed his victory at Ballyliffin with a 4-and-3 win in the 36-hole, all- Pro V1 championship match. With the win, he earned a spot in the field at next month’s Open Championship as well as an exemption into the 2025 U.S. Open and a likely invitation to the 2025 Masters. Olesen, who played a Pro V1 golf ball, TSR2 driver, T100 irons and four Vokey wedges, made history by becoming the first Danish Golfer to win The Amateur since its inception in 1885. It was also the winner’s first start at The Amateur in his career. Titleist was the overwhelming #1 ball at The Amateur, with 247 players out of the 288-player field (86%) choosing the performance of a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball. Titleist also swept the equipment counts, leading in every major equipment category: drivers (137, 47%), fairways (97, 38%), hybrids (12, 35%), utilities (116, 51%), irons 125 (43%), wedges (584, 51%), putters (100, 35%). What’s in the Bag? | Jacob Scov Olesen Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSR2 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSR2+ 13.0° Irons: T200 3 and T100 4-9 Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.12F, SM9 56.08M, 60.04L AMATEUR | Northeast Amateur The winner of the Northeast Amateur began the final round five shots back of the lead before closing in 7-under 62 to force a playoff – and then claim the trophy. The champion played a Pro V1 golf ball along with a TSR3 driver, TSR2 fairway, T100•S irons and three Vokey wedges. For the week at Wannamoisett Country Club, Titleist was the overwhelming #1 ball , with 82 percent of the field playing a Pro V1 or Pro V1x model. By week's end, each of the top-11 finishers played a Titleist. Titleist was also the most played brand in each major equipment category. Over half the field used a Titleist driver (50, 52%), Titleist irons (49, 51%) and Vokey wedges (157, 55%). There were 36 Scotty Cameron putters in play (38%), double the nearest competitor. What’s in the Bag? | Northeast Amateur Champion Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSR3 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSR2 18.0° Irons: T100•S 4-A Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 52°, 56°, 60° ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | RBC Canadian Open From 184 yards in the fairway on the 72nd hole, Titleist Brand Ambassador Robert MacIntyre stuck his Pro V1 golf ball to inside 10 feet to close out his first PGA TOUR victory. MacIntyre’s tournament-sealing par completed a Sunday 68 and one-shot victory at Hamilton Golf & Country Club. MacIntyre, also gaming a TSR2 driver, 620 CB irons and four Vokey Design wedges among his Titleist setup, posted all four rounds in the 60s (64-66-66-68) to finish the week at 16 under. The European Ryder Cupper and two-time DP World Tour winner, who finished T8 two weeks ago at the PGA Championship, is the second player from the 2023 DP World Tour Top 10 to win on TOUR this season, joining Farmers Insurance Open winner Matthieu Pavon (Pro V1) . What’s in the Bag? | Robert MacIntyre Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSR2 9.0° | D•4 SureFit Hosel, Graphite Design Tour AD DI 7 X Irons: 620 CB 4-9 | True Temper Dynamic Gold X100 Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, SM9 50.08F, 56.10S, WedgeWorks 60.06K | True Temper Dynamic Gold X100 Onyx (46°- 50°), Dynamic Gold S400 Onyx (56° - 60°) TOP-5 FINISHERS ALL PLAY VOKEY LOB WEDGE Led by Robert MacIntyre , who gamed our Vokey wedges (NEW Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, SM9 50.08F, 56.10S, WedgeWorks 60.06K), each of the top-5 finishers on Sunday’s final leaderboard played a Vokey Design lob wedge: Robert MacIntyre: NEW Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, SM9 50.08F, 56.10S, WedgeWorks 60.06K 2nd place finisher: NEW Vokey Design SM10 60.04T 3rd place finisher: NEW Vokey Design SM10 50.08F, 56.10S, WedgeWorks 60L or 60A+ T4. Tom Kim : NEW Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.12F, 54.12D, WedgeWorks 60L T4. 2024 Wells Fargo Champion: NEW Vokey Design SM10 WedgeWorks 58.06K (@ 59) MacIntyre finished the week ranked eighth in Strokes Gained: Around the Green, gaining 2.67 shots on the field. He also finished T12 in Scrambling (14/21, 67%). Dating back to Wyndham Clark’s win at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am , Vokey Design wedges have been used to win 16 of the last 21 PGA TOUR events. THREE WINS IN FOUR WEEKS ON PGA TOUR FOR VOKEY LOW BOUNCE K PLAYERS Robert MacIntyre's victory with his WedgeWorks 60.06K lob wedge makes it three wins in four weeks on the PGA TOUR for Vokey Design WedgeWorks Low Bounce K players, with the grind also being used by the winners of the PGA Championship and Wells Fargo Championship. The low bounce K was also used by this week’s winners on the DP World Tour, Korn Ferry Tour and Korean Tour. Featuring 6 degrees of bounce, the Low Bounce K was born out of Master Craftsman Bob Vokey and longtime Vokey Tour Representative Aaron Dill’s collaboration with players on the PGA TOUR and across the worldwide professional tours. It provides players the versatility required to open the face and hit higher, softer shots off tight lies around the green while offering forgiveness out of the bunker due to the grind’s sole width. More information on the Low Bounce K can be found here. DP WORLD TOUR | European Open Laurie Canter (Pro V1) broke through with his first career win on the DP World Tour, shooting 13 under for the week in Germany to win by two. Canter, who opened the week with rounds of 68-66 around the difficult par-73 setup, made three back-nine birdies on Sunday to separate from the pack. Canter has been dialed in all season from tee to green; he ranks second in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee (+1.07), fifth in Scrambling (66%) and ninth in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green (+1.37) for the ‘23-24 season. With the win, he moves to No. 8 in the season-long Race to Dubai standings, up 18 spots from his previous position. KORN FERRY TOUR | UNC Health Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Kaito Onishi made five Sunday birdies on his way to a final-round 66 and his first Korn Ferry Tour title. Onishi – playing a Pro V1x golf ball, Titleist TSi driver, T-Series irons and three Vokey Design SM10 wedges, posted four consecutive rounds in the 60’s (68-69-69-66) around Raleigh Country Club to finish at 8 under and win by one. What’s in the Bag? | Kaito Onishi Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSi3 10.0° Irons: T200 3 and T100 4-PW Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM10 50.12F, 56.08M, WedgeWorks 60.06K KPGA | The 14th Descente Korea Matchplay Titleist Brand Ambassador Minkyu Kim earned his second career KPGA title after winning seven matches in the head-to-head format. Kim, who played a Pro V1x golf ball, TSR2 driver, blended set of Titleist irons and three NEW Vokey SM10 wedges, needed 20 holes to get the best of his opponent in the final match of the week, eventually sealing the win with a birdie on the second extra hole. What’s in the Bag? | Minkyu Kim Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR2 9.0° Fairway Metals: TSR2 15.0° and TSi2 18.0° Irons: T100 4-iron and 620 CB 5-PW Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM10 50.08F, 54.10S, WedgeWorks 60.06K LET | Dormy Open Helsingborg Perrine Delacour (Pro V1x) made birdie on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff to earn her first career LET victory. The Frenchwoman shot rounds of 68-70-67 at Allerum Golf Club (11 under) before making the tournament-clinching birdie on the first extra hole. With the win, Delacour locked up exemptions into the Scottish Open and the AIG Women’s Open. AMATEUR | NCAA Division I Championships TITLEIST IS TOP CHOICE OF NCAA MEN’S INDIVIDUAL & TEAM CHAMPIONS The NCAA Division I Men’s individual champion – gaming a Pro V1x golf ball, TSR2 driver; T100 irons and Vokey wedges – played his final nine holes in 2 under par to claim the individual title. On a firm and fast La Costa, he closed in 1-under 71 to finish the four rounds at 3 under and win by one shot, leading a 1-through-7 finish for Titleist golf ball players. What’s in the Bag? | NCAA Men’s Individual Champion Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR2 10.0° Fairway Metal: TSR3 15.0° Irons: T200 3 and T100 4-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, NEW SM10 50.12F, 54.10S, 60.08M Titleist was also the top choice of the NCAA D1 Men’s team champion. Four of the five players teed up a Titleist golf ball (3 Pro V1x, 1 Pro V1), while there were also four TSR3 drivers, three Titleist iron sets and 12 NEW Vokey Design SM10 wedges across the five team members’ setups. In total: 89 percent (139) of competitors at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa gamed a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball, more than 15 times the nearest competitor (9). 51 percent of players (79) played a Titleist driver . More players also used Titleist fairways (67/42%) and hybrids (14/37%) than any other brand. Half the field played Titleist irons (50%/78 players), while 66 percent (70) of the utility irons in play were Titleist. 57 percent of the gap, sand and lob wedges in play were Vokey Design wedges. 40 players (26%) gamed a Scotty Cameron putter , more than any other brand. AMATEUR | U.S. AMATEUR FOUR-BALL The U.S. Four-Ball ended with two Pro V1 players on top, as they finished off their opponents in the final match on the 18th hole with a 2-up victory. Out of the 253-player field this week at Philadelphia Cricket Club, 216 competitors (85%) chose to play a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball. Titleist was also the top choice across all major equipment categories: drivers (40%), fairways (39%), hybrids (50%), utilities (55%), irons (40%), wedges (66%) and putters (32%). One of the members of the winning team also gamed a TSR3 driver, T100 irons and four NEW Vokey Design SM10 wedges. What’s in the Bag? | U.S. Four-Ball Champion Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSR3 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSi3 15.0° Hybrid: TSi3 20.0° Irons: T100 4-9 Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM10 46°, 50°, 54°, 60° AMATEUR | THE BRABAZON TROPHY Playing a Pro V1x golf ball and 14 Titleist clubs, the winner of the Brabazon Trophy shot 9 under for the week to clinch a one-shot win. The overwhelming majority of competitors competing for The Brabazon Trophy played a Titleist golf ball, with 84 percent of the field teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x . Titleist was also the clear favorite in drivers (50%), iron sets (41%), wedges (55%) and putters (38%). What’s in the Bag? | Brabazon Trophy Champion Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR3 8.0° Utility Iron: T200 2 Irons: T100 3-9 Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.12F, 54.14F, WedgeWorks 60.06K Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 7.5 ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | Charles Schwab Challenge In complete control at Colonial, Titleist Brand Ambassador Davis Riley led the field with more than 11 strokes gained tee-to-green over the four days in Fort Worth, claiming his first solo PGA TOUR title with a five-shot win over a star-studded leaderboard. Playing a Pro V1 golf ball and Titleist equipment setup that includes his TSR3 driver, T-Series irons, Vokey Design SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron putter, Riley posted rounds 66-64-66-70 to finish the week at 13 under, the only player to reach double-digits under par. Over the 72 holes at Colonial, Riley gained more than 3 ½ shots off the tee (+3.658/6th), nearly eight shots on approach shots (+7.869/2nd), and just under six shots on the greens (+5.921/4th) – on his way to a field-best 21 birdies. What’s in the Bag? | DAVIS RILEY Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSR3 9.0° | Project X HZRDUS Smoke Green RDX 65 TX Utility Iron: T200 3 | Fujikura Ventus Black HB 10 TX Irons: T100 4-6 irons | KBS Tour C-Taper 125 S+ and 620 MB 7-9 | KBS Tour C-Taper 125 S+ Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.08F, 56.08M, 60.04T | True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 Putter : Scotty Cameron Phantom X 7.2 tour prototype DAVIS RILEY ON HIS MOVE TO PRO V1 On a firm and fast Colonial, Davis Riley was dialed in with his Pro V1 , gaining +7.869 strokes on approach shots (2nd). His 68 percent greens in regulations ranked T3 for the week. Riley made the move to 2023 early last season, making the transition from Pro V1 Left Dot . Said Riley: “There were quite a few similarities between this and the Left Dot which I like so much, but I actually saw a big improvement with this ball – I was able to achieve a higher trajectory with the longer stuff like the long irons and woods, which is what you’re looking for coming into firm greens. I was able to get that with this ball and getting more trajectory for the right reasons. Not because it’s up-shooting because of more spin. This was higher launch, but maintaining a really good spin… where you hit it just how you want, and it comes out in that window and the wind just doesn't really touch it. “I gained one or two more miles per hour ball speed, actually, opposed to the Left Dot with the driver, which was really cool to see. Also, that dispersion came in a little bit, so I was getting kind of the best of both worlds, and it was pretty hard not to put it in when I saw that. “I’m a small drawer of the ball, so if I’m hitting in a left to right wind, I don’t like to see the ball start right and then the wind just destroy it right. But there were a couple times this off-season I hit the [’23 Pro V1], and it just held its line so nice. That draw just held up perfectly, and it didn’t get taken away by the wind or eaten up by the wind. Just seeing that level of consistency through the wind and staying in the air for that time was really cool to see.” RILEY’S BLENDED TITLEIST IRON SET Davis Riley gained the majority of his strokes this week on approach shots using a blended set of Titleist irons featuring two T-Series models and 620 MB blades. He moved to his current setup earlier this season at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, having previously played a blended set of T100 , 620 CB and 620 MB . Riley’s new setup starts with a T200 3-iron. He then moves to T100 models in his 4-, 5- and 6-irons, and 620 MB in his 7-through-9 irons. He plays Vokey Design SM10 pitching (46.10F), gap (50.08F), sand (56.08M) and lob (60.04T) wedges. “It’s always nice having a little extra forgiveness there in the longer irons,” Riley said last season about his T100 4-iron. “It’s been a good club to have to have that extra little forgiveness when you’ve got 220 over water into a par 5 or long par 4. So just looking down at that is really good.” RILEY ON HIS PHANTOM X PUTTER Davis Riley capped off his five-shot victory at Colonial with a 6-footer for par on the 18th hole. He was locked in with his Scotty Cameron mallet all week, gaining nearly six shots (5.921/4th) on the field with his Phantom X 7.2 tour prototype. “The way it looks, all the square lines, I feel like it frames the ball really well and just everything sits super square,’ Riley said. “I've always been a big believer in that if you're really comfortable looking over it and everything feels square, it's just going to set up for good putting. So that's what I’ve done.” AMATEUR | NCAA DIVISION I CHAMPIONSHIPS TITLEIST IS OVERWHELMING #1 BALL AT NCAA D1 MEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP, MOST PLAYED BRAND IN ALL MAJOR EQUIPMENT CATEGORIES As college golf’s best players compete this week for the NCAA Division I Men’s Championship, the overwhelming majority of them are playing a Titleist golf ball . Of the 156-player field teeing it up at La Costa, 89 percent (139 players) are playing a Pro V1 or Pro V1x model, more than 15 times the nearest competitor with nine. It was the same story across the six qualifying NCAA regional sites, with 402 of the 450 competitors (89%) teeing up a Titleist. Titleist golf clubs are also the top choice of players in every major equipment category this week at La Costa, with more of the NCAA’s best using Titleist drivers , fairways , hybrids , utility irons , irons , wedges and putters than any other brand: 51 percent of players (79) at the NCAA Championship are using a Titleist driver. More players are also using Titleist fairways (67/42%) and hybrids (14/37%) than any other brand. Half the field is playing Titleist irons (50%/78 players), while 66 percent (70) of the utility irons in play are Titleist. 57 percent of the gap, sand and lob wedges in play are Vokey Design wedges. 40 players (26%) are gaming a Scotty Cameron putter, more than any other brand. NCAA WOMEN’S CHAMP LEADS 1-THROUGH-9 FINISH FOR TITLEIST GOLF BALL PLAYERS Titleist was the overwhelming #1 ball at the women’s NCAA Division I Championship, with 92 percent (144) of competitors teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x model at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa. That included the individual champion (Pro V1), who led a 1-through-9 finish for Titleist golf ball players. Titleist clubs were also the top choice amongst competitors for drivers (51/33%), utility irons (45/90%), irons (59/38%), wedges (239/51%) and putters (50/32%). AMATEUR | U.S. AMATEUR FOUR-BALL CHAMPIONSHIP More than 250 competitors arrived this week at Philadelphia Cricket Club to compete for the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship – and 85 percent of them teed up a Titleist golf ball. In total, 216 players are playing a Pro V1 , Pro V1x , Pro V1 Left Dot or Pro V1x Left Dash , more than 12 times the nearest competitor (17). Titleist is also the top choice of players in every major equipment category: There are more Titleist drivers (102/40%), fairways (117 players/38%) and hybrids (55/50%) in play than any other brand. Titleist irons are the top choice of players in Philadelphia with 101 (40%) sets in play, more than double the nearest competitor (37). Fifty-five percent (72) of the utility irons in play are also Titleist. There are more Vokey Design gap, sand and lob wedges (482/66%) in play than all other brands combined. More competitors are gaming Scotty Cameron putters (80/32%) than any other brand. KPGA | KB Finance LIIV Championship Seungsu Han (Pro V1x) carded a final round 1-under-par 71 to win by one stroke at Blackstone Golf Club. Han topped a leaderboard that featured six Titleist golf ball players in the top eight positions. KLPGA | The 12th E1 Charity Open Titleist Brand Ambassador So Hyun Bae – playing a Pro V1x golf ball and full bag of Titleist, including her TSR3 driver, blended set of Titleist irons, NEW Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron putter – secured her first KLPGA title with a three-shot victory at Ferrum Club. Nine of the top 10 players on the final leaderboard teed up a Titleist golf ball . What’s in the Bag? | So Hyun Bae Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR3 9.0° Fairway Metals: TS3 15.0° and TSR3 19.0° Irons: T 200 4-iron and T100 5-PW Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM10 48.10F, 54.14F 58.10S Putter: Scotty Cameron Newport 2 Center tour prototype LET | Jabra Ladies Open Morgane Metraux (Pro V1x) was the only player to reach double-digits under par this week at Evian Resort Golf Club while claiming her second victory on the LET. Morgane’s second-round 7-under-par 64 propelled her to the top of the leaderboard going into the final round, and she birdied two of her last four holes to win by three. Morgane led a 1-2-3-4 finish on the leaderboard for Titleist golf ball players. ... #TeamTitleist
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KORN FERRY TOUR | Vertex Bank Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Tim Widing made it back-to-back victories on the Korn Ferry Tour, carding rounds of 62-63-65-63 to post 31 under and win by four. Widing – gaming his Pro V1x golf ball and full bag of Titleist equipment , including his TSR driver, T-Series irons, NEW Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron putter – made eight birdies and an eagle to take the lead Sunday and pull away from the chasing pack. The 26-year-old Swede was in total control of his golf ball all week, hitting 62 of 72 greens in regulation over four rounds (86%, T2). He finished 10th in Putts per GIR (1.60) and was a perfect 3-for-3 in Sand Saves. Widing led a 1-2-3-4 finish for Titleist golf ball players: 1. Tim Widing (Pro V1x) 2. Myles Creighton (Pro V1x) 3. Trent Phillips (Pro V1x) 4. Fourth-place finisher (Pro V1) What’s in the Bag? | Tim Widing Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR2 9.0° | Fujikura Ventus Red 7 X Fairway Metal: TSR2 15.0° | Fujikura Ventus Red 8 X Utility Iron: U•505 2 | True Temper HZRDUS Smoke Black RDX 90HY 6.5 Irons: T100 4-PW | True Temper Dynamic Gold X100 Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM10 50.08F, 56.12D, WedgeWorks 60L wedges | True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 Putter: NEW Scotty Cameron Phantom 7.5 tour prototype KPGA | Woori Bank Championship Gaming his Pro V1x golf ball and full bag of Titleist equipment, Titleist Brand Ambassador Sungjae Im defended his title at the Woori Financial Group Championship. Im shot rounds of 70-67-71-69 to post 11 under, good for a one-shot win. He led a group of eight Titleist golf ball players finishing in the top-10 positions on the final leaderboard. What’s in the Bag? | SUNGJAE IM Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSi2 8.0° | B1 SureFit setting, Graphite Design Tour AD-DI 7 X Fairway Metal : TS3 15.0° | B1 SureFit setting, Graphite Design Tour AD-DI 8 X Hybrid: 818 H2 19.0° | A1 SureFit setting, Graphite Design Tour AD-DI 105 Hybrid X Irons: T100 3-9 | True Temper Dynamic Gold X100 Wedges : Vokey Design SM9 48.10F, 54.14F, SM7 60.04L wedges | True Temper Dynamic Gold X100 Putter: Scotty Cameron Select Flowback 5 CS tour prototype PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | Mitsubishi Electric Classic Propelled by two eagles over his final 13 holes, Stephen Ames (Pro V1) successfully defended his title with a final round 5-under 67 to win by four shots. Ames, now the first PGA TOUR Champions player to win twice this season, hit 83 percent of his greens in regulation, including 17 of 18 during his second-round 64. Ames led a group of four Titleist golf ball players finishing in the top-five positions on the final leaderboard. PGA TOUR AMERICAS | Diners Club Peru Open Stuart Macdonald (Pro V1) posted rounds of 69-66-65-71 to earn his second career PGA TOUR-sanctioned win in Peru. Macdonald, who broke through to win last year’s Commissionaires Ottawa Open on PGA TOUR Canada, finished the week at 17 under to win by two shots. KLPGA | CreaS F&C The 46th KLPGA Championship Jungmin Lee (Pro V1) won her first KLPGA major and 11th KLPGA title after posting 23 under for four rounds at Lakewood Country Club. Lee began the final round in the lead and made seven birdies on Sunday, pulling away from the chasing pack and finishing with a four-shot margin of victory. She shot all four rounds in the 60’s (68-69-62-66). LET | Investec South Africa Women’s Open Manon De Roey (Pro V1) cruised to a four-shot victory in South Africa, her second career LET title. De Roey carded rounds of 69-67-66-72 to post 14 under for the week. ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | Corales Puntacana Championship Billy Horschel shot Sunday’s best round by two shots, carding a course record-tying bogey-free 63 to earn his eighth career PGA TOUR title. Playing a Pro V1x+ prototype golf ball and Titleist equipment setup that includes his TSR3 driver, mixed set of T100 and 620 MB irons and NEW Vokey Design SM10 wedges, Horschel closed with seven birdies and an eagle to post 23 under, coming from three shots back to start the day and win by two shots. On a windy Sunday in Punta Cana, Horschel hit 13 of 14 fairways, 72 percent greens in regulation and was a perfect 5-for-5 getting up-and-down. HORSCHEL LEADS 1-THROUGH-5 FINISH FOR TITLEST GOLF BALL PLAYERS twitter.com/.../1782398248335946166 Every player in the final top five at the Corales Puntacana Championship played a Titleist golf ball, with 75 percent of the field teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x . 1. Billy Horschel (Pro V1x+ prototype) 2. Runner-up (Pro V1x) 3. Kevin Tway (Pro V1) T4. Charley Hoffman (Pro V1x) T4. Justin Lower (Pro V1x) HORSCHEL ON HIS TITLEIST GOLF BALL “The control of the Titleist golf ball is by far better than any ball on the market. When you hit a shot, when you try to hit a five-yard draw, you want that ball to turn five yards. You don’t want it to draw 10 yards, or you don't want it not to draw. So to be able to control the golf ball is such a vital key in the game of golf. Doesn’t matter what level you’re at. When you’re expecting a shot to turn out a certain way, control wise, and that golf ball is not doing what you want, you have an issue, and with a Titleist golf ball, I’ve never had an issue once.” “It’s a fine margin out here on the PGA TOUR and if you can find any little bit of an edge to give you that little bit of advantage I’m going to take it. And so for me having my spin rates be consistent, having the feel, the softness of the feel around the greens be the same, and how it’s going to land on the green. I want to know that ball, if I hit the shot the way I want, it’s going to produce with the results I want – and I get that, and I’ve gotten that throughout my entire career with the Titleist golf ball.” “For me it comes down to spin. I’m looking for the ball to spin the right amount or in a certain range with every club I have. So 7-iron, I’m looking for it to spin somewhere around the upper echelon and the spin rate of 7,000-7,200. I want control of the golf ball. I want to have the ability to take spin off... And so having a ball that spins more allows me to have more control. And I can take spin off three quarter shots, little half shots. That’s what’s allowed me to be successful on the PGA Tour.” What’s in the Bag? | Billy Horschel Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x+ prototype golf ball Driver: TSR3 9.0° | Fujikura Ventus Black TR 6 X Fairway Metals: TSi2 15.0° | Project X HZRDUS Smoke Black 70g 6.5 TX and TSi2 18.0° | Project X HZRDUS Smoke Black 80g 6.5 TX Irons: T100 3, 5 | True Temper Dynamic Gold 120 X100 and 620 MB 6-9 | True Temper Dynamic Gold 120 X100 Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 52.12F, 56.08M, WedgeWorks 60V (@ 62) | True Temper Dynamic Gold 120 X100 (46), Dynamic Gold Tour Issue Onyx S400 (52-60) HORSCHEL ON HIS TSR3 DRIVER “The TSi was unbelievable. It was the longest, straightest driver I’ve ever hit. It was the fastest driver I’ve ever played. I achieved my highest ball speed on it, which was 178 [mph]. Loved the driver to death, had no plans of changing, but J.J. with Titleist said, ‘Hey, just give this a shot’... I finally tested it, and I was really shocked by how consistent the ball flight was. And how tight my misses were. I like to hit a little left-to-right shot. The ball wasn’t over-cutting when I missed it. My toe misses, if I did hit it off the toe, wasn’t diving hard left. And so it’s just a lot tighter. And so now that allows me to tighten up my lines, hitting it off the tee. Narrow fairways I can be more aggressive knowing I’ve got a driver that if I do miss it, it's not going to be too far off if I hit it dead center in the face. And then when I finally tested it on TrackMan, I was shocked to see the speed gain. So it's faster. And the dispersion rate off the tee with good from bad is a lot tighter, which we’re all looking for in the game of golf, especially at our level.” HORSCHEL ON HIS T100 LONG IRONS “I like a very soft feel because that’s what my senses are. I can have a good understanding of when it’s soft, where I’ve hit it on the face, whether I’ve hit it good, whether I’ve spun it too much, toe, heel. If it’s a little bit too much of a firm feel, then I can't really distinguish with where it is on the face or did it come off with enough spin, did it not come off with enough spin. So for me, I’ve always liked the softer feel and I think with Titleist, they’ve done a really good job of that, especially with the new T100’s, because when you get into the cavity back irons, it’s really easy to make it a firm feel. It's tough to make it feel soft like a blade. And they've done a really good job with that, with the new T100.” HORSCHEL ON HIS VOKEY WEDGES www.youtube.com/watch “For me, whenever I get a Vokey wedge, I know right away that this product is at the highest standard. It’s the best in the game of golf and it’s going to help my game in the areas I need. And then at the same time, when you have Bob and you have Aaron there on a weekly basis, being able to work with them to fine tune the little points that you're looking for. They offer suggestions whether it be bounce, loft or lies or numerous other things.” KORN FERRY TOUR | LECOM Suncoast Classic Titleist Brand Ambassador Tim Widing emerged victorious from a sudden-death playoff, earning his first career Korn Ferry Tour victory. Widing, gaming a Pro V1x golf ball and 14 Titleist clubs, including a TSR2 driver, T100 irons and NEW Vokey Design SM10 wedges, made three birdies over his final six holes to post the clubhouse lead. Both Steven Fisk and Patrick Cover matched Widing at 20 under to force the all-Pro V1x playoff. For the week at Lakewood National, Widing posted four rounds of 67 or better (67-64-67-66). He led the field in Greens in Regulation (63/74 including two playoff holes, 85%) and Scrambling (10/11, 91%). The 26-year-old Swede also hit 83 percent of his fairways. What’s in the Bag? | Tim Widing Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR2 9.0° | Fujikura Ventus Red 7 X Fairway Metal: TSR2 15.0° | Fujikura Ventus Red 8 X and TSR2 21.0° fairway | Fujikura Ventus Black 8 X Irons: T100 4-PW | True Temper Dynamic Gold X100 Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM10 50.08F, 56.12D, WedgeWorks 60L wedges | True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 7.5 tour prototype PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | Invited Celebrity Classic Paul Broadhurst (Pro V1x Left Dash) carded rounds of 65-66 to post 11 under and win by one. Broadhurst put on a ball-striking clinic in the weather-shortened event, hitting all but two greens in regulation (34/36, 94%). The victory marks Broadhurst’s sixth career PGA Tour Champions title. KPGA | KPGA Founders Cup with Hanmaek CC Titleist Brand Ambassador Guntaek Koh made par on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff to capture his fourth career KPGA victory. Koh, trusting his Pro V1 golf ball, TSR2 driver, T-Series irons, NEW Vokey Design SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron putter in his all-Titleist setup, opened the week with a course record-setting 61. Three rounds – and one extra hole – later, Koh secured the trophy. Eleven of the 14 players finishing inside the top-10 and ties trusted a Titleist golf ball. Titleist also won every surveyed equipment count: golf ball , driver , fairway , hybrid , iron , wedge and putter . What’s in the Bag? | Guntaek Koh Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSR2 10.0° Fairway Metal: TSi2 15.0° Irons: T200 2 and T100 3-PW Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM10 52.08F, 58.08M Putter: Scotty Cameron Newport 2 tour prototype KLPGA | Nexen SaintNine Masters 2024 Eunwoo Choi (Pro V1x) successfully defended her title at the Nexen SaintNine Masters. Rounds of 67-70-71 saw her post 8 under and win by one shot. Nine of the 12 players finishing inside the top-10 and ties played a Titleist golf ball . Ladies European Tour | Joburg Ladies Open Chiara Tamburlini (Pro V1x) shot rounds of 70-68-67-70 to post 17 under and win her first LET title by seven shots. The 24-year-old led a 1-2-3-4 finish for Titleist golf ball players in South Africa. ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | Valspar Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Peter Malnati was unflappable down the stretch Sunday, coming home in 31 to win his second PGA TOUR title by two shots while leading a 1-2-3-4 finish for Titleist golf ball players. Of the 13 events played this season on the PGA TOUR, 12 have been won with either a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball model. Malnati, trusting his Pro V1x Yellow golf ball and full bag of Titleist equipment , including his TSR3 driver, blended set of T-Series irons, NEW Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron putter, shot a final round 4-under 67 to reach his winning 12-under total. Malnati, 36, was in total control of his golf ball on the back nine on Sunday, hitting eight of nine greens and converting four birdies from stellar approach shots to pull away from the pack: No. 10: 133 yards to 16 inches No. 11: 83 yards to 4 feet, 5 inches No. 12: 161 yards to 15 feet No. 17: 198 yards to 6 feet, 2 inches He gained over 2.5 shots with his approach play alone over the final round (+2.79). Over the 72 holes in Tampa, Malnati made a field-best 20 birdies. He gained 3.45 strokes on the field off the tee (4th) and over eight shots (8.31, 3rd) on the field on the greens. He led the field in putts per GIR (1.60) and ranked T5 in GIR (65.28%, 47/72). What’s in the Bag? | Peter Malnati Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Yellow Driver: TSR3 10.0° | Project X Denali Blue 60 TX Fairway Metal: TSi3 15.0° | Fujikura Ventus TR Blue 70 X Hybrid: 818H2 19.0° | Graphite Design Tour AD DI 95 X Irons: T200 4 iron | True Temper AMT Tour White S400, T150 5 iron | True Temper AMT Tour White S400m and T100 6-9 irons | True Temper AMT Tour White S400 Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 48.10F, 52.12F, 56.08M (@57), 60.04T (@62) | True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 Putter: Scotty Cameron TourType Special Select Masterful 1.5 tour prototype MALNATI MAKES IT 12-OF-13 FOR TITLEIST GOLF BALL PLAYERS IN 2024, LEADS 1-2-3-4 FINISH FOR PRO V1 & PRO V1 x AT VALSPAR Malnati's victory at the Valspar marked the 12th victory for Titleist golf ball players through the first 13 events to start the 2024 PGA TOUR season: 1. The Sentry Champion (Pro V1x) 2. Grayson Murray (Pro V1) – Sony Open in Hawaii 3. The American Express Champion (Pro V1) 4. Matthieu Pavon (Pro V1) – Farmers Insurance Open 5. Wyndham Clark (Pro V1x) – AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am 6. Nick Taylor (Pro V1x) – WM Phoenix Open 7. Jake Knapp (Pro V1 Left Dot) – Mexico Open at Vidanta 8. Austin Eckroat (Pro V1) – Cognizant Classic 9. Arnold Palmer Invitational Champion (Pro V1) 10. Brice Garnett (Pro V1) – Puerto Rico Open 11. THE PLAYERS Champion (Pro V1) 12. Peter Malnati (Pro V1x Yellow) – Valspar Championship Additionally, Malnati led a 1-2-3-4 finish for Titleist ball players this week in Tampa: 1. Peter Malnati (Pro V1x Yellow) 2. Cameron Young (Pro V1 Left Dot) T3. Chandler Phillips (Pro V1x+ prototype) T3. Mackenzie Hughes (Pro V1x+ prototype) MALNATI ON HIS PRO V1 x “I remember I was out on the course with J.J. [Van Wezenbeeck, Titleist Director of Player Promotions] in San Antonio, maybe in 2016 or ’17. I was playing [Pro V1] and I loved the way the V flew off the driver, but J.J. was just watching some iron shots. He's like, ‘Man, I think we could get you some more control. We can get you the flight you want by doing other stuff with the driver, shaft, loft, whatever. But your iron play, you’re just going to have more control of the ball. It’s going to stop faster on the greens for you in the X. And I’ve played it ever since and it has been right. My iron stats have improved. All the elements of the game are important out here, but being able to hit it on the green, get it close to the hole – that’s what it’s all about.” “It's the perfect ball for me, gives me just the right amount of spin off the irons and wedges to feel like I’m totally in control. And it still obviously has a great flight with the longer clubs too. “I started using it (Pro V1x Yellow) in Minnesota at the 3M Championship last summer. And the reason I switched to it is because my, at the time, 3-year-old, who is now four, liked them. And so, he's kind of over it now, but it still makes me think of him, and that’s worth a smile or two, which is worth a lot out there for me.” MALNATI WINS WITH T-SERIES IRONS, CLINCHES VICTORY WITH T150 5-IRON Peter Malnati took his blended set of T-Series irons ( T200 4 iron, T150 5 iron, T100 6-9 irons; True Temper AMT Tour White S400 shafts) to the winner’s circle, putting on a ball striking clinic on Sunday. Malnati gained 2.79 shots on the field with his approach play in the final round and hit eight of nine greens on the demanding back nine. One of Malnati’s best shots came on the 198-yard par-3 17th. Tied for the lead, he pulled his T150 5 iron and took dead aim, sticking his Pro V1x to 6 feet, 2 inches from the cup. He converted the birdie to go up one shot with one to play. Malnati’s T150 5 iron was a new addition to his bag this season, and he first put it in play at the Sony Open seeking more height and forgiveness. “I’ve played a T200 4-iron for several generations, and that’s a great transition for me because it’s a little bit more forgiving, but just easy height,” he said. “I was like, if the 150 is kind of in the middle, would that be a nice transition to go to that in the 5 iron? So J.J. sent me one, just purely experimental, but instantly, my carry distance was the same, but launch was a little higher and height was a little higher. And I can easily make it go lower if I need to, but I can't necessarily easily make it go higher if I need to. So that club, having the same look and feel as my [T100] 5 iron, but just launching it a little higher without losing any speed or carry distance seems like a no brainer.” Said Malnati of his Sunday 5-iron at 17: “I remember telling my caddie I needed to make a 2 – I needed to hit it 208. And 208’s a pretty big 5 iron for me, but in the situation I was in, it was just a very normal 5-iron. ... But that was really fun in that moment to just step up, not overthink it, just it's a full 5 iron at the TV tower, go. And to watch that ball fly was a really cool feeling, to have it like tracking the hole there, that was really nice.” MALNATI DIALED WITH TOUR’S FAVORITE DRIVER Gaming his TSR3 9.0° driver (Project X Denali Blue 60 TX), Peter Malnati gained over three shots on the field off the tee (+3.45), setting himself up for field-best 20 birdies. Titleist has been the most played driver on the PGA TOUR for five seasons and counting, with a total of 60 players (39%) gaming a Titleist driver this week in Tampa, 27 more than the nearest competitor. That list also included Titleist Brand Ambassador Cameron Young , who finished two shots back in solo second. Young, gaming a TSR3 9.0° driver (Accra Tour Z5 65 M5) as well as a TSR 2W 13.0° prototype 2-wood, led the field in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee, gaining 4.95 shots. FOUR WINS IN A ROW FOR VOKEY WEDGE PLAYERS Peter Malnati made the move to four NEW Vokey Design SM10 wedges – 48.10F, 52.12F, 56.08M (@57) and 60.04T (@62) – in his first opportunity earlier this season at the American Express Championship. His victory Sunday makes it four straight wins – and five of the last six – for players gaming Vokey Design wedges on the PGA TOUR: Valspar Championship – Peter Malnati (NEW Vokey Design SM10 48.10F, 52.12F, 56.08M (@57), 60.04T (@62) wedges) THE PLAYERS Championship & Arnold Palmer Invitational Champion (Vokey Design SM8 50.12F, 56.14F, SM9 WedgeWorks 60T wedges) Puerto Rico Open Champion (Vokey Design SM9 50.08F, 54.14F, NEW SM10 WedgeWorks 60A+ wedges) Malnati on his lob wedge setup: “At the advice of [Vokey Wedge Rep] Aaron Dill a couple of years ago, I was struggling with some of my pitch shots around the greens, feeling like I was just having to work too hard to hit those ones where the chipping area sits down low and the green sits up high. And he said, ‘you want to try a 62-degree?’ And so I did... And I've had a 62 in the bag ever since. And it helps me a lot.” MALNATI LIGHTS OUT WITH SCOTTY CAMERON PUTTER Peter Malnati gained over eight strokes on the field (+8.31, 3rd) with his Scotty Cameron TourType Special Select Masterful 1.5 tour prototype putter this week at Innisbrook, leading the field in putts per GIR (1.60) with the Newport-style blade. Malnati first put his current gamer in play at last season’s Farmers Insurance Open after a testing session with Scotty Cameron Tour Rep Brad Cloke . In the two events leading up to the Farmers, Malnati had tried a Phantom X 11.5 mallet. “I wanted him to get back to his feels, get back to feeling the blade and not fighting the mallet,” Cloke said. “He experimented with higher MOI, but he’s a feel guy, he doesn’t get real technical. He’s more of, I see it, I want to feel it. This was something that allowed him to get back to putting naturally, like he does. He’s stuck with it ever since Farmers and his putting stats have been outstanding.” For the season, Malnati ranks 13th in total putting and 16th in one-putt percentage. DP WORLD TOUR | Porsche Singapore Classic Jesper Svensson (Pro V1) prevailed in a sudden-death playoff to earn his first DP World Tour title, having shot a course record-matching final round 63 to force extra holes. Svensson, 28, began Sunday five shots off the lead before starting birdie-birdie-eagle. He went out in 30 and continued to take it deep on the back nine, eventually signing for a 9-under round that featured eight birdies and two eagles. Clutch birdies on Nos. 17 and 18 saw him reach 17 under, sending him back to the 18th tee for a playoff. Svensson matched his opponent with a birdie and a par on the first two go-arounds before making a tournament-winning par on the third extra hole. For the week in Singapore, Svensson was in total control of his Pro V1 , gaining 2.72 strokes on the field off the tee, 1.56 strokes with his approach play and 3.48 strokes around the green. PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | Hoag Classic Newport Beach Playing a Pro V1 golf ball, three-time major champion Padraig Harrington secured his seventh PGA TOUR Champions victory at Newport Beach CC. Harrington made six birdies in his final round — including three in his last four holes — to reach 14-under-par for the tournament and win by one shot. This followed Harrington’s impressive closing stretch on Saturday, which included an eagle and two birdies in his final four holes. He is projected to jump to No. 5 in the Schwab Cup standings. JLPGA | AXA Ladies Golf Tournament Reika Usui (Pro V1x) shot a bogey-free 6-under final round 66 to post 13 under and win for the first time on the JLPGA. ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches In absolute control of his Pro V1 golf ball, Austin Eckroat played The Bear Trap in 1 under par to punctuate a three-shot victory at PGA National and capture his first PGA TOUR victory. With 10 holes to play in Monday’s weather-delayed finish, Eckroat pulled away with unwavering ball-striking, particularly through PGA National’s toughest three-hole stretch, playing 15-16-17 in par-birdie-par. “He did it with a straight shot on 15, a draw on 16 and a cut on 17. Complete control,” NBC analyst and Titleist Brand Ambassador Brad Faxon said on the broadcast. Eckroat, 25, led the field in Greens in Regulation at 82% (59/72), gaining more than five shots on the field on approach (+5.829). The longtime Pro V1 player made a field-best 23 birdies, posting four rounds of 68 or better (65-67-68-67). EIGHT OF NINE TOUR EVENTS WON WITH A TITLEIST GOLF BALL IN 2024 Austin Eckroat's victory at the Cognizant Classic marked the eighth event won with a Titleist golf ball in nine PGA TOUR events to start the 2024 season: 1. The Sentry Champion (Pro V1x) 2. Grayson Murray (Pro V1) – Sony Open in Hawaii 3. The American Express Champion (Pro V1) 4. Matthieu Pavon (Pro V1) – Farmers Insurance Open 5. Wyndham Clark (Pro V1x) – AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am 6. Nick Taylor (Pro V1x) – WM Phoenix Open 7. Jake Knapp (Pro V1 Left Dot) – Mexico Open at Vidanta 8. Austin Eckroat (Pro V1) – Cognizant Classic Of the eight winners who trusted a Titleist, Eckroat is also the fifth first-time winner on the PGA TOUR, joining Grayson Murray , the American Express champion, Matthieu Pavon and Jake Knapp in breaking through with a victory in 2024. Over the nine events played on the PGA TOUR in 2024, Titleist golf balls have been chosen a total of 746 times (70%), compared to 134 (12%) for the next closest competitor. ECKROAT ON THE PERFORMANCE OF HIS PRO V1 “I've been playing the Pro V1 since I was a kid, it's always been good for me. I feel like I have the control around the greens, [it] has the high ball speed numbers. It does everything I want it to do.” “I mean, the consistency within the ball is something that you really need. It's something I've never worried about playing a Pro V1. Never even crossed my mind to wonder if the bad shot I just hit was my golf ball.” KORN FERRY TOUR | 117 Visa Argentina Open Mason Andersen (Pro V1x) birdied the par-5 18th three times on Sunday – once in regulation and twice in a sudden-death playoff – to earn his first career Korn Ferry Tour win and a spot in field at the 152nd Open Championship at Royal Troon. Andersen, who began Sunday six shots off the pace, made six back-nine birdies to come home in 29 and post the clubhouse lead at 17 under after a final round 63. When Kris Ventura (Pro V1 Left Dot) matched him over 72 holes, the duo headed back to the 18th tee for extra holes. Andersen and Ventura traded birdies on the first playoff hole before Andersen prevailed on the second. For the week in Buenos Aires, Andersen made 24 birdies – including his two in extra holes – and only dropped three shots (T1). With the win, he jumped to the top of the Korn Ferry Tour Points List, up 21 spots from his position to start the event. ASIAN TOUR / PGA TOUR AUSTRALASIA | 103rd New Zealand Open Titleist Brand Ambassador Takahiro Hataji earned his first career professional victory, carding a final round bogey-free 4-under 67 to post 17 under and win by one. Hataji, who became the first Japanese player to win the New Zealand Open, gamed a Pro V1x Left Dash golf ball, TSR4 driver, T-Series irons, Vokey wedges and a Scotty Cameron putter among his all-Titleist winning setup. What’s in the Bag? | Takahiro Hataji Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Left Dash . Driver: TSR4 10.0° Fairway Metal: TSR2+ 14.5° Hyrbid: TSR2 18.0° Irons: T100•S 3-4 and T100 5-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 52.12F, WedgeWorks 60.06K Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 11 tour prototype ... #TeamTitleist
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LET | Aramco Saudi Ladies International Titleist Brand Ambassador Patty Tavatanakit shot a final round 7-under 65 to cap off a wire-to-wire, seven-shot victory. Tavatanakit, gaming a Pro V1x golf ball, TSR2 driver, NEW T-Series irons and NEW Vokey SM10 wedges, made 20 birdies and an eagle for the week on her way to earning her fifth professional victory. The 24-year-old was a perfect 18-for-18 in greens in regulation on Sunday, and she finished in style, sticking her Pro V1x in tight on the 72nd hole for a closing birdie. TAVATANAKIT ON WHY SHE PLAYS PRO V1 x “I need to hear a good sound from the golf ball. I need to hear it. I need to feel it. The Pro V1x just kind of gives me a little bit more feedback in terms of feel and sound. It spins really good around the green as well, and just full shots and everything just feels good. So that's why I love the Pro V1x ... Titleist has always been the number one ball in golf, so when you go out on the course, you just play and don't think about that.” “When I flight the ball lower, it can still spin really, really well, and when I need to hit it high, I get that max spin for the max carry.” “Off the tee, it does spin a touch more than the Pro V1, which I like because that way I could get maximum carry out of it. It would fly a touch higher, which would make the ball carry a little bit further. And then when I do bring it down, it would still go down. So, it's really manageable, this ball.” www.instagram.com/.../ TAVATANAKIT MAKES THE MOVE TO NEW SM10 WEDGES Tavatanakit began her 2024 LPGA season in January at the Drive On Championship after adding three NEW Vokey SM10 wedges (50.12F, 56.08M, 60.04T) to her bag. Having previously gamed prior generation Vokey wedges, Tavatanakit worked with Vokey Tour Rep Shane Dyel to determine her setup with the new models. Said Dyel: “What's so special about Patty is her attention to detail and her perception of feel. When I worked with Patty on her SM10’s she could see and feel the difference between her previous generation Vokey wedges and the new SM10 wedges. “With her wedge setup we talked about how she can be more versatile with every wedge in the bag, and it all starts at the top with her 50.12F. This grind gives her unlocked versatility from full shots in the fairway to low, high-spin runners around the greens. Our change in CG location has allowed Patty to be aggressive on shots when she needs to be.” “Going into her SM10 56.08M, the new model gave her more help with the lower flight and higher spin she always looks for. She has found it to be easier to flight down her shots without sacrificing speed, which was a huge difference from her previous generation Vokey 56.08M. “Lastly, her 60.04T is the most versatile and the most feel-sensitive wedge Patty has in the bag. Without a doubt, Patty saw not only an increase in feel, but also complete sole control compared to her previous generation 60 T grind. Her overall feedback with SM10 has been overwhelmingly positive.” www.instagram.com/.../ What’s in the Bag? | Patty Tavatanakit Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR2 9.0° | Mitsubishi Tensei 1K blue 50S Fairway Metal: TSR2 18.0° | Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Pro White 60 S Irons: NEW T200 4 and NEW T100 5-PW | Graphite Design Tour AD DI-85 Hybrid S (4), Nippon N.S. PRO 950GH S (5-PW) Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM10 50.12F, 56.08M, 60.04T wedges | Nippon N.S. PRO Modus3 115 Wedge PGA TOUR | The Genesis Invitational Titleist Brand Ambassador Will Zalatoris turned in rounds of 66-70-65-69 to post 14 under for the week at Riviera and earn a T2 finish, his best result since his return from injury. Zalatoris began the 2024 PGA TOUR season with several recent additions to his equipment setup, including a TSR2 driver, NEW T-Series irons and NEW Vokey Design SM10 wedges. What’s in the Bag? | Will Zalatoris Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR2 9.0° | D•1 SureFit Hosel, Fujikura Ventus Black TR 7 X Fairway Metal : TSi2 15.0°| A•1 SureFit Hosel, Fujikura Ventus Blue TR 8 X Utility Iron: NEW T350 3 | Nippon Modus3 Graphite On Steel Proto .370 Hybrid 10 ST X Irons: NEW T150 4-PW | True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM10 50.08F, 54.10S, 60.04T | True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 ZALATORIS ON HOW HE MARKS HIS PRO V1 x “Actually, I've always had a line on my ball, and then I was standing on the tee at Riviera, my first year out on Tour, and there were three guys in the group playing Titleist 3's with black lines on them. Pro V1s, exactly the same. And so, I was like, ‘Okay, I need to add something to my golf ball.’ And so, I put my initials in Sharpie on the back side of my ball. And then I just started doing 200, which was actually kind of funny. I had 200 days off, of not touching a golf club, from when I was out. And so, it's kind of a nice little reminder of where it's like, okay, if I make a couple bogies, it's like, ‘Well, it beats what you were doing for those 200 days.’ But yeah, really, I've kept adding things as the years have gone on, because there's so many guys that play Titleist. And I think it was funny, in my 11th event on Tour, there's three guys standing on a tee with three Titleist Pro V’s, black, black line, exactly the same. And I’m like, alright, I need to start adding stuff to my ball.” On Friday at The Genesis, Zalatoris stepped to the tee on the 184-yard, par-3 14th and pulled his T150 7 iron. He struck his Pro V1x toward the pin and watched it carry the front left bunker before rolling right into the cup for an ace. Zalatoris finished the week ranked fourth in Strokes Gained: Approach (+5.283). He also gained more than a shot on the field Off the Tee (+1.437, 15th) and Around the Green (+1.285, 17th). His 22 birdies for the week at Riviera led the field, and he finished T3 in Greens in Regulation (68%, 49/72). ZALATORIS ON SWITCHING TO HIS T150 IRONS, T350 3 IRON “I switched to the T150’s right when I got them, or I guess it was earlier this year. The thing that was so fascinating with the T150’s was that you had more feel than any Titleist iron that we had ever made, but you still had the same forgiveness. And so, when I first tried them, shocker, professional golfers don't hit perfect golf shots all day long, but I would hit one barely on the heel, barely on the toe. And I'm thinking, ‘Oh, I must've lost seven, eight yards on that.’ And it was going the same distance as when I hit it solid. And so, getting that feedback was amazing for me.” “The two biggest things that I always check for with irons is how do they perform out of the rough. Because if I've got a little too much camber out of there, I might catch flyers all day long, which I know it's cool to hit a pitching wedge 190 yards, but it's not cool when you're trying to hit it 150. And then on top of that – I told this to J.J. [Van Wezenbeeck, Titleist Director of Player Promotions] when he first gave them to me – it looked like they were built for me. Just because how they go through the turf, they rip through the turf way faster than the T100's that I was playing before. But I had more forgiveness and more feel, which is a unicorn. And so I've loved that [T150] iron.” “I actually play the T350 in my 3-iron. That iron was built to be kind of a game improvement iron. And honestly, we were on the range when all of us were together in LA testing it, and we were just kind of goofing around. And I was thinking, ‘Man, this thing looks awesome.’ And so, I started hitting some balls out of the rough, started hitting them out of the fairway. I remember Max [Homa] and I spent 20 minutes with this thing, and we were like, ‘This thing is awesome.’ So the wide variety too is something that I think is really cool. Because you're seeing guys that were playing straight muscle backs going to the T100’s. You've seen guys maybe go from T100’s to T150’s, and there's a lot of kind of shuffling going around. It's like, ‘Yeah, I have a game improvement iron in my bag.’ So what. I love that thing. It's my favorite club in the bag. But a lot of the changes that they made this year, especially with the feel, was really fascinating to me.” PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | Chubb Classic Stephen Ames (Pro V1) earned his seventh career PGA Tour Champions victory, posting 13 under to win by three. Ames, who won four times in 2023, made 14 birdies on his way to carding rounds of 67-64 to claim the 36-hole weather-shortened event. He hit over 80% of his greens in regulation (29/36) and ranked 1st in Scrambling, getting his Pro V1 up and down on six of seven attempts. ASIAN TOUR | IRS Prima Malaysian Open David Puig (Pro V1) shot matching 62’s over the weekend to claim his second Asian Tour victory in four months. Puig, 22, entered the third round eight strokes off the lead before carding 18 birdies to zero bogeys over his final 36 holes. He finished at 23 under par for the tournament to earn a two-shot margin of victory and a spot in the 2024 Open Championship field at Royal Troon. This week in Malaysia, 70% of the field played a Titleist golf ball — nearly six times the nearest competitor — including nine of the 12 players who finished inside the top 10 and ties. PGA TOUR AUSTRALASIA | Webex Players Series - Hunter Valley Titleist Brand Ambassador Daniel Gale holed a 10-foot birdie putt on the 72nd green to earn his second PGA Tour Australasia victory of the season. Gale, 27, trusted his Pro V1x golf ball and full bag of Titleist equipment to post a final round 66 and reach 19 under par for the week, good for a one-shot win. Titleist Brand Ambassador and last week’s PGA Tour Australasia champion Kazuma Kobori (Pro V1x) placed third this week, shooting a final round 65 and finishing two strokes behind Gale. What’s in the Bag? | Daniel Gale Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR3 8.0° Fairway Metal: TSR3 15.0° Irons: T200 3 iron and T100 4-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 50.08F, 54.12D, 60.08M Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5S SUNSHINE TOUR | Dimension Data Pro-Am Titleist Brand Ambassador David Ravetto earned his first career Sunshine Tour victory, posting 15 under to win by two shots. Ravetto trusted his Pro V1 golf ball through windy conditions to card a final round 69. What’s in the Bag? | David Ravetto Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSi3 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSi3 15.0° Hybrid: TSi3 18.0° Irons: 620 CB 4-PW irons Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 50°, 56°, 60° ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | WM Phoenix Open After opening the week with a course-record 60, Nick Taylor (Pro V1x) made three consecutive birdies with the tournament on the line Sunday to win his fourth PGA TOUR title. Each of those birdies came on TPC Scottsdale’s par-4 18th. The first one, Taylor’s 72nd hole, forced an all- Pro V1x golf ball playoff with Titleist Brand Ambassador Charley Hoffman at 21 under. Both players birdied the playoff opener, setting up Taylor’s clinching birdie on the second extra hole. Taylor, who draws a blue line on his Pro V1x to help with alignment on his putts, rolled it in from 11 feet, 5 inches for the win. Including the playoff, Taylor’s Pro V1x golf ball found the bottom of the cup for 26 birdies. Eleven of those came during his bogey-free first round, which he played in 29-31. Taylor was in complete control of his Pro V1x throughout the week in Scottsdale, gaining more than five shots on the field on approach shots (+5.114/9th), while getting up-and-down on 12 of 13 attempts (92.31%), including a perfect 2-for-2 on sand saves. He hit 61 greens in regulation, ranking T2 for the event. SIX WINS IN A ROW FOR TITLEIST GOLF BALL PLAYERS TO START 2024 SEASON Titleist golf ball players have won every event to start the 2024 PGA TOUR season, with three wins each apiece for Pro V1 and Pro V1x : The Sentry: Pro V1x player Sony Open: Grayson Murray (Pro V1) The American Express: Pro V1 player Farmers Insurance Open: Matthieu Pavon (Pro V1) AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am: Wyndham Clark (Pro V1x) WM Phoenix Open: Nick Taylor (Pro V1x) This week, Taylor also topped a leader board that featured four Titleist golf ball players in the final top 5: 1. Nick Taylor (Pro V1x) 2. Charley Hoffman (Pro V1x) T3. 2022 Masters Champion (Pro V1) 5. Sahith Theegala (Pro V1) Over the last six weeks on the PGA TOUR, a total of 507 players have teed up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball, more than five times the nearest competitor (95). WHY NICK TAYLOR PLAYS PRO V1 x “The windows, we talk about flight windows, but also spin windows. Like any golfer, you want predictability not only your good shots, but your slight miss hits and misses. So the windows of my spin are super tight and like I said, the flight windows that you want – the low ones, if it's a knockdown shot or into the wind, the high ones with certain shots you might need to get to a pin or not – when I look up, I see in the window that I’ve imagined when I was trying to hit it, so that's super important.” “I have so much confidence in the Titleist golf ball, I am not really ever questioning it. When you’re in trouble and you have to hit through a 3 foot by 3 foot circle in a tree, that's when you have the confidence in the back of your mind that, you know, I envision this with a 7 iron and you think it's going to come out of that window – that's telling in itself right there. It's nice to have the windows, when you're on a tee box with nothing in the way, but when you get in trouble, which we do on occasion, it’s important to have that confidence.” “To me (with Pro V1x) it's a soft but clicky feel. It's obviously two opposites there, but it gives me the variety of clickiness with the wedges that I feel like it's getting the spin, but also with the really short shots I have the soft feel. And then with the irons and the woods, obviously it comes off kind of somewhere in the middle there. So the feel is important. It gives you confidence when it comes off the face, kind of again, the feel that you want.” HOW NICK TAYLOR MARKS HIS PRO V1 x “I've always used blue for a long time. I'll change up occasionally, but I put a C and an H by the numbers on both sides. C is for Charlie, it's my son and Harper's my daughter. My daughter's 9 months old, so I had just a C for four years. I used to do a circle abbreviated to a C when my son was born and then did the C-H when she was born in May.” “I use this to line up on 99 percent of my putts. I've used this line on really any putt from distance, 3 feet all the way up to 72 feet like the Canadian Open. Again, it gives me a general area of where I'm trying to aim, gets me tighter and it gets me just focused on speed. I feel like once I have the line down, I’m not really considered or worried about where I'm aiming, so I use a line in all putts.” What’s in the Bag? | Charley Hoffman Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR2 8.0° | Tensei 1K Pro Orange 50 TX Fairway Metal: TSR2+ 14.5° | Tensei CK Pro Orange 80 TX and TSR3 18.0° | Tensei CK Pro Orange 80 TX Hybrid: 913Hd 20.0° | Motore Speeder HB 9.8 Tour Spec X Irons: NEW T100 5-9 | NS Pro Modus3 Tour 105 X Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.12F, 56.14F, WedgeWorks 60L | NS Pro Modus3 Tour 105 X (46, 52); NS Pro Modus3 125 Wedge (56); Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 (60) Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 8 tour prototype KORN FERRY TOUR | Astara Golf Championship Kevin Velo (Pro V1) made three straight birdies to close out his first career Korn Ferry Tour victory in extra holes. Velo, 26, birdied the par-4 17th and par-5 18th to post 22 under and force a sudden-death playoff with Brian Campbell (Pro V1x) . One more birdie down the 18th gave Velo the win in his 30th career KFT start. For the week in Bogota, Velo carded four sub-67 rounds (64-67-64-66) and made 25 birdies (T2 in the field). Velo and Campbell’s 72-hole scores of 261 (22 under) apiece set the new tournament scoring record. After prevailing in the playoff, Velo is projected to jump 47 spots to No. 2 in the Korn Ferry Points List. CRISTOBAL DEL SOLAR SHOOTS LOWEST ROUND IN PGA TOUR-SANCTIONED HISTORY Cristobal Del Solar tapped in his Pro V1x for par and a 13-under 57 in Round 1, making history by carding the lowest round ever in a PGA TOUR-sanctioned event. Del Solar made six birdies in his first eight holes before making an eagle on No. 9 to go out in 27. He added three more birdies and an eagle on his way in to finish off the historic round. Del Solar began the 2023 Korn Ferry Tour season playing a competitive golf ball brand. In late May at the AdventHealth Championship, Del Solar made a mid-season move to Titleist, switching to a Pro V1x Left Dash . Two months later, Del Solar worked with Jeff Beyers of Titleist Golf Ball R&D , looking for more spin at the bottom end of his bag. He moved to 2023 Pro V1x at the Price Cutter Championship and went on to record his then-best finish on the Korn Ferry Tour – a solo 5th at the NV5 Invitational – in his next start. “Cristobal really liked Left Dash but we thought he could benefit from a little bit more spin with his short irons and wedges,” Beyers said. “He tried 2023 Pro V1x and it was a pretty easy change for him. The numbers were great. He played really well, made a late season push to get his TOUR card and now he’s off to a great start this year.” 2023 Pro V1x is engineered with a high gradient dual core design that delivers lower long game spin for increased distance and a more consistent flight – helping golfers hit the ball longer and straighter while maintaining the Drop-and-Stop greenside control that Pro V1x players rely on to play their best. POTGIETER BECOMES YOUNGEST PLAYER TO SHOOT 59 Titleist Brand Ambassador A ldrich Potgieter became the youngest player to break 60 in a PGA TOUR-sanctioned event after carding a 59 in Round 2. Potgieter, 19, birdied his final three holes (Nos. 7-9 at Country Club de Bogota – Pacos) to post 11 under on his Friday round. He ended the day with 10 birdies and an eagle. Just two weeks ago, Potgieter became the youngest champion in Korn Ferry Tour history, as he claimed the Bahamas Great Abaco Classic. He gamed his Pro V1x golf ball and 14 Titleist clubs in accomplishing both feats. What’s in the Bag? | Aldrich Potgieter Golf Ball: Pro V1x Driver: TSR3 9.0° | Fujikura Ventus Black 60 X Utility Iron: NEW U·505 2 | Mitsubishi MMT Hybrid 90 TX Irons: NEW T200 3| Mitsubishi MMT Hybrid 100 TX and NEW T100 4-PW | True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue Onyx X100 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 50.08F, 54.10S, WedgeWorks 60T wedges | True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue Onyx X100 (50-54), Dynamic Gold Tour Issue Onyx S400 (60) Putter: Scotty Cameron Futura 5W PGA TOUR AUSTRALASIA | Webex Players Series – Sydney Titleist Brand Ambassador Kazuma Kobori earned his third PGA Tour Australasia victory in the last four weeks. Kobori, who is just months into his professional career, trusted his Pro V1x golf ball and full bag of Titleist equipment to card a final round 66 and post 24 under for the week, good for a one-shot win. Before turning professional in late 2023, Kobori captured the Western Amateur, the Australian Amateur, the individual title at the World Amateur Team Championship and the Elite Amateur Series Cup. He also recorded top-10 finishes at the North and South Amateur, the Trans-Mississippi Amateur and the Southern Amateur. Including his three professional victories, the 22-year-old has finished inside the top-10 six times in nine starts since turning pro. He is currently first on the PGA Tour Australasia’s Order of Merit, which would earn him his DP World Tour card for 2025. What’s in the Bag? | Kazuma Kobori www.instagram.com/.../ Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR2 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSR2+ 14.5° Hybrid: TSR3 19.0° Irons: NEW T150 4-5 and T100 6-9 Wedges: Vokey Design Wedges 46.10F, 50.12F, 54.12D, WedgeWorks 60.06K wedges Putter: Scotty Cameron Newport Why Kazuma Kobori Plays Pro V1 x www.instagram.com/.../ SUNSHINE TOUR | Bain's Whisky Cape Town Open Mikael Lindberg (Pro V1x) made birdie on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff to close out his victory at Royal Cape Golf Club. Lindberg carded rounds of 65-67 over the weekend to reach 16 under before sealing the win on his third trip around the 18th hole. ... #TeamTitleist
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Next Generation Mallets Fully Redesigned with New Shaping, Enhanced Alignment, Improved Sound and Feel, New Full-Contact Grip Design Scotty Cameron introduces his 2024 lineup of Phantom mallets , 10 new models completely redesigned to meet the demands of the modern game through alignment-infused head shapes with improved sound and feel . The new Phantom family, offering four unique shapes with multiple neck and shaft configurations, is the result of feedback from Phantom players across the worldwide professional tours, melded with the continued advancement of Scotty’s multi-material construction and face milling technologies: Fast-looking head shapes have been engineered to optimize alignment and targeting, helping players easily and correctly line up the putter at address. Multi-material face and body constructions, with premium milled-in-USA craftsmanship, are more rigid for increased stability and feedback. Scotty’s tour-proven dual-milled face technology is brought to the Phantom line to provide a softer, consistent sound and feel. A new custom-designed, full contact paddle-style grip is uniquely shaped for increased contact and comfort, while promoting more face angle awareness. QUOTING SCOTTY CAMERON “Max Homa, Justin Thomas and tour players around the world have found success with Phantom putters, and we’re constantly talking with them and learning more about what they want from their mallet. Recently, it’s been alignment that has dominated those conversations. We’ve taken that feedback and designed the new Phantoms to give players useful, intuitive alignment features, not only with the sight dots and lines visible at address, but also with the overall shape of each model. Every aspect of the putter design is working together. Every angle has been refined to accentuate a down-the-line view, so the player has a clear and confident look at every putt.” AVAILABILITY The Phantom 5, 5.5, 5s, 7, 7.5, 9 and 9.5 models will be available worldwide in Titleist authorized golf shops beginning March 29, 2024. The Phantom 7.5 will be made in a left-handed version. The Phantom 11, 11.5 and new Phantom 11 Long Design will join the line and arrive in golf shops on May 17, 2024, and the Phantom 11.5 will also be offered as a left-handed option. 2024 PHANTOM MODEL OVERVIEW The complete Scotty Cameron Phantom line includes 10 mallet models with four unique head shapes, redesigned to enhance alignment, balance center of gravity (CG) depth and optimize moment of inertia (MOI). The new models offer golfers options in 33”, 34”, 35” and 38” lengths along with multiple neck/shaft configurations (low-bend, mid-bend, straight shaft or jet neck) for ultimate player flexibility. Each putter features improved multi-material construction, dual-milled face technology and refined aesthetics. Phantom 5: Designed with an updated, slightly more compact shape with refined wing angles to enhance alignment, the near-face balanced Phantom 5 stays true to its tour-proven design and features a mid-bend shaft, new sight dot alignment and a blade-like feel. Phantom 5.5: The new Phantom 5.5 model features the same updated head shape of the 5 along with a jet neck for players that prefer the alignment features of a mallet with the toe-flow of a blade. Phantom 5s: Nearly-face balanced with a straight shaft and zero offset, the Phantom 5s offers the same compact mallet shape as its model-mates with an unobstructed view of the leading edge of the face from address. Phantom 7: With updated contours, slightly longer wings, new sight dot alignment and a subtle shape shift for a straighter outside wing angle, the tour-proven Phantom 7 puts an emphasis on alignment, stability and MOI and features a mid-bend shaft. Phantom 7.5: Sharing the head shape and design of the 7, the Phantom 7.5 incorporates a jet neck to promote a flowing stroke in a stable, high-MOI mallet (available in left-handed version). Phantom 9: The Phantom 9 features a mid-bend shaft and a completely re-designed shape that offers long sight lines for improved alignment along with an angular, “ring-weighted” profile to deliver forgiveness and feel with high MOI. Phantom 9.5: The 9.5 model matches the 9 with its shaping and alignment cues but like the 5.5 and 7.5 models, features a toe-flow promoting jet neck. Phantom 11: A complete re-design from the sole up, the face balanced, multi-material Phantom 11 is a high-MOI mallet with a stable, mid-bend shaft and new arrow alignment features. Phantom 11.5: With a low-bend shaft for moderate toe-flow, the Phantom 11.5 was designed for the player seeking the alignment features and MOI properties of the 11 with a shaft design that helps the putter swing on a slight arc (available in a left-handed version). Phantom 11 Long Design – 38-inch: Designed in the Phantom 11 head shape, the Phantom 11 Long Design is a 38-inch counterbalanced model with a longer, heavier 17-inch, 135-gram pistol-style grip and a custom-designed stiffer mid-bend shaft to accommodate the overall heavier head, which includes two 25-gram tungsten sole weights. The design features help the player to quiet the hands for a more stable, balanced stroke. PHANTOM TECHNOLOGY ALIGNMENT-INFUSED DESIGNS: Based on tour player input, Scotty designed new 2024 Phantom putter shapes with alignment systems to help players easily and correctly align the putter at address. In addition to a refined, alignment-promoting overall shape, each model features alignment cues that range from elegantly milled sight dots on the 5 and 7 models, to mechanically straight sight lines on the 9 models, to arrow-shaped lines on the 11 models, helping to give the player a clear pre-putt look towards the hole. RE-ENGINEERED MULTI-MATERIAL CONSTRUCTION: Each 2024 Phantom model’s putter face and body is crafted from 303 stainless steel and integrated with lightweight 6061 aircraft aluminum flange and sole plate components. These multi-material designs have been made more rigid, giving players added stability and more solid feel while complementing the models’ new optimized vibration dampening technology. DUAL-MILLED FACE TECHNOLOGY: Every 303 stainless steel face on new Phantom putters features Scotty’s dual-milled face technology, which originated on tour and was first introduced to golfers in 2023’s Super Select line. The dual-milling process provides better sound and feel while combining deep-milled softness with the feedback and consistency of mid-milled offerings. 2024 Phantom putter faces each undergo an initial deep mill, before a second pass levels the milling peaks to produce a flatter, more consistent surface. The result is a tour-inspired look and feel along with the line’s most consistent face to date. Phantom Weighting & Shafts Each new Phantom putter features performance weighting with two customizable stainless steel heel-toe weights (tungsten for the Phantom 11 Long) and stepless steel shafts. Custom-Designed Full Contact Grip Every model features a new full contact paddle-style grip, reminiscent of Scotty’s classic Baby T design with modern updates. Custom-designed for the new Phantom line, the grip is uniquely shaped for more contact and comfort as well as improved face angle awareness through its flat top surface. In addition, the “chain link” texture delivers a reliable grip in all conditions. Finish & Graphics The new Phantom stainless steel putter heads all undergo Scotty’s silver mist process for a radiant yet glare-resistant appearance and texture. The 6061 aircraft grade aluminum components have been misted and anodized in a black aluminum finish. Scotty’s familiar three-dot theme on the back pockets and sight dots of the Phantom 5 and 7 putter heads are accented with translucent smoke paintfill, while engravings and sight lines on all models are painted in shades of asphalt, dove gray and dark gray. Each Phantom mallet includes a shaft band and a headcover accented in yellow. Availability & Price The new Scotty Cameron Phantom 5, 5.5, 5s, 7, 7.5, 9 and 9.5 models will be available worldwide beginning March 29, 2024, with the Phantom 11, 11.5 and new Phantom 11 Long joining the line on May 17, 2024 for $449 ( Long Design MAP: $499). ... #TeamTitleist
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LPGA TOUR | Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions Longtime Titleist golf ball player Lydia Ko opened the 2024 season with a decisive victory against the LPGA’s best, posting a final-round 70 to close out a two-shot victory. In full control of her Pro V1x+ prototype golf ball, Ko took control of the tournament with bogey-free rounds on Friday and Saturday, playing those 36 holes in 9 under while hitting 32 greens in regulation (89%). It marked the 20th LPGA title for Ko, who is now 1 point away from the LPGA's Hall of Fame qualification. KO’S RUN CONTINUES WITH PRO V1 x+ Last August, Lydia Ko made the move to the prototype Pro V1x+ golf ball, putting the model in play for the first time at the Portland Classic following some work with Titleist Golf Ball R&D rep Jeff Beyers . According to Beyers, Ko liked the added spin with her short irons and wedges she saw while testing Pro V1x+. While the vast majority of Titleist golf balls in play across the worldwide professional tours are either a Pro V1 or Pro V1x, some players choose to play custom performance options (CPO’s) – such as Pro V1x Left Dash, Pro V1 Left Dot and Pro V1x+. These CPO’s are designed to fit players with very unique launch conditions as well as evaluate forward looking technologies. Ko has played the ball ever since, and is a cumulative 60 under in those last eight events, including this week’s victory. In addition, her team won the Grant Thorton Invitational in December. “I’ve used the Titleist ball for a really long time and I can speak from my experience that every time I’ve tried something new I’ve been able to see a difference, and I just love how it is the #1 golf ball,” Ko said. “It’s not just an advertisement. It is something that I believe and something that I really trust. The golf ball is such a crucial part of the equipment standpoint and in the game.” PANO FINISHES RUNNER-UP IN FIRST WEEK WITH NEW T100 IRONS, SM10 WEDGES Titleist Brand Ambassador Alexa Pano began her sophomore season on the LPGA Tour with a solo second-place finish, birdieing three of her final five holes to post 12 under and finish two back of Lydia Ko . Pano plays a Pro V1 golf ball and 14 Titleist clubs, nine of which she gamed for the first time this week in Orlando. Pano, who finished the week 1st in Birdies (19), added a set of NEW T100 5-9 irons along with four NEW Vokey Design SM10 wedges (46.10F, 50.12F, 54.14F, 58.12D) over the offseason. She also led the field in Putts Per GIR (1.69) with her Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5.5 tour prototype putter. What’s in the Bag? | Alexa Pano Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 golf ball Driver: TSR3 8.0° | Mitsubishi Diamana PD 50 S Fairway Metals: TSR3 13.5° | Mitsubishi Diamana PD 60 S, TSR3 18.0° | Mitsubishi Diamana PD 70 S, and TSR3 21.0°| Mitsubishi Tensei CK 70 Irons: NEW T100 5-9 | Nippon NS Pro 950GH R Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM10 46.10, 50.12F, 54.14F, 58.12D | Nippon NS Pro 950GH R Putter : Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5.5 tour prototype putter PANO ON HER PRO V1 “The spin on this ball gives me a lot of confidence around the greens and hitting shots in, I can really predict what I want to do and [it’s] just a very reliable golf ball. If I want to stick something, I can do that. If I want to get the rollout, I can still do that, and [Pro V1] just kind of gives me the freedom to play golf. I know my golf ball is going to do what I need it to.” “I think before I turned pro, I definitely tested a few different balls and just nothing has the consistency that a Pro V does for me. Trying to get those different ball flights, whether it’s lower with my wedges or going high, but you still, when you’re hitting it high, you still want to see a bit of a drive to it. You don't just want to see it floating. And that's really the main reason I've always stuck with the Pro V1.” “I'm a massive feel player. Almost everything I do is feel. I’m not super big on the technological side, and [Pro V1] has always just had a great feel for me. I love the way that it comes off the club. I love the way that I see it react on the greens and yeah, I have a really good feel with this.” PANO ON HER TSR3 DRIVER “This is one of my favorite clubs in my bag. The TSR has been pretty game changing for me... Getting my driver to be a massive asset for me versus something that I was trying to control. It’s given me some strokes gained and yeah, I love it. I really love the look of this driver... the face angles on all my clubs for me are one of the biggest thing, being a big feel player, a visual is big for me. And just looking down at this, I love the way it sits on the ground and makes me feel before every drive that I hit.” PANO ON HER NEW T100 IRONS “I’ve just recently, this offseason, switched into the new T100. I went out to visit Chloe [Robinson, Titleist Technical Player Relations Representative] in California and she helped me get fit for these.” “Feel is probably the biggest part of my golf game. I think feeling the club through the turf is massive for me.... I really like these irons specifically because they pierce the ground really well.” “A good feeling [at impact] is important, but also the visual aspect of seeing kind of the thinner [topline] goes hand-in-hand with my feel. If I feel good over a club, looking down at the face angle, it really shows when I swing. Face angle is massive for me in every club in the bag. PANO ON TESTING HER SM10 WEDGES “Love the look of them, which is no surprise. I always love the look of a Vokey, but they feel super good so far. ... I think my favorite part about hitting [SM10] was hitting some of those full pitching wedges on the range. I do like to play kind of a right-to-left ball flight and when you start trying to get it up to its furthest distance is when you can see the turn kind of get to its maximum. And seeing a little bit more control [with SM10] was somethingthat’sreally big for me.” PANO ON HER PHANTOM X 5.5 PUTTER “I got this putter last offseason when I went up for a visit at the Scotty Cameron studio and Paul [Vizanko] wanted to fit me for a mallet, even though I’ve always been kind of a blade putter most of my life. And I was set on using one of the two blades that we got fit for that day, but he made me take this. He’s like, ‘you never know what’s going to happen.’ And I was really struggling with my putting the first half of this year. It was just not solid, not consistent at all. I was losing a lot of shots. So finally,just kind of got to a point where I was like, alright, we need to switch something up. So I switched over to this mallet and it’s the reason I’m a winner on the LPGA tour now. It’s been such a massive help. I jumped up so high in the putting ranks. I was really low at some point this year and it’s given me a lot of confidence around the greens. And now it’sprobably my favorite club in the bag.” www.youtube.com/watch PGA TOUR | The American Express Making PGA TOUR history, the 20-year-old amateur champion of The American Express trusted his Pro V1 golf ball to shoot 29 under par in the desert and win by one shot. The champion made two birdies over his final four holes Sunday at PGA West’s Stadium Course to post a closing 2-under 70, getting his Pro V1 up and down for par from just over 78 feet on the par-4 18th to etch his name in the history books. The college sophomore has played the 2023 Pro V1 model since the start of his freshman season, winning his first collegiate tournament last March before making a summer run that included victories at the Northeast Amateur, North & South Amateur and the U.S. Amateur Championship. On Saturday at La Quinta Country Club, he tied the lowest round by an amateur in PGA Tour history, shooting a 12-under 60 to take a three-shot lead into the final round. PRO V1 & PRO V1 x : THREE IN A ROW TO START 2024 With Sunday’s victory at The American Express, Titleist golf ball players have now won each of the first three events to start the 2024 PGA TOUR season. Grayson Murray won last week’s Sony Open in a playoff with his Pro V1 , while the winner of The Sentry played Pro V1x . Over the last three weeks on the PGA TOUR, a total of 252 players have teed up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball, more than five times the nearest competitor (44). JUSTIN THOMAS MOVES TO 2023 PRO V1 x Following extensive off-season testing, longtime Pro V1x player Justin Thomas made the move to the 2023 Pro V1x from the prior generation model, teeing it up in competition for the first time at the 2023 Hero World Challenge. Said Thomas: “All of us want consistency. Whether the wind be down, left-to-right, right-to-left, into. If I'm hitting my numbers, I want [the golf ball] to time and time again be able to have that consistent spin, trajectory, to where I’m not missing numbers by four and five [yards] with what I felt like was a good swing. And I felt like Bahamas was a great time to test it. And yeah, it was awesome.” “I had a couple of irons into the wind that I could tell [the difference between models]. Some 7 irons that I felt were ‘you know, I’m not sure I can quite get this there, but I just got to put a good solid swing on it.’ And just how [the shots] maintained the trajectory and they weren’t ballooning – but with the land angle, now they’re still going to be coming down soft enough when the greens are firm. There was a couple of times there in that first round where the wind would pick up, and I felt like I was able to either hold it against winds or keep it flighted into the wind that I had felt good about the change.” Thomas posted 16 under for the week in the Bahamas, good for a solo 3rd finish. When he arrived to PGA West this week to make his first PGA TOUR start of the 2024 season, ‘23 Pro V1x remained in the bag. “I texted Fordie [Pitts, Director of Tour Research and Validation for Titleist Golf Ball R&D], I said, ‘Well, I think we have a winner 23X,’ ” Thomas said. "Yeah, it checked all the boxes, and I was very pleased.” In his 2024 season debut at the Amex, Thomas posted four rounds of 68 or better to finish T3 at 27 under. On Saturday, he posted a course record-tying 11-under 61, in which he gained over three shots (+3.153) with his approach play and was a perfect 5-for-5 in scrambling around PGA West’s Stadium Course. VOKEY SM10 IS MOST PLAYED WEDGE AT AMERICAN EXPRESS The tour launch of the NEW Vokey Design SM10 wedges continued this week at the American Express, with Vokey Tour Rep Aaron Dill on site and back behind his grinding wheel on the Titleist Tour Truck. When players teed off on Thursday, there were 251 Vokey Design gap, sand and lob wedges in play, more than all other brands combined (55%): SM10 was the most played wedge model, with 135 gap, sand and lob wedges in play (29%), more than double the nearest competitor. Thirty-nine players put at least one new Vokey SM10 wedge in the bag for the first time, and four of the players finishing inside the top-10 gamed at least one SM10 wedge, including Justin Thomas (46.10F, 52.12F, 56.14F, 60.04T), the 2020 Men’s Olympic Gold Medalist (56.10S, WedgeWorks 60.06K) and the 2023 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play champ (56.14F, 60.04T). More than 100 players on the PGA TOUR and DP World Tour that have already played new SM10’s in competition since the new models first appeared at The Sentry. KORN FERRY TOUR | The Bahamas Great Exuma Classic Titleist Brand Ambassador Jeremy Paul claimed the first event on the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour schedule, posting a bogey-free weekend to win by one in the Bahamas. Paul, playing a Pro V1x golf ball, TSR3 driver, T-Series irons and SM9 wedges among his Titleist setup, carded three straight rounds of 67 in rounds 2-4 to finish at 17 under and earn his first career KFT victory. Kevin Roy (Pro V1) finished one shot back of Paul’s winning number, and Ross Steelman (Pro V1x Left Dash) finished solo third at 15 under. Cristobal Del Solar (Pro V1x) and Kyle Westmoreland (Pro V1) finished fourth and fifth, respectively, to round out a 1-through-5 sweep for Titleist golf ball players. One hundred players (76% of the field) trusted a Titleist golf ball in the Korn Ferry’s season-opening event. What’s in the Bag? | Jeremy Paul Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR3 9.0° Hybrid: TSR3 19.0° Irons: T200 4 iron and T100 5-9 irons Wedges : Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 50.12F, 56.08M, WedgeWorks 60.06K PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai Steven Alker (Pro V1) began the 2024 PGA Tour Champions season with a win, posting rounds of 65-63-63 to post 25 under and win by four. Alker, who now has eight victories dating back to the start of the 2022 PGA Tour Champions season, surrendered just one bogey to his 22 birdies and two eagles over 54 holes at Hualalai GC. In complete control of his Pro V1, he hit 49 of 54 greens in regulation (1st) and got up-and-down for par in four of his five attempts. Last season, 25 out of 28 PGA Tour Champions events were won with a Titleist golf ball. PGA TOUR AUSTRALASIA | Webex Players Series Murray River Titleist Brand Ambassador Kazuma Kobori , playing a Pro V1x golf ball and full bag of Titleist equipment , earned his first victory as a professional, posting 21 under to win by two. The New Zealand native, who won the Western Amateur as well as the Elite Amateur Series title this past summer, turned in four rounds of 68 or better (65-66-64-68) to reach his winning number. What’s in the Bag? | Kazuma Kobori Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR2 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSR2+ 14.5° Hybrid: TSR3 19.0° Irons: NEW T150 4-5 and T100 6-9 irons Wedges: Vokey Wedges 46.10F, 50.12F, 54.12D, WedgeWorks 60.06K Putter: Scotty Cameron Newport AMATEUR | Latin America Amateur Championship Playing a Pro V1 golf ball, the champion of the Latin America Amateur Championship posted the low round of the day on Sunday – a final round 64 – to win by two shots. He played the weekend in 10 under and finished seven shots clear of third place. With the victory, the winner will receive an invitation to the 2024 Masters as well as exemptions to the 2024 U.S. Open at Pinehurst #2 and the 2024 Open Championship at Royal Troon. Twenty-three of the top 24 finishers played a Pro V1 , Pro V1x or Pro V1x Left Dash golf ball, and 82% of the field trusted a Titleist golf ball this week. ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | The Sentry The first event of the 2024 PGA TOUR season finished with a clean sweep of the top 4 positions on the final leader board, as Titleist ball players finished 1-2-3-4 in Maui. Titleist was the #1 ball at The Sentry with 41 players in the 59-player field (69.5%) teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball, more than five times the nearest competitor. Eight of the top 9 finishers played a Pro V1 or Pro V1x: 1. Champion | Pro V1x 2. Sahith Theegala | Pro V1 3. Jordan Spieth | Pro V1x 4. Byeong Hun An | Pro V1x T5. Sungjae Im | Pro V1x T5. Brian Harman | Pro V1 T5. J.T. Poston | Pro V1x T5. 2022 Masters champion | Pro V1 VOKEY SM10 WEDGES MAKE TOUR DEBUT AT KAPALUA The NEW Vokey Design SM10 wedges made their PGA TOUR debut this week at The Sentry – as the field’s most played wedge. A total of 59 SM10 wedges were immediately put into play at Kapalua (25.8% of all wedges), more than any other brand’s total number of wedges: Twenty players put at least one Vokey SM10 wedge in the bag this week – including Max Homa and Jordan Spieth , who each arrived to Maui with four new SM10’s, having left their SM9’s at home. With new four new SM10’s in the bag, Byeong Hun An gained more than three shots on the field around the green (+3.066), on his way to a third-place finish. In total, Vokey was the most played wedge at Kapalua with 98 (57.6%) sand, gap and lob wedges in play. Titleist Brand Ambassadors with SM10 wedges in play: Ludvig Aberg : SM10 60.08M Byeong Hun An : SM10 48.10F, 52.08F, 56.08M, 60.04T Wyndham Clark : SM10 46.10F, 50.08F, 56.10S Cameron Davis : SM10 52.12F, 56.14F, WedgeWorks 60L Russell Henley : SM10 48.10F, 50.08F, 54.10S, 60.04T Lee Hodges : SM10 46.10F, 52.08F, 56.10S, WedgeWorks 60L Tom Hoge : SM10 46.10F, 52.08F, 56.08M, 60.04T Max Homa : SM10 46.10F, 50.12F, 56.14F, WedgeWorks 60L Tom Kim : SM10 46.10F, 52.12F Vincent Norrman : SM10 50.12F, 54.10S, WedgeWorks 60L J.T. Poston : SM10 46.10F, 50.12F, 56.10S, WedgeWorks 60L Davis Riley : SM10 46.10F, 50.08F, 56.08M, WedgeWorks 60A+ Jordan Spieth : SM10 46.10F, 52.08F, 56.10S, 60.04T JORDAN SPIETH ON HIS MOVE TO SM10 “So typically Aaron Dill (Vokey Tour Rep) comes to us throughout the year and asks, ‘What can we be doing better?’ And I don’t really have a whole lot to say to him normally because I love my wedges, but he’s always working to improve little things,” Spieth said. “And then he presents them to us and we get to hit them with Aaron as he talks through the changes that he makes. And then from there, I take them home – you know, you’ve got to hit them a bunch. We're working numbers, working flights, playing with them, building some trust with them, kind of keeping what he's working on in the back of our mind. And then when it all matches up, I feel pretty comfortable taking him out to a tour round.” “I flight my wedges really low. And then as I got to the gap wedge and the pitching wedge, I saw some more consistency in the flight, especially on the draw intent shots, just kind of holding a little straighter. That's always a benefit when we're looking at these left pins and trying to attack them.” “They're doing for me what they always do. I'm not having to think about any distractions as I'm getting ready to hit a shot. And then when you step back and look at it, you’re like, ‘Oh yeah, that shot became a little bit easier.’” MAX HOMA ON HIS MOVE TO SM10 “I needed to see trajectory. That’s number one. Especially with a 60, I like to launch it low, so I needed to see that it could still stay low without needing to feel like I had to hook it,” Homa said. “And then two, I like to play most, not all the time – but a lot of the time with my wedges, I like to play what I call it like a ‘pinch cut, ’ it just falls a little bit right, but it stays low, it has a lot of spin and it just falls a tickle right. That's what I’m always looking for when I’m hitting a new wedge. It's quite often that you go to hit a cut with a full swing lob wedge or sand wedge, and it balloons. So I like to see it flat and just fall a little, right. As long as I can hit that shot, I'm usually pretty happy.” “I think it’s just predictability (around the greens). I want to hit a shot and then it feels like, ‘hey, that should be a spinner.’ And then I look up and it's low and it’s skidding and spinning. It's OK to hit some that are bad and look up and be like, ‘Oh, that's ballooning.’ But I don’t want to hit one where I’m like, ‘Oh, that felt really good.’ And then you watch it chase across the green and come out kind of like a bowling ball as the kids say. So it’s really more just making sure that it’s doing what it feels like I caused it to do.” “Solid is always the word I say (to describe the feel of his Vokey wedges). Even when I remember I got these new ones, it just still feels, it feels like when you put the club on the ball, it cuts through the ground great. But I mean, the face stability for whatever reason, just feels strong. And I've always liked the look, everything about it to my eye looks good. And then when I hit them... there's no bad give. It’s not kicking all over the place. It feels very stable.” JORDAN SPIETH MAKES MOVE TO NEW T100 IRONS In just his second start with the NEW T100 irons, Jordan Spieth finished solo 3rd, making 30 birdies around the Kapalua Plantation Course. Spieth first put the new models (T100 4-9 irons, Project X 6.5) in play at the Hero World Challenge following extensive offseason testing. “Jordan is a precise iron player and very knowledgeable on all his launch, spin and speed numbers on a variety of shots,” said J.J. Van Wezenbeeck, Titleist’s Director of Player Promotions . “With everything going on in his personal life (the Spieths welcomed their second child in September) he didn’t have time to fully vet the new irons until late this fall. During early testing he loved the look and feel but wanted to give them a thorough testing to make sure all the different varieties of shape and flights hit his numbers. He has been very happy with them.” In addition to his new irons, Spieth was among the first players to put NEW Vokey SM10 wedges in play during the week of their launch on Tour. Spieth added four fresh SM10’s to the bag (46.10F, 52.08F, 56.10S, 60.04T) ahead of his arrival to Maui following work with Aaron Dill this offseason. He finished 6th in Scrambling for the week (83%, 10/12). What’s in the Bag? | Jordan Spieth Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR2 10.0° | Ventus Black 6 X Fairway Metal: TSR3 15.0° | Tensei AV Blue XLink 75 TX-Flex Hybrid : TSi2 21.0° | Tour AD IZ-9 Hybrid X-Flex Irons: NEW T100 4-9 irons | Project X 6.5 Wedges: NEW SM10 46.10F, 52.08F, 56.10S, 60.04T | Project X 6.5 (46), Project X 6.0 (52-60) Putter: Scotty Cameron 009 tour prototype SUNGJAE IM BREAKS BIRDIE RECORD Sungjae Im set the PGA TOUR’s 72-hole birdie record, making 11 birdies Sunday at Kapalua to reach 34 total birdies for the week. Im tied the previous record of 32 with a birdie 3 on the par-4 14th. He two-putted the par-5 15th to set a new record and made another 4 on the par-5 18th to close out his week. Im finished 11th in Strokes Gained: Approach (+3.043) and 12th in Strokes Gained: Putting (+3.363), having moved to a new Scotty Cameron Phantom 5s tour prototype putter this week. What’s in the Bag? | Sungjae Im Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSi2 8.0° | Tour AD DI-7 X-Flex Fairway Metal : TS3 15.0° | Tour AD DI-8 X-Flex Hybrid: 818 H2 19.0° | Tour AD DI-105 Hybrid X-Flex Irons: T100 3-9 | Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 Wedges: Vokey SM9 48.10F (@ 47), 54.14F (@ 53), SM7 60.04L | Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 5s tour prototype ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | Butterfield Bermuda Championship Camilo Villegas (Pro V1x) posted a flawless 6-under 65 Sunday in Bermuda to return to the winner’s circle and capture his fifth career PGA TOUR title. The 41-year-old, who turned in four rounds of 67 or better including matching 65‘s over the weekend, was in complete control of his Pro V1x all week, leading the field with 82% (59/72) greens in regulation. That included 17 of 18 GIR on Sunday to set up six birdies without dropping a shot. Villegas’ final birdie dropped on the par-5 17th, where he got up-and-down from a difficult spot in the right greenside bunker. “I didn't have the best lie in that bunker,” he said, “but I looked at my caddie and I said, OK, brother, let's hit a good shot here.” Villegas caught his Pro V1x perfectly and watched as it landed at the top of a slope on the edge of the green, checked and rolled slowly down to within 3 feet. “Came out a little better than I expected, nice tap-in birdie, gave me a little cushion, a little freedom going to the next hole,” he said. Villegas’ victory comes one week after his T2 finish at the WorldWide Technology Championship, where he shot rounds of 64-64-69-66. He’s played his last 144 holes in 49 under par. Nine of the top 12 finishers trusted a Titleist golf ball this week at Port Royal. LPGA | The ANNIKA Driven by Gainbridge Adding to her already breakout and historic season, Lilia Vu (Pro V1x) birdied two of her final four holes Sunday to win by three shots and claim her fourth LPGA title of the year. The reigning Chevron Championship and AIG Women’s Open champion, Vu followed a Saturday 8-under 62 with a closing 66 to finish the week at 19 under. The 26-year-old was in complete control from tee to green, hitting 49 of 56 fairways (88%) and 61 of 72 greens in regulation (85%). Vu, who dropped only one shot over the weekend, led a 1-through-6 finish for Pro V1 or Pro V1x players: 1. Lilia Vu : Pro V1x T2. Alison Lee : Pro V1 T2. Azahara Munoz : Pro V1x T2. Emily K. Pedersen : Pro V1 5. Amy Yang : Pro V1x 6. Stephanie Kyriacou : Pro V1 LILIA VU + 2023 PRO V1 x : A BREAKTHROUGH SEASON Lilia Vu made the move to 2023 Pro V1x to begin the season, having tested the ball at home during the offseason. In her first LPGA start with the new model, at the Honda LPGA Thailand in February, she captured her first career LPGA victory. “Instantly knew that the (2023) Pro V1x was going to be it,” Vu said of her testing process. Both 2023 Pro V1 and Pro V1x are engineered with high gradient core designs that deliver lower long game spin for increased distance and a more consistent flight, while maintaining the Drop-and-Stop greenside control that Pro V1 and Pro V1x players rely on to play their best. “It helped bring down the spin and it was just perfect for my game,” she said. “Yeah, everything about it. The biggest thing for me is I really wanted the same feel coming out of the old golf ball. It just happened to be that way, so it worked out really well.” Vu went on to win her first major title at the Chevron Championship, before earning major No. 2 at the AIG Women’s Open. Her victory Sunday marks the fourth of the season and her career. DP WORLD TOUR | Nedbank Golf Challenge Max Homa earned the first international victory of his career with a commanding tee-to-green performance in Sun City. Homa, gaming a Pro V1 golf ball and full bag of Titleist equipment , including TSR3 driver, NEW T150 3 iron, Vokey SM9 wedges and Scotty Cameron putter, was the only player to post four rounds in the 60’s for the week, reaching 19 under to win by four shots. Heading into the final round with a one-stroke lead, Homa came out strong, making four birdies over his first six holes. On the par-5 9th, Homa faced a 240-yard second shot from the right rough to an island green guarded by water on all sides. He pulled his new T150 3 iron and sent his Pro V1 towering towards the pin, landing and stopping just 19 feet from the cup. He drained the eagle putt to extend his advantage, adding two more birdies on the back nine to put the finishing touches on a Sunday 66. What’s in the Bag? | Max Homa www.youtube.com/watch Golf Ball: Pro V1 Driver : TSR3 9.0° | Tensei 1K Black 65 TX-Flex Fairway Metal: TSR2+ 14.5°| Fujikura Ventus Red TR 8 X-Flex Irons: NEW T150 3 | KBS Tour 105g Prototype Graphite Hybrid X-Flex, T100•S 4 | KBS $-Taper 130 X-Flex, T100 5 | KBS $-Taper 130 X-Flex , and 620 MB 6-9 | KBS $-Taper 130 X-Flex Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 50.12F, 56.14F, WedgeWorks 60A wedges | KBS $-Taper 130 X-Flex (46), KBS Hi-Rev 2.0 Wedge Heavy Tip 135 X-Flex (50, 56), KBS Hi-Rev 2.0 Wedge Heavy Tip 120 Proto (60) Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5.5 tour prototype HOMA WINS IN SECOND START WITH T150 3 IRON Homa's week-to-week setup typically includes his TSR2 21.0° fairway, which fits the gap between his 3 wood and T100•S 4 iron. Ahead of the Ryder Cup this year, Homa began looking for an alternative to his 7 wood, seeking a reliable option off the tee in an iron profile. The gamer that found its way into Homa’s bag at Marco Simone was a T150 3 iron (KBS Tour 105g Prototype Graphite Hybrid X-Flex). “I knew at Marco Simone we were going to need to hit the ball straight,” said Homa on the No Laying Up podcast. “So had J.J. [Van Wezenbeeck, Titleist Director of Player Promotions] make me a bunch of different [3 irons] with different shafts and found this one I loved. And it was really useful out there, especially in the afternoons when the ball got running, you could really use it off the tee. So they're just easier to hit. I feel like they're very versatile and I hadn't really hit many 3 irons off the ground. It's usually just been off the tee, but one of my favorite shots of the week was a 3 iron off the fairway on a par 5 that flew just like 4 or 5 iron do. And it was really fun to have that versatility. So that whole T100, T150 series has been a big advantage I feel like I've had in my bag.” This week was Homa’s first start since the Ryder Cup, and his T150 3 iron stayed in the bag. During Sunday’s final round, Homa used it on the par-5 9th from 240 yards in the rough and saw his Pro V1 finish 19 feet from the hole. He converted the eagle putt and went out in 31. WEDGEWORKS 60A IN WINNING WEDGE SETUP Max Homa gamed four Vokey Wedges , including a WedgeWorks 60A lob wedge, on his way to earning his ninth professional victory. The WedgeWorks 60A is a low-bounce lob wedge designed for golfers playing in firmer course conditions who have a shallow delivery. It features four degrees of bounce and a smoothed-out sole that provides a faster feel through the turf and helps players slide under the ball in tight conditions. Currently available for a limited time on Vokey.com , the 60A was born out of feedback from former U.S. Open champion Geoff Ogilvy, who had been playing Vokey’s popular L Grind. “I spoke with Geoff (Ogilvy), and we got on the topic of Australian golf courses and how they compared to courses in America and around the world,” said Vokey Tour Representative Aaron Dill. “I asked him some specific questions which resulted in an idea to design another lob wedge grind option that complemented the firm links-style conditions that players face – not just in Australia and Europe – but globally. Geoff has always been a low bounce player in his 60-degree, so I took his 60.04L wedge and removed the ribbon, resulting in a grind that moves through the turf quickly with very little resistance.” Homa, who typically plays a 60.04L, had previously put the A Grind in play at Royal Liverpool at the Open Championship this summer to adjust for the firmer conditions before returning to his L Grind for the remainder of the season. Wyndham Clark also gamed the A Grind to win the U.S. Open at LACC this year, while Tom Kim has had his 60A in his winning setup for each of his three PGA TOUR titles. PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | Charles Schwab Cup Championship Steven Alker (Pro V1) posted 18 under over four rounds at Phoenix Country Club to win the season-finale Charles Schwab Cup Championship by one shot. The win, Alker’s third of the season, saw him jump two spots up the standings to finish 2nd in his campaign to defend the season-long Charles Schwab Cup. Alker was steady all week long, finishing T3 in Greens in Regulation (55/72, 76%), 3rd in Scrambling (14/17, 82%) and 1st in Sand Saves (6/6). Over the 2023 PGA Tour Champions season, 25 of 28 total tournaments were won using a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball. STEVE STRICKER WINS 2023 SCHWAB CUP Steve Stricker (Pro V1x) captured the 2023 Charles Schwab Cup, having won six times in 16 starts on the year, including three major championships (Regions Tradition, KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship, Kaulig Companies Championship). In addition to his six victories, Stricker finished runner-up on five occasions, and finished outside the top 8 just once in his 16 starts (T15 finish). Over the course of the year, the 56-year-old finished with the lowest scoring average (69.54) and ranked 1st in Scrambling (74.5%) as well as 2nd in Greens in Regulation (76.4%). KPGA | LG Signature Players Championship In the KPGA’s 2023 season finale, Sanghun Shin (Pro V1x) made birdie on the third hole of an all-Titleist golf ball playoff to earn his second career KPGA title. Shin shot a final round 69 to post 8 under and force extra holes with Titleist Brand Ambassadors Seonghyeon Jeon (Pro V1) and Jaekyeong Lee (Pro V1x) before breaking the deadlock with his winning birdie. Eight of the top 10 finishers on the final leader board trusted a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball. WINNER PLAYS TSR DRIVER, SCOTTY CAMERON PUTTER The winner of the LG Signature Players Championship played a TSR3 9.0° driver, TSi2 15.0° fairway and a Scotty Cameron Newport Masterful tour prototype putter that he used to roll in the winning 7-foot birdie putt. ASIAN TOUR | Hong Kong Open Titleist Brand Ambassador Ben Campbell birdied his final two holes to win his first career Asian Tour title by one. Campbell, gaming a Pro V1 golf ball , TSR2 driver, T100 irons and Vokey Design SM9 wedges, shot rounds of 66-64-65-66 for the week on his way to posting 19 under, one clear of Titleist Brand Ambassador Cameron Smith . Eight of the 11 players finishing inside the top 10 and ties played a Titleist golf ball . What’s in the Bag? | Ben Campbell Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSR2 10.0° Fairway Metal: TSR2 13.5° Hybrid: TSR3 19.0° Irons: T100 4-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 50F, 56.08M, 60.10S What’s in the Bag? | Cameron Smith Golf Ball : Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR3 10.0° Fairway Metal: TS2 21.0° Irons: NEW T150 5 and NEW T100 6-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 52.08F, 56.08M and WedgeWorks 60T Putter: Scotty Cameron 009M tour prototype JGTO | Mitsui Sumitomo Visa Taiheiyo Masters Shugo Imahira (Pro V1x) posted 12 under for the week to win by one. The victory marks Imahira’s second of the season and ninth of his career, and he moves to No. 3 in the season-long money list with three events remaining. PGA TOUR AUSTRALASIA | Gippsland Super 6 Titleist Brand Ambassador Kerry Mountcastle won for the first time on the PGA Tour of Australasia, defeating all five of his opponents in the event’s 6-hole matches on Sunday. Mountcastle, who now moves to No. 1 in the season’s Order of Merit and gains entry to the upcoming Fortinet Australian PGA Championship and ISPS HANDA Australian Open, earned a berth in Sunday’s one-on-one, sudden-death matches by surviving a 10-person playoff after the tournament’s first 54 holes of open stroke play. What’s in the Bag? | Kerry Mountcastle Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSR2 Fairway Metal: TSR2 Hybrid: TSi Irons: T100 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 Putter: Scotty Cameron Newport ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | Sanderson Farms Championship Amid the final minutes of daylight Sunday at Jackson Country Club, Luke List rolled his Pro V1 golf ball in for birdie from just over 43 feet to clinch his second PGA Tour victory. The putt – officially measuring 43 feet, 1 inch – ended a five-man playoff that was anticipated to finish Monday morning in Mississippi but instead needed just one hole. List, who posted rounds of 66-66-68-70 to make the playoff at 18 under par, was one of four Titleist golf ball players who qualified for the extra session, along with Ludvig Aberg (Pro V1x) , Ben Griffin (Pro V1) and Scott Stallings (Pro V1x) . For the week, the 38-year-old List gained +5.731 strokes tee to green (14th), with +3.456 of them coming around the green (6th). “I was able to really scramble very nicely and make some putts,” he said after the round. LPGA | The Ascendant LPGA Hyo Joo Kim (Pro V1x) earned her sixth career LPGA victory, winning wire-to-wire after opening the week with a 7-under 64. Kim – who entered the week ranked No. 7 in the Rolex Rankings, having recorded eight top-10's this season on the LPGA Tour – followed up her strong start with rounds of 68-70-69 to reach 13 under and win by four shots. She hit 43/52 (83%) of her fairways and made 20 birdies over the four rounds at Old American Golf Club. This week in Texas, 109 players (84% of the field) teed up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x , including 10 of the top 12 finishers on Sunday’s final leader board. DP WORLD TOUR | Alfred Dunhill Links Championship Matt Fitzpatrick (Pro V1x) played his final six holes in 3 under to win by three shots in St. Andrews, closing out his 9th career DP World Tour title. The 29-year-old opened the week with rounds of 67-64 at Carnoustie and Kingsbarns, respectively, before turning in a 6-under 66 in Monday’s weather-delayed final round on the Old Course. He rolled his Pro V1x in for birdie on 18 to finish off a 54-hole 19-under total. FITZPATRICK ON HIS PRO V1 x www.youtube.com/watch “There’s obviously so many different variables with a golf ball. I’ve always been kind of a lower flight player but I am kind of high spin so that’s where I feel like my game is at with the golf ball. To be able to rely on the golf ball and know that it’s gonna do what I want it to do – have a consistent flight, consistent spin with every shot that I hit – that’s so important. Having that ability to know what your ball is going to do rather than second guessing makes a hell of a difference and obviously makes you more comfortable. And from there you’re gonna hit better golf shots. I love the golf ball that I’m in, it just works perfectly for my game.” “The reason [Pro V1x] is so good for me is feel, I like the harder feel off the club face. I just feel like the spin’s consistent, the flight’s consistent, and that’s what you need in a golf ball. You don’t need it kind of in different windows. It’s nice to have that consistency to have the confidence in the golf ball to know how far it’s going to go every time, and to be within a really tight deviation is obviously so important. This is a game of inches after all, the margins are so fine you want it to be as tight as possible. So that’s why I play Pro V1x because it’s exactly that, you know what you’re going to get every shot and you don’t get any strange effects from shots.” “You just know, hitting other golf balls, that as soon as you’ve hit it, it doesn’t have the same effect. I’ve messed around with balls on the range when they’ve been mixed into the Pro V1x bag that I always go to grab, and they just get funky flights. I don’t know how you can play golf with that, to be honest, and not knowing what you’re going to get from shot to shot.” “I feel like, for me, the firmer the ball is, the more I can control the spin. That’s always nice for me (with Pro V1x), knowing that I can increase spin, and take spin off it. That’s been the big thing. I know for a fact I can flight the ball easy, much easier, up and down, with the ball that I use.” “I’ve been Pro V1x ever since I was probably about 15. It was always the best ball. There was never anything else for me growing up, to be honest. That’s all I’ve ever known.” KORN FERRY TOUR | KFT Tour Championship Paul Barjon (Pro V1 Left Dot) shot a final round 4-under 68 to win by three shots and lock up his PGA TOUR card for the 2024 season. The 31-year-old Frenchman, who also won in July at the Memorial Health Championship and is now a three-time KFT winner, jumped 37 spots from No. 45 to No. 8 in the KFT Points List with the season-finale victory. The Top 30 earned their TOUR cards. “This is the best one by far,” said Barjon, who posted 14 under for the week while leading a 1-2-3-4-5 finish for Titleist golf ball players. “The other one I didn’t really expect to turn out that way. This one I knew what I had to do and I did it.” Over the four rounds at Victoria National, Barjon made 18 birdies and two eagles and finished T1 in Scrambling, getting his Pro V1 Left Dot up-and-down 13 of 19 attempts (68%). Barjon was one of 21 Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x players to earn their 2024 TOUR cards, and one of four Titleist golf ball players who earned their way into the Top 30 on Sunday, including Titleist Brand Ambassador Mac Meissner (Pro V1x) , Josh Teater (Pro V1x) and Roger Sloan (Pro V1x) . The 24-year-old Meissner earned his first TOUR card after posting back-to-back 68s on the weekend to finish T3 and jump from 35th to 20th. Titleist Brand Ambassador Joe Highsmith posted Sunday’s best round, a 6-under 66 to finish the week T3 and secure his first trip to the PGA TOUR after starting the week 27th. 21 OF TOP 30 ON FINAL KFT POINTS LIST TRUST TITLEIST GOLF BALL The 2023 Korn Ferry Tour season came to a close Sunday with 30 PGA TOUR cards on the line. Twenty-one players trusted a Titleist Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball in earning status for the 2024 PGA TOUR season: No. 1: Ben Kohles – Pro V1x Left Dash No. 2: Chan Kim – Pro V1 No. 5: Ben Silverman – Pro V1x No. 7: Pro V1 No. 8: Paul Barjon – Pro V1 Left Dot No. 10: Chandler Phillips – Pro V1x No. 12: David Skinns – Pro V1x No. 13: Jake Knapp – Pro V1 Left Dot No. 15: Jimmy Stanger – Pro V1 No. 16: Pro V1 No. 17: Nicholas Lindheim – Pro V1 No. 18: Joe Highsmith – Pro V1 No. 19: Patrick Fishburn – Pro V1 No. 20: Mac Meissner – Pro V1x No. 21: Tom Whitney – Pro V1 No. 22: Kevin Dougherty – Pro V1 Left Dot No. 26: Josh Teater – Pro V1x No. 27: Ryan McCormick – Pro V1 No. 28: Scott Gutschewski – Pro V1 Yellow No. 29: Roger Sloan – Pro V1x No. 30: Rafael Campos – Pro V1 Within the Top 30, 8 players trusted a Titleist driver ; 8 trusted Titleist irons , 18 had at least one Vokey Wedge , and 12 had a Scotty Cameron putter in the bag: No. 15 | Jimmy Stanger Driver: TSR2 10.0° Fairway Metal: TSR2 15.0° Hybrid: TSR2 21.0° Irons: T100 4-5 and 620 MB 6-9 Wedges Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 50.08F, 56.10S, WedgeWorks 60T Putter: Scotty Cameron Tour Rat tour prototype No. 17 | Nicholas Lindheim Driver: TSR2 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSR3 16.5° Irons: T200 4 iron, T100 5-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 48.10F, 50.08F, WedgeWorks 54.08M, 58.04L or 58.08M Putter: Scotty Cameron Masterful plus tour prototype No. 18 | Joe Highsmith Driver: TSR3 8.0° Fairway Metal: TSR3 15.0° Utility Iron: NEW T200 3 iron Irons: T100 4-9 irons Wedges : Vokey Design 46.10F, 50.12F, 54.14F, WedgeWorks 58° Putter: Scotty Cameron 009 tour prototype No. 20 | Mac Meissner Driver: TSR3 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSi2 15.0° Utility Iron: U•500 3 Irons: NEW T100 4-9 Wedges: Vokey Design 46.10F, 50.12F, 56.14F, 60T Putter : Scotty Cameron GOLO 6.2 tour prototype No. 21 | Tom Whitney Driver: TSR2 11.0 Fairway Metal: TSR3 15.0° Utility Iron: U•505 2 Irons: NEW T200 4 iron, NEW T100 5-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 50.08F, 56.10S, BV-Proto 60T Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 11 tour prototype No. 29 | Roger Sloan Driver: TSi3 10.0° Fairway Metal: TSR3 15.0° Utility Iron: U•500 3 iron Irons: T100•S 4 iron, T100 5-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 50.08F, 56.08M, 60.10S Putter: Scotty Cameron Circa 6 flowneck tour prototype PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | Constellation FURYK & FRIENDS Brett Quigley (Pro V1x) won for the second time on the Champions Tour, posting 11 under to win by one. Quigley opened the week with back-to-back 5-under 67’s to hold the 36-hole lead, and a steady 1-under 71 on Sunday at Timuquana Country Club sealed the victory. He hit 40/54 (74%, T3) greens in regulation for the week and got his Pro V1x up-and-down on 12 of 14 attempts (86%, 2). Twenty-two of the 24 tournaments played this season on the PGA Tour Champions have been won with a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball. SUNSHINE TOUR | Fortress Invitational Robin Williams (Pro V1x) earned his first career Sunshine victory in a runaway, posting 19 under to win by six. The 22-year-old shot rounds of 66-67-68-68 at Glendower Golf Club. PGA TOUR OF AUSTRALASIA | Western Australia Open Simon Hawkes (Pro V1) shot rounds of 67-67-67-70 to post 17 under and claim his second PGA Tour of Australasia title by two shots. Titleist was the overwhelming #1 ball and most played brand across all major equipment categories for the week at The Joondalup Resort, with 102 players (84%) teeing up a Titleist ball and more than half the field (65, 54%) gaming a Titleist driver . ... #TeamTitleist
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THE RYDER CUP Team Titleist topped the equipment leaderboards with the majority of players across both Team Europe and Team USA trusting a Titleist Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball during the Ryder Cup at Marco Simone. Titleist was also the most played equipment brand in Rome this week with more drivers, irons, and wedges in play than any other brand. Check out some player highlights below: Tyrell Hatton (Pro V1x) went undefeated in Rome as Team Europe captured the 44th Ryder Cup, 16 ½ -11 ½. Hatton, 31, was the only player on Europe to win three matches without a loss, finishing the weekend at 3-0-1 after his Sunday singles victory to contribute 3 ½ points to Europe’s winning tally. Viktor Hovlan d (Pro V1) also earned 3 ½ points for Europe, displaying the tee-to-green consistency and control that earned him the 2023 FedExCup, while leading the event in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green (+10.24), according to DataGolf. In total, Titleist was the #1 ball at the Ryder Cup with 12 players across both teams teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x . HATTON ON HIS PRO V1 x https://youtu.be/_eIm7ICInE0 Tyrell Hatton started the year on the PGA TOUR by making the move to the 2023 Pro V1x , playing his way to the TOUR Championship and No. 11 in the World Ranking, while finishing the FedExCup season 12th in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green (+1.081). “I have switched into the [2023 Pro V1x],” Hatton said in February at the Waste Management Phoenix Open, “and I'm very comfortable.” The 2023 Pro V1 and Pro V1x models are engineered with high gradient core designs that deliver lower long game spin for increased distance and a more consistent flight, while maintaining the Drop-and-Stop greenside control that Titleist players rely on to play their best. Said Hatton: “Consistency is the big thing. So making sure that certain strikes, the spin is kind of where it needs to be, so it always travels the same distance. That's such a big part of what we do. And you need that trust.” Hatton's elite ball-striking is complemented by a deft touch around the greens (he’s second in Scrambling from 20-30 yards and 6th from less than 10 yards). “(With Pro V1x), it’s more of a feel thing for me. I like the fact that it feels a little harder. It’s got a bit more of a click off the face. And for me, especially around the greens, that’s a big plus. I just feel like I have a bit more control.” HOVLAND ON HIS PRO V1 www.youtube.com/watch Viktor Hovland brought with him to Rome the same ball-striking accuracy and short-game precision that he used to end the FedExCup season with back-to-back victories and move to No. 4 in the World Ranking. Said Hovland: “First of all, it gives me a lot of consistency around the greens. I like how it feels off the face. I like how I’m able to spin the ball around the greens. But at the same time, I don’t sacrifice anything to the full shots. When I hit a drive on a par-5 and I’m trying to get after it, I don’t have to worry about the spin creeping up too high. I can still hit a high launch with low spin and then if I missed the green in two, I can still hit a short-sided shot with a lot of spin. So I think just the versatility is the key with the Pro V1 ball for me – and especially in the wind because we do play in a lot of wind. And I think that’s kind of the biggest challenge. If you don’t have a good ball in the wind, it really plays a big difference. The consistency in the wind, knowing how much it’s going to curve in certain wind directions and stuff like that – it just plays really well for me.” HOMA LEADS UNITED STATES, GAMES NEW T150 3-IRON On the U.S. side, Titleist Brand Ambassador Max Homa led the Americans with 3 ½ points, punctuated by a clutch up-and-down for birdie on Marco Simone’s par-5 18th to win his singles match. Homa played in all five sessions, earning a 3-1-1 record to move to 7-1-1 all-time in Ryder and Presidents Cups. Playing a Pro V1 golf ball and full bag of Titleist equipment , including a NEW T150 3-iron (KBS Tour 105g Prototype Graphite Hybrid X) he added to attack Marco Simone’s demanding tee shots, Homa led all 24 players with +4.56 strokes gained on approach shots (according to DataGolf). Depending on course setup, Homa switches between a long iron option and his TSR2 21.0° fairway. He also has a T200 3-iron in that rotation. The longstanding most played irons on the PGA TOUR, Titleist was also the top choice at Marco Simone with seven players gaming full sets. 15 RYDER CUPPERS CHOOSE VOKEY WEDGES More than half of the wedges in play at the 44th Ryder Cup were Vokey Design models, with 15 players across both teams gaming at least one Vokey wedge. In total, there were 39 Vokeys in play (57%), more than all other competitors combined. That list included Max Homa , who relied on stellar wedge play all week long in becoming the American’s leading points-getter. Playing alongside Brian Harman in Saturday morning’s foursomes matches, Homa chipped in for eagle on the par-4 16th with his SM9 60.04L lob wedge to give Team U.S.A. their first match victory. Later that day, Homa and Harman were 3-up on their opponents on the back nine of their four-ball match, looking to close out another crucial point. Faced with a difficult, short-sided pitch to save par on the par-4 15th, Homa pulled his lob wedge and holed out again, tying the hole. The duo went on to win, 2 & 1. What's in the Bag? | MAX HOMA www.youtube.com/watch Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSR3 10.0° driver | Tensei 1K Black 65 TX Fairway Metal: TSR2+ 14.5° | Fujikura Ventus TR Red 80 X Irons: NEW T150 3-iron | KBS Tour 105g Prototype Graphite Hybrid X, T100•S 4-iron | KBS TOUR $-Taper 130 X, T100 5-iron | KBS TOUR $-Taper 130 X, and 620 MB 6-9 irons | KBS TOUR $-Taper 130 X Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 50.12F, 56.14F, 60.04L wedges | KBS TOUR $-Taper 130 X (46°), KBS Hi Rev 2.0 125 S (50°, 56°, 60°) Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5.5 tour prototype ASIAN GAMES | 19th Asia Games Titleist Brand Ambassador Sungjae Im led his home country of South Korea to a gold medal in the team portion of the 19th Asia Games. Im, playing a Pro V1x golf ball and full bag of Titleist equipment, went lower than anyone on Sunday with a final-round 65 that earned him the individual silver medal, leading a South Korean team that finished the competition at 76 under, 25 shots clear of second place. Aditi Ashok (Pro V1x) posted 17 under to earn a silver medal in the women’s individual competition, becoming the first Indian woman to medal at the Asian Games. What’s in the Bag? | Sungjae Im Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSi2 8.0° | Graphite Design Tour AD DI 7 X Fairway Metal: TS3 15.0° | Graphite Design Tour AD DI 8 X Hybrid: 818 H2 19.0° | Graphite Design Tour AD DI Hybrid 105 X Irons: T100 3-9 | True Temper Dynamic Gold X100 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 48.10F (@47), 54.14 F (@53) & 60.04L wedges | True Temper Dynamic Gold X100 Putter: Scotty Cameron Flowback 5 tour prototype JGTO | Vantelin Tokai Classic Yuta Kinoshita (Pro V1x) earned his second career Japan Tour victory, posting 15 under to win by one. Kinoshita made key birdies down the stretch on Nos. 15 and 17 to pull ahead from the chasing pack on his way to shooting a bogey-free 4-under 67. ... #TeamTitleist
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LPGA TOUR | Solheim Cup Spain’s Carlota Ciganda stuck her Pro V1x golf ball to two feet on the par-3 17th Sunday at Finca Cortesin, setting up the birdie that clinched her singles victory and the Solheim Cup for Team Europe. Ciganda’s point was the sixth and final point of the day for Europe, bringing their total to 14 – enough to retain the cup. Titleist golf ball players secured all six European points on Sunday with Leona Maguire (Pro V1) , Anna Nordqvist (Pro V1) , Caroline Hedwall (Pro V1) , Maja Stark (Pro V1) and Ciganda all winning their matches outright. Georgia Hall (Pro V1x) and Gemma Dryburgh (Pro V1x) each secured half points. All square after the 15th, Ciganda made consecutive birdies on 16 and 17 to win her match, 2 up. No one earned more points over the three days than Ciganda, who went a perfect 4-0-0 on home soil. “I'm very happy to win the four points in Spain in front of the home crowd. … I think there is nothing like this,” Ciganda said. “To play in Spain in front of your home crowd on Spanish soil, and to have my name being chanted, it's really amazing, very special and just something that I won't forget. Hedwall also provided Europe a crucial point late Sunday, having been 3-down with six holes to play before making birdies on Nos. 13, 14, 16, 17 and 18 to win, 2 up. In total, 10 ½ of the 12 points earned Sunday were by Pro V1 and Pro V1x players, including U.S. match winners Megan Khang (Pro V1) , Danielle Kang (Pro V1x) , Angel Yin (Pro V1) and Lilia Vu (Pro V1x) . Cheyenne Knight (Pro V1) earned a half point. TITLEIST IS #1 BALL AT SOLHEIM CUP Titleist was the overwhelming most played golf ball this week in Spain, with 18 competitors (75%) across both teams teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x . Ten of the 12 players on Team Europe played a Pro V1 or Pro V1x en route to retaining the Solheim Cup. Pro V1 player Carlota Ciganda , the Cup’s leading point-getter, won all four of her matches playing a Pro V1x. Pro V1 players Megan Khang (3-0-1) and Cheyenne Knight (2-0-1) also went undefeated. Team Europe (10) Celine Boutier – Pro V1x Carlota Ciganda – Pro V1x Gemma Dryburgh – Pro V1x Linn Grant – Pro V1 Georgia Hall – Pro V1x Caroline Hedwall – Pro V1 Leona Maguire – Pro V1 Anna Nordqvist – Pro V1 Emily Kristine Pedersen – Pro V1 Maja Stark – Pro V1 Team U.S.A. (8) Allisen Corpuz – Pro V1 Ally Ewing – Pro V1x Danielle Kang – Pro V1x Megan Khang – Pro V1 Cheyenne Knight – Pro V1 Jennifer Kupcho – Pro V1 Lilia Vu – Pro V1x Angel Yin – Pro V1 EMILY K. PEDERSEN’S HISTORIC ACE: PRO V1 + NEW T100 Titleist Brand ambassador Emily Kristine Pedersen aced the par-3 12th hole during Friday’s fourball matches for just the second hole-in-one in Solheim Cup history. Faced with a 178-yard shot from an elevated tee, Pedersen pulled her NEW T100 7-iron and aimed for the left side of the green. Her Pro V1 landed just off the edge of the putting surface, taking a soft hop before rolling down the slope and into the cup. What’s in the Bag? | Emily K. Pedersen Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSR3 10.0° | Tensei CK Pro White 60 S-Flex Fairway Metal : TSR2 16.5° | Tour AD GP 7 S-Flex Hybrid: TSR2 21.0° | Hzrdus Smoke Black RDX 80HY 6.0-Flex Irons : NEW T100 4-9 | KBS Tour 120 S-Flex Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 52.08F, 54.12D, WedgeWorks 58.04L wedges | KBS Tour 120 S-Flex Putter: Scotty Cameron Timeless Plus tour prototype PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | PURE Insurance Championship Thongchai Jaidee (Pro V1x ) emerged victorious from a four-hole playoff, making par on the par-5 18th at Pebble Beach to clinch his second career PGA Tour Champions title. Jaidee carded rounds of 65-67 over the weekend to vault to the top of the leader board and post 14 under. He made 19 birdies over the three rounds (Round 1 at Spyglass Hill, Rounds 2 and 3 at Pebble Beach). KPGA | 2023 iMBank Open Inhoi Hur (Pro V1x Yellow) shot a final round 9-under 62 to earn his fifth career KPGA title in runaway fashion. The only player to post all four rounds in the 60’s, Hur ended the week at 20 under par, four shots clear of second place and eight shots clear of third. Twelve of the 13 players in the top 10 of the final leader board played a Titleist golf ball , while Titleist was the most played brand in every major equipment category ( ball , driver , fairway , hybrid , iron , wedge , putter ). JGTO | Panasonic Open Golf Championship Tomoharu Otsuki (Pro V1) claimed his third career JGTO title, turning in a bogey-free final round 66 to win by three. Otsuki carded four back-nine birdies on his way to pulling away from the field and reaching 20 under for the week at Onotoyo Golf Club. ASIAN TOUR | Yeangder TPC Titleist Brand Ambassador Poom Saksansin earned his fourth career Asian Tour title, winning by three in Thailand while leadng a 1-through-8 finish for Titleist golf ball players. Saksansin, gaming a Pro V1x golf ball and TSR3 driver among his all-Titleist setup, shot a final 6-under 66 – his fourth round of 68 or better – to reach 24 under for the week. What’s in the Bag? | Poom Saksansin Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR3 10.0° Fairway Metal: TSR3 15.0° Hybrid: 910H 19.0° Irons: T100 4-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 52.08F, 56.10S, 60.04L Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 7.5 tour prototype SUNSHINE TOUR | PGA Championship Rupert Kaminski (Pro V1x) earned his first career Sunshine Tour victory, closing with rounds of 66-72 through difficult conditions on a 36-hole final day. Kaminski’s 8-under total was good for a one-shot victory and moved him to No. 5 in the season-long Order of Merit. ... #TeamTitleist
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BORN ON TOUR. BUILT TO PERFORM. Inspired by the popularity of the Phantom X 7 head shape on the worldwide professional golf tours — and subsequent requests for the addition of a plumbing neck — Scotty Cameron has created the Concept X 7.2 LTD in a special run to give golfers the opportunity to experience a Tour Only design for themselves. Offering the alignment of a tour-proven mallet combined with the performance of a toe flow-promoting plumbing neck, this precision milled, multi-material model has an elegant Tour Black finish, a unique cherry dot sight line and the aesthetic styling of a true limited creation. With its completely re-designed sleek new neck, this refined, high-MOI mallet provides the best of both worlds—a putter that swings like a blade with the stability of a mallet. Also made in a left-handed version and featuring Scotty’s dual milled face technology, which combines softer feel with an extremely consistent face from toe to heel, the Concept X 7.2 LTD putter is crafted from 303 stainless steel and integrated with a 6061 aircraft aluminum flange/sole component for ideal weight distribution. A new textured Pistolero Plus grip, custom Concept X LTD shaft band and a matching mid-round headcover complete the presentation. In select Titleist authorized shops worldwide beginning Friday, September 15. SPECIFICATIONS LOFT: 3.5º LIE: 70º LENGTH: RH 33”, 34”, 35” / LH 34” HEAD MATERIAL: 303 stainless steel with 6061 aluminum flange/sole component OFFSET: One Shaft GRIP: Pistolero Plus with gray lettering and black texture WEIGHTS : 2 x 20g - 33”, 2 x 15g - 34”, 2 x 10g - 35” NEW PLUMBING NECK Uniquely identifying this limited concept putter with industrial engraving on each side of the I-beam plumbing neck, this new design not only provides one shaft of offset, but also has been precisely engineered at the desired gram weight to facilitate slight toe flow and overall proper balance. MULTI-MATERIAL CONSTRUCTION By integrating precision milled 303 stainless steel with a lightweight 6061 aircraft aluminum flange/sole component and engineered vibration dampening technology, the Concept X 7.2 LTD incorporates Scotty Cameron’s design methodology of using complementary materials to achieve desired performance at the preferred putter length and weight. REFINED DUAL PURPOSE ALIGNMENT Three milled sight dots on the topline accented in translucent red with machined metal perimeters are paired with dual gray sight lines in the flange to frame the golf ball and provide confident, rail-like alignment. ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | TOUR Championship With ball-striking accuracy and short-game precision, longtime Pro V1 golf ball player Viktor Hovland etched his name on the FedExCup with a 7-under 63 Sunday, winning his first TOUR Championship in a runaway, five-shot victory. Hovland rolled his Pro V1 in for birdie on each of East Lake’s final three holes, finishing off a bogey-free 63 that set the TOUR Championship record for low finish by a winner. It marked Hovland’s 11th-consecutive round in the 60’s and seventh round of 66 or better during the FedExCup Playoffs. His closing 10-birdie 61 to win last week’s BMW Championship, Hovland’s career-low on TOUR, is also the lowest final round ever shot during the FedExCup Playoffs. In his back-to-back wins, Hovland played the eight rounds in 36 under par. All week in Atlanta, Hovland was locked in, leading the field with 10.647 strokes gained tee to green. More than half of those came on approach shots (+4.730) and around the green (+1.103). No one hit more greens in regulation (58 of 72, 81%, T1) and he also ranked first in Scrambling (12 of 14, 86%) and Sand Saves (5 of 6, 83%). HOVLAND ON HIS PRO V1 GOLF BALL www.instagram.com/.../ “First of all, it gives me a lot of consistency around the greens. I like how it feels off the face. I like how I’m able to spin the ball around the greens. But at the same time, I don’t sacrifice anything to the full shots. When I hit a drive on a par-5 and I’m trying to get after it, I don’t have to worry about the spin creeping up too high. I can still hit a high launch with low spin and then if I missed the green in two, I can still hit a short-sided shot with a lot of spin. So I think just the versatility is the key with the Pro V1 ball for me – and especially in the wind because we do play in a lot of wind. And I think that’s kind of the biggest challenge. If you don’t have a good ball in the wind, it really plays a big difference. The consistency in the wind, knowing how much it’s going to curve in certain wind directions and stuff like that – it just plays really well for me.” “I think for me, when I hear or feel the clickier feel, it’s hard for me to get the right distance control because sound and feel does matter for how hard you feel like you need to hit it. And I just feel like the Pro V1 kind of stays on the face a little bit longer. It’s like you’re almost throwing it to the hole instead of it kind of shooting off the face a little bit more, even though that’s not what it does. But in my mind, that’s kind of how it feels like.” “I mean, I've played it since I was a junior. Going out fishing for lake balls, trying to find the Pro V1’s and just been playing those. Growing up in Norway, we had a cabin growing up about two hours away from Oslo. It’s a tree-lined kind of golf course in the woods and it had a lot of rivers, so that’d be a perfect spot to sit there after a member guest or something where everyone's just dumping Pro V1’s in the water. The next morning we’d be out there trying to catch as many as possible. Those would kind of be the balls that we played for the whole summer.” HOVLAND’S 'PERFORMANCE ALIGNMENT’ BALL MARKING Viktor Hovland , who marks his Pro V1 with a long, black line that he uses to help line up putts, is among the group of players who inspired the launch of the new Performance Alignment marking now available on Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf balls. “I use a black line, because I cannot putt without this,” said Hovland, who used his line to roll in birdies putts of 10, 11 and 7 feet on his final three holes Sunday, as well as key 23-foot par saver on the 14th. “I literally cannot aim.” A long, straight line is one of the most common markings found on the Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf balls that are put in play across the worldwide professional tours, helping players take dead aim and hit their start-lines with confidence. Titleist’s new Performance Alignment aid provides golfers with this tour-proven marking straight out of the sleeve. Available in black, red, blue and green, the Performance Alignment aid is designed with a subtle arrow shape, 105 degrees in length, custom printed on each golf ball opposite the Pro V1 or Pro V1x sidestamp. The marking is 60 percent longer than a standard Titleist sidestamp. “I’ve just never been good at just standing over the ball and being able to aim that way,” Hovland said. “I’ve found it’s really helped my putting, especially on the short ones, when there’s not too much break involved. I just did a blind test with a line on and then without a line, and I just aimed it miles better with a line on.” Read More: https://www.titleist.com/teamtitleist/b/tourblog/posts/titleist-introduces-new-performance-alignment-on-pro-v1-and-pro-v1x-golf-balls LPGA TOUR | CPKC Women’s Open Megan Khang (Pro V1) earned her breakthrough LPGA victory, prevailing from a sudden-death playoff after pouring in a must-make birdie on the 72nd hole. Khang’s 3 on the par-4 18th got her to 9 under, matching Jin Young Ko’s (Pro V1) clubhouse lead and forcing extra holes. The 25-year-old found the fairway with her tee shot and the green with her approach, setting up a two-putt and a tournament-winning par. Over 72 holes of regulation play at Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club, Khang made 19 birdies, more than anyone in the field. KHANG ON HER PRO V1 GOLF BALL “I've used Titleist almost my whole golfing career from junior golf on, and it’s always been very consistent. I know what it's going to do for me. I think that alone, the confidence of knowing what my ball's going to do helps me perform my best.” “I would probably say any time I have a hundred-yard shot or in, I know whether or not if I give it a little extra juice, it’s going to spin back and check up or not. And I mean, everyone always says that those are the money shots and it’s no lie… It’s stuff that you’re going to have to do and rely on, and I think a ball’s a huge part of it.” DP WORLD TOUR | D+D Real Czech Masters Titleist Brand Ambassador Todd Clements claimed his first DP World Tour title Sunday in Prague, shooting a flawless final round 9-under 63 to win by one. Clements, playing a Pro V1x golf ball and TSR3 driver among his Titleist setup, began the day three shots back of the lead and went out in 30, birdieing Nos. 1-3 and 6-9. The Englishman made another string of birdies (Nos. 11-13) on the back nine to hold off Matt Wallace (Pro V1x) , who finished runner-up. “Given the circumstances that’s got to be the best round of my life. I’m over the moon,” Clements said. “Three shots to make up is a tough ask but I knew I was playing well enough to get in amongst it. I feel like I did my job on every shot and obviously the luck was with me today because I holed a few long ones.” What’s in the Bag? | Todd Clements Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver : TSR3 10.0° Utility Iron: U•500 4 Irons: 620 CB 5-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 50.08F, WedgeWorks 54M, 58.08M Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 7.2 tour prototype SIX OF TOP 10 FINISHERS PLAY TITLEIST DRIVER, INCLUDING CHAMPION AND RUNNER-UP Titleist was the most played driver this week at the Albatross Golf Resort with 59 players (38% of the field). Six of the top 10 finishers played a Titleist driver , with Clements (TSR3) and the runner-up (TSR3) leading the way. Also gaming a Titleist driver: the No. 1 player in the 2023 PGA TOUR University ranking (TSR2), the Genesis Scottish Open runner-up (TSi3) and Yannik Paul (TSR3), along with another T4 finisher (TSR3). KORN FERRY TOUR | Albertsons Boise Open presented by Chevron Chan Kim (Pro V1) locked up his PGA TOUR card after winning in back-to-back starts on the Korn Ferry Tour. A week after breaking through for his first KFT title at the Magnit Championship, Kim shot four rounds of 66 or better (66-62-64-64) on his way to posting 28 under for the week, two shots clear of second place. In total control of his Pro V1 , the 33-year-old did not surrender a single bogey over 72 holes around Hillcrest Country Club (becoming the first player in Korn Ferry Tour history to go bogey-free for the week and win) and made five birdies and an eagle on Sunday to claim the trophy. “[Earning a PGA TOUR card] definitely means the world to me,” Kim said. “This is what I came here to do. That was a goal from the beginning of the year. I took the risk of coming over here to play instead of just playing in Japan. Yeah, to achieve the goal is great. Now I'd like to finish off strong in the last three.” U.S. Senior Women's Open Championship Trish Johnson (Pro V1) captured the fifth U.S. Senior Women’s Open Championship, posting 4 under to win by one shot. The Englishwoman shot the lowest round of the week on Saturday – a 5-under 67 – and remained steady on Sunday with a closing round of even par. Johnson had finished T2 in 2019 and third in 2018 before breaking through this week at Waverley Country Club. She is now exempt into the 2024 U.S. Women’s Open at Lancaster Country Club. KPGA | KPGA Gunsan C.C. Open Titleist Brand Ambassador Yubin Jang shot a final round 7-under 65, posting 20 under for the week and winning in a sudden-death, all-Titleist golf ball playoff. Jang, playing a Pro V1x golf ball, TSR3 driver and full bag of Titleist equipment , prevailed on the first extra hole, beating Galam Jeon (Pro V1x) for his first KPGA Tour victory. What’s in the Bag? | Yubin Jang Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR3 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSR2 15.0° Utility Irons: 718 T-MB 2-3 Irons: 620 CB 4-5 and 620 MB 6-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 52.08F, 58.08M Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5S JAPAN TOUR | Sansan KBC Augusta Young-Han Song (Pro V1) shot a final round 3-under 69 to post 17 under for the week and win by one. The 32-year-old South Korean made six birdies on Sunday to pull ahead from the chasing pack, breaking into the winner’s circle for the first time this season on the JGTO. ASIAN TOUR | St. Andrews Bay Championship The winner of the St. Andrews Bay Championship played a Pro V1 golf ball on his way to victory, prevailing in a grueling 10-hole sudden-death playoff. The champion made birdie on the 72nd hole to shoot 5-under 67 around the Torrance Course at Fairmont St. Andrews, posting 19 under and joining his opponent (Pro V1x) in extra holes. It took until the 10th playoff hole to break the deadlock, with the champion making a winning par to claim the title. Eleven out of the top 13 finishers on Sunday’s final leader board played a Titleist golf ball. U.S. Senior Amateur Championship At this week’s U.S. Senior Amateur, more players are trusting their performance to Titleist than any other brand – including the stroke-play medalist, who posted even-par rounds of 72-72 over the weekend at Martis Camp Club to head into Monday’s first round of match play as the No. 1 seed. Of the 156 players competing at Martis Camp Club, Titleist is the overwhelming #1 golf ball and most played driver , hybrid , utility iron , iron and wedge : 91% of the field (142 players) is teeing up either a Titleist Pro V1 , Pro V1x , Pro V1x Left Dash or AVX golf ball, more than 23 times the nearest competitor (6). Titleist is the most played driver with 56 in play (36% of the field). There are more Titleist iron sets (35, 22%) and utility irons (19, 63%) in players’ bags than any other brand. Titleist is also the most played hybrid (49, 31%). There are 259 Vokey Design gap, sand and lob wedges in play, more than four times the nearest competitor (62). What’s in the Bag? | 2023 U.S. Senior Amateur Medalist Golf Ball: Pro V1x Driver: TSR3 8.0° Fairway Metals: TSi 13.5° & 16.5° Utility Irons: U•500 3-4 Irons: 620 MB 5-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 50 & 56 Putter: Scotty Cameron California Monterey putter. PGA TOUR CANADA | CentrePort Canada Rail Park Manitoba Open Titleist Brand Ambassador Hayden Springer shot a final round 66 to earn his first professional victory. Springer, gaming a Pro V1 golf ball and TSR3 driver, made 27 birdies for the week en route to a three-shot win and is now projected to move up to No. 7 in the Fortinet Cup standings. What’s in the Bag? | Hayden Springer Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSR3 8.0° Fairway Metals: TSR2 13.5°, TSR3 18.0° Irons: T100 • S 4-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 50.08F, 56.10S, 60.08M CHINA TOUR | Guotai Cup Men's and Women's Professional Match Play Titleist Brand Ambassador Linqiang Li earned his second career China Tour victory and second win in just five starts this season. Gaming his Pro V1x golf ball and TSR2 driver among his Titleist setup, Li defeated fellow Titleist Brand Ambassador Enhua Liu , 1 up, in Saturday’s championship match. What’s in the Bag? | Linqiang Li Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR2 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSR2 15.0° Utility Iron: T200 3 Irons: T100 4-PW Wedges : Vokey Design SM9 50°, 54°, 58° ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | BMW Championship In absolute control of his Titleist Pro V1 golf ball, Viktor Hovland posted a 9-under 61 Sunday at Olympia Fields Country Club to claim his second win of 2023 and fifth-career PGA TOUR title, seizing the trophy with a final-nine 28 that included five approach shots inside 9 feet. His career low round on the PGA TOUR, Hovland’s 10-birdie finale set a new course record at Olympia Fields County Club. It’s also the lowest final round ever shot in the FedEx Cup Playoffs. Hovland led a 1-2-3 finish for Titleist golf ball players, with Matt Fitzpatrick (Pro V1x) taking second place. Six of the Top 7 and 16 of the top 21 played a Pro V1 or Pro V1x . “To win at a place like this and amongst the best players in the world, it’s pretty cool,” Hovland said, “and to do it that way, making seven birdies the last nine holes, and yeah, to beat those guys, that was pretty cool.” Hovland, who hasn’t missed a cut all season on the PGA TOUR (21-for-21), hit 58 greens in regulation (81%) over the four days at Olympia Fields, including his final nine. Seven of his final nine approaches finished within 15 feet of the hole. (The field’s average proximity for the week was 33’5”.) He made eight 3’s and gained 3.48 strokes with his approach play on the back nine Sunday. HOVLAND ON HIS PRO V1 www.youtube.com/watch “It's just something that I’ve always played. I remember growing up in Norway when we would in the summer at night, we would go out and fish for lake balls and try to find as many Pro V1's as possible.” “I just always grew up with the Titleist Pro V1 feel and always loved it. There was not a thought in my head that occurred, ‘Oh, I should maybe try a different ball.’ Why would I? I was really happy with the consistency. I think there’s always been this consensus that you go in the pro shop and you buy a sleeve of balls, you’re going to get the same ball as the last time you bought the sleeve of balls. I think that consistency gives you that reassurance that you know what you’re going to get.” “It's been number one for so long. I don’t think that’s a coincidence. So knowing that I have the best product when I go out there and play, I think that gives me confidence. I don’t have to wonder or think I’m giving shots away before I’ve even started the round. So I think that’s a nice thing to have with you.” HOVLAND’S 'PERFORMANCE ALIGNMENT’ BALL MARKING Viktor Hovland , who marks his Pro V1 with a long, black line that he uses to help line up putts, is among the group of players who inspired last week’s launch of the new Performance Alignment marking available on Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf balls. “I use a black line, because I cannot putt without this,” said Hovland, who rolled in seven back-nine birdies Sunday, ranging from 19 inches to 12 feet. “I literally cannot aim.” A long, straight line is one of the most common markings found on the Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf balls that are put in play across the worldwide professional tours, helping players take dead aim and hit their start-lines with confidence. Titleist’s new Performance Alignment aid provides golfers with this tour-proven marking straight out of the sleeve. Available in black, red, blue and green, the Performance Alignment aid is designed with a subtle arrow shape, 105 degrees in length, custom printed on each golf ball opposite the Pro V1 or Pro V1x sidestamp. The marking is 60 percent longer than a standard Titleist sidestamp. “I’ve just never been good at just standing over the ball and being able to aim that way,” Hovland said. “I’ve found it’s really helped my putting, especially on the short ones, when there’s not too much break involved. I just did a blind test with a line on and then without a line, and I just aimed it miles better with a line on.” Read More: https://www.titleist.com/teamtitleist/b/tourblog/posts/titleist-introduces-new-performance-alignment-on-pro-v1-and-pro-v1x-golf-balls CHAMPION WINS WITH NEW U•505 UTILITY IRON The winner of the BMW Championship gamed a NEW Titleist U•505 3 utility iron which he put in play for the first time at this summer’s U.S. Open. He has carried a Titleist U-Series driving iron ever since the Tokyo Olympics, where he was looking for a high-launching option in an iron profile. For the player seeking increased launch and speed at the top end of their bag, the NEW U•505 is an extremely versatile, high-launching utility iron that now looks and feels dramatically better. NEW U•505 features an updated, clean design that inspires confidence at address, while the refined Max Impact Technology, re-engineered chassis and new Variable Bounce Sole work together to drastically improve feel and playability. The result is an extremely fast, forgiving and versatile utility iron. “Between all the changes that we made to U•505, the performance goal was to make all launch parameters across the face more consistent – from spin to launch to speed,” said Marni Ines, Director, Titleist Irons Development , Golf Club R&D . “And along with improving U•505’s playability, feel and looks were paramount. We worked extremely hard on fine-tuning sound on this iron so that impact feels fantastic. Along with that improved feel, U•505 also got an updated, tour inspired profile, so that from address, it presents a really clean and player-preferred shape.” Week in and week out, Titleist is the most played utility iron on the PGA TOUR, providing players an unparalleled combination of high launch, increased ball speed and forgiveness at the top end of their set. Read more: https://www.titleist.com/teamtitleist/b/tourblog/posts/titleist-introduces-new-u-505-and-t200-utility-irons LPGA | ISPS Handa Invitational Titleist Brand Ambassador Alexa Pano birdied the third hole of a sudden-death playoff to claim her first career LPGA victory – on her 19th birthday. Gaming a Pro V1 golf ball, TSR3 driver and 14 Titleist clubs , Pano made five back-nine birdies Sunday to shoot 6-under 66 and post the clubhouse lead at 8 under. The LPGA rookie birdied the first extra hole and after a par on the second, birdied the 18th for the third time in four trips (including regulation) to claim the trophy. “I've been dreaming of this for so long, even just putts on the practice green saying, this is to win an LPGA event,” Pano said. “To finally have that putt and have that opportunity, it just exceeded my expectations and it was so much fun.” What’s in the Bag? | Alexa Pano Golf Ball : Titleist Pro V1 Driver : TSR3 8.0° Fairway Metals : TSR3 13.5°, 18.0° Hybrid : 818 H1 21.0° Irons : T100•S 5-9 Wedges : Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 50.12F, 54.14F, 58.12D Putter : Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5.5 tour prototype PANO ON HER PRO V1 “I play the Pro V1 model, and I play that because it’s the best fit for me. I can rely on the spin with low and high shots and distance off the tee. I have a lot of confidence in that model. I’ve been using it basically my whole life. It’s really reliable and good for me.” “I’m a big feel player when I compete, so probably the feel of the Pro V1 [is most important]. Even trying other balls on a range or playing an alternate shot round, there’s nothing like the Pro V1, and I can rely on that feel when I’m playing and feel confident in what I’m hitting every time.” DP WORLD TOUR | ISPS Handa Invitational Daniel Brown (Pro V1) won his first career DP World Tour event in runaway fashion, posting a final round 69 to reach 15 under and win by five shots. The win comes in just the 20th DP World Tour start for Brown, who led the entire way after an opening 64. Brown has shown steady play all year in his first season on tour, making 16 of 19 cuts, recording three top-10s and more recently, turning in 12 consecutive sub-70 rounds. Eight of the top ten finishers played a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball, including runner-up Alex Fitzpatrick (Pro V1) . KORN FERRY TOUR | Magnit Championship Chan Kim (Pro V1) claimed his first career victory on the Korn Ferry Tour, shooting a final round 8-under 64. Kim's final round, which tied for the low round of the day, featured four birdies and an eagle coming down the stretch on holes 12-18. His strong finish saw him reach 20 under par for the week at Metedeconk National and secure a three-shot margin of victory. Kim – who has won eight times on the JGTO – is now projected to move to No. 12 in the KFT season-long points list with the win. Thirteen of the top 15 finishers on Sunday’s final leader board played a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball. PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | Shaw Charity Classic Ken Duke (Pro V1) shot three rounds of 66 or better (66-64-66) on his way to posting 14 under and clinching the one-shot win. Duke made 18 birdies for the week around Canyon Meadows Golf and Country Club while hitting 74% of his greens in regulation and getting up-and-down 79% of the time. With Duke’s victory, Titleist golf ball players have now won 14 straight Champions Tour events, as well as 18 of 19 total events this 2023 season. AMATEUR | U.S. Amateur Championship Trusting a Pro V1 golf ball, the 123rd U.S. Amateur Champion made history on Sunday at Cherry Hills Country Club, as his 4-and-3 victory in the 36-hole championship match made him just the second player in history to win both the U.S. Amateur and the U.S. Junior Amateur. The Alabama-native closed out the tournament with a winning-par 3 on the 33rd hole of the day of the all-Titleist golf ball final. Sunday’s match was one for the books, as both competitors shot matching 66’s around Cherry Hills’ difficult par-71 layout in the morning, all tied heading into the afternoon. After making six birdies in his first 18 holes, the eventual champion built a 2-up lead with four birdies in the first five holes of the second 18. He won three more holes before halving the last for victory. A win in Denver this week also makes it the third win this summer for the U.S. Am champ, as he was victorious in two of the seven Elite Amateur Golf Series events (Northeast Amateur, North & South Amateur). In addition to taking home the Havemeyer Trophy, this week’s champion receives an exemption into the 2024 U.S. Open at Pinehurst Resort & C.C. as well as an invitation into the 2024 Masters and an exemption into the 2024 Open Championship, provided he remains amateur. TITLEIST SWEEPS EQUIPMENT COUNTS AT THE U.S. AM This week at Cherry Hills, Titleist was the overwhelming #1 ball and the most played brand in all major equipment categories: A total of 262 players teed up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball, more than ten times the nearest competitor (25) and 84% of the 312-player field. There were 132 players gaming a Titleist driver (43%), compared to 70 (23%) for the nearest competitor. The field's favorite model was TSR3 , with 78 in play this week. Titleist was the top choice in fairways (139, 38%) and hybrids (38, 43%), and there were 106 Titleist utility irons in play in stroke play (62%), more than five times the nearest competitor (21). 133 players were gaming Titleist iron sets , accounting for 42% of the field. Nearest competitor: 55 (18%). There were a total of 558 (61%) Vokey Design gap, sand and lob wedges in play, more than all other brands combined. On the greens, 115 players gamed a Scotty Cameron putter, compared to 67 for the next closest brand. Following two rounds of stroke play (one at Cherry Hills C.C., the other at Colorado Golf Club), 64 players out of the 312-player field advanced to match play. After the 36-hole cut: Fifty-one players played a Pro V1 or Pro V1x (80%), compared to the nearest competitor (7).There were 27 Titleist drivers in play as well as 27 Titleist iron sets . Thirty-one players had at least one Vokey Design wedge in the bag. Seven of the eight competitors in the quarterfinal matches played a Pro V1 or Pro V1x, including the champion (Pro V1) and the runner-up (Pro V1x). Five of the eight quarterfinalists played a TSR3 driver, including the runner-up (TSR3 8.0°). The clear favorite among the best amateurs in the world, Titleist also swept the counts at last week's U.S. Women’s Amateur, as well as this year’s NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s National Championships, the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship, U.S. Four-Ball Championship and all seven Elite Amateur Golf Series events (Sunnehanna Amateur, Northeast Amateur, North and South Amateur, Trans-Mississippi Amateur, Southern Amateur, Pacific Coast Amateur, Western Amateur). ASIAN TOUR | International Series England Titleist Brand Ambassador Andy Ogletree won his third Asian Tour title in the past nine months, recording a final round 7-under 64 to win by seven shots. Ogletree – playing a Pro V1 golf ball and TSR2 driver among his Titleist set-up – extended his lead at the top of the International Series Order of Merit with his win this week in Newcastle. Each of the top eight finishers played a Titleist golf ball this week in England. What’s in the Bag? | Andy Ogletree Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver : TSR2 10.0° Utility Iron: U•505 3 Irons: 620 CB 5-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 50.12F, 54.10S, 60.08M SUNSHINE TOUR | SunBet Challenge Titleist Brand Ambassador Malcolm Mitchell earned his maiden Sunshine Tour victory following a final round 66. Mitchell, gaming a Pro V1x golf ball, finished at 14 under, good for a four-stroke victory. This week at Wingate Park Country Club, 108 players (82%) teed up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball. PGA TOUR AUSTRALASIA | Northern Territory PGA Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Daniel Gale won by four shots after closing with a final round 65 and posting 14 under. Gale gamed a Pro V1x golf ball, TSR3 driver, Titleist irons , Vokey wedges and a Scotty Cameron putter en route to victory at the Palmerston Golf Club. The win comes on the heels of a three-month stretch in the U.S., which was highlighted by a course-record 60 – and eagle hole-out on the 18th – in Monday qualifying for the 3M Open. Each of the top eight finishers played a Titleist golf ball while all players finishing inside the top five played a full bag of Titleist equipment . Titleist was the #1 ball and most played brand in all equipment categories, with over half the field playing a Titleist driver (57 players, 51%). What’s in the Bag? | Daniel Gale Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR3 8.0° Utility Iron: T200 3 Iron: T100 4-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 50.08F, 54.12D, 60.08M Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5 S tour prototype ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | 3M Open Titleist Brand Ambassador Lee Hodges – playing a Pro V1 golf ball and bag full of Titleist equipment , including his TSR2 driver and NEW T100 irons – used four days of precision ball-striking and short game control to win his first PGA TOUR title by seven shots, the TOUR’s second-largest margin of victory since 2019. The 28-year-old closed out the first wire-to-wire victory this season on the PGA TOUR (and the first one in 3M Open history) with a 4-under 67 at TPC Twin Cities that included two Sunday eagles on the par-5 6th and 12th holes, each set up by his TSR2 9.0° driver and TSR3 15.0° fairway metal, and then converted with his NEW Scotty Cameron GOLO 6 putter. It was a shot making week for the books for Hodges, who opened the tournament with bogey-free rounds of 63-64 and never looked back, setting the event’s new scoring record at 24 under par. He ranked first in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green, gaining more than 12 shots (+12.383) on the field while making a field-best 25 birdies. Hodges, who plays a combo set of NEW T100 (4-6) and 620 CB (7-9) irons along with four Vokey Design SM9 wedges, led in SG: Approach (+9.393), while hitting 81% greens in regulation (58 of 72). He also gained more than a stroke off the tee (+1.769/T27) and around the green (+1.218/27th). Hodges was just as locked in on the greens, gaining more than six shots (+6.196) with his NEW GOLO 6 to rank 4th. With the win, Hodges moves to No. 33 in the FedEx Cup Points Standings and is projected to jump to No. 54 in the Official World Golf Ranking, the highest position of his career. What’s in the Bag? | LEE HODGES Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSR2 9.0° | Fujikura Speeder 757 Evolution 6 TX Fairway Metal: TSR3 15.0° | UST Mamiya LIN-Q Red M40X 8F5 X Hybrid: TSR3 21.0° | KBS TOUR 95g Prototype Graphite Hybrid X Irons: NEW T100 4-6 | KBS TOUR C-Taper 130 X and 620 CB 7-9 | KBS TOUR C-Taper 130 X Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 52.08F, 56.10S, 60.04L | KBS TOUR C-Taper 130 X (46-52), KBS Tour Hi-Rev 2.0 Wedge 125 S (56-60) Putter: NEW Scotty Cameron GOLO 6 tour prototype MOVE TO PRO V1 A ‘GAME CHANGER’ FOR HODGES www.instagram.com/.../ A longtime Titleist golf ball player, Lee Hodges was in complete control of his Pro V1 this week in Minnesota, leading the field with 12.383 strokes gained on the field from tee to green, 2.4 more shots than second place in that category. Last season, Hodges began his PGA TOUR career playing Pro V1x , which he had used to earn his card through the Korn Ferry Tour. He made the move to Pro V1 following a range session with Fordie Pitts of Titleist Golf Ball R&D at the 2022 Byron Nelson. “Lee had always been an X guy, but had been starting to fight a little trajectory and spin,” Pitts said. “So we went from X to V and it just brought him right back down, into the right window with the right amount of spin. The V, with that lower flight and spin, just fit him better and he'll tell you it’s been a game changer.” “I’ve never found a better golf ball,” Hodges said earlier this season at The American Express. “It’s perfect.” HODGES WINS WITH NEW T100 IRONS www.youtube.com/watch Lee Hodges was one of the first players in the world to hit the NEW T-Series T100 irons, which made their debut earlier this summer at The Memorial. Hodges, who plays a mixed set of T100 and CB irons, was on the range early Monday morning at Muirfield Village with Titleist tour reps, testing his NEW T100 4, 5 and 6 irons for the first time. “That 6-iron might be the best club I've ever hit, in my whole life,” Hodges said after one of his strikes. “I may just lay up to 6-iron...” Hodges, who is 37th on TOUR in approaches from 200-225 yards, put the new irons immediately in play that week on his way to a T12 finish. This week at the 3M, Hodges gained more than nine shots on the field on approach shots (+9.393) and 81% greens in regulation (58 of 72). “They’re fantastic (the T100’s). They still launch the ball really high, which you need with the higher irons, and are very forgiving for off center strikes,” Hodges said. TSR DRIVER & FAIRWAY = TWO SUNDAY EAGLES FOR HODGES Lee Hodges played four key shots during the final round at TPC Twin Cities – two with his TSR2 9.0° driver and two with his TSR3 15.0° fairway metal – that resulted in two of the biggest 3’s (and eagles) of his career: On the par-5 6th, Hodges hit his TSR2 driver 300 yards down the right side of the fairway, 257 yards from the hole. He pulled his TSR3 3-wood and took aim, over the water hazard, directly at the flag. His Pro V1 came to rest 11 feet, 2 inches from the hole. On the par-5 12th, his TSR2 driver split the fairway, 306 yards downrange, leaving him – once again – 257 yards to the pin. He went right back to his TSR3 15-degree and went flag-hunting. His Pro V1 took two small bounces and rolled to 2 feet, 8 inches. “Anytime you hit two 3-woods inside 10 feet you're being pretty aggressive,” he told the media after the round. “Those were two of the greatest shots I ever hit.” “I had the exact same number both times and in the exact same wind. I just had to hold a little 3-wood. And it was 257 both times. I just had to get it up in the air and hold it and I did it pretty well.” Hodges on his TSR driver: “It’s really added some distance to my game and I’ve really got accuracy with it, too. So that’s the best of both worlds.” “Feel-wise, there’s a little more feel off the face (with TSR). Kind of more like you can hear it and see it come off. It comes off pretty hot. It's still solid in the middle, but the misses kind of seemed like it stays on the golf course a little better. Golf’s a game of misses. You've heard that a million times. But if my misses can stay in the fairway or closer to where I’m looking, you’re going to play better golf.” Hodges on his TSR fairway: “Forgiveness, long off the tee. When you need to, you can launch it high and land it soft. This club has been unreal.” HODGES BRINGS NEW GOLO 6 PUTTER TO WINNER’S CIRCLE Lee Hodges gained more than six shots (+6.196) on the field with his NEW Scotty Cameron GOLO 6 tour prototype putter, a new model he put in play for the first time this season at the Waste Management Open. The rounded compact mallet, with a mid-bend shaft and new dual-milled face technology, is sized in between the previous GOLO 5 and 7 models. “Biggest thing players like is the round shape combined with a really clean top line,” said Scotty Cameron tour rep Brad Cloke. “What that does is it gives players some freedom on big, breaking putts when they get on some slopey greens on tours. Lee Hodges is one player that mentions that since going to the GOLO 6, that has helped him with breaking putts, helps him kind of see the line, feel the line a little bit better as opposed to getting locked in.” LPGA | The Amundi Evian Championship Celine Boutier (Pro V1x) claimed her first career major championship title in a runaway, posting a final round 3-under 68 to finish at 14 under, six shots clear of second place for the largest margin of victory in a women’s major in eight years. Conquering high winds, precarious hole locations and firm conditions, Boutier was the only player to shoot all four rounds in the 60’s (66-69-67-68), making 19 birdies while surrendering just five bogeys all week. Boutier, who got her Pro V1x up-and-down 75% of the time (12 of 16) around the Evian Resort Golf Club, now leads the LPGA Tour in both Scrambling and Bogey Avoidance for the year. It marked the second win of 2023 and fourth career LPGA title for Boutier, who became the first French player to win on home soil at the Evian Championship. “It's everything,” Boutier said. “Like I said, it's definitely like the biggest dream of mine. If I was going to win one tournament it had to be Evian. Yeah, I just really did not expect it to be this week.” www.instagram.com/.../ CHAMPIONS | The Senior Open Alex Cejka (Pro V1x) birdied the second hole of an all-Titleist golf ball playoff to earn his first Senior Open and third career senior major championship title after conquering a week of extreme conditions. On a second consecutive day in which no player was able to break par around the wind- and rain-swept Royal Porthcawl Golf Club, Cejka shot a final round 76 to post +5 for the week and force extra holes with Padraig Harrington (Pro V1) . After both players traded birdies on the first extra hole, Cejka’s two-putt birdie on the second clinched the title. “I can't believe I'm standing with the trophy here,” Cejka said. “Seeing all those great names on the trophy, coming in here with all the pictures and everything, all the guys who won it before me, now holding it myself, it's surreal.” KORN FERRY TOUR | NV5 Invitational presented by Old National Bank Titleist Brand Ambassador Trace Crowe earned his first career Korn Ferry Tour title, emerging from a two-hole playoff. Crowe shot a final round 66, his fourth score of 66 or better this week at The Glen Club (66-64-63-66), to equal the 25 under total posted by Patrick Fishburn (Pro V1) . The two exchanged birdies on the 561-yard par-5 18th on their first extra hole. On their second trip down 18, Crowe sealed the victory with a par. Gaming his Pro V1 golf ball, TSR driver and fairway, NEW T100 irons and SM9 wedges, Crowe led the field in birdies (30) and only dropped shots on four holes all week. What’s in the Bag? | Trace Crowe Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSR2 10.0° Fairway Metal: TSR3 13.5° Irons: NEW T100 4-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 50.08F, 54.10S, 60.08M SUNSHINE TOUR | FNB Eswatini Challenge Peter Karmis (Pro V1x) claimed his seventh career Sunshine Tour title, turning in a final round 2-under 70 to win by one shot. The 42-year-old opened the week at the Nkonyeni Lodge and Golf Estate with a 6-under 66, following it up with back-to-back rounds of 70 to reach his winning 10-under total. Five of the six players finishing T3 or better played a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball, and 82% of the field (100 players) relied on a Titleist golf ball for the week. AMATEUR | U.S. Junior Amateur Championship The 2023 U.S. Junior Amateur Champion, gaming his Pro V1 golf ball, closed out the championship match in style, making birdie on the 35th and 36th holes to win 2-up and clinch the title. The winner shot rounds of 74-70 in stroke-play qualifying to earn a spot in match play, before defeating six different opponents over 118 holes on his path to victory. Saturday’s 36-hole final was a back-and-forth match, as just five holes were tied in the first 18. Weather pushed the match’s conclusion to Sunday after 25 holes, with the eventual champion 1-up at the restart. Five more holes were traded back and forth before the winner’s back-to-back birdies on Nos. 17 and 18 to close out his opponent. With the win, the champion receives exemptions into the 2024 U.S. Open to be held at Pinehurst Resort & Country Club’s Course No. 2 as well as the 2023 and 2024 U.S. Amateur Championships (Cherry Hills Country Club and Hazeltine National Golf Club, respectively). TITLEIST TOPS COUNTS AT U.S. JUNIOR Titleist was the overwhelming #1 golf ball and top choice of players in all major equipment categories at the U.S. Junior Amateur. Of the 264 players that teed it up at the Daniel Island Club, more of the game’s best juniors used Titleist golf balls , drivers , fairways , hybrids (T1) , utility irons , irons , wedges and putters than any other brand, with all four semifinalists playing a Titleist Pro V1 and three of the four trusting Titleist equipment from tee to green: The #1 ball in golf is the #1 choice of players competing on the game’s biggest stages. More than 80 percent of the field chose to play a Titleist golf ball with 214 players (81.1%) gaming a Pro V1 , Pro V1x or Pro V1x Left Dash golf ball, including seven of the championship’s eight quarterfinalists and all four semifinalists. That’s 10 times more than the nearest competitor (21/8%). Titleist was the most played driver with 118 players (45% of the field), building further upon the momentum of the Titleist Speed Project and the performance of Titleist drivers on the PGA TOUR and at every level of competitive golf. The U.S. Junior’s most popular driver model, played by more than one-quarter of the field? TSR3 (67 players). Titleist was also top choice in fairway metals (120/38%) and hybrids (29/35%/T1). Three of the four semifinalists had a TSR driver and fairway in the bag. Sixty percent of the utility irons in play were Titleist models (85), more than six times the nearest competitor (14/10%). The clear favorite among U.S. Junior competitors is T200 . Three of the four semifinalists gamed Titleist irons, the PGA TOUR’s longstanding most played irons, with a total of 101 Titleist iron sets in play (38.3%) this week in South Carolina, compared to 52 (20%) for the nearest competitor. The most trusted model at the U.S. Junior, as well as on the PGA TOUR? T100 . The most trusted wedge for nearly two decades running on the PGA TOUR, Vokey Design gap, sand, and lob wedges accounted for 59% (466) of the wedges in the field and more than all other brands combined. Scotty Cameron (110/42%) was once again the field’s most trusted putter brand, compared to 58 (22%) for the nearest competitor (49), with three of the four semifinalists using a Scotty. The most popular models in play at Daniel Island: Phantom X 5.5 and Newport 2 . AMATEUR | Pacific Coast Amateur Championship Making his second-ever Elite Amateur Golf Series appearance, the winner of the 56th Pacific Coast Amateur Championship trusted his Pro V1 golf ball en route to a final round 62 and a victory in extra holes. The champion, whose bogey-free 8-under final round matched the competitive course record at Capilano Golf and Country Club, traded pars with his opponent on the first playoff hole before two-putting for birdie on the second to clinch the win. By tournament’s end, he was one of just four players to shoot four rounds under par (69-69-67-62, -13). ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR / DP WORLD TOUR | Barbasol Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Vincent Norrman emerged victorious from a sudden-death playoff after making par on the par-4 18th hole, earning his first career PGA TOUR win. Norrman, playing his Pro V1x golf ball, TSR3 driver, Titleist irons and Vokey Design wedges, shot a final round 6-under 66 to reach the 22-under mark set by fellow Titleist Brand Ambassador Nathan Kimsey and force extra holes. After missing the green with his approach on the first playoff hole, Norrman secured the winning par with a deft short-sided pitch that settled within three feet of the cup. For the week in Kentucky, Norrman turned in four rounds of 67 or better – 66-67-67-66 – around Keene Trace Golf Club, making 26 birdies and two eagles. He ranked third for the week in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee (+5.135), with more than two strokes coming from his tee shots on Sunday (+2.19, 1st), hitting 13 of 14 fairways. Norrman also ranked eighth in Strokes Gained: Around the Greens (+3.741). NORRMAN ON HIS PRO V1 x “I prefer the Pro V1x because with my spin I can launch it a little higher and hold the greens a little bit better.” What’s in the Bag? | Vincent Norrman Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR3 10.0° | Tensei AV Raw Orange 65 TX-Flex Irons: 620 CB 4-5 | True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 and 620 MB 6-PW irons| True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 50.12F, 54.10S, 60.10S | True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 (50, 54), True Tempter Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 (60) LPGA TOUR | Dana Open Linn Grant (Pro V1) earned her first victory on the LPGA Tour, shooting a final round 68 to reach 21 under and win by three shots. Grant got off to a fast start on Thursday, shooting an opening round bogey-free 7-under 64. On Saturday, she turned in the low round of the tournament – a 9-under 62 that featured eight birdies and an eagle. In complete control of her Pro V1 , Grant hit 47 of 56 fairways and 57 of 72 greens for the week. Said Grant on her first LPGA win: “I've been thinking about it all day. I think I've imagined this day so many times in so many ways in my own mind. No, just being here now, I'm just so speechless and at the same time I feel familiar with the setting for some reason. But it's just so fun.” Coming off her breakthrough victory at the U.S. Women’s Open, Allisen Corpuz (Pro V1) shot a final round 65 to finish solo second, while Lindy Duncan (Pro V1x) finished third. PGA TOUR / DP WORLD TOUR | Genesis Scottish Open RUNNER-UP GAMES TITLEIST DRIVER, VOKEY WEDGES, SCOTTY CAMERON PUTTER The late clubhouse leader and eventual runner-up at the Genesis Scottish Open made the switch to a Titleist driver , Vokey Design wedges and Scotty Cameron putter from competitive models at the beginning of the season following a trip to the Titleist Performance Centre at Woburn (England). His prior setup had only included his Vokey lob wedge by Titleist. His current setup includes: TSi3 8.0° driver | Graphite Design Tour AD DI 7 X; Vokey Design SM9 50.08F, 56.10S, WedgeWorks 60T wedges | True Temper Dynamic Gold Onyx X100 (50°); Dynamic Gold Onyx S400 (56°-60°); and Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5.5 tour prototype putter. This week, he gained nearly two shots on the field off the tee (+1.939/22nd) and more than two around the green (+2.311/14th), while getting up-and-down over 79% of the time (5th). With his Phantom X 5.5 putter, he gained more five shots on the greens (+5.132/9th). BYEONG HUN AN, DAVID LINGMERTH EARN TICKETS TO THE OPEN Titleist Brand Ambassador Byeong Hun An (Pro V1x) and David Lingmerth (Pro V1) both finished the week T3 to qualify for next week’s Open Championship, with the final spots at Royal Liverpool going to the top three finishers not otherwise exempt – An opened the week with a career-low 61 (9 under). Trusting his Pro V1x golf ball and full complement of Titleist clubs , he gained more than eight shots on the field tee to green (+8.294/4th), with more than five of those coming off the tee with his TSR4 driver (+5.247/2nd). What’s in the Bag? | Ben An Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR4 9.0° | Motore X F1 6 X-Flex Utility Irons: U505 1 | MMT Utility Iron 105 TX-Flex and NEW T200 3 iron | MMT Taper Iron 105 TX-Flex Irons: NEW T150 4-5 irons | Project X 6.5 and 620 MB 6-9 irons | Project X 6.5 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 48.10F, 52.08F, 56.08M, WedgeWorks 60T wedges | True Temper Project X 6.5 (46°, 50°), Project X 6.0 (56°), Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 (60°) Lingmerth closed in 2-under 68 to match An at 10 under par for the week, getting his Pro V1 golf ball up-and-down a perfect 10 out of 10 times on Sunday. PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | Kaulig Companies Championship STRICKER WINS THIRD MAJOR OF SEASON, CONTINUES OUTSTANDING FORM Steve Stricker (Pro V1x) won his third PGA Tour Champions major of the year and fifth tournament overall this season, shooting a final round 66 to reach 11 under and secure a three-shot victory. The win, which marks Stricker’s 7th PGA Tour Champions major and 16th career PGA Tour Champions title, adds to an extraordinary year in which he has finished inside the top ten in each of his 13 starts in 2023. This week at Firestone CC, Stricker shot three rounds of 66 or better and made 17 birdies for the week. He finished T4 in Greens in Regulation (65.28%, 47/72) and got his Pro V1x up-and-down 18 of 25 attempts (3rd). Since beginning his season in January, Stricker has played in 13 events and won five times, including his three major championship victories. He has finished outside the top five just once this year (T8) and has recorded five runner-up finishes, including one at the U.S. Senior Open two weeks ago. Said Stricker: “I'm playing very consistently. I have a lot of belief and trust in what I'm doing, I'm not getting rattled. Today I felt very comfortable out there being in that position, and I think that's the difference from now to other years on Tour. I never got in – I won 12 times, but I never got into contention like I'm getting into contention now on the Champions Tour. I have more cracks at it, more times to fail, more times to succeed. Then when you do succeed, you can draw off those times.” With his victory this week, Stricker also earns a spot in the 2024 PLAYERS Championship. Nine of the 11 players who finished among the top ten and ties this week relied on a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball for their success. KORN FERRY TOUR | The Ascendant presented by Blue Titleist Brand Ambassador Nicholas Lindheim won his third career Korn Ferry Tour title, shooting a final round 6-under 66 to win by two shots. Playing a Pro V1 golf ball, TSR2 driver, T100 irons and more, Lindheim turned in all four rounds in the 60’s this week around TPC Colorado (66-67-69-66) on his way to posting 20 under. He ranked T1 in Greens in Regulation (81%, 58/72), T8 in Driving Accuracy (79%, 44/56) and 12th in Scrambling, getting his Pro V1 up-and-down 10 of 14 attempts. What’s in the Bag? | Nicholas Lindheim Golf Ball : Titleist Pro V1 Driver : TSR2 9.0° Fairway Metal : TSR3 16.5° Irons: T200 4, T100 5-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 48.10F, 50.08F, 54.08M, 58.04L Putter: Scotty Cameron Masterful + tour prototype PGA TOUR CANADA | Quebec Open Davis Lamb (Pro V1) shot a final round 63 to post 22 under and claim his second victory of the PGA Tour Canada season in his first two starts this year. Lamb’s week featured four rounds of 66 or better (65-66-64-63) and 29 total birdies, four of which came on the back nine on Sunday on his way to the one-shot victory. With the win, Lamb moves to No. 1 in the season-long Fortinet Cup standings. AMATEUR | Trans-Mississippi Amateur The winner of the Trans-Mississippi Amateur gamed a Pro V1x golf ball and three Vokey Design wedges (50, 56, 60) on his way to victory. The champion forced a playoff after posting 12 under for the tournament before birdieing the first extra hole for the win. ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | U.S. Open WYNDHAM CLARK WINS U.S. OPEN, FIRST MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIP Titleist Brand Ambassador Wyndham Clark entered the history books with an unwavering tee-to-green performance at The Los Angeles Country Club, trusting his Pro V1x golf ball and Titleist equipment to his first major title and second victory in 42 days. The 29-year-old, gaming his TSi3 driver, T200 utility, 620 CB irons and Vokey Design SM9 wedges, was the only player to finish in double-digits under par (10 under), posting rounds of 64-67-69-70 to win by one shot and hold off a trio of major champions including Titleist Brand Ambassador Cameron Smith . Clark, who broke through for his first PGA TOUR victory at last month’s Wells Fargo Championship, gained more than five shots off the tee (+5.44/2nd) and nearly four shots (3.92/7th) around the green, while leading the field in proximity to the hole on shots around the green (5’9’’), more than 4 feet better than the field average (9'11"). What’s in the Bag? | Wyndham Clark Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSi3 9.0° | Accra TZ Six ST 60 M5 Utility Iron: T200 3 iron (utility build) | Mitsubishi Tensei AV Raw White 100HY X Irons: 620 CB 4-9 irons | True Temper Dynamic Gold X7 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 52.12F, 56.10S, WedgeWorks 60A wedges | True Temper Dynamic Gold S400 CLARK ON HIS PRO V1x GOLF BALL www.youtube.com/watch “Honestly, one of the most important things in a player’s bag is the golf ball. If you don’t have control of that, then it doesn’t matter how you’re swinging, how the clubs are made, whatever. The golf ball is so important, and that’s ultimately what goes into the hole. Having faith and trusting your golf ball is huge.” “I play [Pro V1x] because it’s kind of the perfect combination for me of launch and spin… I'm a low spin player, I have a lot of speed, but I don't spin the ball very much. And the Pro V1x, especially with my irons and driver, spins at the numbers that I want. Also, I think it's great around the greens. So I’ve always been looking for spin. And this Pro V1x gives me exactly what I need.” “The spin means the most to me, because I’m a low spin player, so I need the spin to help keep the ball in the air, to be able to control it better around the greens. And that's the most important thing for me. And especially out on Tour, you need to be able to have the ball to stop very quick, and that's what this ball does.” “What’s unique in our game is you can get the ball and your equipment dialed into the exact thing that you need. And with Titleist having different [models], I was able to find one that with my irons, spun perfectly, and with my driver, spun perfectly. And around the greens, I was able to stop it quick and do everything I wanted with it.” “When I tee it up, I feel very confident with my golf ball. I never feel like it’s going to fail me. And that’s huge. It’s one variable I can just check off the list that I know is not going to keep me from being the best player that I can be.” NOW WORLD NO. 13, CLARK CONTINUES RISE AFTER SWITCH TO TITLEIST CLUBS www.youtube.com/watch Clark made his first PGA TOUR start of 2022 (The American Express) with a brand new bag of Titleist equipment, having played competitive clubs through his last event of ‘21 (RSM Classic). Over that offseason, Clark visited the Titleist Performance Institute to get dialed in to his new setup. In January of ‘22, when he teed off in the first round of the AmEx, Clark was ranked 249th in the Official World Ranking. Forty-six starts later, following his first major championship and two wins in his last four events, Clark has climbed to his highest position ever at No. 13. In his last nine starts, Clark has finished 6th or better five times. Clark finished the 2020-21 season ranked 155th in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green (-.364). After his U.S. Open win, he is currently 19th in that same statistic (+1.030). One of the most impactful changes was his driver. Playing a competitive model, Clark ended the 2020-21 campaign at 117th in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee, finishing with a negative strokes gained total (-.015). After putting his TSi3 9.0 model in play, he finished the following season 61 spots higher and gaining strokes off the tee (+.209). “I use this driver because it’s so consistent. My misses are incredible and that’s big for me...,” he said. “When you miss with the Titleist it stays within the parameters that I need to play good golf. And that’s ultimately why I use Titleist clubs, especially this driver.” This week at LACC, Clark finished second in SG: Off the Tee, gaining more than five shots (+5.44). CLARK PUTS ON SHORT GAME CLINIC WITH SM9 WEDGES www.youtube.com/watch Around LACC’s daunting green complexes, Clark relied on his Vokey Design SM9 wedges to gain nearly four shots (3.92/7th) on the field, while ranking first in proximity to the hole on shots around the green (5’9’’), more than 4 feet better than the field average (9'11"). Said Clark on his four SM9’s (46.10F, 52.12F, 56.10S, WedgeWorks 60A): “I use the SM9s, these are incredible. Vokey's done a great job in creating a wedge that launches at the launch you want, which is kind of a lower launch, but with a ton of spin. And that’s what all of us out here strive and try to get with our wedges is that lower launch that fights through the wind. But then when it lands, it is really receptive.” “In the 46, I use the 10F and then the same thing pretty much with the 52, I use the F Grind, which is a little touch more bounce, so that I’m very shallow. And so when I try to hit a low trap draw or a high soft wedge, it reacts the same and doesn't dig. “The 56, I have the 10S which is 10 degrees of bounce and the S Grind, which has a touch less than my other wedges, 46 and 52. This is a very versatile club for me, has a ton of spin and I’m able to attack both front and backs pins with this. “The most important club for me, probably in my bag, is this A grind. I use the SM9 60 degree A grind, which is a low bounce 60, which I think is very versatile. And I'm able to – on tight lies, rough, wet lies, firm lies, whatever it is – I can hit the shot I want. And with the amount of spin I want, trajectory and everything. So these SM9s are I think the best wedges ever made.” Said Vokey Rep Aaron Dill on Clark’s lob wedge: “The 60A was a co-design project with Geoff Ogilvy. That's how it started. It was based off of Australian Sand Belt golf courses – firm and tight. It's essentially an L grind with a ribbon removed, a smooth, fast moving wedge. It's a really low bounce, close sitting wedge, built for firm and fast conditions. “One of the things that he really values is trajectory management, meaning he wants to launch it low. He’ll play it three-quarter shots, he’ll play it half shots, but mainly it’s kind of his greenside short game club that he’ll use a lot and it’s just become a good friend for him because he feels like he can slide into the ball easily when things are cut tight on conditions.” TITLEIST IS #1 BALL AT U.S. OPEN FOR 75th CONSECUTIVE YEAR www.youtube.com/watch For the 75th year in a row, Titleist was the most played golf ball at the U.S. Open, continuing a streak that began in 1949 at Medinah Country Club. Of the 156 players that teed it up this week at The Los Angeles Country Club, 106 (68%) played a Titleist Pro V1 or Pro V1x model, more than five times the nearest competitor with 21 (13%), according to Darrell Survey. That included three of the top four finishers, including champion Wyndham Clark (Pro V1x), and Cameron Smith (Pro V1x). Clark is the fifth multiple winner this season on the PGA TOUR, a list that also includes fellow Titleist golf ball players Max Homa (Pro V1) and Tony Finau (Pro V1 Left Dot). NEW T-SERIES MOMENTUM CONTINUES AT LACC The NEW Titleist T-Series irons made their major debut at LACC, with several players gaming the new models for the first time – including Titleist Brand Ambassadors Cameron Smith and Tom Kim . Smith, who closed in 3-under 67 to finish fourth, gained more than five strokes (+5.08) on the field with his new NEW T100 5-9 irons in the bag. Kim, who added a NEW T200 3 iron and T100 4-9 irons, earned the best major finish (T8) of his career while ending the week 4th in Strokes Gained: Approach, gaining more than seven shots (+7.48) on the field. A total of 49 players (31%) had Titleist irons in the bag this week at LACC, 20 more than the nearest competitor. Titleist is the longstanding most played iron on the PGA TOUR. TITLEIST IS MOST PLAYED DRIVER AT U.S. OPEN; 2017 MASTERS CHAMP ADDS TSR The 2017 Masters Champion teed off at LACC with a new Titleist TSR3 9.0° driver in the bag, gaining +1.72 strokes on the field tee to green while hitting 75 percent of his fairways (T14). He made the move to TSR3 from a competitive model. The most played driver on the PGA TOUR, Titleist was also the top choice of players at the U.S. Open with 49 players (31%), 12 more than the nearest competitor. GORDON SARGENT WINS LOW AM HONORS Titleist Brand Ambassador Gordon Sargent posted rounds of 69-71-75-69 to win low amateur honors, becoming just the sixth amateur to card two rounds in the 60s at a U.S. Open (and first since Viktor Hovland in 2019). Sargent, playing a NEW Pro V1 golf ball and full bag of Titleist equipment, made 19 birdies (T2) over 72 holes at LACC while also finishing third in Strokes Gained Approach (+2.89). This was his first week gaming his NEW T200 3 iron. “It’s cool. It's kind of what your goal as an amateur to be the low am, especially with so many (19) here this week. It means a lot and gives me a lot of confidence,” he said. What’s in the Bag? | Gordon Sargent Golf Ball: NEW Pro V1 Driver: TSR2 9.0° | Tensei 1K Pro White 60 TX-Flex Fairway Metal: TSR2+ 14.5° | HZRDUS Smoke Black RDX 80 6.5 TX Utility Irons: NEW T200 3 (Utility Build) | Ventus Black HB 10 TX-Flex Irons: T100 4 iron, 620 MB 5-9 irons | Dynamic Gold X100 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F | Dynamic Gold X100, Vokey Design SM9 52.08F, 56.10S wedges | Dynamic Gold S300 and Vokey Design WedgeWorks 60V wedge | Dynamic Gold S400 Putter: Scotty Cameron TourType Timeless GSS prototype ALL FOUR AMATEURS TO MAKE CUT TRUST TITLEIST Each of the four amateurs to play the weekend at LACC – Gordon Sargent, Ben Carr, Maxwell Moldovan and the 2022 British Amateur champion – played a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball and at least 13 Titleist clubs on their way to competing for 72 holes at one of golf’s most historic championships. What’s in the Bag? | Ben Carr Golf Ball: NEW Pro V1x Driver: TSi3 10.0° Fairway: TSR3 16.5° Hybrid: TSi2 18.0° Irons: T100 4-9 iron Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 48.10F, 52.12F, 56.10S, SM8 60.08M What’s in the Bag? | Maxwell Moldovan Golf Ball: NEW Pro V1x Driver: TSR2 9.0° Fairway Metals: TSR2 13.5°, 18.0° Utility Irons: U•500 4 Irons: 620 CB 5-7, 620 MB 8-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 48.10F, 52.08F, 56.08M, 60.08M Putter: Scotty Cameron 350 tour prototype What’s in the Bag? | 2022 British Amateur Champion Golf Ball: NEW Pro V1x Driver: TSR3 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSR3 15.0° Irons: NEW T200 3 iron, 620 CB 4-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 50.08F, 54.10S, WedgeWorks 58A Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X T5 tour prototype KORN FERRY TOUR | Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Wichita Open Making his first professional start on the Korn Ferry Tour, Titleist Brand Ambassador Ricky Castillo prevailed in a sudden-death playoff after making par on the first extra hole. Castillo, playing a NEW Pro V1 golf ball, TSR3 driver, Titleist irons, and Vokey wedges, went out in 30 Sunday en route to a final round 66 to force the playoff. For the week, he turned in four rounds of 67 or lower (67-62-66-66). Castillo ranked fifth in driving distance for the week (326.6 yards) and got his Pro V1 golf ball up-and-down over 80% of the time (13/16, T10). The victory comes just two weeks after Castillo’s final collegiate appearance, where he helped his team to their first NCAA Division I title in 22 years. Sixteen of the top 22 finishers in Kansas played a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball, including Kyle Jones (NEW Pro V1x) who finished T2. What’s in the Bag? | Ricky Castillo Golf Ball: NEW Pro V1 Driver: TSR3 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSR3 15.0° Hybrid: TSi3 18.0° Irons: T100•S 4, 620 CB 4-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 52.08F, 58.08M LPGA TOUR | Meijer LPGA Classic Leona Maguire (Pro V1) turned in a flawless final round 8-under 64 to earn her second career LPGA victory. Maguire played her final six holes in 6 under after going 2-3-3-3-3-4, seizing control of the tournament and closing it out with a two-shot victory. In the final round, she hit 17 of 18 greens and surrendered zero bogies. Maguire had finished runner-up at the Meijer LPGA Classic for two consecutive years before breaking through on Sunday. Eleven of the top 12 finishers this week on the LPGA Tour teed up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball at Blythefield Country Club. MAGUIRE ON HER PRO V1 GOLF BALL “Really like the feel of it around the greens, the way it spins, I know exactly what it does off the tee and control into the greens is probably the biggest thing for me, distance wise and spin control.” “I've (played a Titleist golf ball) all up through my junior golf, amateur golf, college golf. It worked pretty well for me there, so absolutely no reason to change when I turned pro. And like I said, trust is a massive thing so I trust what my golf ball does for me and that’s a lot of peace of mind I have on the golf course, knowing exactly how my golf ball is going to react on the greens.” “I think as professional golfers, we travel the world, lots of different golf courses, lots of different grasses, wind conditions, all of that. So ultimately you want a ball that’s going to perform in all conditions. You don't want to have to be switching depending on the golf course or the conditions. So that's one of the reasons I like the Pro V1. Good control in the wind, not too spiny and have that consistency with my distances and spin around the greens – it’s not too spiny when the greens are soft, but also enough spin when the greens are firm to have that control.” CHAMPION PLAYS VOKEY WEDGES The champion of the Meijer LPGA Classic played two Vokey Wedges on her way to her second career LPGA victory. Each week, she carries a Vokey Design SM9 54.14F and 60-degree lob wedges (60.08M or 60.12D depending on course conditions). PGA TOUR CANADA | Royal Beach Victoria Open Étienne Papineau (Pro V1x) earned his first PGA Tour Canada victory, turning in rounds of 64-65-69-64 to complete a runaway five-shot victory. Papineau’s final round featured six birdies and zero bogeys on his way to claiming the season-opening event. ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | RBC Canadian Open Nick Taylor eagled the fourth hole of a sudden-death playoff, rolling his Pro V1x golf ball in from 72 feet on Oakdale G&CC’s 18th green to become the Canadian Open’s first Canadian champion since 1954. The former Canadian Amateur (2007 ) and Canadian Junior (2006) titleholder made a weekend run to remember, playing his final 36 in 15 under with rounds of 63-66. Clutch birdies on Nos. 17 and 18 Sunday got Taylor to 17 under for the week, enough to force extra holes. Taylor played the four extra holes in 3 under, including his walk-off eagle. For the week, the 35-year-old ranked third in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green (+10.29), with more than 8.5 of them coming from his approach play (+6.565/5th) and around the green (+2.155/15th). Now a three-time winner on the PGA TOUR, Taylor topped a leader board that featured six Pro V1 and Pro V1x players in the top seven positions. The win marks Taylor’s third finish of runner-up or better since the start of February, and he is projected to move to No. 6 in the FedEx Cup standings. CANADIAN OPEN CHAMP WINS WITH 12 TITLEIST CLUBS The winner of the 2023 RBC Canadian Open played 12 Titleist clubs en route to winning his national open, including a TSi3 driver, TSR2 hybrid, T100 irons and Vokey Design wedges. Heading into the week, the Winnipeg-native was ranked 40th in Strokes Gained: Tee to green, averaging +0.585 per round. What’s in the Bag? | 2023 Canadian Open winner Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSi3 10.0° Fairway Metal: TSi2 15.0° Hybrid: TSR2 21.0° Irons : T200 4, T100 5-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM8 46.10F, 54.14F, WedgeWorks 58T LPGA | ShopRite LPGA Classic NEW T-SERIES IRONS DEBUT ON LPGA This week in New Jersey marked the beginning of the tour seeding and validation process for the NEW Titleist T-Series irons on the LPGA Tour. Titleist Brand Ambassadors Emily Pedersen ( T200 4 iron, T100 5-9 irons) and Alexa Pano ( T150 5-iron) were among those who put the new models immediately in play. DP WORLD TOUR | Volvo Car Scandinavian Mixed Playing his NEW Pro V1 golf ball, Dale Whitnell earned his first career DP World Tour title, posting 21 under for a three-shot victory. Whitnell raced to the top of the leader board on Friday with and 11-under 61, the lowest round of the week, and then outlasted the competition with matching 70’s over the weekend. The 34-year-old's ball striking was on display all week, ranking first in Greens in Regulation (82%), second in Strokes Gained: Approach (+2.58 per round) and third in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green (+3.21 per round). Thirteen of the top 20 finishers on the final leader board played a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball this week at Ullna Golf & Country Club. PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | American Family Insurance Championship Steve Stricker (Pro V1x) claimed his fourth victory of the 2023 Champions Tour season – and his third win in four starts – after shooting rounds of 65-64-69 around University Ridge Golf Club. It marked career Champions win No. 15 for Stricker, whose 18-under total earned him the five-shot, runaway victory in his home state of Wisconsin. The 2021 U.S. Ryder Cup Captain has yet to finish outside the top 10 in 11 starts on tour in 2023 and has only finished outside the top 5 once (T8). Stricker has also won both Champions Tour majors this year (Regions Tradition and KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship). KORN FERRY TOUR | BMW Charity Pro-Am www.youtube.com/watch TOUR LAUNCH FOR NEW T-SERIES IRONS ON KFT Korn Ferry Tour players got their first chance to game the NEW T-Series irons irons this week at the BMW Charity Pro-Am, with 14 players choosing to put the new models in the bag this week: Josh Creel : T200 4-5 irons, T100 6-PW irons Trace Crowe : T100 4-9 irons Joey Garber : T200 4 iron, T100 5-9 irons Carter Jenkins : T200 2 iron Andrew Kozan : T200 2-3 iron, T100 4-9 irons Nelson Ledesma : T100 4-PW irons Mac Meissner : T100 4-9 irons Kris Ventura : T100 4-5 irons Danny Walker : T100 4-5 irons Thomas Walsh : T200 4 iron Tim Widing : T200 3 iron, T100 4-PW irons Joseph Winslow : T200 2 iron, T100 4 iron 2023 Astara Chile Classic and HomeTown Lenders Championship winner : T200 4-5 irons 2023 Scotia Wealth Management Chile Open winner (PGAT Latinoamérica) : T200 2 iron KPGA | The 66th KPGA Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Seungbin Choi made birdie on the 72nd hole to cap off a final round 7-under 64 – the lowest round of the week – and capture his first KPGA victory and first KPGA major. Gaming his NEW Pro V1x golf ball and full bag of Titleist equipment , Choi was the only player to turn in four rounds in the 60’s (68-69-69-64) on his way to posting 14 under. Junhong Park (NEW Pro V1x) finished runner-up, one shot behind Choi. Four of the top five finishers on Sunday’s final leader board trusted a Titleist golf ball , and three of the top five gamed a TSR driver. What’s in the Bag? | Seungbin Choi Golf Ball: NEW Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR3 8.0° Fairway Metal: TSR3 13.5°, TSR2 18.0° Irons: 620 MB 4-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 52.08F, 56.08M, 60.08M Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 12 Long tour prototype ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | The Memorial Tournament Viktor Hovland made a clutch par on the first hole of an all- Pro V1 playoff to claim his fourth career victory on the PGA TOUR. The longtime Pro V1 player made four back-nine birdies coming down the stretch Sunday, including two over his final four holes to for a closing 2-under 70 (and 7 under total) to force extra holes with Denny McCarthy (Pro V1) . With his winning par on Muirfield Village’s difficult par-4 18th, Hovland became just the third player with wins in each of the last four seasons on the PGA TOUR. For the week, Hovland ranked 12th in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green and 19th in Greens in Regulation. He made 19 birdies over the four days (T2) and recorded zero double bogeys. HOVLAND ON HIS PRO V1 “I just always grew up with the Titleist Pro V1 feel and always loved it. There was not a thought in my head that occurred, ‘Oh, I should maybe try a different ball.’ Why would I? I was really happy with the consistency. I think there’s always been this consensus that you go in the pro shop and you buy a sleeve of balls, you’re going to get the same ball as the last time you bought the sleeve of balls. I think that consistency gives you that reassurance that you know what you’re going to get.” “It's just something that I’ve always played. I remember growing up in Norway when we would in the summer at night, we would go out and fish for lake balls and try to find as many Pro V1's as possible. So it's just kind of always been ingrained to play the Pro V1." “It's been number one for so long. I don't think that's a coincidence. So knowing that I have the best product when I go out there and play, I think that gives me confidence. I don't have to wonder or think I'm giving shots away before I've even started the round. So I think that's a nice thing to have with you.” RUNNER-UP LEADS FIELD IN PUTTING WITH SCOTTY CAMERON PUTTER Gaming his Scotty Cameron GoLo 7 tour prototype putter, the runner-up at the Memorial Tournament led the field in Strokes Gained putting. He holed several key putts coming down the stretch including a 13-footer for par on No. 15 and a 7-footer for par on No. 16. For the week, he gained over 11 strokes (11.279) on the field on the greens, while finishing 3rd in Putts per GIR (1.579) and T4 in Total Putts (25.5). NEW TITLEIST IRONS DEBUT ON PGA TOUR The NEW Titleist T-Series irons , the next generation of the PGA TOUR’s most played irons, made their debut this week at the Memorial Tournament. Thirteen players made the immediate move to at least one of the new models: Hayden Buckley : T100 4-PW irons Lanto Griffin : T100 4-9 irons Brian Harman : T200 3 & 5 iron Lee Hodges : T100 4-6 irons Beau Hossler : T200 5 iron S.H. Kim : T200 3, T100 4-PW irons Peter Malnati : T200 4, T100 5-9 irons Troy Merritt : T200 2, 4, 5 irons Ben Taylor : T100 4-9 irons Cameron Young : T100 4-5 irons 2022 Amateur Champion (R&A) : T200 3 iron OWGR #72 : T200 4, T100 5-PW irons OWGR #181 : T100 4 iron Lee Hodges was one of the first players to test the new models Monday morning at Murifield Village. “That 6-iron might be the best club I’ve ever it in my whole life,” he said after his first few swings with the new club. “I mean, we hit balls all the time,” said Lanto Griffin . “So we have a pretty good idea (if) we put a good swing on it, and we get a good feel if we look up and the ball's doing exactly what we felt, then that’s a good club. That’s what you get with the T100.” Titleist irons have been the longstanding top choice of the best players in the world. In each of the last nine seasons (and 18 of the last 19), more players on the PGA TOUR have had Titleist irons in their bags than any other brand. Titleist’s tour seeding and validation for the new models continues this week on the LPGA and Korn Ferry Tour. In the following weeks, the process will continue across the worldwide pro tours. PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | Principal Charity Classic Gaming his NEW Titleist Pro V1 golf ball, Stephen Ames collected his fifth career win on the PGA TOUR Champions and third victory in just 10 starts this year. The 59-year-old turned in three rounds of 67 or better (66-66-67) and made a clutch birdie on the 71st hole to pull ahead from the chasing pack. For the week, Ames finished T1 in Greens in Regulation (87%) and was a perfect 7-for-7 in getting his Pro V1 up-and-down for par. STRICKER CONTINUES STRONG PLAY Steve Stricker (Pro V1x) turned in rounds of 64-68-68 to finish at 16 under, one shot behind Ames’ winning total. Stricker has finished in the top 10 in each of his 10 Champions starts this season and has yet to finish worse than T8. He has three victories – including two Champions Tour majors – as well as four runner-up finishes and currently sits atop the Charles Schwab Cup standings. DP WORLD TOUR | Porsche European Open The winner of the Porsche European Open had three Vokey Design wedges in the bag – SM9 50.12F, 54.10S, WedgeWorks 60T – on his way to earning his first career DP World Tour victory. The champion finished seventh in Scrambling, getting up-and-down 67% of the time. KORN FERRY TOUR | UNC Health Championship Jorge Fernández Valdés (Pro V1) made a birdie-3 on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff to earn his first career win on the Korn Ferry Tour. Fernández Valdés turned in four rounds in the 60’s (66-64-69-68) to reach 13 under and force extra holes with Trent Phillips (Pro V1x) . Valdés finished the week second in Scrambling (14/18, 78%) and hit 75% of his greens in regulation. Titleist golf ball players have now won 10 of the first 12 events to start the year on the KFT. KFT CHAMP WINS WITH FULL BAG OF TITLEIST CLUBS The winner of the UNC Health Championship picked up his first career KFT victory with a full bag of Titleist equipment , including a TSR3 driver, Vokey Design wedges, and a Scotty Cameron GOLO 6.5 tour prototype putter. Five of the last seven winners on the KFT have played a Titleist driver . What’s in the Bag? | UNC Health Champion Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSR3 10.0° Fairway Metal: TSR2 15.0° Irons: 716 T-MB 2, 620 CB 4-6, and 620 MB 7-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 52.08F, 54.14F, 58.08M Putter: Scotty Cameron GOLO 6.5 tour prototype KPGA TOUR | The 13th Descente Korea Match Play Titleist Brand Ambassador Jaekyeong Lee earned his third career KPGA title in emphatic fashion, closing out his opponent on the 13th hole of the championship match, 7 and 5. Playing his NEW Pro V1x golf ball and full bag of Titleist equipment , Lee made seven birdies over the 13 holes to pull away. He clinched the victory with a par on the 212-yard par-3 13th. Seven of the top eight finishers on Sunday’s final leader board played a Titleist golf ball , while six of the eight were gaming a Titleist driver . What’s in the Bag? | Jaekyeong Lee Golf Ball: NEW Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR3 10.0° Fairway Metal: TS2 15.0° Hyrbid: TSi3 20.0 Irons: T100 4, 620 CB 5-7, and 620 MB 8-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 52.08F, 56.08M, 60.04L Putter: Scotty Cameron Del Mar tour prototype CHINA TOUR | Zhengzhou Open Titleist Brand Ambassador Xuewen Luo posted a final round 8-under 64 – the lowest round of the day – to win his second career China Tour title by three shots. After opening with an even par round of 72, Luo turned in three rounds of 67 or better (67-67-64) around St. Andrews (Zhengzhou) Golf Club to win. Eight of the top 10 players at the week’s end trusted a Titleist golf ball . What’s in the Bag? | Xuewen Luo Golf Ball: NEW Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR4 8.0° Fairway Metal: TSR3 13.5° Hybrid: TSi 18.0° Irons: T100 4-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 50°, 54°, 58° Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5.5 PGA TOUR LATINOAMERICA | Inter Rapidisimo Golf Championship Myles Creighton (Pro V1x) earned his first professional victory, shooting a final round 4 under 68 to post 19 under and win by one shot. Eight of the top nine players on the final leader board in Columbia played a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball. AMATEUR | NCAA D1 Men's Championship Senior Ricky Castillo – playing a NEW Pro V1 golf ball and TSR3 driver among his Titleist setup – went undefeated during match play at Grayhawk Golf Club to help his team win the Division I National Championship, the team’s first national title in 22 years. Of the five players on the winning team, four played a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball – including the men’s individual National Champion (Pro V1x). Two players gamed a TSR3 driver and Titleist iron sets, and three of the five had at least one Vokey Design wedge in their winning setups. The individual champ played a Vokey SM9 60T. Of the 156 players who arrived at Grayhawk to compete for a National Championship, Titleist was the top choice in every major equipment category. 137 players (88%) teed up a Titleist Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball at Grayhawk Golf Club, more than 15 times the nearest competitor. The most played driver at the NCAA Championship was Titleist with 40 percent (62) of competitors gaming a Titleist driver. Fifty-eight of those drivers were new TSR models. No brand had more fairways (59/T1) or hybrids (12/T1) in play than Titleist. There were 66 sets of Titleist irons in play, 19 more than the nearest competitor. Titleist also accounted for more than half the utility irons in play this week (60, 56%). There were 244 Vokey Design gap, sand and lob wedges in play, more than all other wedges combined. On the greens, 43 players trusted a Scotty Cameron putter, the most popular putter brand at Grayhawk. Titleist also swept the equipment counts at last week’s NCAA Division I Women’s Championship. ... #TeamTitleist
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LPGA TOUR | Cognizant Founders Cup Jin Young Ko earned her second win in seven starts since moving to the NEW Pro V1 golf ball, emerging victorious on the first hole of a playoff to claim her 15th career LPGA title. One of only two players to shoot in the 60’s on Sunday, Ko posted the lowest round of the day in difficult, windy conditions, turning in a bogey-free 5-under 67 to reach 13 under and force extra holes. Ko said she became inspired after watching highlights of fellow Korean Sungjae Im's comeback victory Sunday on the KPGA Tour. Im came from five shots back to win. Ko was faced with a four-shot deficit to start the day. "So I really focused myself and it was great," she said. "This golf course is not easy. Fairways are narrow and greens are firm – and windy. ... I feel really good (about the win)." Ko, who also claimed the HSBC Women's World Championship in her second LPGA start of 2023, moves to No. 1 in the Race to the CME Globe standings. CHAMPION WINS AGAIN WITH PHANTOM X 5.5, VOKEY WEDGES The winner of the Cognizant Founders Cup gamed her trusted Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5.5 putter, claiming victory No. 7 with the club since September 2021. On the 72nd hole Sunday, she drained a birdie putt of approximately 15 feet to force the playoff. The World No. 3 switched to the Phantom X 5.5 from a competitive mallet model following a trip to the Titleist Performance Centre in Seoul after the Tokyo Olympics. While working with Scotty Cameron fitter Eric Kong , she noticed the Phantom X 5.5 stock model on a putter rack and started testing it. In her next LPGA start, the Cambria Portland Classic, she put that exact putter in play and won by four shots, needing only 78 putts over 54 holes (1.44 average). She went on to win three more times over the next six weeks with the putter, including the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship “I changed this putter five or six weeks ago in Korea, and I use this putter four weeks in a row from the Portland and here,” she said after her victory at the 2021 Cognizant Founders Cup that October. “I got two wins with this putter and two top-10s, so, yeah, I think I will love this putter.” The last three individual events on the LPGA have been won by Scotty Cameron players. The winner also played three Vokey Design wedges: SM8 48.10F, 52.08F and WedgeWorks 60T. KPGA TOUR | Woori Financial Group Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Sungjae Im claimed his sixth career professional victory, posting a 4-under final round 68 to win by one shot. Im, playing his Pro V1x golf ball, TSR2 driver and full bag of Titleist equipment, topped a final leader board that featured seven Titleist golf ball players and six TSR driver players in the top 10. What’s In the Bag? | Sungjae Im Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR2 9.0° | Graphite Design Tour AD DI 7 X Fairway Metal: TS3 15.0° | Graphite Design Tour AD DI 8 X Hybrid: 818 H2 19.0° | Graphite Design Tour AD DI Hybrid 105 X Irons: T100 3-9 | True Temper Dynamic Gold X100 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 48.10F (@47), SM7 54.08M (@53) & 60.04L wedges | True Temper Dynamic Gold X100 Putter: Scotty Cameron Flowback 5 tour prototype IM WINS IN THIRD START WITH TSR Sungjae Im brought his new TSR2 9.0° driver (Tour AD-DI 7X shaft) to the winner's circle this week on the KPGA. It was his third start with the new model, having put the driver in play for the first time at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, where he finished sixth alongside partner Keith Mitchell (NEW Pro V1). Im recorded another top 10 finish (T8) at last week’s Wells Fargo Championship. PGA TOUR | AT&T Byron Nelson AT&T BYRON NELSON CHAMP PLAYS THREE VOKEY WEDGES The winner of the 2023 AT&T Byron Nelson gamed three Vokey Design wedges (SM9 52.08F, 56.10S, WedgeWorks 60T wedges) en route to winning his 13th career PGA TOUR title. The champion relied on his scoring clubs down the stretch, getting up-and-down for par on the 71st hole and sticking his final approach from 80 yards to 2 feet, 2 inches to set up the winning birdie. For the week, the winner finished 10th in Scrambling (81%), including a perfect 3-for-3 Sunday. DP WORLD TOUR | Soudal Open Simon Forsström closed out his first career DP World Tour title, tapping in his NEW Pro V1 golf ball on the 72nd hole for the winning par and one-shot victory. The Swede turned in rounds of 64-67-67-69 around Rinkven International GC to finish at 17 under, one clear of countryman Jens Dantorp (Pro V1x Left Dash). Forsström relied on his short game all week long, leading the field in Strokes Gained: Around the Green (+1.58 per round) and Scrambling (84%). Superb play around the greens also saw Forsström lead the field in Bogey Avoidance, only surrendering four dropped shots over 72 holes. PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | Regions Tradition Steve Stricker (Pro V1x) made eight birdies on Sunday to cap off his 13th PGA TOUR Champions title with a runaway six-shot win. Stricker posted rounds of 68-68-64-65 to reach 23 under. The 2021 U.S. Ryder Cup captain led the field in Greens in Regulation (63/72, 88%). Twelve of the top 17 players on Sunday’s final leader board gamed a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball for the week. CHINA TOUR | Guangdong Open Nannan Shen , playing his NEW Titleist Pro V1x golf ball, earned his first career China Tour title after shooting a final round 2-under 70 at Grand Lake Golf Club. Shen, whose 12-under total was good for a one-shot victory, led a Titleist golf ball 1-10 sweep, where all players finishing inside the top 10 and ties on Sunday’s final leader board teed up a Titleist ball for the week. ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | Wells Fargo Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Wyndham Clark earned his first career PGA TOUR victory Sunday at Quail Hollow, trusting his Pro V1x golf ball and Titleist drivers , irons , and Vokey wedges to a runaway four-shot win in the designated event. Clark posted four rounds of 68 or better, including a bogey-free 63 on Saturday that proved to be the best round of the tournament, to finish at 19 under. Clark’s breakthrough win was the result of a sensational week of ballstriking. He led the field in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green (+12.026), with more than eight of those strokes gained from his approach play (1st, +8.859). Nobody hit more greens in regulation than Clark this week in Charlotte (T1, 81%), and he ranked T6 in Scrambling, getting his Pro V1x up-and-down 71% of the time. WYNDHAM CLARK ON HIS PRO V1 x GOLF BALL Playing his Pro V1x golf ball, Clark topped a leader board that featured 17 Titleist golf ball players in the top 20. In total, 111 players at Wells Fargo played a Pro V1 or Pro V1x model, seven times the nearest competitor. Said Clark on his Pro V1x: “Honestly, one of the most important things in a player’s bag is the golf ball. If you don’t have control of that, then it doesn’t matter how you’re swinging, how the clubs are made, whatever. The golf ball is so important, and that’s ultimately what goes into the hole. Having faith and trusting your golf ball is huge.” “I play [Pro V1x] because it’s kind of the perfect combination for me of launch and spin. … I'm a low spin player, I have a lot of speed, but I don't spin the ball very much. And the Pro V1x, especially with my irons and driver, spins at the numbers that I want. Also, I think it's great around the greens. So I’ve always been looking for spin. And this Pro V1x gives me exactly what I need.” “The spin means the most to me, because I'm a low spin player, so I need the spin to help keep the ball in the air, to be able to control it better around the greens. And that's the most important thing for me. And especially out on Tour, you need to be able to have the ball to stop very quick, and that's what this ball does.” “What’s unique in our game is you can get the ball and your equipment dialed into the exact thing that you need. And with Titleist having different [models], I was able to find one that with my irons, spun perfectly, and with my driver, spun perfectly. And around the greens, I was able to stop it quick and do everything I wanted with it.” “When I tee it up, I feel very confident with my golf ball. I never feel like it’s going to fail me. And that’s huge. It’s one variable I can just check off the list that I know is not going to keep me from being the best player that I can be.” CLARK CLIMBS RANKINGS AFTER SWITCH TO TITLEIST www.youtube.com/watch Wyndham Clark made his first PGA TOUR start of 2022 (The American Express) with a brand new bag of Titleist equipment , having played competitive clubs through his last event of ‘21 (RSM Classic). Over that offseason, Clark visited the Titleist Performance Institute to get dialed in to his new setup. In January of ‘22, when he teed off in the first round of the AmEx, Clark was ranked 249th in the Official World Ranking. Forty-three starts later, following his maiden Tour victory Sunday at Wells Fargo, Clark has climbed to his highest position ever at No. 31 – while making 16 consecutive cuts and earning four top-6 finishes in his last six starts. Clark has played the weekend in all of his 12 starts so far in 2023. What’s in the Bag? | Wyndham Clark Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSi3 9.0° | Accra TZ Six ST 60 M5 Utility Iron: T200 3 iron (utility build) | Mitsubishi Tensei AV Raw White 100HY X Irons: 620 CB 4-9 irons | True Temper Dynamic Gold X7 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 52.12F, 56.10S, WedgeWorks 60A wedges | True Temper Dynamic Gold S400 MOMENTUM CONTINUES FOR TITLEIST DRIVERS Clark's victory at Wells Fargo playing a Titleist driver made it three wins in four weeks on the PGA TOUR for Titleist driver players. That includes the Zurich Classic, where Titleist Brand Ambassador Davis Riley and his teammate both had Titleist drivers in the bag. This week in Charlotte, one-third (51/33%) of the field played a Titleist driver, 15 more than the nearest competitor. Playing his TSi3 9.0° model, Clark gained over two shots on the field (+2.483) off the tee at Quail Hollow on his way to leading the event in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green. "I use this driver because it’s so consistent. My misses are incredible and that’s big for me...,” he said. “When you miss with the Titleist it stays within the parameters that I need to play good golf. And that’s ultimately why I use Titleist clubs, especially this driver.” WYNDHAM ON HIS WINNING SM9 WEDGES www.instagram.com/.../ “My short game was there when I needed it,” Clark said to the media in his press conference following Sunday’s win. His average proximity to the hole from 50-125 yards when hitting from Quail Hollow's fairways was 8 feet, 1 inch, ranking third best in the field and more than 11 feet better than the field average. From 50-125 yards in the rough, he averaged 19 feet 6 inches, also more than 11 feet better than the field average. Clark also ranked T6 in Scrambling (71.4%) and T7 (75%) in Sand Saves, including a memorable up and down Sunday on the par-4 11th. Facing a shortsided 20-yard shot from front left greenside bunker, Clark splashed his Pro V1x to 3 feet, 5 inches to save par. Said Clark on his four SM9’s (46.10F, 52.12F, 56.10S, WedgeWorks 60A): "I use the SM9s, these are incredible. Vokey's done a great job in creating a wedge that launches at the launch you want, which is kind of a lower launch, but with a ton of spin. And that's what all of us out here strive and try to get with our wedges is that lower launch that fights through the wind. But then when it lands, it is really receptive.” “In the 46, I use the 10F and then the same thing pretty much with the 52, I use the F Grind, which is a little touch more bounce, so that I’m very shallow. And so when I try to hit a low trap draw or a high soft wedge, it reacts the same and doesn't dig. “The 56, I have the 10S which is 10 degrees of bounce and the S Grind, which has a touch less than my other wedges, 46 and 52. This is a very versatile club for me, has a ton of spin and I’m able to attack both front and backs pins with this. “The most important club for me, probably in my bag, is this A grind. I use the SM9 60 degree A grind, which is a low bounce 60, which I think is very versatile. And I'm able to – on tight lies, rough, wet lies, firm lies, whatever it is – I can hit the shot I want. And with the amount of spin I want, trajectory and everything. So these SM9s are I think the best wedges ever made.” Said Vokey Rep Aaron Dill on Clark’s lob wedge: “The 60A was a co-design project with Geoff Ogilvy. That's how it started. It was based off of Australian Sand Belt golf courses – firm and tight. It's essentially an L grind with a ribbon removed, a smooth, fast moving wedge. It's a really low bounce, close sitting wedge, built for firm and fast conditions.” “One of the things that he really values is trajectory management, meaning he wants to launch it low. He’ll play it three-quarter shots, he’ll play it half shots, but mainly it’s kind of his greenside short game club that he’ll use a lot and it’s just become a good friend for him because he feels like he can slide into the ball easily when things are cut tight on conditions like Quail.” LPGA TOUR | Hanwha LIFEPLUS International Crown Patty Tavatanakit (NEW Pro V1x) , Ariya Jutanugarn (Pro V1x) and Moriya Jutanugarn (Pro V1x) prevailed as members of Team Thailand at this week’s International Crown, as the team defeated Team Australia in Sunday’s Championship matches. Tavatanakit won her singles match 4&3 while the Jutanugarn sisters won 4&3 in the alternate shot format to contribute two matches for Team Thailand Sunday afternoon at TPC Harding Park. By the week’s end, Team Thailand had won 11 of 12 matches, having won each of their pool play matches before advancing past Team USA and Team Australia in the semifinals and finals respectively. 2021 ANA INSPIRATION CHAMPION WINS WITH 13 TITLEIST CLUBS The 2021 ANA Inspiration Champion contributed to four winning matches this week for Team Thailand while gaming a TSR2 9.0° driver, TSR2+ 13.0° and TSi2 18.0° fairways, T200 (4) and T100 (5-PW) irons and three Vokey Design wedges (SM8 50.12F, 56.08M, WedgeWorks 60T), in addition to her NEW Pro V1x golf ball. Two of her teammates gamed a similar three-wedge Vokey setup. One of them, the 2013 LPGA Rookie of the Year, also played a TSR3 driver. DP WORLD TOUR | DS Automobiles Italian Open Adrian Meronk (Pro V1) made six birdies Sunday on the difficult Marco Simone GC en route to earning his third career DP World Tour title. The only player to shoot four rounds in the 60’s (68-68-66-69), Meronk was in total control of his Pro V1, leading the field in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green (+3.87 per round). The 29-year-old as led the field in SG: Off the Tee (+2.08 per round), SG: Around the Green (+1.88 per round), and Scrambling (78%). Eleven of the top 15 players on the final leader board played a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball. WINNER IN ITALY GAMES THREE VOKEY WEDGES The winner of the DS Automobiles Italian Open trusted three Vokey Design SM9 wedges (50.12F, 54.10S, 58.10S) on his way to winning his third career DP World Tour title. The champ put on a short game display all week long, leading the field in Strokes Gained: Around the Green (+1.88 per round) and Scrambling (78%). On Sunday, the winner made several key up-and-downs and holed a short chip from the rough on No. 2 en route to his one-shot victory. PGA OF AMERICA | PGA Professional Championship Playing in his first PGA Professional Championship, Titleist Staff Member Braden Shattuck turned in rounds of 70-71-68-70 at Twin Warriors and Santa Ana Golf Clubs to win by one shot. The Philadelphia PGA section member and PGA Director of Instruction at Rolling Green Golf Club is one of 20 PGA Professionals who earned a spot in the field at Oak Hill for the PGA Championship in two weeks’ time – 11 of whom gamed a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball. Ten of the qualifiers gamed a Titleist driver, irons and Vokey wedges. Titleist was the #1 golf ball and most played driver , hybrid , utility iron , iron , and wedge at the event. 2023 PGA CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFIERS 1. Braden Shattuck | Rolling Green Golf Club, Philadelphia Section Golf Ball: NEW Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSR3 8.0° Fairway Metal: TSR2 18.0° Irons: T100 5-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 52°, 58° T4. John Somers | Southern Hills Plantation Club, North Florida Section Golf Ball: NEW Titleist Pro V1x Yellow Driver: TSR3 8.0° Fairway Metal: TSi2 15.0° Irons: T200 2, 620 CB 4-5, and 620 MB 6-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46°, 52°, 56°, 62° T8. Wyatt Worthington II | The Golf Depot at Central Park, S. Ohio Section Golf Ball: NEW Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSR3 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSR3 15.0° Hybrid: TSi3 18.0° Utility Iron: U•500 3 iron Irons: 620 CB 4, 620 MB 5-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 54.12D, 60.08M Putter: Scotty Cameron Super Rat T11. Josh Speight | The Club at Viniterra, Middle Atlantic Section Golf Ball: NEW Pro V1x Driver: TSR3 10.0° Fairway Metal: TSR3 18.0° Utility Iron: T200 3 iron Irons: T100•S 4-5, T100 6-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 50.12F, 54.12D, 58T Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X T5 tour prototype T11. Jesse Droemer | Lakeside Country Club, Southern Texas Section Golf Ball: NEW Pro V1x T11. Greg Koch | Ritz-Carlton GC-Grande Lakes Orlando, N. Florida Section Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSR3 8.0° Fairway Metals: TSi3 13.5° and TSi3 18.0° Irons: T200 4-5, T100•S 6-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46°, 50°, 56°, 60° Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 11 T11. Alex Beach | Westchester Country Club, Metropolitan Section Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSR3 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSR3 15.0° Hybrid: TSR2 18.0° Irons: T100•S 4-5, T100 6-7 and 620 MB 8-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 50.08F, 54.10S, 60.04L T11. Finisher | North Idaho College, Pacific Northwest Section Golf Ball: NEW Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSR3 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSR3 16.5° Irons: 718 T-MB 4, 718 AP2 5-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 50°, 56°, 60° Putter: Scotty Cameron Newport SS T17. Anthony Cordes | Cherokee Town & Country Club, Georgia Section Golf Ball: NEW Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR2 10.0° Fairway Metal: TSR1 15.0° Hybrids: TSR1 18.0° and TSi3 23.0° Irons: T100•S 5-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 50°, 56°, 60° Putter: Scotty Cameron Newport 2 SS T17. Chris Sanger | Woodstock Golf Club, Northeastern New York Section Golf Ball: NEW Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSR3 8.0° Fairway Metal: TSR3 18.0° Utility Iron: U•500 3 Irons: T100 4-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 50, 54, 58 Putter: Scotty Cameron GoLo 7 T17. Finisher | Aldeen Golf Club, Illinois Section Golf Ball: NEW Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR2 10.0° Fairway Metals: TSR2 16.5°, 21.0° Utility Iron: U•505 4 Irons: T100•S 5-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 50°, 54°, 58° PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | Mitsubishi Electric Classic Playing the NEW Titleist Pro V1 golf ball, Stephen Ames collected his fourth career win on the PGA TOUR Champions and second victory of the year. The 59-year-old won in convincing fashion, shooting a final round 68 to reach 19 under and win by four shots. Ames hit all but four fairways (90%) and three greens in regulation (94%). Ames’ victory makes it six wins on the PGA TOUR Champions for 2023 Pro V1 and Pro V1x just nine events into the 2023 season. SUNSHINE TOUR | FBC Zimbabwe Open Neil Schietekat (Pro V1x) won by four shots after posting 11 under for the week at Royal Harare Golf Club. Schietekat posted rounds of 67-69-66-75 to separate himself from the chasing pack. Three of the top four finishers this week in Zimbabwe played a Pro V1x golf ball. PGA TOUR LATINOAMÉRICA | KIA Open Toni Hakula (Pro V1x) earned his second career PGA Tour Latinoamérica victory this week in Ecuador, shooting a final round 67 to win by one shot. Hakula's final round featured five birdies and an eagle en route to reaching his winning 16-under total. ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | Mexico Open Tony Finau rolled his Pro V1 Left Dot golf ball in for five birdies on a bogey-free Sunday in Mexico, closing in 5-under 66 on his way to a three-shot victory, career win No. 6 on the PGA TOUR and his fourth ‘W’ in his last 18 starts. Finau, who moved to No. 11 in the World Ranking, posted four rounds of 66 or better to finish at 24 under 260, the lowest 72-hole total of his career. For the week, Finau ranked 1st in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green, gaining over nine of those strokes with his approach play (+6.1) and around the green (+3.47). The 33-year-old hit 81% of his greens in regulation (T3), and ranked T2 in Scrambling (86%), making only one bogey all weekend. FINAU ON THE PERFORMANCE OF HIS PRO V1 LEFT DOT “I think equipment starts with the golf ball, not with the clubs, not with the woods, not with any other piece of equipment," Finau said. "It starts with the golf ball. I’ve always been a believer in that. The Left Dot golf ball is right for me because I’ve always put a lot of spin on the golf ball, so it’s the lowest spinning Titleist Pro V1 that is out on the market, and right away, it caught my eye because of the ball flight. I think if you can control your ball flight, you can control the distance. And it’s been such a reliable ball flight for me from the first time that I hit it. I think the best word I can use is just reliable. I can count on the golf ball in crosswinds, into the wind, downwind. I know how far the golf ball is going to go. And that’s a great feeling to have as a professional golfer. Distance control is up there probably with the most important things when it comes to striking a golf ball and playing golf.” www.youtube.com/watch FINAU ON HOW HE MARKS HIS TITLEIST “I actually mark my Pro V1 golf ball with my kids’ initials. I have five kids. I’ll throw my wife in there sometimes as well," he said. "So the determining factor for me is if they make a couple bogeys, power lip out, whatever the case, they’re out, and I’m ready for the next kid to come into play and see if they’ll perform. And that’s pretty much it. I’m not crazy superstitious, but there does come a time where, if my kids are a little scared of the dark that day, they want to go swimming, they want to play in the beach, I’ve got to let them go and bring somebody else in that’s ready to score for me.” MEXICO OPEN CHAMPION GAMES 60T LOB WEDGE The winner of the Mexico Open gamed a Vokey Design WedgeWorks 60T lob wedge on his way to victory, finishing the week at Vidanta T2 in Scrambling. The champion relied on his short game during Sunday’s final round making key up-and-downs on Nos. 8, 13, 16, and 17 for par as well as Nos. 7 and 14 for birdie “He has told me many times that max versatility is important to him,” said Aaron Dill, Vokey Tour Rep , on this week’s champion. “He has the ability to be steep or shallow when he wants and, one thing’s for sure, he makes great contact with lots of spin on most of his wedge shots. Since his first T grind he has been loyal to this club, occasionally testing some other higher bounce options but always returning to the T.” According to Master Craftsman Bob Vokey , the T grind is built for players seeking to unlock ultimate creativity around the greens. It is a low-bounce wedge with a narrow crescent surface and wider back flange, best for players with shallow and precise deliveries, as well as those playing off firm conditions. The T Grind is one of the most popular grinds on Tour, and it was the lob wedge of choice for the 2023 Players and WM Phoenix Open Champion, along with the Honda Classic Champion and the RBC Heritage Champion. It’s also in the bags of Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas and Cameron Young, among many others. KORN FERRY TOUR | Hometown Lenders Championship Ben Kohles (Pro V1x Left Dash) birdied the second hole of a sudden death playoff to win for the second time in four events on the Korn Ferry Tour. With the event shortened to 54 holes due to weather, Kohles posted rounds of 68-62-67 to reach 13 under and force extra holes with Ben Silverman (Pro V1) . After the first playoff hole was halved with pars, Kohles made a birdie 3 to clinch the victory. Kohles’ last victory, the Astara Chile Classic, was also decided in extra holes with a clinching birdie. For the week, Kohles ranked T1 in Scrambling, getting his Pro V1x Left Dash up-and-down 89% of the time, and he hit 84% of his greens in regulation (2). With the win, Kohles also extends his lead in the season-long Korn Ferry Tour points list, while needing just one more victory this season to receive automatic promotion to the PGA TOUR. WINNER AT THE LEDGES TRUSTS 13 TITLEIST CLUBS The winner of the Hometown Lenders Championship gamed 13 Titleist clubs en route to victory, playing his final 47 holes without a bogey. What’s in the Bag? | Hometown Lenders Championship Winner Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Left Dash Driver: TSi4 9.0° Hybrid: TSR3 19.0° Irons: T200 4-5 and 620 CB 6-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 50.12F, 54.12D, 60.08M Putter: Scotty Cameron P5 GSS tour prototype TITLEIST SWEEPS COUNTS ON KORN FERRY TOUR This week in Alabama, Titleist was the top choice in every major equipment category. Out of the 156 competitors teeing it up at The Ledges, there were more Titleist golf balls , drivers , fairways , hybrids , utility irons , irons , wedges and putters in play than any other brand. 75% of the field this week trusted a Titleist Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball (117 players), more than six times the nearest competitor (18/12%). There were 53 Titleist drivers in play (34%), 14 more than the nearest competitor. TSR drivers were the field's most popular model. Titleist was the top choice in fairways (60/29%), hybrids (16/44%), and utility irons (43/51%). There were 55 Titleist iron sets in players’ bags, more than double the nearest competitor (24). The field’s most played iron model was T100 . 57% of the gap, sand, and lob wedges this week were Vokey Design (263). On the greens, 53 players trusted a Scotty Cameron putter, more than any other brand. PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | Insperity Invitational Stephen Alker (Pro V1) earned his sixth career PGA TOUR Champions victory, posting a final round 6-under 66 to win by four shots. The 51-year-old New Zealand-native made six birdies on Sunday – including five on the back nine to come home in 31 and pull away from the chasing pack. Titleist golf ball players finished 1-2-3-4 on the final leader board, with Steve Stricker (Pro V1x) finishing solo 2nd place at 11 under. Colin Montgomerie (Pro V1) and David Toms (NEW Pro V1x) finished T3. PGA TOUR LATINOAMERICA | Diners Club Peru Open The winner of the Diners Club Peru Open trusted his Titleist Pro V1 golf ball on his way to winning his first career PGA TOUR Latinoamérica title. The Argentina-native closed with an 8-under 64 final round to reach his winning 15-under total. He made five back-nine birdies to earn the two-shot victory. LPGA TOUR | JM Eagle LA Championship The winner of the JM Eagle LA Championship gamed a TSR2 21.0° fairway and a Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5 tour prototype putter, posting four rounds in the 60’s and surviving extra holes to earn her third career LPGA Tour victory. The Phantom X 5 shape is the choice of several of the world's best, including Max Homa , Tom Kim , Cameron Young and the third ranked player in the Rolex World Rankings. JGTO | The Crowns The winner of The Crowns gamed a TSR3 9.0° driver and two Vokey Design SM9 wedges (52, 58) on his way to shooting four rounds of 67 or better (67-67-66-65) and winning his fifth JGTO title. … #TeamTitleist
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LPGA TOUR | The Chevron Championship Lilia Vu , playing the NEW Pro V1x golf ball, birdied her final three holes Sunday – including the first hole of a sudden-death playoff – to claim her first major championship and second LPGA victory in her last five starts. Vu birdied Nos. 17 and 18 Sunday to post a final-round 4-under 68 and reach 10 under for the week. Angel Yin (Pro V1) also birdied 18 in regulation to force the all-Titleist golf ball playoff. On the first extra hole, Vu, 25, hit the fairway and two-putted from over the back of the green for the tournament-clinching birdie. Vu, who started Sunday T11, became the first LPGA major champion to start outside the top 10 entering the final round since 1988. For the week, she hit the green in regulation 84.4% of the time from the fairway and played the par-3s in 7 under par. LILIA VU + NEW PRO V1 x : IMMEDIATE SUCCESS Lilia Vu made the move to 2023 Pro V1x to begin the year, having tested the new models at home over the offseason. In her first LPGA start with NEW Pro V1x at the Honda LPGA Thailand in February, she posted a bogey-free 8-under 64 in the final round to claim her first LPGA victory. Vu followed that win with finishes of T14, T7 and T11 before Sunday’s major breakthrough. She is a cumulative 64 under par over those five events and 20 rounds, not including her major-winning playoff birdie. Vu on her NEW Pro V1x golf ball and testing process: “Instantly knew that the new Pro V1x was going to be it. It helped bring down the spin and it was just perfect for my game. Yeah, everything about it. The biggest thing for me is I really wanted the same feel coming out of the old golf ball. It just happened to be that way, so it worked out really well.” twitter.com/.../1650305092602540032 THE CHEVRON CHAMPION’S CLUTCH PUTTER, VOKEY WEDGES The winner of The Chevron Championship gamed a Scotty Cameron GOLO 5 putter en route to her first major. On the 71st hole of the tournament, the eventual champion faced a lengthy must-make birdie putt. She rolled it in to get to 9 under and then brushed in a short birdie putt on the 72nd hole to post 10 under and take the clubhouse lead. On the first hole of the playoff, she put the finishing touches on her victory by rolling in a mid-range birdie putt for three in a row to close out the tournament. “I knew on that last putt, all I had to do was just do my routine, read the putt how I usually do, and just hit this putt because I've hit that putt a million times and I knew I could make it,” she said. The champion also carried a pair of Vokey Design SM9 wedges, a 56.10S sand wedge and 60.08M lob wedge. PGA TOUR | Zurich Classic of New Orleans The all-Titleist golf ball pairing of Titleist Brand Ambassador Davis Riley and Nick Hardy posted a tournament record-setting 30-under total to win by two shots. It marked the first PGA TOUR victory for both Riley ( NEW Pro V1 ) and Hardy ( Pro V1x ), who closed with a 7-under 65 in Sunday’s alternate shot format to overcome their three-shot deficit to start the day. The duo combined for 12 birdies and an eagle over the two alternate-shot rounds, posting a Friday 66 to pair with their Sunday 65. During Thursday and Saturday’s foursomes format, Riley and Hardy turned in rounds of 64 and 63. Two of the tour’s best ball strikers, Hardy currently ranks 11th in Strokes Gained: Approach, while Riley is 22nd. During Sunday’s final round, the duo converted seven birdies from within 7 feet (3 ft 10 in, 3 ft 6 in, 1 ft 1 in, 6 ft 4 in, 2 in, 5 ft 8 in). RILEY WINS WITH NEW PRO V1 Davis Riley made the move to NEW Pro V1 earlier this season, putting the new model in play for the first time at The American Express. Riley had previously been playing Pro V1 Left Dot . Riley on the transition to NEW Pro V1: “There were quite a few similarities between this and the Left Dot which I like so much, but I actually saw a big improvement with this ball – I was able to achieve a higher trajectory with the longer stuff like the long irons and woods, which is what you’re looking for coming into firm greens. I was able to get that with this ball and getting more trajectory for the right reasons. Not because it’s up-shooting because of more spin. This was higher launch, but maintaining a really good spin… where you hit it just how you want, and it comes out in that window and the wind just doesn't really touch it.” “I gained one or two more miles per hour ball speed, actually, opposed to the Left Dot with the driver, which was really cool to see. Also, that dispersion came in a little bit, so I was getting kind of the best of both worlds, and it was pretty hard not to put it in when I saw that.” “I’m a small drawer of the ball, so if I’m hitting in a left to right wind, I don’t like to see the ball start right and then the wind just destroy it right. But there were a couple times this off-season I hit the [’23 Pro V1], and it just held its line so nice. That draw just held up perfectly, and it didn’t get taken away by the wind or eaten up by the wind. Just seeing that level of consistency through the wind and staying in the air for that time was really cool to see.” HARDY ON HIS PRO V1 x “Pro V1x, it just fits my game the best. I get the perfect amount of spin with my irons and driver. I love the softness around the greens, short game, the way it performs, even putting too.“ “I’ve played Titleist my whole life since I was in high school, as early as I was a freshman, even before that. I’ve been playing just Titleist. It’s just the best ball in golf.” BOTH CHAMPIONS GAME TITLEIST DRIVERS, FAIRWAYS, IRONS, WEDGES In addition to their Titleist golf balls , Davis Riley and his partner both trusted Titleist for their driver , fairway , iron , and wedges setup. What’s In The Bag? | Davis Riley Golf Ball: NEW Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSR3 8.0° | Project X HZRDUS Smoke Green RDX 65 TX Fairway Metals: TSR3 15.0° | Fujikura Ventus Black TR 8 X and TSR2 18.0°| Fujikura Ventus Black 9 TX Irons: T100 4 | KBS Tour C-Taper 125 S+, 620 CB 5-6 | KBS Tour C-Taper 125 S+ and 620 MB 7-9 | KBS Tour C-Taper 125 S+ Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 50.08F, 56.08M, WedgeWorks 60T | True Temper Dynamic Gold S400 Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 7.2 tour prototype RILEY ON HIS TSR DRIVER “The mishits are really good. I’m finding really consistent spin across the face no matter where I’m hitting it, so that you’re maxing out your carry numbers every time. It’s what you really want to look for. It's not how good your good hits are. It's like, how good are your bad hits? And just seeing that consistency across the face is really cool to see.” “I saw a few miles per hour jump in ball speed, which is great, and especially on those mishits, I wasn't seeing a drop in ball speed or distance. My tendency is kind of a left heel miss, and I saw the spin stay pretty consistent, so that was pretty nice to see how well it performed all across the face.” RILEY ON HIS MIXED IRON SET “Got a little bit of everything here, but in 4-iron, I carry the T100. It’s been great. I went with this model just because it’s always nice having a little extra forgiveness there in the longer irons. It’s been a good club to have to have that extra little forgiveness when you’ve got 220 over water into a par 5 or long par 4. So just looking down at that is really good.” “And then 5 and 6, I carry the CBs. Then again, just looking at something with a little bit more forgiveness than the longer clubs and love just the good classic look here of the CBs.” “Next, the lower irons. I carry MBs and 9-8-7. Really like these. I just love the performance of the MBs. It’s just the thinner sole. I can get through the rough a little bit better. I feel like the workability all them is really good. And when I need a knock down a 9-iron and shave 10 yards off of it, I feel like it's really good for that purpose and just the good classic love of a blade and the feel of it is pretty hard to beat.” RILEY ON HIS PHANTOM X PUTTER “The way it looks, all the square lines, I feel like it frames the ball really well and just everything sits super square. I've always been a big believer in that if you're really comfortable looking over it and everything feels square, it's just going to set up for good putting. So that's what I’ve done.” What's in the Bag? | Zurich Classic of New Orleans Champion Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSi2 8.0° | Aldila Tour Green Graphene 70 TX Fairway Metal: TSi2 15.0° | Aldila Tour Green Graphene 85 TX Irons: T100 4 | True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 and 620 MB 5-PW | True Temper Dynamic Gold X100 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 50.12F, 56.10S, 60.08M | True Temper Dynamic Gold S400 KORN FERRY TOUR | LECOM Suncoast Classic Scott Gutschewski , playing a NEW Pro V1 Yellow golf ball, earned his third career Korn Ferry Tour victory after rolling in a long birdie putt on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff. Gutschewski carded a final round 3-under 68 to match the clubhouse lead at 21 under before making a three on his second go-around of the 480-yard par-4 18th. After this victory, Gutschewski is projected to move to No. 9 in the season-long Korn Ferry Tour Points List. Eight of the top 11 finishers on Sunday’s final leader board teed up a Titleist Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball. KFT CHAMP WINS WITH TSR DRIVER, VOKEY WEDGES, SCOTTY CAMERON PUTTER The winner of the LECOM Suncoast Classsic trusted Titleist for his driver and short-game setup, gaming a TSR3 9.0° driver, Vokey Design SM9 50.12F, 54.10S, SM7 60 wedges and a Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5.5 tour prototype putter. He made the switch to the Phantom X 5.5 to start the season, using the mallet on Sunday to roll in the tournament-winning putt from off the green in extra holes. For the week, he ranked second in Putts per GIR (1.636). “It feels great, it’s awesome, fun, it was a blast. Just putted out of my mind. Missed a short one on 8 today and yesterday, today for par, but other than that like I pretty much just made everything. It was kind of silly but it was fun, it was a blast. I’ve been working hard on my putting. Didn’t keep my card last year and kind of looked at where I was at and where I needed to improve. I needed to improve on my putting.” What’s in the Bag? | LECOM Suncoast Classic Champion Golf Ball: NEW Titleist Pro V1 Yellow Driver: TSR3 9.0° Utility Iron: U•500 4 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 50.12F, 54.10S, SM7 60 Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5.5 tour prototype MEISSNER SHOOTS 59 Titleist Brand Ambassador Mac Meissner posted the round of the week – and his career-low – in Friday's second round with a 12-under 59, the first sub-60 score posted on the KFT since 2017. What’s in the Bag? | Max Meissner Golf Ball: NEW Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR3 9.0° | Hzrdus Smoke Yellow 70 6.5 TX Fairway Metal: TSi2 15.0° | Rogue Black 130MSI 80 TX Utility Iron: U•500 3 | Tour AD DI-105 Hybrid X Irons: T100 4-9 irons | NS Pro Modus3 Tour 120 X Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 52.12F, 56.14F, WedgeWorks 60T wedges | NS Pro Modus3 Tour 120 X-Flex Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 9.5 tour prototype PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | Invited Celebrity Classic Mark Hensby (Pro V1) made par on the fourth hole of a sudden-death playoff to earn his first career PGA TOUR Champions title. Playing in the penultimate group, Hensby made birdie on No. 18 in regulation to post 12 under and force extra holes. After an up-and-down to save par and extend the playoff on the first extra hole, the 51-year-old Australian made three more pars to outlast his opponent. Eight out of the top 10 finishers on the final leader board – including both playoff competitors – trusted a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball. ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | The Masters Tournament Titleist was the overwhelming #1 ball and most played equipment brand at The Masters Tournament, with more players choosing the performance of Titleist golf balls , drivers , irons , wedges and putters than any other brand: Of the 87 competitors who teed it up this week at The Masters, 67 percent played the #1 ball in golf, with 25 players gaming a Pro V1 model and 33 playing a Pro V1x model. Titleist Brand Ambassador Russell Henley , playing Pro V1x, topped the SG: Around the Green category (+1.42), according to Data Golf. The low amateur, who finished the week T16, played a NEW Pro V1x golf ball. Titleist has been the most played driver on the PGA TOUR for four years and counting – and this week was no different. Among those playing a Titleist TSR driver, the field’s favorite model: Titleist Brand Ambassador Cameron Young ( TSR3 9.0°), who finished the week first in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee (+1.60 per round), according to Data Golf. The PGA TOUR’s most played iron brand for nine years running (and 18 of the last 19 seasons) was also the top choice this week at Augusta National, from the world’s best to five of the field’s seven amateurs. The most popular model on TOUR and at the Masters? T100 . When it comes to scoring clubs, more of the world’s best rely on Vokey Design wedges, with a total of 111 Vokey gap, sand, and lob wedges in play at the Masters. Vokey wedges have been the top choice on the PGA TOUR for 19 seasons in a row. On the greens, more players used a Scotty Cameron putter than any other brand, with 14 players gaming a Scotty Cameron blade model and 13 playing a mallet/high MOI setup – including Titleist Brand Ambassador Tom Kim , who this week put a Phantom X 5 tour prototype putter in play. Four of the final Top 8 gamed a Scotty Cameron. ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | Corales Puntacana Championship Matt Wallace rolled his NEW Pro V1x golf ball in for 24 birdies over the four days in Punta Cana – including four in a row from Nos. 13-16 coming down the stretch Sunday – to claim his first PGA TOUR victory. The 32-year-old Englishman and four-time DP World Tour winner closed in 6-under 66 on a windy Corales course to win by one shot, topping a leader board that featured five Titleist golf ball players in the top six positions. WALLACE VICTORIOUS IN FOURTH START WITH NEW PRO V1 x Matt Wallace's victory Sunday in Punta Cana came in just his fourth start playing the NEW Pro V1x golf ball, and just his sixth start since making the switch to a Titleist golf ball after playing all of the 2021-22 season and the first six events of this season with a competitive model. Wallace teed up a Pro V1 to start the new year at the WM Phoenix Open . Two weeks later, at the Honda Classic , Wallace made the move to 2023 Pro V1x after a testing session with Fordie Pitts of Titleist Golf Ball R&D on the range at PGA National. “Matt was looking for a bit more traj and spin in certain parts of his game and ’23 X checked those boxes,” Pitts said. “He loved the flight and overall playability and put it right in play that week after testing it. He’d never considered himself a good candidate for Pro V1x, but it’s been a great match.” Wallace ended 2022 at 98th in Strokes Gained: Approach and 11th in Strokes Gained: Around the Green. After switching to a Titleist golf ball, he has improved to 31st in SG: Approach and 2nd in SG: Around the Green. (The jump doesn’t include this week’s victory, as Shotlink wasn’t used in Punta Cana.) He finished last season 142nd and 146th in those categories, respectively. PUNTACANA CHAMP WINS WITH TSR DRIVER, VOKEY WEDGES, SCOTTY CAMERON PUTTER The winner of the Corales Puntacana Championship, in addition to his NEW Pro V1x golf ball, gamed a TSR3 driver, three Vokey Design SM9 wedges and a Scotty Cameron P5 GSS tour prototype putter in capturing his first PGA TOUR title. The champ put all four clubs in play to start 2023 after playing with competitive models last season. What’s in the Bag? | Corales Puntacana Champion Golf Ball: NEW Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR3 9.0° | Aldila Rogue Black 130 TX Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 50.08F, 54.10S, WedgeWorks 60A wedges | NS Pro Modus3 Tour 120 X Putter: Scotty Cameron P5 GSS tour prototype LPGA TOUR | LPGA Drive On Championship Celine Boutier , playing the NEW Pro V1x golf ball, birdied the first hole of an all-Pro V1x playoff with Georgia Hall to claim her third career LPGA title. Boutier, 29, closed in 4-under 68, getting up-and-down for birdie on the par-5 18th at Superstition Mountain to force the playoff at 20 under par. It was the same story on No. 18 in the playoff, with Boutier hitting a clutch pitch to 5 feet and rolling in her Pro V1x for the clinching birdie. THREE-IN-A-ROW FOR NEW PRO V1 & PRO V1 x NEW Pro V1 and Pro V1x players have now won the last three events on the LPGA Tour: Lilia Vu (NEW Pro V1x), Honda LPGA Thailand Jin Young Ko (NEW Pro V1), HSBC Women's World Championship Celine Boutier (NEW Pro V1x), LPGA Drive On Championship Last week on the Ladies European Tour, Titleist Brand Ambassador Pauline Roussin-Bouchard – playing NEW Pro V1x – posted a final round 64 and 15-under total in Singapore to earn her second career LET victory. The 22-year-old, who also plays a TSR3 driver and fairway among her Titleist setup, made eight birdies in Saturday’s final round on her to way to a four-shot victory at Laguna National Resort Club. PGA TOUR/DP WORLD TOUR | WGC-Dell Match Play | EQUIPMENT NOTES FROM AUSTIN COUNTRY CLUB Titleist Brand Ambassador Cameron Young , playing a NEW Pro V1x golf ball, TSR driver and 14 Titleist clubs , earned his best finish of ‘23, making a run to the finals that featured 83 consecutive holes without a bogey. In his first six matches at Austin Country Club, Young went 6-for-6, playing those 100 holes in 39 under. In the semifinals, Young rallied from 2 down with 3 holes to play, to beat the World’s third-ranked player on the 19th hole. In his opening match Wednesday, Young started with nine consecutive 3’s to make the turn in 27. What’s in the Bag? | Cameron Young Golf Ball: NEW Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR3 9.0° | Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Black 75 TX Fairway Metal: TSR2+ 14.5° | Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Black 85 TX Utility Iron: T200 2 | Nippon NS Pro Modus3 Tour 130 X Irons: T100 4-5 | Nippon NS Pro Modus3 Tour 130 X and 620 MB 6-9 | Nippon NS Pro Modus3 Tour 130 X Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 48.10F, 52.12F, 58.08M, WedgeWorks 60T (@62) | Nippon NS Pro Modus3 Tour 130 X Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5 tour prototype Three of the four semifinalists played a Scotty Cameron putter, including the top two ranked players in the Official World Golf Ranking The World No. 1 plays a Special Select Timeless Tourtype GSS The World No. 2 this week made the switch to a Scotty Cameron 009•M tour prototype. Cameron Young plays a Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5 model. Six of the top 10 players in the world are currently gaming Scotty Cameron putters. Three of the four semifinalists also played Vokey Wedges OWGR #1 : SM8 50.12F, 56.14F, WedgeWorks SM9 60T OWGR #2 : SM9 54.10S, WedgeWorks 58.06K Cameron Young : SM9 48.10F, 52.12F, 58.08M, WedgeWorks 60T (@62) Seven of the top 10 players in the world are currently gaming at least two Vokey wedges. DP WORLD TOUR/SUNSHINE TOUR | Jonsson Workwear Open Nick Bachem (Pro V1x) claimed his first DP World Tour title with a four-shot victory in Johannesburg, closing things out with a flawless 8-under 64. Bachem, 23, of Germany, played his first six holes Sunday in 4 under before pulling away with a final-nine 32. He made only one bogey over the weekend on his way to a winning total of 24 under. KORN FERRY TOUR | Club Car Championship David Skinns (Pro V1x) earned his third career Korn Ferry Tour victory, carding a birdie on his 71st hole en route to a one-shot victory at The Landings Golf & Athletic Club. Skinns was the only player to post four rounds in the 60’s (67-68-68-68). PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | The Galleri Classic Playing a NEW Pro V1x golf ball, David Toms went wire-to-wire at Mission Hills, carding a final round 7-under 65 to earn his second win in three starts and the fourth of his PGA TOUR Champions career. Since putting the 2023 model in play to begin the season (5 events), Toms is a combined 60 under par and has not finished outside of the top 15. FIVE OUT OF SIX FOR NEW PRO V1 & PRO V1 x With Toms’ victory, 2023 Pro V1 and Pro V1x models players have now won five out of six events to start the season on PGA TOUR Champions: Steve Stricker (NEW Pro V1x), Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai Stephen Ames (NEW Pro V1) , Trophy Hassan II Bernhard Langer (NEW Pro V1x) , Chubb Classic David Toms (NEW Pro V1x) , Cologuard Classic, Galleri Classic PGA TOUR LATINOAMÉRICA | Roberto De Vicenzo Memorial 100 Years Titleist Brand Ambassador Chandler Blanchet hit a walk-off wedge to win in Argentina, holing his Pro V1x golf ball from 124 yards on the 72nd hole for eagle and a three-shot victory at Ranelagh Golf Club. Blanchet’s final swing, with his Vokey Design SM9 50.12 wedge, capped a back-nine 30 for a final round 5-under 66. “I hit a good tee shot, and I was right where I wanted to be,” Blanchet, 28, told PGATOUR.com. “I knew I was going to have somewhere around 120 yards. It was a perfect shot. I was in a divot a little bit. It came out a little lower than expected but it obviously worked out well.” What’s in the Bag? | Chandler Blanchet Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR3 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSR3 15.0° Utility Iron: U•505 3 Irons: T100 4-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 50.12F, 54.10S, 58.08M Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 11 tour prototype ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | Valspar Championship Taylor Moore , gaming his NEW Pro V1 golf ball, earned the first PGA TOUR title of his career Sunday after carding a final nine 32 to claim the one-shot victory. Moore began the day two shots off the pace and made five birdies (including two on Nos. 15 & 16) during his final-round 67 – the only round in the 60’s among the final 13 groups of the day on the difficult Copperhead Course at Innisbrook. The 29-year-old was in total control of his golf ball all week, ranking 2nd in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green (+8.812), T2 in Greens in Regulation (69%) and 5th in Scrambling (77%). His 4.463 strokes gained tee to green during Round 4 was Sunday’s best. Moore made 16 birdies over the four rounds and played the extremely difficult “Snake Pit” – the three-hole stretch comprised of the 462-yard par-4 16th, the 219-yard par-3 17th, and the 442-yard par-4 18th – 1 under and bogey-free for the week. Eighty percent of the field teed up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x model, including 12 of the top 15 players on Sunday’s final leader board. MOORE WINS WITH NEW PRO V1 Taylor Moore made the move to NEW Pro V1 to begin the year, putting the new model in play in his first start of 2023 at The American Express. A high-spin player, Moore finished last year playing Pro V1 Left Dot , but had been looking for a little more height to provide him extra stopping power into the tour’s firm, fast greens. During his testing with NEW Pro V1 over the offseason, Moore was able to achieve that higher trajectory while still controlling his spin in the long game. “I want it to perform on my stock shot. I play a little bit of a right to left ball. I want to see the proper window on the irons going on the green, as well as driver,” Moore said of his golf ball testing process. “Because if I’m driving the ball well, then I feel like I'm going to play well week in and week out. And so I just want to see that proper window, that proper shape, and if it does that, and checks the box in the wind as well, then I’m going to put it in play.” One of Moore’s most consequential shots this week in Tampa came on No. 17 during Sunday’s final round. Coming off two consecutive birdies that got him to his eventual winning total of 10 under, Moore found himself in the bunker on the par-3 17th, 30 yards to the hole. Moore struck the long bunker shot perfectly, his 2023 Pro V1 spinning and releasing to within 20 inches of the hole, setting up a stress-free par on the 71st hole. “I think around the greens mostly, just when we get in trouble, and we’re trying to grind out a par, I just know that I can rely on this golf ball to get some spin around the greens,” said Moore on the consistency of his Titleist golf ball. “If I’m in trouble, I can get out, and I know it’s going to help me make that par save.” Sunday marked Moore’s first trip to the winner’s circle since the 2021 Memorial Health Championship, a late-season Korn Ferry Tour victory that wrapped up his PGA TOUR card. “On 18, I think I had a one or two shot lead on 18, but hard hole, it’s like 475, wind off the left, water right, back right pin,” Moore recalled of his final hole that Sunday. “So as a drawer, some would say maybe a little bit uncomfortable for me, but I had 190-ish to this back right pin, wind off the left, and was able to just hit my stock draw. Held up nicely on the wind, and hit it to 12 feet, and was able to two putt and seal the deal, and got my first win, which ultimately got me out here on tour…” “Tee to green… it’s been the best ball for me and my game since I was 15, 16 years old, and it’s been the same.” DP WORLD TOUR | SDC Championship Matthew Baldwin (Pro V1x) earned his first career DP World Tour victory in runaway fashion, besting the field by seven shots. The Englishman posted 18 under after rounds of 65-68 on the weekend and made five birdies on Sunday to pull away from the chasing pack. For the three rounds of recorded stats, Baldwin led the field in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green (+2.89 per round). He exhibited total control of his golf ball through the blustery conditions at St. Francis Links, also leading the field in fairways hit (86%) and finishing fourth in Greens in Regulation (78%). "I'm not 100 percent sure what's just happened,” said Baldwin after the final putt dropped. “It's been a tough few years, so obviously to get the win means absolutely everything… I can't process it right now but it just means the world to me… It's been windy all week, it's that sort of golf course. Fortunately for me I've grown up playing in Southport at Hesketh and Royal Birkdale, so I'm pretty good in the wind and it's worked out a treat for me.” Eighteen of the top 22 finishers on the final leader board at St. Francis Links teed up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x model for the week. LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR | Aramco Team Series Singapore Playing NEW Pro V1x , Pauline Roussin-Bouchard posted a final round 64 and 15-under total in Singapore to earn her second career LET victory. The 22-year-old, who also plays a TSR3 driver and fairway among her Titleist setup, made eight birdies on Saturday’s final round on her to way to a four-shot victory at Laguna National Resort Club. Titleist Brand Ambassador Danielle Kang finished solo second, while world No. 1 Lydia Ko (NEW Pro V1x) claimed third place, making it a 1-2-3 sweep for Titleist. What’s In The Bag? | Pauline Roussin-Bouchard www.youtube.com/watch Golf Ball: NEW Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR3 10.0° Fairway Metals: TSR3 16.5° and TSi2 21.0° Irons: T200 4 and 620 CB 5-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM8 48.10F, 52.08F, 56.10S, 60.10S PGA TOUR AUSTRALASIA | Play Today NSW Open David Micheluzzi (Pro V1) closed out his third victory of the season on PGA Tour Australasia, clinching the Order of Merit in the process. Micheluzzi began the day five shots off the pace and turned in a final round 65 to win by two shots at 20 under. Previously having won the WA PGA Championship and TPS Sydney events this season, the 26-year-old became the first three-time winner on Tour since 2005. Along with his Order of Merit honors, Micheluzzi also locked up a spot in the 151st Open Championship this July at Royal Liverpool. PGA TOUR LATINOAMÉRICA| Termas de Rio Hondo Invitational Jake McCrory , playing NEW Pro V1x , made birdie on the first hole of a sudden death playoff to earn a victory in his PGA TOUR Latinoamérica debut. McCrory posted a steady final round 70 to reach 19 under for the week and force extra holes. “I hit a really good putt (on 18 in regulation), which actually helped me in the playoff because I pretty much had the same line, just on the opposite side of the hole. It went in the second time,” he told PGATOUR.com. AMATEUR | Sage Valley Jr Invitational Titleist players swept the titles at the Sage Valley Junior Invitational, one of junior golf’s biggest events, with both champions trusting a Pro V1x golf ball, TSR metalwoods , Titleist irons and Vokey Design SM9 wedges among their Titleist setups: Anna Davis , gaming her Pro V1x golf ball, TSR2 driver and full bag of Titleist equipment, shot a final round 70 to complete the wire-to-wire victory at Sage Valley Golf Club. The 17-year-old amateur finished the tournament at 7 under and won by two shots after chipping in for birdie on No. 17 and walking in a long putt on the last. “I went into the week wanting to win, thinking I was going to win,” said Davis after the final round. “I’ve always had high expectations for myself.” Davis will return to Augusta National in two weeks’ time looking to defend her title at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. Bonus Content https://youtu.be/aT_wmmRaurQ Catch up with golfer Anna Davis, winner of the 2022 Augusta National Women's Amateur, at a Titleist commercial shoot to hear more about her monumental win at Augusta, the story behind her trusted 620 MB irons, and more. What’s In The Bag? | Anna Davis Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR2 11.0° Fairway Metal: TSR2 15.0° Hybrid: TS2 23.0° Irons: 620 MB 4-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 50.12F, 54.10S, 58.10S Putter: Scotty Cameron Tour Type Buttonback The winner of the boys’ division trusted a Titleist setup that included his NEW Pro V1x golf ball, TSR3 driver, T100 irons and Vokey SM9 wedges to a runaway 10-shot victory. He shot rounds of 65-70-68 in posting 13 under and the tournament’s record margin of victory. The champion, who won the British Amateur last summer, will also be heading to Augusta in April, as his victory at Royal Lytham & St Annes in June earned him an invite to the 2023 Masters Tournament. What’s In The Bag? | 2023 Sage Valley Jr Invitational Boys’ Champion Golf Ball: NEW Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR3 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSR3 15.0° Utility Iron: T200 (Utility Build) 3 Irons: T100 4-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 50.08F, 54.10S, 58.04L or WedgeWorks 58T Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X putter ... #TeamTitleist
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LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR | Aramco Saudi Ladies International Lydia Ko (Pro V1x) earned her third win in her last four worldwide starts, capturing her second LET title by one shot. The No. 1 player in the Rolex Rankings closed in 4-under 68 to win in her first start of 2023. KO ON HER PRO V1 x “Consistency is super important. That’s a big goal of mine, personally, to be more consistent. And if you’re unsure, and sometimes [your golf ball] takes a little bit more wind, sometimes it doesn’t take enough wind, then you’re questioning yourself. And I’d say it’s pretty hard out there without having to deal with all of that.” “I changed to the Pro V1x, and I think it’s a really good balance for me around the green with short game and being able to spin it. Also in the long game, it puts me at a right range within 2,000 to 2,500 RPM for my driver spin, and then works out good for my irons as well. So, I think it’s a good balance for me to have a ball that I can believe in, and I know that it’s going to react pretty similar on similar conditions. I think it’s a huge bonus as a player.” “I’ve used the Titleist ball for a really long time and I can speak from my experience that every time I’ve tried something new I’ve been able to see a difference, and I just love how it is the #1 golf ball. It’s not just an advertisement. It is something that I believe and something that I really trust. The golf ball is such a crucial part of the equipment standpoint and in the game.” CHAMPION WINS WITH NEW TSR DRIVER The champion at Royal Greens Golf & Country Club earned Win No. 3 with her new TSR3 driver in the bag. She switched to the new driver from her prior generation TSi3 model at the Amundi Evian Championship in July, following a fitting with J.J. Van Wezenbeeck , Titleist’s Director of Player Promotion , having seen increased ball speed with more consistent spin. In her last start at the LPGA’s 2022 season-ending CME Championship, she put on a stellar performance off the tee, hitting 53 of 56 fairways (94.6%) over the four rounds while averaging 270 yards. In her first 11 starts with the new TSR3, she has recorded three wins and eight finishes of T5 or better. In addition to her driver, she also plays NEW TSR2+ 13.0° and TSR2 18.0° fairway metals, a T200 5-iron, four Vokey Design SM9 wedges and Scotty Cameron putter. What’s in the Bag | Rolex World No. 1 Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: NEW TSR3 9.0° | Mitsubishi Kurokage XD50 S Fairway Metals: NEW TSR2+ 13.0° | Mitsubishi Kurokage XD60 S and NEW TSR2 18.0° | Mitsubishi Diamana PD60 S Iron: T200 5 | AeroTech SteelFiber FC 70 Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 48.10F, 54.10S and WedgeWorks 58.04L | AeroTech SteelFiber FC 80 Putter: Scotty Cameron P5 GSS tour prototype (center shaft) PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | Chubb Classic Playing a NEW Pro V1x golf ball, Bernhard Langer birdied five of his final seven holes to win by three shots and equal the all-time PGA TOUR Champions record with Win No. 45. The oldest winner in the tour’s history, the 65-year-old Langer closed with a bogey-free 7-under 65 to make it back-to-back Chubb Classic titles. He ranked first in Scrambling for the week at Tiburon Golf Club (92%) and was 4-for-4 in getting his Pro V1x up-and-down from the bunker. “Yeah, there’s been a lot of talk… for the last few years, and there’s a lot of pressure, especially today when you get this close,” said Langer. “Then you have thoughts running through your mind, and you're going, wow, you're this close, you don't want to lose it now. But that's the wrong stuff to think. You've got to just focus on one shot at a time… I drove it very well, hit a lot of fairways, a lot of greens, and fortunately did better than anybody else.” THREE IN A ROW FOR NEW PRO V1 & PRO V1 x With Langer’s victory, NEW Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf ball players have won each of the first three events of the new 2023 PGA TOUR Champions season, with Steve Stricker (Pro V1x) and Stephen Ames (Pro V1) claiming the previous two events. PGA TOUR | Genesis Invitational Titleist Brand Ambassador Max Homa , playing a NEW Pro V1 golf ball and full bag of Titleist equipment , posted rounds of 64-68-69-68 to finish runner-up at 15 under par and earn his third finish of T3 or better in four starts to begin 2023. In seven appearances this season on the PGA TOUR, Homa has claimed a pair of victories and finished outside the top 20 only twice (his worst finish is T39) while climbing to No. 2 in the FedEx Cup Standings. His finish Sunday also moved him into No. 8 in the Official World Golf Ranking, his highest ever position in the OWGR. Three of the top 4 players at Riviera gamed a Titleist golf ball and 14 Titleist clubs, with three of the top 5 playing a 2023 Pro V1 or Pro V1x : Homa (Pro V1) , Will Zalatoris (Pro V1x) and Keith Mitchell (Pro V1) . In total 86 players teed up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x model at The Riv, more than five times the nearest competitor (16). HOMA’S DIALED IN WITH 2023 PRO V1 The Genesis Invitational marked Max Homa's third start playing the NEW Pro V1 golf ball. Over those three events, Homa is a combined 31 under par with one victory (Farmers Insurance Open), one runner-up (Genesis) and 10 rounds in the 60’s. He has been inside the top-5 of the leader board after 7 of his last 12 rounds while averaging 0.75 strokes gained on approach shots per round – nearly double the amount of strokes he gained on approach shots per round last season (+0.38). Following Sunday’s final round at Riviera, Homa is now in the PGA TOUR’s top-5 in Scoring Average (69.327), Strokes Gained: Total (+2.264) and Birdie Average (5.11). Homa made the switch to NEW Pro V1 in the days leading up to the Farmers Insurance Open. Before heading to Torrey Pines, Homa visited the Titleist Performance Institute in nearby Oceanside, where he worked with Titleist’s Director of Player Promotions, J.J. Van Wezenbeeck , and his swing coach, Mark Blackburn , to ensure his setup was dialed in for the upcoming stretch. It was during this session that Homa began testing the 2023 Pro V1 golf ball, putting the new model through its paces from wedges to driver. “In that scenario, we want to hit every wedge shot he’s going to hit, so it’s a full one, it’s a partial one. When we get to a 7-iron, we want to hit multiple shots of, ‘Hey, what’s your big 7-iron? What’s your short 7-iron?’ “ Van Wezenbeeck said. “We want to go to those shots that they’re going to hit in a tournament. We’ll move targets around, we’ll call shots, we’ll ask for a shot up against a wind. So he saw just how stable the golf ball was in the wind, and so it was a good testing day to be able to see all the different shots he would hit, but also in those wind conditions.” Advanced core technologies in NEW Pro V1 help lower long game spin without sacrificing short game spin, something that caught Homa’s eye as he looked to decrease his driver spin numbers. “When we got to the driver, we had an opportunity where he could use a little less spin, and speed’s always welcome – and we saw a little more speed, a little less spin,” Van Wezenbeeck said. With demanding tour setups requiring high-flying approaches that stop quickly on firm greens, however, the group started to focus in on the spin rates and performance with his longer irons. Testing showed that the 2023 Pro V1 allowed him to hit a higher, more stable ball with the stopping power required to hit it close. “While he’s not necessarily a high launch guy, he can get a little spinny,” said Fordie Pitts of Titleist Golf Ball R&D . “The new ball keeps that spin in a controllable area. He did have one concern when he was working at TPI, his 4-iron. Obviously with 4-iron you’re not generating a lot of spin with that club. The concern was, is that going to be a little too hot? His coach, Mark Blackburn just said, ‘Well hit one higher.’ And he hit one higher and sure enough it went up in the air and he’s like, ‘I’m good,’ and goes on to win the tournament.” That performance was highlighted during the final round of Farmers, where he used to his T100•S 4-iron to set up two key birdies on the par-3 11th and 16th holes. On the 213-yard 11th, Homa hit his approach to 12 feet, 8 inches and rolled in the putt for his fifth birdie of the day. He was trailing by a shot when he stepped to the tee at the 227-yard par-3 16th, the most difficult hole of the final round which was playing almost a half-stroke over par. There had been just one birdie made there the entire day. Homa took aim, then watched his 2023 Pro V1 fly toward the flagstick, stopping just 15 feet, 1 inch from the cup. It was the closest approach of the day on No. 16. He made the putt to get to 6 under for the day and 12 under overall, securing what would prove to be the clinching birdie. The shot highlighted a ball striking week for the books on Torrey’s South Course, with Homa gaining more than eight shots (+8.387) on the field with his approach shots, better than anyone else in the field. COMPLETE TRUST Said Homa : “I haven’t been great at left pins, so this season when we had looked at that, we decided we were going to be aggressive to right pins and then left ones we were going to leave alone unless it feels real good.” “So I get back on that 11th hole and it’s a back right pin and it was a very good number and Joe and I were talking about maybe punching one up the middle and bouncing it back there and then finally we were both looking at each other. I'm like, ‘This is just a perfect high 4-iron. Why are we overthinking it?’ At some point, trust your swing and trust your equipment and we had put the new golf ball in that week and our big concern was it wouldn’t fly high and soft enough. And I had shown myself a few times early that week that it would, so I was like, ‘This is the one we hit.’ This is our bread and butter in a way. If you’re going to try to have an advantage over these other great players, you need to know where you need to take that risk, I guess, and that’s when it was.” “So that one, I hit differently. I put it up my stance and I trusted the golf club really to, as I mentioned a bunch of times how easy the club (T100•S 4-iron) is to hit and how much higher it launches, and I just let it get as high as I could in the air and let the wind take it over and that one came off great.” “But then the one on 16 was a completely different shot and this was a testament to the golf ball. It was a pretty big 4 iron for me into the wind but we had just worked on, I don’t know, a couple hours on the range about how the thing is going to fly flatter and it’s going to fly harder and I’m going to get a bit more out of it.” “So I was like, ‘Okay, I’m not going to try to smoke it, I’m just going to keep it flat.’ And again, all those things play into these big moments. You’re already so nervous and you know consequence. So once you get into a situation where you can eliminate so many variables. I know the ball’s going to fly like I want it to fly. I know this club is not particularly hard to hit, just go make the golf swing and see what happens.” “So it’s fun to hit both of those because those are my two favorite shots I’ve hit in a long time in a single round and to have them with relatively new equipment and a very new golf ball – I mean that was cool, to have it feel like a big team win in a way. In San Diego where we had been at TPI a bunch, so that was fun.” HOMA EXCELS ON GREENS AT GENESIS Max Homa led the field in Strokes Gained: Putting (+11.329) on his way to a solo-second finish at Riviera Country Club. Gaming his trusty Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5.5 tour prototype, Homa averaged a field-best 23.25 putts per round and 1.444 Putts per GIR, while finishing the week with a career-best 49 one-putts. Homa won the 2021 Genesis Invitational gaming a Phantom X 11.5 but made the switch to his current gamer four months after the victory. He has won four TOUR events since with his Phantom X 5.5, including back-to-back Fortinet Championships, the Wells Fargo Championship and last month’s Farmers Insurance Open. Said Homa on his switch to a Phantom X mallet: “I was just struggling with face control with my putter. So I tried a few mallets, ended up going with one of the Phantoms and it just felt like it swung a bit better. It didn’t feel like I needed to work so much with my hands to release the putter. And at that time that’s really what I needed and then I got hooked on them…” “I think you almost don't have to do as much with your hands, so you can just focus on the big muscles. And I feel like, especially with putting, especially when you’re nervous, that’s a huge part of being consistent and having a lot of repetition. I felt like that was something that I was missing. And when I switched to that, I felt like it just became a lot more predictable just because I could take out a variable…“ “Speed control became much easier with the Phantom style. I felt like because of the weight of the head or just the way it swung, I just felt like it was a lot easier to control my putts from 15 to 25 feet. That’s where I’ve typically struggled. That’s definitely the most obvious impact I saw…” “I think we work a lot on alignment with my putting, with getting the face square to the target line and something about the way they set up, I feel like they’re very square. I feel like that’s helped, but I really do think that the speed control has been the main benefactor (to my wins), holing a couple extra 10 to 20 footers. And that typically is mostly speed based, less start line than the closer putts.” NEW TSR DRIVER MOMENTUM CONTINUES Titleist continues to be the most played driver on the PGA TOUR with 44 players gaming Titleist drivers this week at Riviera, 19 more than the nearest competitor. NEW TSR was the field’s favorite model, with 22 playing TSR3 and 7 playing TSR2 . Four of the top 8 on the final leader board played a Titleist driver, including the eighth-place finisher, who made the switch to his to NEW TSR3 9.0° three weeks ago at Pebble Beach. This week, the 9-time PGA TOUR winner gained nearly three strokes on the field off the tee (+2.904) while ranking T1 in Driving Accuracy (67.86). He gained a season-high 1.67 strokes off the tee in Friday’s second round. Five of the top 9, and 11 of the top 19, players in the Official World Golf Ranking currently play a Titleist driver. ASIAN TOUR | International Series Qatar Andy Ogletree , playing a Titleist Pro V1 golf ball and NEW TSR2 driver among his Titleist setup, claimed his second Asian Tour title in nine starts with a three-shot victory in Qatar. Ogletree posted a tournament-best 6-under 66 in Round 3 to enter Sunday’s final round with a five-shot lead, cruising to his winning total of 7 under. What’s in the Bag | Andy Ogletree Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSR2 10.0° Fairway Metal: TSR3 16.5° Utility Iron: U505 3 Irons: 620 CB 4-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 50.12F, 54.10S, 60.08M SUNSHINE TOUR | SDC Open J.J. Senekal (Pro V1) made birdie on No. 18 for a final-round 65, capturing a four-shot victory at Zebula Country Club. Senekal turned in four rounds in the 60’s (62-67-69-65) to post 25 under and win in wire-to-wire fashion. He played the par 5’s in 14 under for the week on his way to claiming his third career Sunshine Tour win. “It was very emotional,” Senekal said. “I put a lot of hard work into this starting from the beginning of last year. It all comes down to hard work. This means the world to me. I was knocking for quite a while now and this week was a good example of staying patient, playing good golf and knowing what to do and when to do it.” PGA TOUR AUSTRALASIA | TPS Sydney David Micheluzzi (Pro V1) was victorious in Sydney after posting a 25-under winning total, the lowest 72-hole score in Australian golf since 2004. The Victoria-native shot a final round 10-under 61, playing the last 10 holes in nine-under 30 with just 12 putts at Bonnie Doon Golf Club, to pull away for a four-shot victory in the mixed-gender TPS Series event. Eight of the top 10 players on the final leader board trusted a Titleist golf ball for the week in Sydney. … #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | Farmers Insurance Open | HOMA WINS IN FIRST WEEK WITH NEW PRO V1 Max Homa put the NEW Titleist Pro V1 golf ball in play for the first time this week at the Farmers Insurance Open, leading the field in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green on his way to the sixth win of his PGA TOUR career. Homa decided to make the switch to 2023 Pro V1 following a visit last weekend to the Titleist Performance Institute , where he worked with his coach Mark Blackburn and J.J. Van Wezenbeeck, Titleist’s Director of Player Promotions , testing the performance of the new model through the bag. A week later, Homa was on the 18th green at Torrey Pines, rolling his NEW Pro V1 in for birdie to win by two shots and move to No. 2 in the FedEx Cup Standings. Homa gained more than 10 strokes (+10.620) on the field over the three rounds on the South Course (where stats were tracked), gaining 4.595 of them during his closing 6-under 66. “With ’23 Pro V1 we saw Max’s ball speed jump a little bit off the driver with lower spin,” Van Wezenbeeck said. “It was flying great. He was even more consistent with his irons and the short game performance was as good as ever. It was a no brainer.” Homa is a longtime Pro V1 player, having used a Pro V1 model for all six of his PGA TOUR victories. “It is the best feel, most predictable, best spin rates for my game,” he said. “I’ve used it pretty much my whole life because I think it’s the best golf ball in the world.” What’s In The Bag: Max Homa www.instagram.com/.../ Golf Ball: NEW Titleist Pro V1 golf ball Driver: NEW TSR3 10.0° | Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Black 65 TX Fairway Metals: NEW TSR3 16.5° | Fujikura Ventus TR Blue 80 X and NEW TSR2 21.0° | Graphite Design Tour AD XC 9 TX Irons: T100•S 4-iron | KBS TOUR $-Taper 130 X, T100 5-iron | KBS TOUR $-Taper 130 X and 620 MB 6-9 | KBS TOUR $-Taper 130 X Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F | KBS TOUR $-Taper 130 X and Vokey Design SM9 50.12F, 56.14F, 60.04L | KBS Hi Rev 2.0 125 S Putter : Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5.5 tour prototype HOMA’S DECISIVE SWING ON NO. 16 – NEW PRO V1 + T100S 4-IRON Max Homa was trailing by a shot when he stepped to the tee Saturday afternoon at the 227-yard par-3 16th, the most difficult hole of the final round which was playing almost a half-stroke over par. There had been just one birdie made there the entire day. Homa pulled his T100•S 4-iron. took aim, then watched his 2023 Pro V1 fly toward the flagstick, stopping just 15 feet from the cup. It was the closest approach of the day on No. 16. He made the putt to get to 12 under, securing what would prove to be the clinching birdie. The shot highlighted a ball striking week for the books on Torrey’s South Course, with Homa gaining more than eight shots (+8.387) on the field with his approach shots, better than anyone else in the field. Having traditionally carried a full set of blade irons, Homa exchanged his 620 MB 4 and 5 irons last season for a T100•S 4-iron and T100 5-iron. The T100•S went in the bag for the first time a year earlier at the 2022 Farmers following a session at TPI. He added the T100 5-iron at The Genesis Invitational, two starts later. “I was down in San Diego with J.J., who was fitting me at TPI. And he said, ‘Hey, you should try this 4-iron. It’s a T100•S. It’ll be a lot easier to hit. It will launch a lot higher. So it’ll come down a lot softer. It’ll go a little bit farther in the air, but then shorter once it hits the ground.’ So I tried it and it was super easy to hit, especially if the lie’s not perfect. I think with the blades, if it’s sitting on a little downslope or sitting a little bit down, you’re not going to get any lift out of it. And it becomes just a club that you are hoping to hit near or maybe on the green. Now with this 4-iron, because of how much easier it is to hit, the forgiveness of it, it’s become a weapon, especially on par 5s.” “And then, like two weeks later, we’re sitting around, my caddie and I, Joe, thinking about how a 5-iron has started feeling similar to how that blade 4-iron felt. So we put a T100 in. It feels very, very easy to hit. I can work it a little bit, but it just comes down a lot softer. So those long par 3s, especially that 5-iron, has become a big deal to us.” HOMA WINS AGAIN WITH NEW TSR DRIVER & FAIRWAYS Max Homa's victory Saturday at Torrey Pines marked his second win since making the switch to his NEW Titleist TSR driver and fairway metals – and win No. 31 for TSR drivers across the worldwide professional tours. Homa immediately switched to his NEW TSR3 10.0° driver, along with TSR3 16.5° and TSR2 21.0° fairways, at last summer’s Genesis Scottish Open, his first start after the new models debuted at the Travelers Championship. “I actually like the sound quite a bit. Sounds like you’re smashing it, which is nice,” Homa said of his NEW TSR driver before he teed it up in Scotland. “I did notice that the spin didn’t change as much when you mishit it. The heel and toe strikes kept the spin a little closer to your good ones. That’s obviously something I think everybody would be happy to have. It’s a mile an hour faster for me, just ball speed. So, yeah. It just doesn’t feel like any reason not to use it. I hit basically only two types of golf shots with my driver, and they both are still flying very similar. So it feels like a no brainer.” Homa currently ranks 23rd in Driving Accuracy (66.2%) after finishing 2021-22 at 92nd (60.62%). He ended the 2021-21 season at 130th (58.44%). “I think really what changed, part my golf game – I drive the ball really well now, that’s a big advantage out here,” Homa said Saturday. “You don’t need to be in the short grass all the time, but you do need to be in it if you want to make birdies.” Homa also made a driver shaft change to start the year, moving to the Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Black, a featured stock shaft in the Titleist TSR driver lineup. Tensei 1K Black is a low-launch/low-spin model, built with 1K Carbon Fiber Weave technology to enhance feel and stability. HOMA MAKES IT FIVE VICTORIES WITH PHANTOM X It’s now five wins and counting for Max Homa with a Scotty Cameron Phantom X putter model in the bag. The run began at the 2021 Genesis Invitational, where Homa, gaming a Phantom X 11.5 , became the first player to win with a Phantom X model putter on the PGA TOUR. Four months later, he switched to the Phantom X 5.5 , which he used to win the last two Fortinet Championships as well as the Wells Fargo Championship last May. This week, Homa gained more than 4.5 strokes on the field putting (+4.595), ranking ninth for the week. He gained 3.46 strokes during the final round alone. Said Homa, on his switch to Phantom X: “I was just struggling with face control with my putter. So I tried a few mallets, ended up going with one of the Phantoms and it just felt like it swung a bit better. It didn’t feel like I needed to work so much with my hands to release the putter. And at that time that’s really what I needed and then I got hooked on them.” “I think you almost don't have to do as much with your hands, so you can just focus on the big muscles. And I feel like, especially with putting, especially when you’re nervous, that’s a huge part of being consistent and having a lot of repetition. I felt like that was something that I was missing. And when I switched to that, I felt like it just became a lot more predictable just because I could take out a variable.” “Speed control became much easier with the Phantom style. I felt like because of the weight of the head or just the way it swung, I just felt like it was a lot easier to control my putts from 15 to 25 feet. That’s where I’ve typically struggled. That’s definitely the most obvious impact I saw.” “I think we work a lot on alignment with my putting, with getting the face square to the target line and something about the way they set up, I feel like they’re very square. I feel like that’s helped, but I really do think that the speed control has been the main benefactor (to my wins), holing a couple extra 10 to 20 footers. And that typically is mostly speed based, less start line than the closer putts.” ‘CAM’S DAD’ AND HIS FOUR VOKEY WEDGES Max Homa was playing a fresh set of four Vokey Design SM9 wedges this week, built and stamped by Vokey Tour Rep Aaron Dill . Dill stamped each wedge with “Cam’s Dad.” On Saturday, Cam (Homa’s three-month old son) was there to see his dad lift the trophy. Homa plays 46.10F, 50.12F, 56.14F and 60.04L models. Said Dill: “When we started working together on his set matrix, Max was playing more bounce in his 60 (M Grind). When you ask guys the question, ‘Why do you have this grind and this much bounce’ a lot of times they’ll say, ‘I don’t know. It’s just kind of what I’ve always played.’ So spending some time with him, and digging a little deeper into how to build his set makeup, we realized that he was a little limited in the types of shots he could hit, especially greenside. I gave him an option that was a little bit less bounce, and he began to realize that ‘Oh my gosh, some of the shots that I was afraid to hit, I can hit those again.’ By taking some of that bounce away and giving him the thinner sole of the L grind, he can now fearlessly go to any shot that he’s facing and obviously pull off some miraculous ones.” “Max has a high bounce sand wedge (56.14F) and low bounce lob wedge (60.04L), and that combination gives him the ability to hit anything he wants. He was playing an M grind in the 60 before and he just had a little too much width. I think when you’re faced greenside with shots like some of those where you create lift in a hurry, you need to be able to open up the face and feel like you can slide through the ball easily. When you have a lot of sole width, it can be tricky to do that. So by giving him a little bit thinner sole, he can open it up. It sits nice and close, and he can just freely do the things that he needs to do, which is chip it in off the side of the green to win a championship.” “I think when you look at the correlation between the types of players who use an M Grind on the PGA Tour, they’re a little steeper. Max is a very shallow player. He’s very good at hitting low and high shots. But I think for him being a shallow guy, he doesn’t have to be too fearful about sticking into the ground. So he and (his coach) Mark Blackburn have done a terrific job of dialing in his short game and keeping him out of that style of shot so he can play a low bounce wedge and not have any discomfort with it.” DP WORLD TOUR | Hero Dubai Desert Classic | CHAMPION WINS AFTER SWITCH TO VOKEY WEDGES The winner of the Hero Dubai Desert Classic called his short game display “as good as I can remember” after adding two new Vokey Design SM9 wedges to the bag at the start of the week. The No. 1 player in the OWGR made the switch from competitive models to an SM9 56.10S (@ 55) sand wedge and a WedgeWorks SM9 58.06K (@ 59) lob wedge – getting up-and-down for birdie from 27 yards and 103 yards on Nos. 17 and 18, respectively, to win by one shot. “I think the way I managed my game [this] week, I think the short game display that I put on this week was as good as I can remember,” he said. “Some things I need to tidy up with the long game but overall, if I can win golf tournaments of this caliber not having my best stuff, it gives me a lot of confidence going forward.” The now three-time winner of the Dubai Desert Classic was a perfect 4-for-4 in sand saves and he ranked 11th in Scrambling (75%). “I didn’t have my best stuff today. I didn’t have my best stuff all week. But I managed my game well and being able to put it in good spots and get up-and-down when I needed to,” he said. In Round 1, the champion holed out for eagle on the par-4 8th from 116 yards in the native desert area with his new Vokey 54.10S sand wedge. “All I was thinking about was catching it clean,” he said. “My tendency out of those lies is to hit it a little bit heavy. As soon as I struck it, I knew it came out really nicely and it was right down the pin. Again, anything inside of 20 feet, I would have been happy with, so that was certainly a bonus. It was 116 yards, and I used a 54-degree wedge. Went down the grip a little bit just to make sure of the strike and just tried to put a good swing on it.” KORN FERRY TOUR | The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic Ben Silverman (Pro V1) won in his first start of 2023, making par in a sudden-death playoff on the par-5 18th to claim his second career Korn Ferry Tour win. Silverman made five birdies in his first nine holes of the final round to go out in 31. The Canadian held on to post 15 under, coming out on top in extra holes over Cody Blick (Pro V1x Left Dash) . Seventeen out of the 21 players finishing inside the top 20 positions on the final leader board played a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball model. PGA TOUR AUSTRALASIA | TPS Victoria Hosted by Geoff Ogilvy Min A Yoon (Pro V1x) posted a final round 8-under 63 to win by one shot at the mixed-gender TPS Victoria event held at Rosebud Country Club. Yoon posted rounds of 67-66-64-63 to reach 24 under, with her hole-out eagle from the greenside bunker on the par-5 16th in the final round making the difference. Each of the top eight finishers played a Titleist ball , and Titleist was No. 1 in all recorded equipment categories. ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | Cadence Bank Houston Open Tony Finau (Pro V1 Left Dot) became just the third PGA TOUR winner in the past 10 years to lead the field in both Greens In Regulation (77.8%) and Driving Accuracy (75%) on his way to a wire-to-wire, four-shot victory in Houston. Finau, who also led the field with 22 birdies, made four birdies on his front nine Sunday at Memorial Park to pull away from the field, eventually posting 16 under for the tournament after four rounds in the 60’s (65-62-68-69). It marked the fifth-career PGA TOUR title for Finau and third victory in his last seven starts, following his back-to-back wins at the 3M Open and the Rocket Mortgage Classic in July. It was a 1-2-3 sweep for Titleist golf ball players in Houston, with Titleist Brand Ambassadors Tyson Alexander (2nd, Pro V1) and Ben Taylor (3rd, NEW Pro V1) each rounding out the Top 3 with career-best PGA TOUR finishes. Thirteen of the 15 players who finished in the top 10 and ties played a Pro V1 or Pro V1x model. TONY FINAU ON HIS PRO V1 LEFT DOT “I think equipment starts with the golf ball, not with the clubs, not with the woods, not with any other piece of equipment,” Finuau said. “It starts with the golf ball. I’ve always been a believer in that.” “The Left Dot golf ball is right for me because I’ve always put a lot of spin on the golf ball, so it’s the lowest spinning Titleist Pro V1 that is out on the market, and right away, it caught my eye because of the ball flight. I think if you can control your ball flight, you can control the distance. And it’s been such a reliable ball flight for me from the first time that I hit it. I think the best word I can use is just reliable. I can count on the golf ball in crosswinds, into the wind, downwind. I know how far the golf ball is going to go. And that’s a great feeling to have as a professional golfer. Distance control is up there probably with the most important things when it comes to striking a golf ball and playing golf.” HOW TONY FINAU MARKS HIS PRO V1 LEFT DOT “I actually mark my Pro V1 golf ball with my kids’ initials. I have five kids. I’ll throw my wife in there sometimes as well. So the determining factor for me is if they make a couple bogeys, power lip out, whatever the case, they’re out, and I’m ready for the next kid to come into play and see if they’ll perform. And that’s pretty much it. I’m not crazy superstitious, but there does come a time where, if my kids are a little scared of the dark that day, they want to go swimming, they want to play in the beach, I’ve got to let them go and bring somebody else in that’s ready to score for me.” PGA TOUR, LPGA, DP WORLD TOUR WINNERS TRUST VOKEY T GRIND This week’s winners on the PGA TOUR, LPGA and DP World Tour each had one piece of equipment in common: A Vokey Design SM9 WedgeWorks T Grind lob wedge. The winner of the Cadence Bank Houston Open played a Vokey SM9 WedgeWorks 60T while leading the field with 77.8% GIRs. “He has told me many times that max versatility is important to him,” said Vokey Tour Rep Aaron Dill . “He has the ability to be steep or shallow when he wants and, one thing’s for sure, he makes great contact with lots of spin on most of his wedge shots. Since his first T grind he has been loyal to this club, occasionally testing some other higher bounce options but always returning to the T.” Titleist Brand Ambassador Nelly Korda gamed a Vokey SM9 WedgeWorks 58T in successfully defending her title at the Pelican Women’s Championship to move back to No. 1 in the world ranking. Korda, who had solely been using a 58.10 S grind as her lob wedge, added the 58T to her setup following a trip to the Titleist Performance Institute to work with Dill. “Nelly has a 58.10S and 58T that she’ll flop in and out depending on conditions or course setup. The T is a very versatile sole. So it’s low bounce and it just frees you up to get under the ball easily when things feel like they’re firm. Or maybe you’re short sided at times, maybe the greens are pitched up. Whenever you’re in those scenarios, the last thing you want to deal with is a wedge with too much bounce where you feel like you just can’t pull off those shots. And the T Grind definitely frees you up mentally and physically to hit those more difficult shots that require that loft.” The winner of the Nedbank Golf Challenge on the DP World Tour used a Vokey SM9 WedgeWorks 60T, finishing the week second in Strokes Gained: Around the Green (+1.10 per round). Inspired by Master Craftsman Bob Vokey’s work with one of the game’s all-time best wedge players, the T Grind was designed for great hands and a vivid short-game imagination. Available in 58- and 60-degree lofts, it is ideal for a shallow angle of attack in firm conditions, with low bounce and a narrow crescent surface. Compared to Vokey’s L grind, it has a wider back flange which allows for lower measured bounce. Titleist Brand Ambassador Cameron Smith played a 60T in winning The Open at St Andrews, where the Vokey T grind was such a popular choice that Dill ran out of heads on the Titleist Tour Van. The T is also a favorite of Titleist Brand Ambassadors Jordan Spieth , Justin Thomas and Will Zalatoris . “I’ve had players say they feel like they can hit any shot with the T,” said Will Harvey, Vokey’s European Tour Rep . “The combination of the forward bounce for low pitch shots and the grind for the soft control shots is something needed with the vast amount of shots required on links or firmer course set ups.” TAYLOR EARNS BEST TOUR FINISH AFTER SWITCH TO NEW PRO V1 Ben Taylor put the NEW 2023 Pro V1 golf ball in play for the first time this week in Houston, recording the best finish (solo 3rd) of his PGA TOUR career (45 events). Taylor, who was previously in Pro V1 Left Dot , first played the new model during Monday’s pro-am at Memorial Park. On Tuesday, he worked with Titleist Golf Ball R&D rep Fordie Pitts on the range to confirm the performance on TrackMan. “He liked the flight he was seeing, the consistency in his spin numbers, and was excited to tee it up,” Pitts said. Taylor finished the week 4th in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green, gaining more than 10 strokes on the field (+10.683). He was 8th in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee, T8 in GIR (73.61%) and 4th in Scrambling (78.95%). In addition to his NEW Pro V1, Taylor played a full bag of Titleist, including NEW TSR3 driver and fairways. What’s in Ben Taylor’s Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: NEW Titleist Pro V1 Drive r: NEW TSR3 10.0° | Project X EvenFlow Riptide 70 TX Fairway Metal: NEW TSR3 15.0°| Graphite Design Tour AD XC 8 X Hybrid: TSi3 20.0° | USTM Recoil Prototype Hybrid 100F5 Irons: T100 4-9 | True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 50.12F, 56.10S, WedgeWorks 60V| True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 (46°-56°); True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 (60°) Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 11 tour prototype ROOKIE ALEXANDER TOPS FIELD TEE TO GREEN Making just the fifth start of his rookie season on the PGA TOUR, Titleist Brand Ambassadors Tyson Alexander closed in 4-under 66 Sunday, making birdie on 18 to finish solo second and earn his best TOUR finish to date. Playing a Pro V1 golf ball and 14 Titleist clubs , including a NEW TSR2 9.0° driver and NEW TSR3 13.5° and 18.0° fairways, Alexander led the field in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green (+10.99). ALEXANDER ON HIS PRO V1 “I like the softness around the greens, but definitely with driver I want to see a very penetrating ball flight. So Pro V1 kind of gives me a little bit of both, the softness around the greens and the speed that I want to see on the tee…” “Every once in a while you’ll chip a different ball on the chipping green here and it’ll be a different company and some spin a lot, some run out a lot, and it just seems a little inconsistent. Whereas when I hit one good, I know how it’s going to react. The picture and what’s happening is the same, and for me, that’s just always been Titleist.” ALEXANDER ON HIS NEW TSR2 DRIVER “Better feel, ball flight kind of tightened up a little bit and picked up some yardage. Kind of covered all the bases for me. I was expecting just kind of a minimal progression (from TSi), but yeah, we were stepping on a few and the ball speed kind of jumped up dramatically. So it was a no-brainer.” What’s in Tyson Alexander’s Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Drive r: NEW TSR2 9.0° | Project X HZRDUS Smoke Green RDX 75 TX Fairway Metal: NEW TSR3 13.5° | Fujikura Ventus 8 Red X and NEW TSR3 18.0° | Mitsubishi Tensei CK 80 TX Irons: 620 CB (4-6) & 620 MB (7-9) | True Temper Dynamic Gold X100 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 52.12F, 56.10S, 60.10S Putter: Scotty Cameron Flowback 5 tour prototype putter LPGA TOUR | Pelican Women’s Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Nelly Korda – playing a Pro V1 golf ball, NEW TSR1 driver and NEW TSR2 21.0° fairway among her Titleist setup – reascended to No. 1 in the Rolex World Golf Ranking, closing in 6-under 66 Sunday for a one-shot victory and her eighth-career LPGA title. Korda, who started the day two shots back of the lead, made seven birdies over her final 18 holes, including birdies on Nos. 16 and 17, to successfully defend her Pelican title. “Last year I got to World No. 1 ranking after winning a major for the first time and that was really special, and then obviously going through what I’ve been through this year and regaining that World No. 1 ranking is really special as well. I’ve heard somewhere that it’s a really tight race; everyone has had an amazing year. I think for me, I just appreciate it a lot more.” What’s in Nelly Korda’s Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: NEW TSR1 9.0° | Mitsubishi Diamana GT 60 S Fairway Metals: TSR2 16.5° | Fujikura Ventus Red 70 S and NEW TSR2 21.0° | Mitsubishi Tensei AV 75 S Irons: T100 5-PW | Aerotech SteelFiber i80cw F4 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 50.08F, 54.14F, WedgeWorks 58T | Aerotech SteelFiber i95cw S Putter: Scotty Cameron Special Select Squareback 2 tour prototype KORDA EARNS FIRST WIN FOR NEW TSR1 DRIVER Korda's victory marked win No. 1 for the NEW TSR1 driver in just her third start with the new model. Korda’s performance off the tee was stellar all week, as she missed only one fairway over the three rounds in Florida while averaging 274 yards (282 in Round 3). Korda first put the TSR1 9.0° model in play at the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship, following her initial testing session with J.J. Van Wezenbeeck, Titleist’s Director of Player Promotions , on the range at Pinnacle Country Club. “It feels really nice and it’s been a good, smooth transition,” Korda said. “I really like the trajectory, the rise and the consistency in the ball flight. And obviously when you can pick up a little bit more distance and also carry, it’s always really nice. … I am carrying it maybe a few yards further and I’m seeing five to 10 yards roll out, which will help a lot on par fives and being more aggressive on the golf course.” With TSR1’s first tour victory, combined with wins this week on the PGA TOUR Champions, Asian Tour and PGA Tour of Australasia, players using NEW TSR driver models have now won 25 times worldwide since their debut this summer. KORDA ON PRO V1 CONSISTENCY Over three windy rounds at Pelican Golf Club (the tournament was shortened to 54 holes due to Tropical Storm Nicole), Korda's ballstriking was dialed in, hitting 41 of 42 fairways and 45 of 54 greens with her Pro V1 golf ball. “Yeah, I feel like the Pro V1 is really consistent when it’s really windy out,” said Korda in July at the AIG Women’s Open. “I feel like when you play in these types of conditions, you need a trusted golf ball that you can work with around the golf course, shape it, hit it low, hit it high when you need to, hit it soft, and I feel like the Pro V1 does that the best for me.” CHAMPIONS TOUR | Charles Schwab Cup Championship Padraig Harrington (Pro V1) claimed the fourth victory of his rookie season on PGA TOUR Champions, setting the PGA TOUR Champions 72-hole scoring record with a total of 27-under 257 for an eight-shot triumph. Harrington’s final round 6-under 65 capped off a week that featured 27 birdies, one eagle, just two bogeys and four rounds of 66 or better (66-64-62-65). For the week, Harrington finished first in Scrambling, getting his Pro V1 up-and-down 94.7% of the time, and T4 in Greens in Regulation (73.6%). CHAMPION GAMES NEW TSR3 DRIVER, LEADS IN DISTANCE The winner of the 2022 Charles Schwab Cup Championship led the field in driving distance, averaging 303 yards off the tee with his NEW TSR3 9.0° driver. It marked the third victory for the champion since switching to the new model at the Open Championship. Heading into this week’s finale, he led the tour’s average driving distance at 309.1 yards, more than 10 yards longer than No. 2. “Just there’s only a couple of holes with – a lot of holes with 300-yard carries and bunkers, so the other players have to go around and I can carry it, so I’ve got an advantage off the tee that I can use here,” he said. “I feel good and comfortable on the course.” ALKER CLAIMS CHARLES SCWAB CUP Titleist golf ball player Steven Alker (Pro V1) finished solo-third at 19 under to clinch the season-long Charles Schwab Cup in his first full season on the PGA TOUR Champions circuit. His closing 3-under 68 ensured the top-five finish he needed with Harrington’s victory. Alker won four times in 2022, recorded 18 top-10 finishes and 21 top 25 finishes in 23 appearances this season. His scoring average of 68.39 ranked him first for the season, and he led in both the regular season money list and the playoff money list. KORN FERRY TOUR | Qualifying School Final Stage Q-School ended on Monday with 146 players competing for guaranteed starts on the 2023 Korn Ferry Tour schedule. Bo Hoag (Pro V1x) earned medalist honors after posting 14 under for the week, securing fully exempt status for the upcoming season. Hoag started the day five back of the lead and went out in 6-under 30 on his way to a closing 65 and one-shot victory, guaranteeing him starts in every Korn Ferry Tour event next season. Chan Kim (Pro V1) finished runner-up, earning him 12 guaranteed starts for 2023 along with the rest of the players inside the top 10 and ties. Players finishing in positions 11-40 and ties are guaranteed eight starts, while the rest of the field received conditional status. Twenty-five of the top 28 finishers at Final Stage teed up a Titleist Pro V1 or Pro V1x model, including nine of the top 11: 1. Bo Hoag (Pro V1x) 2. Chan Kim (Pro V1) T3. Pro V1 player 5. Thomas Rosenmueller (Pro V1 ) T6. Ben Kohles (Pro V1x Left Dash) T8. Paul Peterson (Pro V1x), Pro V1 Left Dot player T10. Steven Fisk (Pro V1x), Chandler Phillips (Pro V1x) KPGA | LG Signature Players Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador YeongSu Kim won the final event of the 2022 KPGA season after making birdie on the third hole of a playoff. With his second victory of the season, both of them coming in his last three starts, Kim also finished the year atop the season-long Genesis Points Standings, earning him a five-year exemption on the KPGA Tour and a spot in next year’s Genesis Scottish Open field. What’s in YeongSu Kim’s Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSi3 9.0° Fairway Metals: TSi2 13.5° and 18.0° Irons: 620 CB (3-4) & 620 MB (5-9) Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 52.12F, WedgeWorks 58.06K PGA TOUR OF AUSTRALASIA | Victorian PGA Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Andrew Martin survived a four-person playoff after making birdie on the par-5 18th five consecutive times following regulation. It marked the second victory on the PGA Tour of Australasia for Martin, who needed a bogey-free 4-under 68 to force extra holes. What’s in Andrew Martin’s Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: NEW TSR2 10.0° Irons: T100 Wesges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 50.12F, 54.12D, 58.08M ASIAN TOUR | International Series Egypt Titleist Brand Ambassador Andy Ogletree posted four rounds of 66 or better (66-64-65-62) to win by four shots. The 2019 U.S. Amateur champion made nine birdies on Sunday to close in 62 and finish the week at Madinaty Golf Club in Cairo at 23 under. What’s in Andy Ogletree’s Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: NEW TSR2 10.0° Fairway Metal: NEW TSR3 16.5° Utility Iron: T200 3 Irons: 620 CB 4-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 50.12F, 54.10S, 60.08 CHINA TOUR | Hengidan Championship Chengyao Ma (Pro V1x) earned his first career China Tour title after posting 12 under and prevailing in a three-person, all-Titleist golf ball playoff. Ma made par on the second extra hole to claim victory at Hengdian Yushan Golf Club, as 11 of the 12 players finishing in the top 10 and ties used a Titleist golf ball. ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | Butterfield Bermuda Championship Seamus Power earned his second career PGA TOUR title Sunday in Bermuda, a week after switching to the all-new Pro V1x golf ball. Power, who put 2023 Pro V1x in play for the first time at last week’s CJ Cup, opened the week with three consecutive 65’s to take a share of the lead with PGA TOUR rookie Ben Griffin (Pro V1) heading into the final round. The 35-year-old Irishman closed in 1-under 70 on a blustery Port Royal Golf Course to finish the week at 20 under and win by one shot. Power, who moves to No. 32 in the Official World Golf Ranking, led the field with a tournament-record 28 birdies while hitting 75% of his greens in regulation. Fifteen of the top 18 players on the final leader board played a Titleist golf ball . POWER CLAIMS FIRST WIN FOR NEW 2023 PRO V1 x With his victory in Bermuda, Power claimed the first win for the NEW 2023 Pro V1 and Pro V1x models on the PGA TOUR. Power tested NEW Pro V1x for a week at home before putting the new model in play for the first time last Thursday at Congaree. Power had previously been playing Pro V1. “It’s been excellent,” Power said. “I was delighted trying it [the week before CJ Cup], tested all week, loved it. Played lots of golf with it and very, very happy with it. “For me, it’s very visual,” he said. “When I swing and it comes off the face, if it comes out in the trajectory I feel it should, that’s a big positive for me, and that’s what I saw immediately. “It felt great off the tee with a little bit extra heat. If anything, I under spin my irons, so I’ve got that little bit extra spin (moving to Pro V1x). I didn’t give up anything around the green. I didn’t feel any noticeable difference with the noise off the putter face, so it was an easy change for me. Very excited about it.” Rookie Harrison Endycott put NEW Pro V1x in play for the first time this week in Bermuda, posting 62 in his first round with the new model. He finished the week at 14 under, earning his first top-10 finish (10th) on the PGA TOUR. Playing NEW Pro V1, Garrick Higgo posted a tournament record-tying 10 birdies in his final-round 7-under 64. Higgo first put 2023 Pro V1 in play at the Sanderson Farms Championship, where he led the field in birdies (24) and finished one shot out of the playoff. “I think the biggest thing was that it gave a similar feel to the 21V, but it was a lot faster,” Higgo said. “So that made me really excited because I played the par-5s pretty well last week. So if I could hit it long and straight, which I feel like with the V – with the less spin, more control – I hit it a lot straighter. So straight and far works.” POWER ON CONSISTENCY OF NEW PRO V1X, WINDY CONDITIONS IN BERMUDA Power made a tournament-record 28 birdies with his NEW Pro V1x golf ball over the four rounds at Port Royal Golf Course, while becoming the only player in tournament history to make three birdies in a single tournament at the course’s signature par-3 16th. Said Power in his post-round press conference: “I was absolutely fine with the wind the last couple days because I’ve been lucky enough to play here a few times and I’ve seen this course in a lot of different wind directions and I've seen how -- just a bit of experience. Even on 16, like I hit a very, very good shot aimed at the left hazard line. I’ve done it before here and it ended up online with the pin.” “It’s having a little bit of extra confidence knowing that my ball was going to come back and do what it’s supposed to do versus other guys, it’s hard to aim in the ocean and hit a shot. When you’re not used to doing it, you haven’t done it before, it’s hard to trust that it's going to come back, but I’ve played it before. I played here last year and the tee was back and you're hitting a long iron starting out into the ocean, same thing. You just learn to trust it a little bit more.” “Same with No. 8 today, you're very sheltered on that tee box, but I’ve played in that westerly wind before. Once it gets out past the tee it gets hammered and it gets hit hard and it goes left. So I hit a very confident shot starting to a right pin, starting probably 10 steps right of the pin, which normally I wouldn’t be comfortable doing, but I’ve been able to do it before here and just I knew the ball would come back if you just kind of trust it.” Last week at the CJ Cup, Power talked about the consistency he was seeing with his NEW Pro V1x. “That’s forever always been the biggest positive for me with any of the Titleist balls I’ve used over the last 15 years,” he said. “You never get one that doesn’t do what you expect it to do. And I mean, that’s huge for us. Especially when you get on a Sunday under pressure, knowing that if you hit it the way you want to hit it, you know what it’s going to do. You know how it’s going to react, year after year, tournament after tournament.” “I mean, one shot here and there can do all the difference. You get one that all of a sudden just knuckles through the wind, goes over a green, you maybe drop one or two shots, it can change a whole tournament for you. So to have that consistency and the confidence in it, I mean, it’s massive. Just knowing that’s one less thing you got to worry about.” TITLEIST SWEEPS MAJOR EQUIPMENT COUNTS IN BERMUDA Titleist was the overwhelming #1 golf ball and most played brand across all major equipment categories ( golf ball , drivers , fairways , hybrids , utility irons , irons , wedges and putters ) at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, sweeping the counts for the first time of the 2022-23 PGA TOUR season and 28th time since the start of 2019. Last season, Titleist swept the counts four times, including the first-ever sweep at the TOUR Championship. Titleist remains the only brand to ever accomplish this feat on the PGA TOUR. This week in Bermuda: 106 players (80%) teed up a Pro V1 , Pro V1x , Pro V1 Left Dot or Pro V1x Left Dash golf ball, 11 times the nearest competitor with nine. Titleist was the most played driver with 45, 11 more than the nearest competitor, with NEW TSR drivers accounting for 32 (71%) of those drivers. There were more Titleist fairways (45) and hybrids (16) in play than any other brand, with TSR3 as the most popular fairway model and TSi2 the most played Titleist hybrid. 47% of the utility irons gamed in Bermuda were Titleist. T200 utility irons were the most popular with 31 in play, more than double the nearest competitor’s total number of utilities. Titleist was the most played iron (42) with more T100 iron sets in play (24) than any other brand’s total number of iron sets (20). With 224 gap, sand and lob wedges (59%), there were more Vokey Design wedges in play than all other wedges in the field combined. On the greens, more players used Scotty Cameron putters (49) than any other brand. T3 FINISHER EARNS BEST RESULT IN FOUR YEARS AFTER SWITCH TO TITLEIST After bookend rounds of 65, one of this week’s T3 finishers, the 2014 Ben Hogan Award winner and former World No. 1 Amateur, notched his highest finish since November 2018 after switching to 13 Titleist clubs from a competitive brand to start the 2022-2023 PGA TOUR season. Playing a Pro V1x Left Dash golf ball, NEW TSR driver and fairway, T100 irons and Vokey Design SM9 wedges, the former Stanford standout made 26 birdies over the 72 holes, posting rounds of 65-67-70-65 to finish the week at 17 under. So far this season, he ranks 18th in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee (+0.701) after finishing 64th in the same category last season. What's in the Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Left Dash Driver: NEW TSR2 8.0° Fairway Metal: NEW TSR3 15.0° Hybrid: TSi3 18.0° Irons : T100•S 4 and T100 5-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 50.12F, 56.12D, 60.08M DP WORLD TOUR | Portugal Masters Titleist Brand Ambassador Jordan Smith captured his second career victory on the DP World Tour, finishing a near-flawless week at 30 under. Smith’s final-round 8-under 63 earned him a three-shot, wire-to-wire win that featured three rounds of 63 or better (62-67-62-63). On Sunday, Smith made six birdies and one eagle while surrendering zero bogeys (and only three throughout the entire week). For the tournament, Smith ranked 10th in Stokes Gained: Approach (+1.28) and 8th in SG: Around the Green (+0.62), getting his Pro V1 golf ball up-and-down 77% of the time. Twelve of the top 14 finishers on the final leader board played a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball model. What’s in Jordan Smith’s Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: NEW TSR3 8.0° Irons: T100 3-4 and 620 MB 5-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM8 46.10F, 50.08F, 54.10S, WedgeWorks 60T BACK-TO-BACK WINS FOR TSR ON DP WORLD TOUR, WINNER RANKS FIRST IN STROKES GAINED: OFF THE TEE Gaming a NEW TSR3 8.0° driver (Kaili White 70-TX shaft), Smith ranked first in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee (+1.14), averaging 299.5 yards while hitting 64.3% of his fairways. Sunday’s finish marked back-to-back wins for TSR drivers on the DP World Tour, following Yannik Paul's victory at last week’s Mallorca Golf Open after switching to a NEW TSR2 8.0° driver. With Smith’s victory, TSR drivers have now won 19 times across major worldwide professional tours since their debut at the Travelers Championship in June. SUNSHINE TOUR | Vodacom Origins of Golf Final Titleist ball player Combrinck Smit (Pro V1x Yellow) emerged victorious from a sudden-death playoff to capture his first career win on the Sunshine Tour. Smit made birdie on the par-5 18th to force overtime with Jake Redman (Pro V1x) , before sealing the victory with a par on the first extra hole. It marked the seventh straight win for Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf ball players on the Sunshine Tour, as 24 of the 28 events played this season have been won with a Titleist golf ball . AMATEUR | Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship The winner of the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship trusted his Pro V1x golf ball, NEW TSR driver and full bag of Titleist equipment to a one-shot win at Amata Spring Country Club in Chonburi, Thailand. Closing in even-par 72 to finish the week at 13 under, the 21-year-old Australian champion overcame a three-shot deficit with nine holes to play, playing holes 11-15 in 4 under to climb to the top of the leader board. In addition to the AAC Trophy, the winner earned invitations to the 2023 Masters Tournament and the 151st Open Championship at Royal Liverpool. What’s in the Asia-Pacific Amateur Champion’s Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: NEW TSR3 10.0° | Project X HZRDUS Black Gen 4 60 TX Fairway Metal: NEW TSR3 15.0° | Project X HZRDUS Black Gen 4 80 TX Utility Iron: T200 3 | Graphite Design Tour AD Hybrid DI-95 X Irons: T100 4-9 | KBS Tour 120 X Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 50.12F, 56.10S, WedgeWorks 60T | KBS Tour 120 X (46-50), KBS Tour 610 130 (56-60) Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5 tour prototype putter AMATEUR | East Lake Cup The world’s fourth-ranked amateur, Gordon Sargent , claimed the individual stroke play title after closing with a 4-under 68 at East Lake Golf Club. Sargent, who won the 2022 NCAA Division I Individual title in May as a freshman, also helped his team to their second victory of the fall season. What’s in Gordon Sargent’s Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: NEW TSR3 9.0° | Tensei 1K Pro White 60 TX-Flex Fairway Metal: NEW TSR3 16.5° | Tensei 1K Pro White 80 TX-Flex Utility Iron: T200 3 (Utility Build) | Ventus Black HB 10 TX-Flex Iron: T100 4, 620 CB 5 and 620 MB 6-9 | Dynamic Gold X100 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F | Dynamic Gold X100, Vokey Design SM9 52.08F, 56.10S | Dynamic Gold S300, and Vokey Design SM8 WedgeWorks 60T wedge | Dynamic Gold S400 Putter: Scotty Cameron 009M prototype ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | Presidents Cup Led by the undefeated performances of Titleist Brand Ambassadors Jordan Spieth and Max Homa , the United States won the 14th Presidents Cup 17.5-12.5 Sunday at Quail Hollow Club. The Americans, who jumped out to an early 8-2 lead after the opening foursomes and four-ball sessions, won the tightly-contested Sunday singles session 6.5-5.5. To earn the clinching point with a 1-up victory, the reigning Olympic gold medalist used a Vokey Design wedge to get up-and-down from 78 yards. Spieth became just the sixth player in Presidents Cup history to go 5-0-0. Over his singles and two four-ball sessions, he was 13 under par. Spieth teamed with fellow Titleist Brand Ambassador Justin Thomas to go 4-0-0 in foursomes and four-balls. JT has now earned 17.5 points over his two Ryder Cup and three Presidents Cup appearances. With a combined 16-5-3 record, he is averaging 0.73 points per match, the best of any player in U.S. history with five or more starts who has competed in both Cups. Homa finished his first Presidents Cup at 4-0-0, a week after capturing his fifth PGA TOUR victory at the Fortinet Championship in Napa. He’s just the fourth Presidents Cup rookie to go 4-0-0 or better in the history of the event. Homa earned his final point in a hard-fought singles win over fellow Titleist Brand Ambassador Joohyung "Tom" Kim . One of eight rookies playing for the International team, Kim earned two big points on Saturday while holing three of the week’s most memorable putts. The 20-year-old South Korean made two long eagle putts on No. 11 Saturday, using his Scotty Cameron TourType Timeless GSS tour prototype putter to roll in a 36-footer in morning foursomes and a 54-footer in afternoon four-balls. On his final hole of the day, the 505-yard par-4 18th, Kim was faced with a 235-yard approach with his match all-square. He hit his T200 2-iron to 10 feet, rolling in the curling birdie putt to win the point, 1 up, and helping the Internationals to a 5-3 Saturday. It was the first time the International team outscored the U.S. in a two-session day for the first time since 1998. “He’s about 240 yards out. He’s probably 60 yards behind his opponents. He’s over the ball. I look back, I see the who’s who of American golf in golf carts behind him,” said the International captain. “I see Thomas, I see Spieth, I see Finau, I see Homa… all of them sitting on carts 15 yards from him. And this kid pures a 2 iron to 10 feet and makes the putt. To me, that’s impressive stuff. No matter who you're rooting for, that made my heart warm right there.” What's in Jordan Spieth's Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSi3 10.0° | Fujikura Ventus Blue 6 X Fairway Metal: NEW TSR3 15.0°| Fujikura Ventus TR Blue 7 X Hybrid: TSi2 21° | Tour AD IZ-9 Hybrid X flex Irons: NEW T100 4-9 | True Temper Project X 6.5 Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM9 46.08F PW | True Temper Project X 6.5 and NEW Vokey Design SM9 52.08F & 56.10S, SM7 WedgeWorks 60T wedges | True Temper Project X 6.0 Putter: Scotty Cameron 009 tour prototype putter What's in Max Homa's Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: NEW TSR3 10.0° driver | Fujikura Ventus 6 Black X Fairway Metals: NEW TSR3 16.5° | Fujikura Ventus 8 TR Blue X and NEW TSR2 21.0° | Graphite Design Tour AD XC 9 TX Irons: T100•S 4 | KBS TOUR $-Taper 130 X, T100 5 | KBS TOUR $-Taper 130 X , and 620 MB 6-9 | KBS TOUR $-Taper 130 X Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM9 46.10F | KBS TOUR $-Taper 130 X and NEW Vokey Design SM9 50.12F, 56.14F, 60.04L| KBS Hi Rev 2.0 125 S Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5.5 tour prototype What's in Justin Thomas ' Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Pro V1x Driver: TSR3 10.0° | Diamana ZF 60 TX flex Fairway Metals: TS3 15.0° | Tensei AV Raw Blue 85 TX-Flex and 915 Fd 18.0° | Motore Speeder VC 9.2 Tour Spec X flex Irons: NEW T100 (4) and 621JT (5-9) | Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 Wedges: New Vokey Design SM9 46.10F (@ 47.5°), 52.12F (@ 52.5°), 56.14F (@ 57.0°) and 60T or 60.06K (@ 60.5°) Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5.5 prototype What's in Joohyung “Tom” Kim 's Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: NEW TSR3 9.0° | Fujikura Atmos Black 6 X Fairway Metal: NEW TSR3 13.5° | Mitsubishi Tensei 1K White 70 X Utility Irons: T200 2-3 | Fujikura Ventus Black Hybrid 10 TX (2), True Temper Project X 5.5 (3) Irons: T100 4-9 | True Temper Project X 6.0 Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 52.12F, WedgeWorks 60A | True Temper Project X 6.0 (46), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 (52-60) Putter: Scotty Cameron TourType Timeless GSS tour prototype TITLEIST IS #1 BALL, MOST PLAYED EQUIPMENT BRAND AT PRESIDENTS CUP Titleist was the overwhelming #1 golf ball and most played equipment brand from tee to green at Quail Hollow: Of the 24 participants, 17 (71%) were Titleist golf ball players, compared to four (17%) for the nearest competitor. That list included eight players on Team USA and eight Internationals: USA International Patrick Cantlay (Pro V1x) Corey Conners (Pro V1) Tony Finau (Pro V1 Left Dot) Cam Davis (Pro V1x) Max Homa (Pro V1) Sungjae Im (Pro V1x) Billy Horschel (Pro V1) Joohyung "Tom" Kim (Pro V1x) Kevin Kisner (Pro V1) K.H. Lee (Pro V1x) Jordan Spieth (Pro V1x) Sebastian Munoz (Pro V1 Left Dot) Justin Thomas (Pro V1x) Mito Pereira (Pro V1) Cameron Young (Pro V1 Left Dot) Adam Scott (Pro V1) Nine players gamed Titleist drivers , making it the most played driver at the event (38%). Of those Titleist drivers, TSR (5) was the most popular choice with Justin Thomas , Cameron Young , Max Homa , Joohyung "Tom" Kim and Cam Davis all playing TSR3 models. Titleist iron sets were in the bags of more players than any other brand (9/38%). 16 competitors had at least one Vokey Design wedge in their setup, more than all other brands combined. Scotty Cameron was the most played putter brand with 10 players, including the last two Masters champions, compared to seven for the nearest competitor. LPGA | Walmart NW Arkansas Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Danielle Kang chipped her Pro V1x golf ball in for eagle from off the 18th green Sunday to force a playoff in just her third LPGA start since June. Kang, who went on hiatus after the U.S. Women’s Open to undergo treatment for a tumor on her spine, posted three bogey-free rounds of 67-65-64 to finish the week at 17 under, falling just short on the second hole of the playoff. Impressive ball-striking was key to Kang’s week, as she missed only seven greens over the 54 holes. “As we walked up (18), I said, man, I really wanted to make an eagle. I’ll chip that in,” ,” Kang said. “[My caddie] was like, ‘you can chip that in easy.’ We chipped it in. For us, it was really cool, but I think this event itself was like a huge win for me. Obviously I wanted to win, but putting that aside, the result really didn’t matter as much as how I felt and what I felt coming into this event, leading up to this event.” “It’s still going to be a process. It's a struggle almost -- sometimes in the morning, but I came out here to do something that I love, and I'm just so happy for my team that somehow got me back playing this year. I mean, there was part of me that I didn't think I would ever play again or contend, but here I am. I'm not that far off and I'm happy about that.” What’s in Danielle Kang’s Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSi3 9.0° Fairway Metal: NEW TSR2+ 13.0 and TSi3 18.0° Irons: 716 CB 4-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM7 46.10F, 50.08F, 54.14F, WedgeWorks 58.06K Putter: Scotty Cameron Special Select Squareback 2 tour prototype PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | PURE Insurance Championship Steve Flesch (Pro V1x) made birdie on Pebble Beach’s par-5 to close in 4-under 68 for a one-shot victory. For the week, Flesch ranked first in Greens in Regulation at 81 percent (44/54). He finished the 54 holes at 11 under, topping a leader board that featured 14 Titleist golf ball players in the top 18 positions. The victory marks Flesch’s second win of the year on the PGA TOUR Champions and the third of his career. JAPAN GOLF TOUR | Panasonic Open Golf Championship The winner of the Panasonic Open Golf Championship played a Pro V1x golf ball, becoming just the sixth amateur in history to win on the JGTO. The champion shot 61-66 over the weekend, birdieing Nos. 13-17 on Sunday to reach 22 under and win by one shot. KOREAN TOUR | DGB Financial Group Open DoYeob Mun (Pro V1x) emerged victorious with a birdie on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff to claim his third win on the KPGA Tour. Mun closed in 3-under 69 to finish at 21 under and force the extra session with Titleist Brand Ambassador HanByeol Kim , as both players finished six shots clear of third place. Titleist was the most played golf ball (65%), driver (42%), iron (40%) and wedge (63%) at the DGB Financial Group Open. NEW TSR models accounted for 77 percent of Titleist drivers in play. ASIAN TOUR | Yeangder TPC Travis Smyth (Pro V1) claimed his first victory on the Asian Tour, posting a final-round 6-under 66 with four back-nine birdies. Smyth’s 12-under weekend (66-66) was the lowest in the field, propelling him to the two-shot victory. Eighteen of the top 21 players on the final leader board teed up a Titleist golf ball . SUNSHINE TOUR | Sunbet Challenge Titleist Brand Ambassador MJ Viljoen shot a 2-under 68 in the final round to win by one shot at Wild Coast Country Club. Viljoen posted all three rounds in the 60’s to finish the week at 13 under, while leading a 1-through-6 finish for Titleist golf ball players. ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | Fortinet Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Max Homa chipped his Pro V1 golf ball in for birdie on the 18th hole Sunday to capture his fifth PGA TOUR victory, posting a 4-under 68 to win by one shot and successfully defend his crown in Napa. Homa – gaming a full bag of Titleist equipment , including a NEW TSR driver and fairway metals – led the field in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green (+9.80), while gaining at least three strokes in each of the four main Strokes Gained categories: Off the Tee (+3.406/9th); Approach (+3.014/18th); Around the Green (+3.382/7th); and Putting (+4.003/15th). Homa, who also finished third in Scrambling (85.71%), will compete in his first Presidents Cup this week at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, N.C., where he won the Wells Fargo Championship in 2019. What’s in Max Homa’s Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: NEW TSR3 10.0° driver | Fujikura Ventus 6 Black X Fairway Metals: NEW TSR3 16.5° | Fujikura Ventus 8 TR Blue X and NEW TSR2 21.0° | Graphite Design Tour AD XC 9 TX Irons: T100•S 4 | KBS TOUR $-Taper 130 X, T100 5 | KBS TOUR $-Taper 130 X , and 620 MB 6-9 | KBS TOUR $-Taper 130 X Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM9 46.10F | KBS TOUR $-Taper 130 X and NEW Vokey Design SM9 50.12F, 56.14F, 60.04L| KBS Hi Rev 2.0 125 S Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5.5 tour prototype HOMA WINS WITH NEW TSR DRIVER & FAIRWAYS; 5 WINS IN FIRST 11 WEEKS ON TOUR FOR TSR DRIVERS Homa's repeat victory at the Fortinet Championship marked title No. 5 for the NEW Titleist TSR drivers in their first 11 weeks on the PGA TOUR, following wins by J.T. Poston (TSR3 9.0°/ John Deere Classic ), Cameron Smith (TSR3 10.0°/ Open Championship ), Joohyung "Tom" Kim (TSR3 9.0°) and Will Zalatoris (TSR3 8.0°/ FedEx St. Jude Championship ). In total, TSR driver users have combined for 13 wins across the worldwide professional tours. Homa immediately switched to his NEW TSR3 10.0° driver, along with TSR3 16.5° and TSR2 21.0° fairways, at the Genesis Scottish Open, his first start after the new models debuted at the Travelers Championship. This week in Napa, he finished 9th in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee (+3.406) while leading the field in SG: Tee to Green (+9.80). “I’ve always been a good iron player, that’s been just kind of my game since I was a young kid. Never was a great driver and I think last year I became kind of a great driver,” said Homa earlier this week in Napa. “Not overly long, but not overly short, somewhere just a little closer to above average. When I hit a lot of fairways, especially out here where it's so firm, you get another extra 20, 30 yards at times, so landing the ball in the fairway’s a big deal. And I just feel like my misses aren’t too big, and when you play a golf course like this, even if you’re in the rough, if you’re within the treeline, it’s a big deal.” Homa finished last season 25th in SG: Off the Tee (+0.425 per round) while making the transition from his prior generation TSi3 to the NEW TSR. “I actually like the sound quite a bit. Sounds like you’re smashing it, which is nice,” Homa said of his NEW TSR driver before he teed it up in Scotland. “I did notice that the spin didn’t change as much when you mishit it. The heel and toe strikes kept the spin a little closer to your good ones. That’s obviously something I think everybody would be happy to have. It’s a mile an hour faster for me, just ball speed. So, yeah. It just doesn’t feel like any reason not to use it. I hit basically only two types of golf shots with my driver, and they both are still flying very similar. So it feels like a no brainer.” HOMA’S T100 4-IRON & T100•S 5-IRON Having traditionally carried a full set of blade irons, Homa exchanged his 620 MB 4 and 5 irons last season for a T100•S 4-iron and T100 5-iron. The T100•S went in the bag for the first time at the 2022 Farmers Insurance Open. He added the T100 5-iron at The Genesis Invitational, two starts later. “I was down in San Diego with J.J. (Van Wezenbeeck, Titleist’s Director of Player Promotions), who was fitting me at TPI. And he said, ‘Hey, you should try this 4-iron. It’s a T100•S. It’ll be a lot easier to hit. It will launch a lot higher. So it’ll come down a lot softer. It’ll go a little bit farther in the air, but then shorter once it hits the ground. So I tried it and it was super easy to hit, especially if the lie’s not perfect. I think with the blades, if it’s sitting on a little downslope or sitting a little bit down, you’re not going to get any lift out of it. And it becomes just a club that you are hoping to hit near or maybe on the green. Now with this 4-iron, because of how much easier it is to hit, the forgiveness of it, it’s become a weapon, especially on par 5s. “And then, like two weeks later, we’re sitting around, my caddie and I, Joe, thinking about how a 5-iron has started feeling similar to how that blade 4-iron felt. So we put a T100 in. It feels very, very easy to hit. I can work it a little bit, but it just comes down a lot softer. So those long par 3s, especially that 5-iron, has become a big deal to us.” HOMA’S WINNING CHIP: PRO V1 + VOKEY SM9 60.04L Faced with a must-make from a short-sided lie below the 18th green at Silverado Resort’s North Course, Homa pulled his Vokey Design SM9 60.04L lob wedge and chipped his Pro V1 golf ball 32 feet and 10 inches into the hole for what would prove to be the winning birdie. “I clipped the pitch really good but it was dead,” said Homa, who had the second-most hole-outs (22) on the PGA TOUR last season. “I mean, it was as short-sided as you could be, you couldn't really stop it. I spun it and once it hit the pin, it almost like spun straight into the ground.” Homa is a longtime Pro V1 user. “It is the best feel, most predictable, best spin rates for my game,” he said. “I’ve used it pretty much my whole life because I think it’s the best golf ball in the world.” He moved into his current generation Pro V1 early in 2022, finishing the season a career-best T5 in the final FedEx Cup standings. Homa also switched into four new SM9 wedges to begin the year – 46.10F, 50.12F, 56.14F and the 60.04L lob wedge that helped him to his third PGA TOUR victory in the last 12 months. This week, Homa was playing a fresh 60.04L with Team USA-inspired stamping created by Vokey Tour Rep Aaron Dill in preparation for this week’s Presidents Cup. Said Dill: “When we started working together on his set matrix, Max was playing more bounce in his 60 (M Grind). When you ask guys the question, ‘Why do you have this grind and this much bounce’ a lot of times they’ll say, ‘I don’t know. It’s just kind of what I’ve always played.’ So spending some time with him, and digging a little deeper into how to build his set makeup, we realized that he was a little limited in the types of shots he could hit, especially greenside. I gave him an option that was a little bit less bounce, and he began to realize that ‘Oh my gosh, some of the shots that I was afraid to hit, I can hit those again.’ By taking some of that bounce away and giving him the thinner sole of the L grind, he can now fearlessly go to any shot that he’s facing and obviously pull off some miraculous ones. “Max has a high bounce sand wedge (56.14F) and low bounce lob wedge (60.04L), and that combination gives him the ability to hit anything he wants. He was playing an M grind in the 60 before and he just had a little too much width. I think when you’re faced greenside with shots like some of those where you create lift in a hurry, you need to be able to open up the face and feel like you can slide through the ball easily. When you have a lot of sole width, it can be tricky to do that. So by giving him a little bit thinner sole, he can open it up. It sits nice and close, and he can just freely do the things that he needs to do, which is chip it in off the side of the green to win a championship.” “I think when you look at the correlation between the types of players who use an M Grind on the PGA Tour, they’re a little steeper. Max is a very shallow player. He’s very good at hitting low and high shots. But I think for him being a shallow guy, he doesn’t have to be too fearful about sticking into the ground. So he and (his coach) Mark Blackburn have done a terrific job of dialing in his short game and keeping him out of that style of shot so he can play a low bounce wedge and not have any discomfort with it.” twitter.com/.../1571639215594635264 SUCCESS CONTINUES WITH HOMA’S PHANTOM X Sunday marked Homa's fourth PGA TOUR win with a Scotty Cameron Phantom X putter model in the bag. The run began at the 2021 Genesis Invitational , where Homa, gaming a Phantom X 11.5 , became the first player to win with a Phantom X model putter on the PGA TOUR. Four months later, he switched to the Phantom X 5.5 , which he used to win his first Fortinet Championship last September and then the Wells Fargo Championship in May. The same putter was in his hands this week in Napa, where he gained more than four strokes on the field (+4.003/9th). Said Homa, on his switch to Phantom X: “I was just struggling with face control with my putter. So I tried a few mallets, ended up going with one of the Phantoms and it just felt like it swung a bit better. It didn’t feel like I needed to work so much with my hands to release the putter. And at that time that’s really what I needed and then I got hooked on them.” “I think you almost don't have to do as much with your hands, so you can just focus on the big muscles. And I feel like, especially with putting, especially when you’re nervous, that’s a huge part of being consistent and having a lot of repetition. I felt like that was something that I was missing. And when I switched to that, I felt like it just became a lot more predictable just because I could take out a variable.” “Speed control became much easier with the Phantom style. I felt like because of the weight of the head or just the way it swung, I just felt like it was a lot easier to control my putts from 15 to 25 feet. That’s where I’ve typically struggled. That’s definitely the most obvious impact I saw.” “I think we work a lot on alignment with my putting, with getting the face square to the target line and something about the way they set up, I feel like they’re very square. I feel like that’s helped, but I really do think that the speed control has been the main benefactor (to my wins), holing a couple extra 10 to 20 footers. And that typically is mostly speed based, less start line than the closer putts.” AMATEUR | U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship The U.S. Mid-Amateur Champion played a Pro V1 golf ball and 13 Titleist clubs on his way to a 3-and-1 victory at Erin Hills. The 29-year-old Irishman made seven birdies in the 36-hole final match, stretching his lead to 5 up before closing out his opponent on the 35th hole. He is the first Irish winner of the U.S. Mid-Am and just the second-ever international to win the event. The victor is now exempt into the 2023 U.S. Open at Los Angeles Country Club and the 2023 Masters, as well as the next two U.S. Amateur Championships and the next 10 U.S. Mid-Amateur Championships. WITB | U.S. Mid-Amateur Champion Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Fairway Metal: TS3 15.0° Hybrid: 818 H1 19.0° Irons: 620 CB (3-6) & 620 MB (7-PW) Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 52°, 56° Putter: Scotty Cameron Special Select Del Mar TITLEIST GOLF BALL PLAYERS SWEEP USGA MEN’S CHAMPIONSHIPS Titleist golf ball players swept the men’s USGA Championships in 2022, with the winners of the U.S. Open ( Matt Fitzpatrick /Pro V1x), U.S. Senior Open ( Padraig Harrington /Pro V1); U.S. Amateur (Pro V1), U.S. Junior Amateur (Pro V1x), U.S. Mid-Amateur (Pro V1), U.S. Senior Amateur (Pro V1) and U.S. Amateur Four-Ball (Pro V1) all playing the #1 ball in golf. PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | Sanford International Steve Stricker (Pro V1x) made birdie on the first hole of an all-Titleist golf ball playoff to earn his 10th-career PGA TOUR Champions victory and third win of the season. Stricker closed with a bogey-free 6-under 64, playing his final seven holes in 4 under to force the playoff at 14 under with Robert Karlsson (Pro V1x). Getting his Pro V1x up-and-down 71% of the time for the week, Stricker played his final 36 holes without a bogey. Eleven of the top 15 finishers in South Dakota played a Titleist golf ball . RUNNER-UP PLAYS TSR DRIVER & FAIRWAYS The runner-up at the Sanford International played a full bag of Titleist equipment, including a NEW TSR3 9.0° driver and NEW TSR2 13.5° and 18.0° fairways. In two of the previous three weeks on the PGA TOUR Champions, the winner used a NEW TSR3 9.0° driver. JAPAN GOLF TOUR | ANA Open Golf Tournament Tomoharu Otsuki (Pro V1) eagled the first playoff hole to earn his second victory on the JGTO. After starting the final round five shots off the lead, Otsuki’s closing 6-under 66 was enough to force the playoff at 19 under. His bogey-free final round capped off a week with all four rounds in the 60’s. PGA TOUR CANADA | Fortinet Cup Championship Wil Bateman (Pro V1x) posted a 1-under 69 Sunday to claim his second-career PGA TOUR Canada victory and finish No. 1 on the season-long points list, securing a full Korn Ferry Tour card for next season. Bateman, who finished the week at 8 under to win by two shots over Titleist Brand Ambassador Jeffrey Kang , led a 1-through-7 finish for Titleist golf ball players. Eleven of the top 12 and 29 of the top 32 finishers also played a Titleist golf ball. SUNSHINE TOUR | Vodacom Origins of Golf – San Lameer Titleist golf ball player Wynand Dingle (Pro V1) claimed his first Sunshine Tour title after a final round 6-under 66. Dingle’s 16-under total earned him a one-shot win over Titleist Brand Ambassador Jaco Prinsloo (Pro V1), who matched Dingle’s final round with a 66 of his own. Titleist ball players finished 1-2-3-4-5, as 77% of the field in South Africa gamed a Titleist ball , more than five times the nearest competitor (12%). ... #TeamTitleist
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LPGA | Dana Open Presented by Marathon Gaby Lopez (Pro V1x) birdied her final three holes Sunday to cap a flawless 8-under 63 and one-shot win. Nobody went lower over the weekend than Lopez, who made 14 birdies and a single bogey over the final two days to finish at 18-under and capture her third-career LPGA victory. For the week, Lopez hit 78 percent of greens in regulation (56 of 72) while going 8-for-9 in sand saves. Lopez also birdied Nos. 16 through 18 at Highland Meadows GC to finish out Saturday’s round, playing her final 21 holes of the week in 11-under. Lopez led a 1-2-3 finish for Titleist golf ball players, one shot clear of Megan Khang (Pro V1) and two ahead of Caroline Masson (Pro V1x) . CHAMPION PLAYS TITLEIST DRIVER, IRONS, WEDGES The winner of the LPGA’s Dana Open, in addition to her Pro V1x golf ball, also gamed a TSi3 9.0° driver, TSi3 23.0° hybrid, T200 (5) and T100 (6-GW) irons and Vokey Design SM9 54.10S and 60.08M wedges. KORN FERRY TOUR |Korn Ferry Tour Championship Playing a Pro V1 golf ball, Justin Suh closed in 4-under 68 to win the Korn Ferry Tour’s 2022 finale by two shots. Suh, who had already earned his PGA TOUR card through the Korn Ferry Tour Regular Season points list, posted four rounds in the 60’s due in large part to strong ball striking. The 25-year-old USC alum, once the No. 1 player in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, hit 61 of 72 (85%) greens over the four days at Victoria National, topping the field (T1). He also finished T4 in Scrambling (72.7%). It marked the first-career KFT victory for Suh, who finished No. 1 in the season-long points race, earning exemptions into the 2023 Players Championship and the 2023 U.S. Open, to go along with his 2022-23 TOUR playing privileges. 24 OF 25 KFT FINALS GRADUATES TRUST TITLEIST Of the 25 players who earned their 2022-23 PGA TOUR cards through the Korn Ferry Tour Finals, 24 of them used at least one piece of Titleist equipment . That list includes Austin Eckroat (Pro V1) , who posted four rounds of 68 or better to finish in solo second, making the week’s biggest leap on the KFT Finals points list. Eckroat started the week at T64 and ended Sunday at No. 3 to lock up his TOUR card. Also making big jumps to secure their cards: Nicolas Echavarria (Pro V1x, 71st to 20th), Tano Goya (Pro V1, 59th to 19th) and Eric Cole (Pro V1x, 44th to 7th). In total, 21 of the 25 KFT Finals grads were Titleist golf ball players, including the KFT Finals points leader ( Pro V1 Left Dot ). TITLEIST IS TOP CHOICE AMONG THE 50 TOTAL KORN FERRY TOUR GRADS Of the 50 total players who earned 2022-23 PGA TOUR cards this season through the Korn Ferry Tour’s Regular Season and Finals points lists: 41 played a Titleist Pro V1 , Pro V1x , Pro V1 Left Dot or Pro V1x Left Dash golf ball, more than 10 times the nearest competitor (4). Titleist was the most played driver (16), iron (15), wedge (28) and putter (17/T1). 47 players used at least one piece of Titleist equipment. KFT GRADS LIST: REGULAR SEASON Titleist Brand Ambassadors: Zecheng “Marty” Dou (4), Ben Taylor (9), Byeong Hun “Ben” An (13), Tyson Alexander (18), Trevor Cone (22), Vincent Norrman (23), Anders Albertson (25). Titleist golf ball players: Robby Shelton (2), Paul Haley II (3), Augusto Nunez (6), Justin Suh (7), Ben Griffin (8), MJ Daffue (11), Seonghyeon Kim (12), Davis Thompson (14), Erik Barnes (15), Trevor Werbylo (16), Michael Kim (19), Harrison Endycott (21), Kevin Roy (24). KFT GRADS LIST: FINALS Titleist Brand Ambassadors: Philip Knowles (4), Joseph Bramlett (8), Nick Hardy (10), Ben Martin (12), Nicholas Lindheim (13), Carson Young (16). Titleist golf ball players: Pro V1 Left Dot Player (1); David Lingmerth (2), Austin Eckroat (3), Michael Gligic (5), Eric Cole (7), Austin Cook (9), Ryan Armour (13), Scott Harrington (T17), Tano Goya (19), Nicolas Echavarria (20), Sam Stevens (21), Matti Schmid (22), Brice Garnett (23), Brian Stuard (24), Kyle Westmoreland (25). TITLEIST IS MOST PLAYED, MOST WINNING BRAND ON 2022 KORN FERRY TOUR Titleist was the most played and most winning equipment brand on the 2022 Korn Ferry Tour. Over the season’s 26 events, the majority of players chose Titleist golf balls , drivers , fairways , hybrids , utility irons , irons and wedges , while more champions had Titleist golf balls, drivers, irons, wedges and putters in the bag than any other brand. Titleist was also the most played and most winning brand during the 2021-22 PGA TOUR season, which ended last week at the TOUR Championship. KOREAN TOUR | LX Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador YoSeop Seo won for the second-consecutive week on the KPGA Tour, posting 22 under over the four rounds to complete a wire-to-wire victory. Seo was the only player to shoot all four rounds in the 60’s, capping off the tournament with a 4-under 68. Eight of the top-10 finishers trusted a Titleist ball , including Seo (Pro V1) and runner-up TaeHo Kim (Pro V1). TITLEIST SWEEPS EQUIPMENT COUNTS, TSR IS MOST PLAYED DRIVER Titleist swept all major equipment categories at the LX Championship, with more players choosing Titleist golf balls (93/65%), drivers (63/44%), fairways (71/42%), hybrids (44/39%), irons (60/42%), wedges (239/62%), and putters (69/48%) than any other brand. Of the Titleist drivers in play, 72 percent were NEW TSR models, including Seo’s TSR3 8.0° driver. What's in YoSeop Seo's Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: NEW TSR3 8.0° Fairway Metal: NEW TSR2 13.5° Hyrbids: TSi2 18.0° and 21.0° Irons: 620 MB 4-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM8 48.10F, 54.10S, 60.08M Putter: Scotty Cameron Flowback 5.5 tour prototype JAPAN TOUR | Fujisankei Classic Titleist Brand Ambassador Kaito Onishi birdied the first hole of a playoff to earn his first Japan Tour title. Playing his rookie season on the JGTO, the 23-year-old former USC standout posted a 3-under 68 Sunday to finish the week at 11 under and force extra holes. What's in Kaito Onishi's Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSi3 10.0° Fairway Metal: TSi2 13.5° Utility Iron: T200 (3) Irons: T100 (4-PW) Wedges: Vokey Design SM8 50°, 56°, 60° PGA TOUR Canada | GolfBC Championship The winner of the GolfBC Championship, playing a Titleist Pro V1x Left Dash golf ball, shot a final round 7-under 64 to earn his second win of the season on the PGA TOUR Canada. The champion finished the week at 23-under, making 20 birdies and three eagles over the four rounds, including a final birdie on his 72nd hole Sunday to win by one shot. For the week, he got his Left Dash up-and-down 87 percent of the time, ranking second best in the field. Eight of the top-10 finishers played a Titleist golf ball . Titleist swept all major equipment categories at the LX Championship, with more players choosing Titleist golf balls (93/65%), drivers (63/44%), fairways (71/42%), hybrids (44/39%), irons (60/42%), wedges (239/62%), and putters (69/48%) than any other brand. AMATEUR | U.S. Senior Amateur The winner of the 67th U.S. Senior Amateur relied on his Pro V1 golf ball, three Vokey Design wedges and Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5.5 putter to capture his first USGA title at the Kittansett Club. In the all-Titleist golf ball final, the champion got his Pro V1 up-and-down for key par saves on Nos. 7 and 8 on his way to a 3-and-2 victory. All four of the championship’s semifinalists, and seven of the eight quarterfinalists, played a Pro V1 or Pro V1x . With the victory, the winner receives exemptions into the next 10 U.S. Senior Amateur Championships, the 2023 U.S. Senior Open, and the next two U.S. Amateur and U.S. Mid-Amateur Championships. Earlier this year he won the Trans-Mississippi Senior Championship and the Florida Senior Azalea Amateur and finished runner-up at the North & South Senior. ... #TeamTitleist
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Forty-seven events were played during the 2021-22 PGA TOUR Season, from last September’s Fortinet Championship to last week’s TOUR Championship, with a total of 733 different players teeing it up in at least one event on the TOUR calendar. Of that group, made up primarily of the best players on the planet: An overwhelming 72 percent of them played a Titleist golf ball while a total of 82 percent played at least one piece of Titleist equipment , including all four of the year’s major champions: Masters Champion Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Wedges: Vokey Design SM8 50.12F, 56.14F, WedgeWorks 60.06K Putter: Scotty Cameron Special Select Timeless Tourtype GSS tour prototype PGA Champion Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSi3 10.0° Fairway Metals: TS3 15.0°; 915 Fd 18.0° Irons: T100 4 iron; 621.JT (5-9) tour prototype Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F (@ 47.5°), 52.12F (@ 52.5°), 56.14F (@ 57.0°), WedgeWorks 60.06K Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5 Knuckle Neck tour prototype U.S. Open Champion Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSi3 9.0° Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM9 52.12F, 56.08M, 60.08M Open Champion Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: NEW TSR3 10.0° Fairway Metal: TSi2 15.0 fairway irons: T100 5-9 Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 52.08F, 56.08M, WedgeWorks 60T Putter: Scotty Cameron 009M tour prototype TITLEIST IS MOST PLAYED, MOST WINNING BRAND ON 2021-22 PGA TOUR At the season-ending TOUR Championship, Titleist was the #1 golf ball and most played driver , fairway , hybrid , utility iron , iron , wedge and putter – topping all equipment counts at the TOUR’s season finale for the first time – with 24 (83%) of the 29-player field gaming at least one piece of Titleist equipment. It marked the fourth time (CJ Cup, Sony Open, 3M Open, TOUR Championship) of the 2021-22 season – and 27 th time since the start of the 2019 calendar year – that Titleist swept the major equipment counts at a PGA TOUR event. Titleist is the only brand to have ever accomplished this feat. And when the season officially came to a close Sunday evening in Atlanta, Titleist was once again the PGA TOUR’s most played and most winning equipment brand. Over the course of the 2021-22 season, the majority of players chose Titleist golf balls, drivers, hybrids, utility irons, irons and wedges, while more champions had Titleist golf balls, drivers, irons, wedges and putters in the bag than any competitor. GOLF BALLS PGA TOUR players teed up the #1 ball in golf a combined 4,461 times (72%) this season, more than seven times the nearest competitor (598), with Titleist golf ball players accounting for 31 victories (65%) and all four major championships: In one of the game’s historic ball-striking performances, Matthew Fitzpatrick also won his first major championship at the U.S. Open at The Country Club, playing the same golf ball model he used to win the 2013 U.S. Amateur on the same course: Titleist Pro V1x . Fitzpatrick hit 17 greens in regulation on Sunday, becoming only the third player in the last 30 years to accomplish that feat in the final round of a major victory. For the week, he led the field in Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green (+16.14) and SG: Around-the-Green (+5.65) while making a tournament-best 19 birdies. He tied for first in GIR at 72.2 percent. With his final full swing of the tournament, from an uncomfortable lie in the left fairway bunker 161 yards from the pin, he landed his Pro V1x on the green, 18 feet from the cup, to secure the victory. Said Fitzpatrick: “The spin’s consistent, the flight’s consistent, and that’s what you need in a golf ball. You don’t need it kind of in different windows. It’s nice to have that consistency to have the confidence in the golf ball to know how far it’s going to go every time, and to be within a really tight deviation is obviously so important. This is a game of inches after all, the margins are so fine you want it to be as tight as possible. So that’s why I play Pro V1x because it’s exactly that, you know what you’re going to get every shot and you don’t get any strange effects from shots.” “You just know, hitting other golf balls, that as soon as you’ve hit it, it doesn’t have the same effect. I’ve messed around with balls on the range when they’ve been mixed into the Pro V1x bag that I always go to grab, and they just get funky flights. I don’t know how you can play golf with that, to be honest, and not knowing what you’re going to get from shot to shot.” Eleven of the top 15 players in Strokes Gained: Total play a Titleist ball, while nine of the top ten players in SG: Tee-to-Green play a Titleist ball. Matt Fitzpatrick ranked 2 nd while Will Zalatoris (Pro V1) ranked 3 rd . Zalatoris ranked 1 st in Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green and PGA Champion Justin Thomas (Pro V1x) ranked 3 rd . Corey Conners (Pro V1) ranked 2 nd (71.9%, Pro V1). Six of the 7 players who earned nine or more top 10’s were Titleist ball players: Fitzpatrick, Thomas, Zalatoris, Patrick Cantlay (Pro V1x) , and Sungjae Im (Pro V1x) . Ryan Armour (Pro V1x) ranked 1 st in Driving Accuracy, hitting 73.95% of his fairways for the year. Eighteen of the top 20 players in that category play a Titleist golf ball. DRIVERS Titleist was the most played driver on the PGA TOUR for the fourth consecutive season (1,901/31%) with Titleist driver players combining for a Tour-leading 16 victories – including three majors (PGA Championship, U.S. Open, and Open Championship) and four wins by players using NEW TSR models, which were launched with only 10 weeks remaining in the season. The TOUR’s most popular driver model over the 47 events was TSi3 (19%). Justin Thomas was one of more than 80 players on the PGA TOUR to make the quick switch to a NEW TSR driver, putting his TSR3 10.0° model in play for the first time to start the FedEx Cup Playoffs. “It’s obviously an interesting time of year to make a driver change, heading into the playoffs, but after some really great testing early on with TSR3, JT was able to spend some more time with it after the Open Championship,” said J. Van Wezenbeeck, Titleist’s Director of Player Promotions . “The top priority for JT with driver is performance on all of the variety of shots he likes to hit, from the low, piercing cut to the high draw and everything in between. He’s also looking for that classic shaping, a very clean look, and a driver that sounds great. TSR checked all of those boxes for him. “He clearly had great results with TSi, he won a major with it this year, but with TSR he’s seen an uptick in ball speed with just incredible consistency off the face. He keeps mentioning how consistent his speed, launch and spin numbers are on off-center hits. For a tour player who’s trying to hit a variety of shots on these very difficult golf courses, it’s that consistency that really allows him to perform at his best.” Said Thomas, to PGATOUR.com: “The biggest difference is the spin. When I heel it, it doesn’t spin crazy high and when I toe it, it’s somehow spinning a little more. It’s unbelievable in terms of misses.” Will Zalatoris' victory at the FedEx St. Jude Championship playing his TSR3 8.0 ° driver marked victory No. 4 for the new Titleist driver models after making their PGA TOUR debut at the Travelers Championship with just 10 weeks left in the season. Zalatoris gained nearly two strokes on the field (+1.815) with his NEW TSR3 8.0 driver in Memphis while averaging 321.2 yards off the tee. Said Zalatoris: “I literally took my old shaft and plugged it into the new TSR and I immediately saw results. The mishits for me were exponentially better. I mean, I was already seeing mishits go about seven, eight yards farther. I have a lot of distance but bringing it in left-to-right was something that was huge for me. The head shape looks amazing. And even just on the ones I was hitting solid, I was already picking up six yards. “I mean, it was a no brainer. It was pretty similar to my TSi and it was better, which I didn't think we could do… With being one of the longer guys on tour, the better I can do in terms of bringing it in from side-to-side and make my dispersion be that much tighter is exactly what I’m looking for. And so being able to hit shots that before might have maybe been in the left rough or the right rough, now all of a sudden I’m seeing a few more go on the fairway, which is just a couple more birdie chances a round.” Open Championship winner Cameron Smith and runner-up Cameron Young , the second-ranked driver on the PGA TOUR (SG: Off-the-Tee/+.914 per round), each played Titleist TSR3 drivers at St. Andrews. Said Young, who finished the season 3 rd in Driving Distance (319.3 yard average): “I’ve loved it. It’s faster … and I feel like especially the toe miss for me, I haven’t gotten as much curve out of it, which is obviously a good thing. It seems to be a little bit more consistent on my misses. I’ve put it right in play and it’s been great.” Playing a TSR3 9.0° driver, Joohyung "Tom" Kim captured the Wyndham Championship for his first career PGA TOUR title at the final event of the regular season. He earned both his PGA TOUR card and a spot in the FedExCup Playoffs with the victory. Kim made the new TSR3 his gamer following a visit to the Titleist Performance Institute, where he worked with Titleist Tour Rep Dino Antenucci . “I had been playing the TSi3 for the longest time and I thought I wasn’t going to change it, but after trying it at TPI, it was just so good that I had to put it in the bag, and it’s been working out really well. My percentage in the fairway has gone up and, yeah, it’s a keeper. Missed hits, solid hits, it just stays in the wind so well for me, that’s what I’ve had trouble with before and I thought I was going to use the ‘i’ for the rest of the season, but I put it right in the bag because I gained ball speed, gained swing speed, smash factor went up and holds it really well into the wind. So it was great.” J.T. Poston put his new TSR3 9.0° driver in play the first week it was available at the Travelers Championship, finishing T2 in Hartford. The following week, he won the John Deere Classic. Said Poston: “Can't say enough about it. It looks, feels, sounds awesome, and I picked up a little ball speed right away … My accuracy has been up. Even the mishits are going straight, which is nice, but they’re also getting out there just about as far as the ones that are hit out of the center.” Prior to the Travelers, Poston was 112 th in the FedEx Cup Rankings. He finished the year tied for 15 th . At the first three PGA TOUR events TSR driver was available, the leader in SG: Off-the-Tee played a TSR3 ( Davis Riley | Travelers Championship; Cameron Davis | John Deere Classic; Max Homa | Scottish Open). Said Riley: “The overall look, the feel is awesome. It’s really good. The mishits are really good. I’m finding really consistent spin across the face no matter where I’m hitting it, so that you’re maxing out your carry numbers every time. It’s what you really want to look for. It’s not how good your good hits are. It’s, ‘How good are your bad hits?’ And just seeing that consistency across the face is really cool.” FAIRWAYS Will Zalatoris , Cameron Young , Joohyung "Tom" Kim and Max Homa are among more than 60 players who put new TSR Fairways in play on the PGA TOUR this season. Zalatoris earned his first career PGA TOUR win at the FedEx St. Jude Championship gaming a TSR2+ fairway, as well as his TSR3 driver. “This is an absolute rocket,” Zalatoris said. “I love this thing. It’s the best 3-wood I’ve ever had. It’s pretty cool to be able to have something besides driver that I can hit off the tee and basically hit it as far as I want. And then if I need to hit high and soft into greens, I can do that as well.” Joohyung “Tom” Kim also claimed his first PGA TOUR title - a week before Zalatoris - at the Wyndham Championship, after making the switch to a TSR3 driver and fairway. Said Kim of his new fairway metal: “In the wind, downwind, when you want to hit it up, it goes up. In the wind when you want to keep it low, it goes low. So, it's really the perfect club for a 3-wood. The 3-wood’s the hardest club to fit and they did it perfectly.” The Barbasol Championship winner also had a TSR3 fairway in the bag in capturing his first win on the PGA TOUR. HYBRIDS & UTILITIES Titleist was also the TOUR’s most played hybrid (746/34%), with the majority of Titleist players using a TSi2 (2,213/9%) model. Forty-seven percent (1,305) of the utility irons in play this season on the PGA TOUR were Titleist models, with 29 percent of all utilities being current generation T200 (Utility Build), the TOUR’s top model. IRONS For the ninth-consecutive season, and 18 th of the last 19 seasons, more TOUR players used Titleist irons (1,919/29%) than any other brand – with 15 players (31%) taking Titleist iron sets to the winner’s circle. The most played iron model was the current generation Titleist T100 (695/11%). Justin Thomas (T100 4 iron; 621.JT (5-9) tour prototype irons) and Cameron Smith (T100 5-9 irons w/ prototype black finish) both won majors in 2022 with Titleist irons, taming Southern Hills and The Old Course with stellar approach play. One of the most pivotal shots hit with a Titleist iron this year was Smith’s final round tee shot at The PLAYERS on the famed 17 th hole at TPC Sawgrass. With 135 yards to the hole, a two-shot lead, and the hole location cut three paces from the right edge of the island-green (and water), Smith’s 9-iron finished inside of five feet to make a not-so stress-free birdie. Smith on his T100 irons: “I put these in as soon as we got them. They’ve been really good. I love the consistency. I think they did a lot of really good work, especially on the shorter irons with grinding this heel a little bit. So when you get a bit of an uneven lie, you don’t feel like the heel's digging in and you’re missing shots left.” WEDGES More than half of all the wedges (9,020/51%) played on TOUR this season were Vokey Design models – the most played wedge on the PGA TOUR since 2004 – while players gaming at least one Vokey wedge won 32 (67%) of the season’s 47 events. Vokey SM9 (5,050/29%) was the most popular wedge model, with SM9 players winning 10 of the final 11 weeks on TOUR. All four men’s major champions had at least three Vokey Design wedges in the bag in 2022. The U.S. Open champion ( Vokey Design SM9 52.12F, 56.08M, 60.08M) ranked 1 st in Scrambling for the 2021-2022 PGA TOUR season (69.62%) and improved from 97 th to 7 th in Strokes Gained: Around-the-Green from the prior season. Justin Thomas played four Vokey Design SM9 wedges in winning the PGA Championship – 10F (@ 47.5), 52.12F (@ 52.5), 56.14F (@ 57.0), and a WedgeWorks 60.06K grind that helped him go 5-for-5 in sand saves Sunday at Southern Hills. For the week, he averaged 14’0” on approaches from 125-150 yards – second best in the field and 11’9” better than the field average. “When I was testing SM9, it was nice to see the low controlled flight,” said Thomas, who put the new SM9 models in play to start 2022 at the Sentry Tournament of Champions. “For me, for someone who likes to flight my wedges and control my spin a lot, I need to be able to see that ball hit the windows. And I’m looking both low and high, but especially low. Because for me, it’s nice to be able to feel like I hit it and I don't look up and it’s coming high and floaty. It’s hitting the flight that I want, the spin that I want and reacting how I want.” When it comes to his lob wedge, Thomas goes back-and-forth between his WedgeWorks 60.06K and WedgeWorks 60T models, depending on course conditions. The Masters champion played three Vokey Design wedges, including the WedgeWorks 60.06K model he used to make a pivotal birdie on the par-4 3 rd , chipping in from 29 yards left of the green. For the week, he finished T-2 in Scrambling (69.6%). When asked after the round what he saw as his biggest strength this week, he said: “ I had a lot of nice up-and-downs… If I was to pick one part of my game that excelled the most, I would say it was probably my lob wedge. Even today, I had some really good up-and-downs in the beginning of the round and then just kept myself in position.” Cameron Smith used four SM9 models to navigate the Old Course’s firm, undulating turf. Said Smith: “You know, I think you have to be comfortable with almost being uncomfortable, in these conditions. … I think these new Vokey wedges, as well, are a lot better, especially into the wind. The 46, and the 52, for me, have been a big, big help in the wind. The ball just flights the way I want it to, and the golf balls are best in the world, so it just does what it does.” Making sizable short game improvements for the year was J.T. Poston ( Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 50.12F, 56.10S, 60.04L wedges ) who went from T134 to 44 th in Strokes Gained: Around-the-Green from last year to this year, as well as the Memorial champion ( Vokey Design SM9 52.12F, 56.08M, WedgeWorks 60.08V @ 62 wedges ) who improved from 141 st to T8. PUTTERS Scotty Cameron putters were the choice of more winners on the PGA TOUR than any other brand, with players combining for 21 wins (44%), seven more than the nearest competitor (14), including three major championships (Masters, PGA Championship, Open Championship). The winner of the Masters used a Scotty Cameron Special Select Timeless TourType GSS tour prototype , marking his fourth win in six starts since switching to the Scotty Cameron Newport 2-style putter. He first put the new Special Select Timeless Tourtype GSS tour prototype model in play at the WM Phoenix Open, where he claimed his maiden PGA TOUR victory while leading the field in Putts per Green in Regulation (1.66) and ranking second for the week in Strokes Gained: Putting (+6.49). At the Masters, he finished fifth in putting, averaging 1.53 putts per green in regulation. The World No. 1 added the new putter to his bag following a December trip to the Scotty Cameron Putter Studio, where he worked with Scotty Cameron Tour Rep Brad Cloke . He had previously been using a Newport-style Super Rat 1 tour prototype. (Newport is the softer, rounder counterpart to the Newport 2.) “He just wanted to switch things up a little bit and give himself a slightly different look heading into 2022,” Cloke said. “Prior to visiting us in the Studio, he’d been messing around with an older Newport 2 Timeless he had at home. He’d added a bunch of lead tape to the sole to try and get it to a similar swingweight as his Super Rat. He really liked the profile but the feel wasn’t exactly where he wanted it, so we went to work on building him a new setup with adjustable weighting.” Justin Thomas' second PGA Championship victory featured a great putting performance, finishing 2 nd in Strokes Gained for the week. Using his Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5 tour prototype putter , Thomas made key birdie putts on Nos. 5, 9, 11, 12, and 17 as well as playoff holes 1 and 2 (Nos. 13 and 17). Will Zalatoris , playing a Scotty Cameron Phantom X 11 (Long) tour prototype putter, finished runner-up to Thomas at the PGA Championship but broke through for this first TOUR victory in Memphis at the FedEx St. Jude Championship. Zalatoris made a clutch 10-footer for par on 18 to force a playoff, extended the playoff with another 10-footer for par on the second playoff hole, and drained a 7-footer for the win on the third playoff hole. For the week, Zalatoris led the field in approach putt performance (also known as lag putting). “Immediately when I was hitting putts [with it for the first time], I knew exactly where the putt was going to go. Right off the face, I can feel the putt distance-wise and that’s super important,” Zalatoris said. “When it comes to testing for me, it’s all feel. It was a putter that the second I put it down, I felt like I could see the line super well. I put a line on my ball and seeing that ball roll end over end, it’s a pretty good feeling when you strike a putt and it goes in dead center.” “Players just love the way the 11 sits on the ground,” said Scotty Cameron Rep Drew Page . “When you put it down, it doesn’t open, it doesn’t close, it just sets up so easily.” Cameron Smith and his Newport-style Scotty Cameron 009M tour prototype putter led the field in Strokes Gained: Putting at the Open Championship, while making a record 255 feet of putts during his second round at the Old Course – the highest total ever registered in one round on the PGA TOUR. On Sunday, Smith used his 009M to get up-and-down for par from behind the Road Hole bunker and then up-and-down for birdie on the 18 th hole, just right of the Valley of Sin. At The PLAYERS, Smith gained the most strokes putting versus the field in tournament history (+2.88 per round). He also finished with the most one-putts ever by a PLAYERS champ (42). Max Homa (Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5.5 tour prototype putter) improved from 118 th in SG: Putting last season to 27 th this year, while earning his fourth-career PGA TOUR victory at the Wells Fargo Championship – his third victory in 15 months after switching to a Scotty Cameron Phantom X model. “When you putt it like I did this week, you know, you almost have to mess up to at least not contend, so that was a humongous part of the week, for sure,” he said. The run began at last year’s Genesis Invitational, where Homa, gaming a Phantom X 11.5 model, became the first player to win with a Phantom X on the PGA TOUR. Four months later, he switched to the Phantom X 5.5, which he used to win the Fortinet Championship in September. That same putter was in his hands at Wells Fargo, where he finished fourth in Strokes Gained: Putting (+7.596). Said Homa, on his switch to Phantom X last season: “I was just struggling with face control with my putter. So I tried a few mallets, ended up going with one of the Phantoms and it just felt like it swung a bit better. It didn’t feel like I needed to work so much with my hands to release the putter. And at that time that’s really what I needed and then I got hooked on them. … “I think you almost don't have to do as much with your hands, so you can just focus on the big muscles. And I feel like, especially with putting, especially when you're nervous, that’s a huge part of being consistent and having a lot of repetition. I felt like that was something that I was missing. And when I switched to that, I felt like it just became a lot more predictable just because I could take out a variable. … “Speed control became much easier with the Phantom style. I felt like because of the weight of the head or just the way it swung, I just felt like it was a lot easier to control my putts from 15 to 25 feet. That’s where I’ve typically struggled. That’s definitely the most obvious impact I saw…” “I think we work a lot on alignment with my putting, with getting the face square to the target line and something about the way they set up, I feel like they’re very square. I feel like that’s helped, but I really do think that the speed control has been the main benefactor (to my wins), holing a couple extra 10 to 20 footers. And that typically is mostly speed based, less start line than the closer putts.” ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | TOUR Championship Seven of the top-10 finishers in the 2021-22 FedEx Cup finale played a Titleist golf ball , while eight of the top 10 gamed at least one piece of Titleist equipment : Five of the top 10 gamed Titleist drivers and irons Eight had at least one Vokey Design wedge in the bag (25 total wedges) Five used a Scotty Cameron putter. Titleist Brand Ambassadors made up five of the final FedEx top 10: Sungjae Im (T2), Max Homa (T5), Justin Thomas (T5), Patrick Cantlay (T7) and Tom Hoge (10). Titleist is #1 Ball, Most Played Equipment Brand Tee To Green at TOUR Championship Titleist was the overwhelming #1 golf ball and most played driver , fairway , hybrid , utility iron , iron , wedge and putter at the TOUR Championship – topping all equipment counts at the TOUR’s season finale for the first time – with a total of 24 players (83%) gaming at least one piece of Titleist equipment. It marked the fourth time this season – and 27th time since the start of the 2019 calendar year – that Titleist swept the major equipment counts at a PGA TOUR event. Titleist is the only brand to have ever accomplished this feat. Titleist Equipment Success in Atlanta The #1 ball in golf was the #1 ball at the TOUR Championship, with 22 (76%) players teeing up a Titleist Pro V1 , Pro V1x or Pro V1 Left Dot golf ball, more than seven times the nearest competitor (3) – including every one of this season’s major champions: Masters Champion (Pro V1), Justin Thomas (Pro V1x), Matthew Fitzpatrick (Pro V1x) and Cameron Smith (Pro V1x) Titleist drivers were the top choice of players with 13 in play (45%), more than double the nearest competitor (6). There were five NEW TSR drivers in play, T1 among driver models. There were more Titleist fairway metals (17/38%), hybrids (6/55%) and utility irons (5/56%) in players’ bags at East Lake than any other brand. Twelve players (41%) played Titleist irons – the longstanding No. 1 iron on the PGA TOUR – double the nearest competitor (6). The most played wedge on the PGA TOUR, Vokey Design wedges made up 63 percent of all gap, sand and lob wedges in play with 52 wedges, more than all other brands combined (31). On the greens, 11 players (38%) trusted a Scotty Cameron putter, compared to six for the nearest competitor. LPGA | CP Women’s Open Playing a Titleist Pro V1 golf ball, the winner of the CP Women’s Open made five birdies over her first nine holes Sunday on her way to a closing 4-under 67 and one-shot victory. It was the first LPGA title for the nine-year veteran, who opened the week with a 9-under 62 and posted four rounds in the 60’s to finish the week at 19 under. She made 21 birdies and only two bogeys over the four days in Canada. Titleist Brand Ambassador Nelly Korda shot a back-nine 31, making eagle on the par-4 12th at the Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club, to finish one shot back (T2), as Titleist golf ball players swept the top-7 positions on the leader board. DP WORLD TOUR | Omega European Masters Thriston Lawrence (Pro V1) won his second DP World Tour title on the first hole of a playoff, topping a leader board that featured Titleist golf ball players in seven of the top-8 positions. After opening with an 8-under 62, Lawrence carded three more rounds in the 60’s, including a final-round 69 to finish the week at 18 under. For the week, Lawrence ranked first in Strokes Gained: Approach (+8.56) while hitting 76 percent of his greens in regulation. Three of the top-six finishers played a NEW TSR driver, including the third-place finisher ( TSR3 9.0°) and Titleist Brand Ambassador Antoine Rozner ( TSR3 10.0°), who led the field in Driving Accuracy (79%) and ranked third in SG: Off-the-Tee (+6.44) on his way to a T4 finish. Amateur | U.S. Amateur Championship Titleist was the #1 golf ball and most played equipment brand across every major category at many of 2022's biggest amateur championships, including the U.S. Amateur , The Amateur Championship (R&A) , Australian Amateur, Lytham Trophy, European Amateur , U.S. Junior Amateur and the six NCAA Men’s Regional Championships sites, among others. Titleist also swept the counts across this summer’s Elite Amateur Series events, comprising seven of the amateur game’s most prestigious titles: Sunnehanna Amateur , Northeast Amateur , North & South Amateur , Tran-Miss Amateur , Southern Amateur , Pacific Coast Amateur and Western Amateur . PGA TOUR Champions | The Ally Challenge Steve Stricker (Pro V1x) birdied Nos. 13-16 Sunday at Warwick Hills to close in 5-under 67 and win by one shot. It marked Win No. 9 on PGA TOUR Champions (and No 2 this season) for Stricker, who led a 1-2-3-4-5 finish for Titleist golf ball players in Michigan. KORN FERRY TOUR |Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship David Lingmerth (Pro V1) closed in 3-under 68, birdieing No. 18 at Ohio State’s Scarlet Course to win by two shots and earn his 2022-23 PGA TOUR card. Lingmerth, who opened with a 9-under 62, ranked first for the week in birdies (23) and third in Greens in Regulation (83%). Titleist golf ball players swept the top-5 positions, as 11 of the top 12 finishers played a Pro V1 or Pro V1x . FOUR TITLEIST GOLF BALL PLAYERS EARN TOUR CARDS Lingmerth joined fellow Titleist golf ball players Michael Gligic (Pro V1) , Titleist Brand Ambassador Joseph Bramlett (Pro V1) and Austin Cook (Pro V1) in earning their 2022-23 PGA TOUR cards. With their finishes over the last two weeks, Gligic (T65, T4), Bramlett (T18, T6) and Cook (T4, T34) each crossed the 210-point mark the Korn Ferry Tour is currently using as a fail-safe threshold for players to finish within The Finals 25. The winner of last week’s Albertsons Boise Open, who played a Pro V1 Left Dot , along with Titleist Brand Ambassador Philip Knowles (Pro V1) , locked up their TOUR cards last Sunday. Additionally, 20 of the 25 players who earned their 2022-23 PGA TOUR membership through the Korn Ferry Tour’s regular season points list were also Titleist golf ball players. KOREAN TOUR | Bodyfriend Phantom Rovo Gunsan CC Open Titleist Brand Ambassador YoSeop Seo made birdie on the second playoff hole to win his fourth-career KPGA tour title. Gaming a NEW TSR3 8.0° driver and TSR2 13.5° fairway among his all-Titleist setup, Seo shot a final round 5-under 67 to reach 14 under for the tournament. He was joined by InChoon Hwang (Pro V1x) in the three-person playoff, as nine of the 11 players who finished inside the top 10 and ties trusted a Titleist golf ball . TITLEIST SWEEPS EQUIPMENT COUNTS, TSR IS MOST PLAYED DRIVER Titleist swept all major equipment categories at the Bodyfriend Phantom Rovo Gunsan CC Open, with more players choosing Titleist golf balls (96/67%), drivers (67/47%), fairways (76/46%), hybrids (44/43%), irons (64/44%), wedges (258/66%) and putters (65/45%) than any other brand. NEW TSR drivers were gamed by 51 players, more than any competitor’s total number of drivers. What's in YoSeop Seo's Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: NEW TSR3 8.0° Fairway Metals: NEW TSR2 13.5° & TSi2 21.0° Utility Iron: U•500 2 Irons: 620 MB 4-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM8 48.10F, 54.10S, 60.08M Putter: Scotty Cameron Flowback 5.5 tour prototype SUNSHINE TOUR | Vodacom Origins of Golf Highland Gate Anthony Michael (Pro V1x Left Dash) won his first Sunshine Tour title, closing in 3-under 69 to win by one shot. Michael was the only player to post all three rounds in the 60’s, finishing the tournament at 10 under while leading a 1-2-3-4-5 finish for Titleist golf ball players. ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | BMW Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Patrick Cantlay won the BMW Championship for the second straight season, making birdie on the 17th hole Sunday at Wilmington Country Club on his way to a one-shot victory. Playing a Pro V1x golf ball and full bag of Titleist equipment, Cantlay became the first player to successfully defend a FedEx Cup Playoffs event, following last year’s playoff victory at Caves Valley. It marked the eighth-career PGA TOUR title for Cantlay, who finished the week 14 under after four rounds in the 60’s (68-68-65-69). For the week, he finished second in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green (+8.821), third in SG: Off the Tee (+4.011), sixth in SG: Approach (+5.173) and T2 in Scrambling (80%). Cantlay, also the defending TOUR Championship and FedEx Cup winner, enters next week’s finale at No. 2 in the FedEx Cup rankings. What’s in Patrick Cantlay’s Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TS3 9.5° | Mitsubishi Diamana ZF 60 TX Fairway: 915F 15.0° | Mitsubishi Diamana ZF 70 TX Hybrid: TS2 21.0° | Mitsubishi Diamana ZF 80 TX Irons: 718 AP2 (4-9) irons | True Temper Dynamic Gold 120 Tour Issue X100 Wedges: Vokey SM7 46.10F, 52.08F & SM9 56.08M (@57), WedgeWorks 60T wedges | True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S300 Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5 tour prototype SEVEN IN A ROW FOR TITLEIST GOLF BALL PLAYERS With Cantlay's victory, Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf ball players have now won seven consecutive events on the PGA TOUR and 31 times overall this season. On Sunday, Cantlay and fellow Pro V1x player Scott Stallings , who finished second by one shot, topped a leader board that featured Titleist golf ball players in six of the top-7 positions. CANTLAY ON PERFORMANCE, CONSISTENCY OF PRO V1 x www.instagram.com/.../ “Pro V1x has been the right fit for me because it's the best. I think it’s the best ball that I’ve ever played. I don’t think twice about it when I tee it up. I just know that it’s the best golf ball.” “I want the golf ball to feel consistent, so I want it to do the same thing the most amount of times over and over and over again. That way, it’s predictable. I think golf ball being a fixed variable for what I do is very important. There’s always equipment changes going on or tweaks to suit conditions or suit maybe holes in your game. And so, the golf ball being a constant opposed to also a variable is really important to me. And having it perform well when you hit it solid and when you mishit it slightly, and not seeing a big difference between spin numbers or launch numbers when you do inevitably miss a couple, that’s really important for shooting good scores.” “If you hit a 5-iron, even if you hit it out of the bunker and scuff it up a little bit, you’re still hitting the same 5-iron, so you don’t worry about that component. With golf ball, it’s not necessarily a sure thing, because it is a new golf ball every time you put it in. I might play six different golf balls in a round of golf. And so, the quality control I think is extremely important and something maybe that I take for granted, because I know how difficult it is to replicate something time after time after time. Not having even a percent difference between any of the golf balls in a dozen must be particularly difficult. It’s something that at this point, I don’t even think about. I trust that all the golf balls are exactly the same and are going to perform exactly the same. And that gives me a ton of confidence, so much so that I don’t even think about it when I switch golf balls out there.” 12 STRAIGHT WINS FOR VOKEY WEDGE PLAYERS ON PGA TOUR Playing a set of four Vokey Design wedges, Cantlay became the 12th-consecutive winner on the PGA TOUR to have at least one Vokey in the bag (and 32nd overall this season). He finished the week sixth in Strokes Gained: Approach (+5.173) and T2 in Scrambling (80%). “You’re always looking for a little edge on controlling distance and I was able to control the flight and distance really well with the SM9, and so it went straight in the bag,” said Cantlay, after making the switch to his new SM9 56.08M at the Sentry Tournament of Champions. (He put his SM9 WedgeWorks 60T in play for the first time at the Masters.) “When you’re testing a new wedge you want to see that it’s interacting with the turf the right way and is able to perform no matter what kind of shot you’re hitting. And I feel very comfortable that this wedge does that.” CANTLAY’S SUCCESS CONTINUES WITH PHANTOM X 5 A year ago at the BMW Championship, Cantlay – playing his Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5 tour prototype putter – gained more strokes putting (+14.6) than any player in a single tournament since they began tracking the statistic in 2004. The success has continued throughout 2022. Heading into next week’s season finale, he ranks third in One-Putt Percentage (43.33%), while leading the TOUR in Approach Putt Performance (lag putting). He’s second in Birdie or Better Conversion Percentage at 37.21%. Cantlay was a perfect 15-for-15 from inside seven feet on Sunday and was T-4 for the week in putting from 10-15 feet (57.1%), as he made it 21 wins for Scotty Cameron players this season on the PGA TOUR, more than any other competitor. Cantlay first switched to his Phantom X 5 mid-mallet model last April at the Zurich Classic, seeking added stability through the putter’s compact wingback construction. Three starts later, he used it to win The Memorial. “A little different for me, I switched over into a mallet,” said Cantlay, who for years had played a blade-style Newport 2 GSS tour prototype. “It’s more face-balanced, so it felt just a little easier to aim and it felt a little easier to swing just straight back and straight through. Launch conditions have been really good and I’ve been making some putts.” Cantlay’s Memorial-winning Phantom X 5 featured a double bend shaft without alignment features. Following the second round of the 2021 Northern Trust, Cantlay switched into his current Phantom X 5 configuration with a sight line on the topline (like the stock model). Around that time, Cantlay also began marking a line on his Pro V1x golf ball to help with alignment on short putts. DP WORLD TOUR | D+D Real Czech Masters Max Kieffer (Pro V1) won his first DP World Tour title, posting a final round 6-under 66 including a birdie on the 17th hole to win by one shot. Kieffer led the field in Strokes Gained: Around the Green (+1.86 per round), while finishing seventh in Scrambling (83.33%). Eleven of the top-12 finishers trusted a Titleist golf ball in Prague, while three of the top five gamed a NEW TSR driver, including Titleist Brand Ambassadors Tapio Pulkannen (TSR2), Louis De Jager (TSR2) and Zander Lombard (TSR3). LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR | Aramco Team Series Sotogrande Titleist Brand Ambassador Nelly Korda came from seven shots back to start the final round, closing in 5-under 67 to win by three shots. Fellow Titleist Brand Ambassadors Jessica Korda and Pauline Roussin-Bouchard finished in a tie for second. What’s in Nelly Korda’s Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 golf ball Driver: TSi1 10.0° | Graphite Design Tour AD IZ 6 S Fairway Metals: TSi2 16.5° | Fujikura Ventus Red 70 S and TSi2 21.0° fairway | Mitsubishi Tensei AV Raw Blue 75 S Irons: T100 5-PW | Aerotech SteelFiber i80cw F4 Wedges: Vokey SM8 50.08F, 54.10S, 58.08M | Aerotech SteelFiber i95cw S Putter: Scotty Cameron Special Select Squareback 2 tour prototype PGA TOUR Champions | DICK’s Sporting Goods Open Padraig Harrington (Pro V1) posted three rounds of 67 or better – making just one bogey over his final 36 holes – to earn his second PGA TOUR Champions title of 2022. Harrington, 50, closed with a bogey-free 67 to win by three shots over Thongchai Jaidee (Pro V1x) and Mike Weir (Pro V1x Left Dash) , leading a 1-2-3 finish for Titleist golf ball players. Harrington made 20 birdies over the three rounds and finished the week 4th in Scrambling (86.67%) while going 2-for-2 in sand saves. CHAMPION WINS WITH NEW TSR DRIVER The winner of the DICK’s Sporting Goods Open gamed a NEW TSR3 9.0° driver, marking the first win on PGA TOUR Champions for the new TSR models. Over the three rounds in New York, he led the field in Driving Distance at 323 yards. KORN FERRY TOUR | Albertsons Boise Open Playing a Titleist Pro V1 Left Dot golf ball, the winner of the Albertsons Boise Open captured his first-career Korn Ferry Tour victory after posting a career-low 8-under 63 Sunday and emerging victorious from a three-man, all-Titleist playoff. The winner – who finished the four rounds at 21 under, along with Titleist Brand Ambassador Philip Knowles (Pro V1) and MJ Daffue (Pro V1x) – prevailed with a par on the first playoff hole at Hillcrest CC. Japan Golf Tour | Shigeo Nagashima Invitational Sega Sammy Cup This week’s winner on the Japan Golf Tour used a Titleist TSi3 driver (10.0°) and Vokey Design SM8 58-degree lob wedge, posting a final-round 67 to win by two. Tomoharu Otsuki (Pro V1) finished solo second after a closing 7-under 65. Asian Tour | International Series Korea Taehoon Ok (Pro V1) birdied the final hole Sunday to earn his first Asian Tour victory. Ok, 23, rolled his Pro V1 in from 5 feet for birdie on the 18th hole at Lotte Skyhill CC to close in 3-under 68 and finish the week at 15 under, one shot clear of Bio Kim (Pro V1x) . “I asked my caddie on 17 if he really thought I can birdie 18 and he said, ‘go for it’,” Ok said. “I have learned a lot by playing in the final pairings recently so that really helped.” It was a 1-2-3 finish for Titleist golf ball players, as Titleist Brand Ambassador Trevor Simsby (Pro V1x) finished another shot back in third. Eleven of the 14 players finishing T10 or better trusted a Titleist ball for the week. SUNSHINE TOUR | Sunbet Challenge Albert Venter (Pro V1) captured his second Sunshine Tour win while leading a 1-2-3-4-5 finish for Titleist golf ball players. Venter opened with a 9-under 63 on his way to a six-shot victory. Pro V1 players Ruan Korb and Titleist Brand Ambassador Estiaan Conradie finished second and third, respectively, with Titleist golf ball players claiming the top-five positions on the leader board. CHINA TOUR | Shenyang International Open Pro V1x loyalist Zihan She earned his first China Tour victory while leading a 1-2-3 finish for Titleist golf ball players. She, the only player to finish the week at even par, won by one shot over Jia Zhang (Pro V1x) . Yang Tong (Pro V1x) finished another shot back in third. Titleist golf ball players made up 11 of the top 12 finishers at Shenyang Century Golf Club, as 96 percent of the field trusted a Titleist golf ball. AMATEUR | U.S. Amateur The winner of the U.S. Amateur trusted his Pro V1 golf ball to a 1-up victory in the all-Titleist golf ball final at Ridgewood Country Club. The champion, ranked third in the World Amateur Golf Ranking coming into the week, hit his approach on the 36th hole to 12 feet and two-putted for the halve to claim the Havemeyer Trophy. The runner-up, playing a Pro V1x golf ball and 13 Titleist clubs, battled back from a 5-down deficit early in the day, birdieing the 35th hole to extend the match to No. 36. TITLEIST SWEEPS EQUIPMENT COUNTS AT U.S. AMATEUR Titleist was the overwhelming #1 golf ball and most played brand in every major equipment category as the field of 312 players chased history at Ridgewood Country Club. This season on the PGA TOUR, Titleist has topped every major equipment category three times, and 26 times since the start of the 2019 calendar year – a feat that has never been matched by any other brand. Titleist also swept the counts across this summer’s seven Elite Amateur Series events, the six NCAA Men’s Regional Championships and the U.S. Junior Championship. At the U.S. Women’s Amateur, Titleist was also the most played golf ball, driver (T1), hybrid , utility iron , wedge and putter . This week in New Jersey: A total of 271 players (87%) teed up a Pro V1 , Pro V1x , Pro V1 Left Dot or Pro V1x Left Dash , more than 11 times the nearest competitor (24) – including the champion, all four semifinalists, seven of the eight quarterfinalists and three of the stroke-play co-medalists. There were more Titleist drivers (121/39%), fairways (121 players/39%) and hybrids (36/40%) in players’ bags than any other brand – with a total of 285 (39%) total metalwoods in play, compared to 188 for the nearest competitor. Titleist was the most played utility iron with 118 (65%), more than five times the nearest competitor (23), with T200 (Utility Build) being the most popular model. Titleist irons were the top choice of U.S. Amateur contestants with 125 (40%) sets in play, more than double the nearest competitor (59). T100 irons were the most trusted model. There were more Vokey Design gap, sand and lob wedges (544/59%) in play than all other brands combined. More players trusted Scotty Cameron putters (102/33%) than any other brand, compared to 68 for the nearest competitor. ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | FedEx St. Jude Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Will Zalatoris vaulted to the top of the FedExCup Playoffs standings and into the Top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking (No. 9), claiming his first PGA TOUR title on the third hole of a playoff Sunday in Memphis. Zalatoris – gaming a Pro V1 golf ball and all-Titleist setup, including a NEW TSR driver and fairway, T200 and T100 irons, Vokey Design SM9 wedges and Scotty Cameron Phantom X putter – played his final 54 holes of the week in 16 under, posting a final-round 4-under 66 Sunday to force the extra session. Over the four days at TPC Southwind, Zalatoris, 25, topped the field in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green (+8.37) and SG: Approach (+7.73). What's In Will Zalatoris' Titleist Golf Bag? www.youtube.com/watch Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: NEW TSR3 8.0° | Fujikura Speeder 661 TR X Fairway Metal: NEW TSR2+ 13° | Fujikura Ventus 8 Blue X Utility Iron: T200 3 | Nippon NS Pro Modus 3 Irons: T100 4-PW | Dynamic Gold X100 Tour Issue Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM9 50.08F, 54.10F (at 55), WedgeWorks 60T | Dynamic Gold X100 Tour Issue Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 11 (Long) tour prototype ZALATORIS ON HIS PRO V1; SIX STRAIGHT WINS FOR TITLEIST GOLF BALL PLAYERS Zalatoris' breakthrough victory at the FedEx St. Jude Championship marked the sixth straight victory for Titleist golf ball players on the PGA TOUR and Win No. 30 for Pro V1 and Pro V1x players overall this season. “When you play the best golf ball you’re able to do what you want,” Zalatoris said. “And so off the tee it matches up with my high speed, playing the V as opposed to the X. X spins just a little too much for me, but the V just fits me perfectly. With the irons, I know how it’s going to come out of the rough, if it’s going to come out a little hot, a little spiny, same thing. Super most important part for me is with the wedges because being as high spin and as much speed as I have, I know exactly what shot I’m going to hit, when it’s going to do a little drop and stop, and when it’s going to spin back.” ZALATORIS WINS WITH NEW TSR DRIVER; 4TH WIN IN 8 WEEKS FOR NEW TITLEIST MODEL Zalatoris' victory Sunday using his NEW TSR driver marked victory No. 4 for the new Titleist driver models in just eight weeks since making their PGA TOUR debut at the Travelers Championship . Zalatoris joins last week’s Wyndham Championship winner Joohyung "Tom" Kim ( TSR3 9.0°), as well as Cameron Smith ( TSR3 10.0°/ Open Championship ) and J.T. Poston ( TSR3 9.0°/ John Deere Classic ) in the TSR winner’s circle. In total, Titleist drivers have been used to win 15 events this season on the PGA TOUR, more than any other competitor. This week in Memphis, Zalatoris gained nearly two strokes on the field (+1.815) with his NEW TSR3 8.0° driver while averaging 321.2 yards off the tee. Said Zalatoris: “I literally took my old shaft and plugged it into the new TSR and I immediately saw results. The mishits for me were exponentially better. I mean, I was already seeing mishits go about seven, eight yards farther. I have a lot of distance but bringing it in left-to-right was something that was huge for me.” “I mean, it was a no brainer. It was pretty similar to my TSi and it was better, which I didn't think we could do… With being one of the longer guys on tour, the better I can do in terms of bringing it in from side-to-side and make my dispersion be that much tighter is exactly what I’m looking for. And so being able to hit shots that before might have maybe been in the left rough or the right rough, now all of a sudden I’m seeing a few more go on the fairway, which is just a couple more birdie chances a round.” JUSTIN THOMAS MAKES SWITCH TO NEW TSR DRIVER Titleist Brand Ambassador Justin Thomas became the latest player to make the switch to a NEW TSR driver, putting his NEW TSR3 10.0° model in play for the first time Thursday at TPC Southwind. Over the first 36 holes, Thomas led the field in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee, gaining nearly three strokes (+2.999) on the field when all was said and done Sunday. He finished the week third overall in SG: Tee to Green (+8.295). “It’s obviously an interesting time of year to make a driver change, heading into the playoffs, but after some really great testing early on with TSR3, JT was able to spend some more time with it after the Open Championship,” said J.J. Van Wezenbeeck, Titleist’s Director of Player Promotions . “The top priority for JT with driver is performance on all of the variety of shots he likes to hit, from the low, piercing cut to the high draw and everything in between. He’s also looking for that classic shaping, a very clean look, and a driver that sounds great. TSR checked all of those boxes for him. “He clearly had great results with TSi, he won a major with it this year, but with TSR he’s seen an uptick in ball speed with just incredible consistency off the face. He keeps mentioning how consistent his speed, launch and spin numbers are on off-center hits. For a tour player who’s trying to hit a variety of shots on these very difficult golf courses, it’s that consistency that really allows him to perform at his best.” Said Thomas, to PGATOUR.com, after Round 1: “The biggest difference is the spin. When I heel it, it doesn’t spin crazy high and when I toe it, it’s somehow spinning a little more. It’s unbelievable in terms of misses.” Thomas’ Driver: NEW TSR3 10.0° | Mitsubishi Diamana ZF 60 TX | D•1 SureFit hosel setting ZALATORIS WINS WITH NEW TSR2+ FAIRWAY METAL In addition to his NEW TSR3 driver, Zalatoris also had a NEW TSR2+ 13.0° fairway metal in the bag. “This is an absolute rocket,” Zalatoris said. “I love this thing. We tried it at the Scottish Open this year and it’s the best 3-wood I’ve ever had. It’s pretty cool to be able to have something besides driver that I can hit off the tee and basically hit it as far as I want. And then if I need to hit high and soft into greens, I can do that as well.” 11 STRAIGHT WINS FOR VOKEY WEDGE PLAYERS ON PGA TOUR Zalatoris became the 11th-consecutive winner on the PGA TOUR to have at least one Vokey in the bag, gaming three NEW SM9's in Memphis. Zalatoris bested the field in average proximity from 50-125 yards (9'4" on nine attempts) while finishing eighth in Scrambling at 76.19 percent. Overall, Vokey wedge players have combined for 31 wins on the 2021-22 PGA TOUR, compared to eight for the nearest competitor. Zalatoris plays SM9 50.08F, 54.10S (@55), WedgeWorks 60T models. Said Zalatoris: “With SM9, it’s basically exactly what I wanted to see out of my wedges. They come out a little bit lower with a little more spin. The flight came down probably like five or six feet, but it added a bunch of spin so it worked out perfect. Especially getting back into the wind, I can flight something a little bit lower and it’ll grab just exactly how I want it to.” “I play a 50-55-60 setup. I’ve got a 50.08, really good for me because it just fits a gapping between my pitching wedge and the 54. The 54, I’ve got the 10-degree S grind. And then with the 60, I’ve got the T grind, which is awesome, because it’s very versatile. It lays super close to the ground, I’m able to lay it open, I’m able to trap it, hit a low, put a bunch of spin on it. And so it’s really versatile for me.” ZALATORIS ON HIS T100 IRONS, T200 UTILITY Zalatoris , who bested the field in Strokes Gained: Approach (+7.73) at TPC Southwind, carries a set of T100 irons in addition to a T200 (Utility Build) 3-iron. Zalatoris on his T100s: “Love these irons. I’m a high spin guy and the cavity back helps me bring the ball down, and my distance control is just so consistent, which is the most important thing when it comes to an iron. The feel is amazing. I also love that they have a kink less offset, and that is massive for me, because specifically out of the rough, it got rid of flyers.” Zalatoris on his T200: “It’s just so versatile. If we’re playing somewhere fast and firm and I’ve got to keep something under the wind, I’m able to bring it down low. And if I’m hitting something into a par-5, I’m able to throw it up high and be able to stop it on a green. And that’s exactly what I’m looking for. I’ve always liked playing more of an iron look as opposed to being a hybrid guy and to have something that versatile for me is huge. And it’s the most versatile hybrid iron I’ve ever played.” ZALATORIS WINS WITH PHANTOM X; 20 WINS FOR SCOTTY CAMERON PLAYERS THIS SEASON Zalatoris' victory Sunday with his Scotty Cameron Phantom X 11 tour prototype made it 20 wins for Scotty Cameron players this season on the PGA TOUR, more than any other competitor. It was just one year earlier at TPC Southwind – at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational – that Zalatoris put a new Phantom X 11 in play for the first time. On Sunday, Zalatoris rolled in a clutch 10-footer for par on 18 to make the playoff, then dropped another 10-footer for par on the second playoff hole to extend the match. His 7-footer on the third playoff hole sealed the victory. For the week, Zalatoris led the field in approach putt performance (also known as lag putting). “Immediately when I was hitting putts [with it for the first time], I knew exactly where the putt was going to go. Right off the face, I can feel the putt distance-wise and that’s super important,” Zalatoris said. “When it comes to testing for me, it’s all feel. It was a putter that the second I put it down, I felt like I could see the line super well. I put a line on my ball and seeing that ball roll end over end, it’s a pretty good feeling when you strike a putt and it goes in dead center.” “Players just love the way the 11 sits on the ground,” said Scotty Cameron Rep Drew Page . “When you put it down, it doesn’t open, it doesn’t close, it just sets up so easily.” LPGA/LET | ISPS Handa World Championship Maja Stark won the ISPS Handa World Championship (women’s division), making 10 final-round birdies with her Pro V1 golf ball, posting a 10-under 63 to win by five shots. Stark hit 10 of 14 fairways and 15 of 18 greens on Sunday, led a 1-through-10 sweep for Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x players at the top of the leader board. DP WORLD TOUR | ISPS Handa World Championship Playing a Pro V1 golf ball, the winner of the ISPS Handa World Championship (men’s division) shot a final round 1-under 69 to finish at 12 under for the week and secure his second DP World Tour victory of the year, while leading a 1-2-3 finish for Titleist golf ball players. In addition to his Pro V1, the winner also relied on four Vokey Design SM9 wedges (46.10F, 52.08F, 56.10S, 60.10S) and a Scotty Cameron Phantom X 7.5 putter. KORN FERRY TOUR | Pinnacle Bank Championship Robby Shelton (Pro V1 Left Dot) carded a final round 6-under 65 to win the Korn Ferry Tour’s regular season finale by one shot over Titleist Brand Ambassador Ben Taylor . Kevin Dougherty (Pro V1 Left Dot) finished another shot back, making it a 1-2-3 finish for Titleist golf ball players in Omaha. TITLEIST LEADS THE WAY AMONG KORN FERRY TOUR GRADUATES Both Shelton and Taylor finished inside the Top 25 on the KFT’s regular season points list, as 23 of the 25 players who officially secured their PGA TOUR cards for the 2022-2023 season on Sunday played at least one piece of Titleist equipment: Twenty of the 25 KFT regular season graduates were Titleist golf ball players, more than six times the nearest competitor (3); 10 grads played a Titleist driver , double the nearest competitor (5), with five of them having already made the switch to NEW TSR models; Titleist irons were the top choice of the Top 25 with nine players, more than double the nearest competitor (4); 14 players gamed at least one Vokey Design wedge, more than three times the nearest competitor (4); and Scotty Cameron was the most played putter in the regular season graduating class with nine players, compared to seven for the nearest competitor. Titleist Brand Ambassadors (KFT rank): Zecheng “Marty” Dou (4), Ben Taylor (9), Byeong Hun “Ben” An (13), Tyson Alexander (18), Trevor Cone (22), Vincent Norrman (23), Anders Albertson (25). Titleist golf ball players: Robby Shelton (2), Paul Haley II (3), Augusto Nunez (6), Justin Suh (7), Ben Griffin (8), MJ Daffue (11), Seonghyeon Kim (12), Davis Thompson (14), Erik Barnes (15), Trevor Werbylo (16), Michael Kim (19), Harrison Endycott (21), Kevin Roy (24). KOREAN TOUR | The 4TH Woosung Construction Open Titleist Brand Ambassador YongGu Shin birdied the second hole of a playoff to outlast KyungNam Kang (Pro V1) and earn his first KPGA Tour title. Shin and Kang, who finished the week at 13 under, topped a leader board that featured Titleist golf ball players in the top-6 positions. Shin’s victory with his TSR3 10.0° driver also marks the first win for NEW TSR drivers on the KPGA Tour. What’s in YongGu Shin’s Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: NEW TSR3 10.0 Fairway Metal: NEW TSR2 15.0° Utility Irons: U505 (2) and U500 (4) Irons: T100 irons (5-PW) Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 (52.12 F, 56.10 S, 60.08 M) Putter: Scotty Cameron Special Select Flowback SUNSHINE TOUR | Bain’s Whisky Ubunye Championship The team of Titleist Brand Ambassador Martin Rohwer and Merrick Bremner (Pro V1) combined for eight birdies and an eagle in Saturday’s final round, posting 10-under 62 en route to a six-shot victory. The duo finished at 28 under, six clear of runners-up Erhard Lambrechts (Pro V1x) and Combrinck Smit (Pro V1) , whose final-round 61 was the lowest of the day. Five of the six players making up the top-3 teams played a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball. What’s in Martin Rohwer’s Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSi2 10.0° Fairway Metal: TSi2 15.0° and TSi3 19.0° Irons: 620 CB (4-6) & 620 MB 7-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 52°, 56°, 60° Putter: Scotty Cameron Golo S5 tour prototype AMATEUR | U.S. Women’s Amateur Titleist was the overwhelming #1 golf ball and top choice of players in drivers (T1) , hybrids , utility irons , irons , wedges and putters at the U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship : A total of 130 players (83%) are teeing up a Titleist Pro V1 , Pro V1x , or AVX golf ball, 10 times the nearest competitor (13). Two of the co-medalists, and 27 of the 32 quarterfinalists, play a Titleist golf ball. No brand has more drivers in play this week than Titleist with 42 players (T1) gaming either a NEW TSR , TSi or TS model this week at Chambers Bay. TSi3 is the most played model (24). Titleist is the most played hybrid (47/25%) and utility iron (16/62%), with more T200 utility irons (13) in play than all other brands combined. Players are gaming a total of 219 Vokey Design gap, sand, and lob wedges, more than two times the nearest competitor (83). On the greens, more players are using Scotty Cameron putters (56) than any other brand, with Newport 2 and Phantom X putters as the top models. Titleist also swept all major equipment categories this year on the Elite Amateur Series as well as the NCAA Men’s Golf Championship, European Amateur and U.S. Junior Amateur. ... #TeamTitleist
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This summer, when the biggest titles in amateur golf have been on the line, more competitors have continued to put their trust in Titleist than any other brand. That continues this week at the U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship, where Titleist is the overwhelming #1 golf ball and top choice of players in drivers (T1) , hybrids , utility irons , irons , wedges and putters : A total of 130 players (83%) are teeing up a Titleist Pro V1 , Pro V1x , or AVX golf ball, 10 times the nearest competitor (13). Two of the co-medalists, and 27 of the 32 quarterfinalists, play a Titleist golf ball. No brand has more drivers in play this week than Titleist with 42 players (T1) gaming either a NEW TSR , TSi or TS model this week at Chambers Bay. TSi3 is the most played model (24). Titleist is the most played hybrid (47/25%) and utility iron (16/62%), with more T200 utility irons (13) in play than all other brands combined. Players are gaming a total of 219 Vokey Design gap, sand, and lob wedges, more than two times the nearest competitor (83). On the greens, more players are using Scotty Cameron putters (56) than any other brand, with Newport 2 and Phantom X putters as the top models. Titleist also swept all major equipment categories this year on the Elite Amateur Series as well as the NCAA Men’s Golf Championship, European Amateur and U.S. Junior Amateur. Titleist remains the only brand to have ever topped all major equipment categories (golf ball, driver, fairways, hybrids, utility iron, iron, wedge, putter) on the PGA TOUR, with three sweeps this season and 26 total sweeps since the beginning of the 2019 calendar year. ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | Rocket Mortgage Classic Tony Finau (Pro V1 Left Dot) made it back-to-back wins on the PGA TOUR, closing with a 5-under 67 to reach 26 under and complete a near-flawless performance at Detroit Golf Club. Now a four-time PGA TOUR winner, Finau got his Pro V1 Left Dot up-and-down 100 percent of the time while making only one bogey over 72 holes, leading the field in Scrambling and Bogey Avoidance. He also topped the field in Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green (+13.841) and Greens in Regulation (66 of 72, 91.67%). Only two players have hit more GIRs in a 72-hole PGA TOUR event since 1980. The victory caps off a dominant run, as Finau became the first player to win back-to-back weeks on TOUR by three or more shots since Titleist Brand Ambassador Justin Thomas in 2017 and is now 49 under in his last nine rounds. Titleist Brand Ambassadors Patrick Cantlay (Pro V1x) and Cameron Young (Pro V1 Left Dot) finished in a tie for second at 21 under, as six Titleist golf ball players finished in the Top 7. TONY FINAU ON HIS PRO V1 LEFT DOT “I think equipment starts with the golf ball, not with the clubs, not with the woods, not with any other piece of equipment. It starts with the golf ball. I’ve always been a believer in that. “The Left Dot golf ball is right for me because I’ve always put a lot of spin on the golf ball, so it’s the lowest spinning Titleist Pro V1 that is out on the market, and right away, it caught my eye because of the ball flight. I think if you can control your ball flight, you can control the distance. And it’s been such a reliable ball flight for me from the first time that I hit it. I think the best word I can use is just reliable. I can count on the golf ball in crosswinds, into the wind, downwind. I know how far the golf ball is going to go. And that’s a great feeling to have as a professional golfer. Distance control is up there probably with the most important things when it comes to striking a golf ball and playing golf.” HOW TONY FINAU MARKS HIS PRO V1 LEFT DOT “I actually mark my Pro V1 golf ball with my kids’ initials. I have five kids. I’ll throw my wife in there sometimes as well. So the determining factor for me is if they make a couple bogeys, power lip out, whatever the case, they’re out, and I’m ready for the next kid to come into play and see if they’ll perform. And that’s pretty much it. I’m not crazy superstitious, but there does come a time where, if my kids are a little scared of the dark that day, they want to go swimming, they want to play in the beach, I’ve got to let them go and bring somebody else in that’s ready to score for me.” NINE STRAIGHT WINS FOR VOKEY WEDGE PLAYERS ON PGA TOUR The winner of the Rocket Mortgage Classic played a NEW Vokey Design WedgeWorks 60T wedge, becoming the ninth-consecutive winner on the PGA TOUR to have at least one Vokey wedge in the bag. Overall, Vokey wedge players have combined for 28 wins on the 2021-22 PGA TOUR, compared to eight for the nearest competitor. WINNER, RUNNER-UPS PLAY VOKEY 60T Three of the top-4 finishers at the Rocket Mortgage had a NEW Vokey Design WedgeWorks 60T wedge in the bag, including the winner and Titleist Brand Ambassadors Patrick Cantlay and Cameron Young , who tied for second. For the week, the Rocket Mortgage champ finished first in Scrambling, going 6-for-6 in up-and-downs, and was ninth in Strokes Gained: Around the Green (+2.503). “He has told me many times that max versatility is important to him,” said Vokey Tour Rep Aaron Dill . “He has the ability to be steep or shallow when he wants and, one thing’s for sure, he makes great contact with lots of spin on most of his wedge shots. Since his first T grind he has been loyal to this club, occasionally testing some other higher bounce options but always returning to the T.” Inspired by Master Craftsman Bob Vokey’s work with one of the game’s all-time best wedge players, the T Grind was designed for great hands and a vivid short-game imagination. Available in 58- and 60-degree lofts, it is ideal for a shallow angle of attack in firm conditions, with low bounce and a narrow crescent surface. Compared to Vokey’s L grind, it has a wider back flange which allows for lower measured bounce. Titleist Brand Ambassador Cameron Smith played a 60T in winning The Open at St Andrews, where the Vokey T grind was such a popular choice that Dill ran out of heads on the Titleist Tour Van. The T is also a favorite of Titleist Brand Ambassadors Jordan Spieth , Justin Thomas and Will Zalatoris . Cameron Young, who plays his 60T bent to 62 degrees, finished second this week in SG: Around the Green (4.289). “I’ve had players say they feel like they can hit any shot with the T,” said Will Harvey, Vokey’s European Tour Rep. “The combination of the forward bounce for low pitch shots and the grind for the soft control shots is something needed with the vast amount of shots required on links or firmer course set ups.” TSR MOMENTUM CONTINUES AT ROCKET MORTGAGE Titleist was the most played driver at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, with more than half of the Titleist drivers in players’ bags being NEW TSR2 , TSR3 and TSR4 models. One of the TOUR’s best drivers, Titleist Brand Ambassador Cameron Young finished the week third in SG: Off the Tee (+5.269) with his TSR3 10.0° model, the same club he used to drive the 18th green at St Andrews, setting up his 72nd-hole eagle at the Open Championship. “I’ve loved it. I put it right in play,” Young said. “It feels very much like the [TSi], but just a little faster. And I feel like especially the toe miss for me, I haven’t gotten as much curve out of it, which is obviously a good thing. It seems to be a little bit more consistent on my misses. I’ve put it right in play and it’s been great.” Titleist Brand Ambassador Joohyung Kim , who shot Sunday’s best round (9-under 63) on his way to a seventh-place finish, jumping to 34th in the World Ranking, plays a TSR3 9.0°. “I had been playing the TSi3 for the longest time and I thought I wasn't going to change it, but after trying it at TPI, it was just so good that I had to put in the bag, and it’s been working out really well. My percentage in the fairway has gone up and, yeah, it’s a keeper. Missed hits, solid hits, it just stays in the wind so well for me, that’s what I’ve had trouble with before and I thought I was going to use the ‘i’ for the rest of the season, but I put it right in the bag because I gained ball speed, gained swing speed, smash factor went up and holds it really into the wind. So it was great.” Both Kim (TSR3 13.5°) and Young (TSR3 16.5°) also had NEW TSR fairways in the bag, with a total of 27 TSR2 , TSR2+ and TSR3 fairways in play. Said Kim: “In the wind, downwind, when you want to hit it up, it goes up. In the wind when you keep it low, it goes low. So it's really the perfect club for a 3-wood. 3-wood’s the hardest club to fit and they did it perfectly.” SUNSHINE TOUR | FNB Eswatini Nkonyeni Challenge Titleist Brand Ambassador Jaco Prinsloo completed a wire-to-wire victory at the Nkonyeni Lodge and Golf Estate, closing in 3-under 69 for a three-shot victory. Prinsloo, playing a Pro V1 golf ball and full bag of Titleist equipment, was the only player to finish the three days in double-digits under par (12 under). He topped a leaderboard that featured Titleist golf ball players in the top-five positions. What’s in Jacob Prinsloo’s Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSi Fairway Metal: TSi Irons: T100 Wedges: Vokey Design Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 12 PGA TOUR CANADA | Ontario Open The winner of the Ontario Open, playing a Pro V1x golf ball, closed in 4-under 67 on his way to a seven-shot win in just his fifth start on PGA TOUR Canada. The champion shot 17 under for the week, getting his Pro V1x up-and-down 89.13 percent of the time and making four eagles, including a hole-out on the 413-yard ninth hole on Sunday. Thomas Walsh (Pro V1) and Lee Detmer (Pro V1x) finished at 10 under in a tie for second place, as Titleist golf ball players finished 1-2-3-4 in Ontario. AMATEUR | U.S. Junior Championship Playing a Pro V1x golf ball, the winner of the U.S. Junior Amateur made 11 birdies and one eagle on his way to a 3-and-2 victory in Saturday’s 36-hole final match at Bandon Dunes. The 17-year-old – who became the first male USGA champion from China and just the fifth international winner of the U.S. Junior – added his name to an illustrious list of U.S. Junior champs such as fellow Titleist golf ball player Jordan Spieth . He is now exempt into the 123rd U.S. Open next summer at Los Angeles Country Club and the next two U.S. Amateur Championships at Ridgewood Country Club and Cherry Hills Country Club, provided he remains amateur. Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf balls were used by three of the four semi-finalists. TITLEIST SWEEPS EQUIPMENT COUNTS AT BANDON DUNES Titleist was the #1 choice of players in all major equipment categories this week at the U.S. Junior Amateur. Out of the 264 players competing at Bandon Dunes, more players trusted Titleist golf balls , drivers , fairway metals , hybrids , utility irons , irons , wedges and putters than any other brand: A total of 198 players teed up a Pro V1 , Pro V1x , Pro V1x Left Dash or AVX golf ball, including the champion (Pro V1x) and the stroke-play medalist (Pro V1). At 75% of the field, the total number of players trusting Titleist balls was more than five times the nearest competitive brand. Titleist was the most played driver at Bandon Dunes with more than 100 players (103/39.9%), reflecting the momentum and performance of Titleist drivers at every level of competitive golf. Eighty-five players teed it up using a TSi3 driver, more than double the nearest competitive model. Titleist was top choice in fairway metals (114) and hybrids (20), with TSi3 being the most popular model for Titleist players in both categories. More than half of the utility irons in play were Titleist models (87), more than triple the nearest competitor (26). The most popular model was T200 (Utility Build). There were 101 Titleist iron sets in play (38.3%), compared to 58 (22%) for the nearest competitor. The most played model: Titleist T100 . Vokey Design gap, sand, and lob wedges accounted for 56.8% (448) of the wedges in the field and more than all other brands combined. Scotty Cameron (117/44.3%) was the field’s most trusted putter brand, more than double the nearest competitor (49). The most popular models in play: Newport , Newport 2 and Phantom X . ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | 3M Open Tony Finau (Pro V1 Left Dot) closed in 4-under 67, making three consecutive birdies from Nos. 14-16, to win by three shots. Finau, who shot a 6-under 66 last Sunday in the final round at St. Andrews, followed with rounds of 67-68-65-67 this week at TPC Twin Cities to earn his third PGA TOUR title. Finau topped the field in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green (+16.651), while finishing third in SG: Approach (+7.855) and second in SG: Around the Green (+3.871). He also finished first in Scrambling, getting his Pro V1 Left Dot up and down 83 percent of the time. TONY FINAU ON HIS PRO V1 LEFT DOT “I think equipment starts with the golf ball, not with the clubs, not with the woods, not with any other piece of equipment. It starts with the golf ball. I’ve always been a believer in that.” “The Left Dot golf ball is right for me because I’ve always put a lot of spin on the golf ball, so it’s the lowest spinning Titleist Pro V1 that is out on the market, and right away, it caught my eye because of the ball flight. I think if you can control your ball flight, you can control the distance. And it’s been such a reliable ball flight for me from the first time that I hit it. I think the best word I can use is just reliable. I can count on the golf ball in crosswinds, into the wind, downwind. I know how far the golf ball is going to go. And that’s a great feeling to have as a professional golfer. Distance control is up there probably with the most important things when it comes to striking a golf ball and playing golf.” HOW TONY FINAU MARKS HIS PRO V1 LEFT DOT “I actually mark my Pro V1 golf ball with my kids’ initials. I have five kids. I’ll throw my wife in there sometimes as well. So the determining factor for me is if they make a couple bogeys, power lip out, whatever the case, they’re out, and I’m ready for the next kid to come into play and see if they’ll perform. And that’s pretty much it. I’m not crazy superstitious, but there does come a time where, if my kids are a little scared of the dark that day, they want to go swimming, they want to play in the beach, I’ve got to let them go and bring somebody else in that’s ready to score for me.” TITLEIST SWEEPS EQUIPMENTS COUNTS AT 3M For the third time of the 2021-22 season – and 26th time since the beginning of the 2019 calendar year – Titleist was the top choice in every major equipment category on the PGA TOUR, a feat that has never been matched by another brand. Of the 156 players in the field at the 3M Open, Titleist was the most played brand in golf balls , drivers , fairway metals , hybrids , utility irons , irons , wedges and putters : A total of 114 players teed up either a Titleist Pro V1 , Pro V1x , Pro V1 Left Dot or Pro V1x Left Dash golf ball, more than six times the nearest competitor (17) – including the winner and five of the top-6 finishers. Titleist was the most played driver (50 players), with 25 of them being NEW TSR models. Titleist drivers won the last three major championships of 2022, while the new TSR models have already won twice since their TOUR debut at the Travelers Championship. Cameron Smith won last week’s Open Championship playing a NEW TSR3 driver. More players chose Titleist fairway metals (61) and hybrids (21) than any other brand. The most popular Titleist fairways were NEW TSR2 and TSR3 models, while the top Titleist hybrid was TSi2 . There were 35 Titleist utility irons in play at TPC Twin Cities – including 25 NEW T200 (Utility Build) irons, more than double the nearest competitor’s total number of utilities (14). Titleist irons were in the bags of 45 players, with more players using T100 models (24) than any other brand’s total number of iron sets. Players gamed a total of 237 Vokey Design gap, sand and lob wedges, more than four times the nearest competitor (48). This includes the NEW SM9 WedgeWorks 60T lob wedge that was in the winner’s bag. More players put their trust in Scotty Cameron putters (57) than any other brand, including four of the top-6 finishers. LPGA | Amundi Evian Championship Titleist was the most played golf ball at the LPGA’s penultimate major of 2022, with 80 percent of players teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x – including Lydia Ko (Pro V1x) , who shot a final-round 5-under 66 to vault up the leaderboard into a tie for third place at 15 under, her best major finish of the season. Also finishing T3, two shots off the winning score, were Pro V1x players Hyo Joo Kim and Carlota Ciganda . WORLD NO. 1 & NO. 4 SWITCH TO TSR DRIVERS & FAIRWAYS The No. 1 & No. 4 players in the Rolex World Rankings (as of July 18 ranking) put NEW TSR drivers and fairway metals in play for the first time at the Amundi Evian Championship, as three players in the top 8 and ties played TSR metalwoods: World No. 1: TSR3 10.0° driver | Fujikura Ventus Blue TR 5 R TSR2 15.0° fairway | Fujikura Ventus Blue TR 5 S TSR2 18.0° fairway | Fujikura Ventus Blue TR 6 S World No. 4: TSR3 9.0° driver | Mitsubishi Kurokage XD50 S TSR2 18.0° fairway | Mitsubishi Diamana PD60 S The World No. 4, who closed in 5-under 66 Sunday, finished T3, while the World No. 1 finished T8 after her fourth straight round in the 60’s. Titleist Brand Ambassador So Yeon Ryu , who earned her best finish of 2022 (T8), also put a NEW TSR driver and fairway in play for the first time in France: So Yeon Ryu : TSR3 9.0° driver | Fujikura Ventus Blue TR 5 S TSR2 15.0° fairway | Fujikura Ventus Blue TR 5 S SO YEON RYU ON HER NEW TSR DRIVER “I was able to see 1-2 mph of ball speed. It might sound like nothing, but 2-4 yards is still a big difference, so I am very looking forward to have this in my bag. “I don’t think you can find this kind of feel with any other brands. I always like the feel of golf balls staying with the club face a little longer, and then jumping. For me, that’s the feel I like, and so this is the perfect driver. I can have that perfect feel.” “I need to have this comfortable look when I address the ball. It’s the same thing, putter, wedge, everything. As soon as I address the ball [with TSR3], I always just feel really comfortable with it. And then it’s performed really well. No matter what kind of shot you’re going to hit, high, low, fade, draw, I love shaping the ball. And when my club’s just performing as well as I want it to in my head, I think that’s the most enjoyable thing to play golf.” DP WORLD TOUR | Cazoo Classic Richie Ramsay (Pro V1x) claimed his fourth title on the DP World Tour, making birdie on three of his final four holes to post a final-round 3-under 69 and win by one shot. Ramsay, the only player to shoot all four rounds in the 60’s, finished the week at 14 under while leading a 1-through-7 for Titleist golf ball players. Paul Waring (Pro V1x) finished second at 13 under, while five players tied for third another shot back. PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | The Senior Open Championship Darren Clarke (Pro V1x) birdied the 72nd hole Sunday to post 1-under 69 and secure a one-shot victory on the King’s Course at Gleneagles. Clarke, who is just the fourth player to win both an Open Championship and Senior Open, finished the week at 10 under, enough to hold off a charging Padraig Harrington (Pro V1) , who made six birdies on his final nine to close in 67. Clarke, 53, posted four rounds in the 60s’ – 65-67-69-69 – and birdied the 18th hole all four rounds. In winning his first senior major, Clarke topped a leaderboard that featured eight Pro V1 and Pro V1x players in the top 10 positions. SENIOR OPEN CHAMPION MAKES SWITCH TO PHANTOM X 9.5 PUTTER The Senior Open Champion claimed his first senior major using a NEW Scotty Cameron Phantom X 9.5 tour prototype putter that he first put into play a week prior at the Open Championship. Having previously played a Phantom X 11.5 model, the Senior Open champ told Scotty Cameron Tour Rep Henry Byrne that the 9.5 (with its small slant neck configuration) helped free up his stroke. Additionally, he said the feel of the 9.5 reminded him of the Newport model he used to win the 2011 Open Championship, while providing him the added forgiveness of a mallet. KORN FERRY TOUR | Price Cutter Charity Championship NEW Titleist TSR drivers made their debut on the Korn Ferry Tour last week with more TSR drivers (34) going immediately in play at the Memorial Health Championship than any other brand’s total number of drivers. It was the same story this week at the Price Cutter Charity Championship, as more players used NEW TSR2 , TSR3 and TSR4 models (32) in Missouri than any other brand. TSR has also been the most popular fairway model in its first two weeks on the KFT with a total of 65 TSR2 and TSR3 models going straight into players’ bags. PGA TOUR CANADA | Osprey Valley Open Titleist Brand Ambassador Danny Walker birdied the first playoff hole to earn his first-ever victory on PGA TOUR Canada. Walker – playing a Pro V1 golf ball and 14 Titleist clubs – finished the week at 16 under after a final round 3-under 68. On Friday, Walker posted a bogey-free 9-under 62, the best round of the week at the Heathlands Course at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley. What's in Danny Walker's Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSi3 9.0° Fairway Metals: TSi3 15.0°, 18.0° Irons: T100 (4-5) & 620 MB (6-9) Wedges: Vokey Design SM8 46.10F, 52.12F, 56.14F, 60.04L Putter: Scotty Cameron Futura X 5W USGA | U.S. Adaptive Open World Golf Hall of Fame member and Titleist Staff Member Dennis Walters got up-and-down for par on his final hole Wednesday at Pinehurst No. 6 to win the Seated Players division of the U.S. Adaptive Open Championship. Walters, 72, chipped from off the 9th green to 4 feet and made the putt to secure the one-shot victory. It was Walters’ first tournament since he was paralyzed from the waist down in a golf cart accident in 1974. “I don’t think I’ve ever tried harder at anything, and I don’t think I’ve ever had anything that was more difficult,” Walters said after Wednesday’s final round. “I proved it today by the way I played.” “I think this tournament has the power to create a real movement for people with disabilities in the direction of playing golf, because a lot of people with a disability I’m guessing would say, I don’t think I could do that. But I think if enough people see this, then it can. I think it can change lives. For me personally, I’m exhausted. I’ve only played three rounds in a row one time in the last – since I started on this journey. Not six and a half hour rounds and not in 100-degree weather. This ol’ boy is tired.” www.youtube.com/watch To learn more about Dennis Walter’s story, check out Get a New Dream: The Dennis Walters Story AMATEUR | U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship The U.S. Girls’ Junior champion trusted her Titleist AVX golf ball to victory in Saturday’s final match, defeating her opponent 3-and-2 at The Club at Olde Stone. The champion, who finished stroke play at 6 under (T3), also relied on three Vokey Design SM8 wedges and a Scotty Cameron Special Select Newport 2 putter to make key up-and-downs and clutch putts all week. Despite just falling short, the runner-up used a Pro V1x golf ball and full bag of Titleist equipment to win five matches after finishing T14 (2 under) in stroke play. With the victory, the champion earned a spot in next year’s U.S. Women’s Open at Pebble Beach, while both finalists are exempt into the 2022 U.S. Women’s Amateur to be held later this summer at Chambers Bay. ELITE AMATEUR SERIES | Pacific Coast Amateur Playing a Pro V1 golf ball, the winner of the Pacific Coast Amateur posted a final round 3-under 68, making birdie on 18 to win by two shots. He finished the week at Columbia Edgewater CC at 15 under. Titleist golf ball players occupied four of the top five spots on the leaderboard, while 84% of the field used a Pro V1 , Pro V1x or Pro V1x Left Dash . Titleist golf ball players have won five of the first six Elite Amateur Series events played this summer. ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | Open Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Cameron Smith lifted the Claret Jug Sunday in St. Andrews, claiming his first major championship with an historic final round at the Home of Golf. Smith – playing a Pro V1x golf ball, NEW TSR3 driver, T100 irons, NEW Vokey Design SM9 wedges and Scotty Cameron putter among his Titleist equipment – made five consecutive birdies from holes 10 through 14 on his way to a final-nine 30, the lowest nine-hole score all-time by an Open Champion. He finished with a bogey-free 8-under 64, the lowest final round by an Open Champion at the Old Course. Smith’s eighth and final birdie of the day, a 2-footer on the 18th hole, earned him the one-shot victory over Titleist Brand Ambassador Cameron Young , whose closing 65 was punctuated by an eagle after driving the 18th green with his NEW TSR3 driver and rolling in his Pro V1 Left Dot golf ball from 17 feet with his Scotty Cameron Phantom X 11 Knuckle Neck tour prototype. Young’s runner-up was the best finish by a player at St. Andrews making their Open debut since 1964. What’s in Cameron Smith’s Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSR3 10.0° | Fujikura Ventus Blue 60 X Fairway Metals: TSi2 15.0° | Fujikura Ventus Blue 80 X Irons: NEW T100 5-9 | KBS Tour 130 Custom Matte Black X Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 52.08F, 56.08M, 60T | KBS Tour 130 Custom Matte Black X Putter: Scotty Cameron 009M tour prototype What’s in Cameron Young’s Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Left Dot Driver: TSR3 10.0° | Tensei 1K Pro White 70 TX | SureFit Hosel – D1 (-0.75° loft, 1.5° open face) | SureFit CG – H1 Fairway Metal: TSR3 16.5° | Tensei 1K Pro White 80 TX Utility Iron: NEW T200 2 & 4 | Nippon NS Pro Modus3 Tour 130 X Irons: 620 CB (5) and 620 MB (6-9)| Nippon NS Pro Modus3 Tour 130 X Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM 9 56.08M, 52.12F, WedgeWorks 62.08M | Nippon NS Pro Modus3 Tour 130 X Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5 Knuckle Neck tour prototype MAJOR SWEEP FOR PRO V1 & PRO V1 x Cameron Smith's victory completed a sweep of all four men’s major championships for Titleist golf ball players in 2022: Masters Champion (The Masters): Pro V1 Justin Thomas (PGA Championship): Pro V1x Matthew Fitzpatrick (U.S. Open): Pro V1x Cameron Smith (Open Championship): Pro V1x The #1 ball at The Open Championship since records have been kept, Titleist was the overwhelming most played golf ball at St. Andrews with 109 players (70%), more than five times the nearest competitor (21). SMITH ON THE PERFORMANCE OF HIS PRO V1 x Smith's major breakthrough marked his third victory of 2022 and win No. 26 for Titleist golf ball players overall this season on the PGA TOUR. Smith put his current golf ball – 2021 Pro V1x – in play the first week it was available at the 2020 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. A month later, he teed the ball up at Augusta National, where he became the first player in Masters history to post four rounds in the 60’s. He opened 2022 with a win at the Sentry Tournament of Champions and followed that up with a victory at The PLAYERS. “The biggest thing for me with the [2021 Pro V1x] is the cover and the stickiness it gives me around the greens. I feel as though I can hit a lot of different scoring shots into and around the green... For me, when I tested it, it was a bit hotter off the driver, which was great. The windows were great. The spin was still the same. The irons were basically the same which I love. But for me, the biggest thing that stuck out was the control coming out of the rough and around the greens. So like inside 40-50 yards, just the stickiness of it. I feel as though I can control my shots, especially those difficult, soft shots, just so much better with that new cover they got on there. … I love to be creative around the green, so hitting those high, spinny shots and just being able to hit different shots is really important for me.” Sunday at the Old Course, Smith hit 17 greens in regulation, the most in a final round by an Open champion over the last 20 years. He finished the week 15th in Strokes Gained: Approach and 19th in SG: Around the Green. His eight birdies in the final round were the second-most by a major champion over the last 25 years. “This ball is fantastic in the wind,” he said. “It’s just consistent. I feel like I can really dial in my numbers, especially with the shorter irons, and give myself plenty of birdie looks.” NEW TSR DRIVER VICTORIOUS IN MAJOR DEBUT The NEW Titleist TSR Drivers made their major debut at the Open Championship, with Smith bringing his new TSR3 10.0° driver to the winner’s circle in St. Andrews. In the five weeks since making their tour debut at the Travelers Championship , players using TSR drivers have now earned two PGA TOUR victories, including one major. ( J.T. Poston earned the first win for TSR at the John Deere Classic .) “Cam loves everything that TSR has brought to the table in terms of ball speed and consistency,” said J.J. Van Wezenbeeck, Titleist’s Director of Player Promotions. “He’s done a bunch of testing with both the TSR2 and TSR3 models, but when it comes to windy conditions, he really likes the feeling of being able to work the ball more. Going with TSR3 this week in St. Andrews not only helped him flatten his trajectory, it gave him that added workability versus the higher-MOI TSR2, providing him the versatility to shape shots and take advantage of the different winds on different holes.” Cameron Young , who drove the 18th green to set up his closing eagle, made it a 1-2 finish for TSR driver players. Young finished the week fourth in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green with his TSR3 10.0° model. “I’ve loved it. I put it right in play last week,” he said. “It feels very much like the old one, but just a little faster. And I feel like especially the toe miss for me, I haven’t gotten as much curve out of it, which is obviously a good thing. It seems to be a little bit more consistent on my misses. I’ve put it right in play and it’s been great.” Three of the year’s four major champions gamed a Titleist driver: Justin Thomas (PGA Championship): TSi3 U.S. Open champion : TSi3 Cameron Smith (Open Championship): TSR3 MAJOR SWEEP FOR VOKEY WEDGES All four men’s major champions had Vokey Design wedges in the bag in 2022, with Smith using four NEW SM9 models to navigate the Old Course’s firm, undulating turf. The last three major champion each carried three or four new SM9’s. The Masters champion : Vokey Design SM8 50.12F, 56.14F, WedgeWorks 60.06K Justin Thomas (PGA Championship): NEW Vokey Design SM9 46.10F (@ 47.5), 52.12F (@ 52.5), 56.14F (@ 57.0), WedgeWorks 60.06K U.S. Open champion : NEW Vokey Design SM9 52.12F, 56.08M, 60.08M Cameron Smith (Open Championship): NEW Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 52.08F, 56.08M, WedgeWorks 60T Said Smith in the lead up to The Open: “You know, I think you have to be comfortable with almost being uncomfortable, in these conditions. I’m hitting some pitching wedges, and gap wedges from 50, 60 yards, which is not something that we typically do. So yeah, lots of practice, lots of flight and spin control, and I think that’s how you get the most out of it. I try not to change up my technique too much, to be honest. I like to just switch the wedges around it. I don’t put the ball further back, and try and hit more down on it, or anything. I’m trying to keep everything the same, just using different lofts.” “I think these new Vokey wedges, as well, in the wind are a lot better, especially into the wind. The 46, and the 52, for me, have been a big, big help in the wind. The ball just flights the way I want it to, and the golf balls are best in the world, so it just does what it does.” Vokey Tour Rep Aaron Dill on Smith’s wedge setup: “Cam is so talented. He just has a great touch and understands how to find the bottom. He’s also really good at understanding which ones fit him the best. That’s why, for so long, he’s played the same five wedges – the 46.10, the 52.08, the 56M grind, and he’ll go back and forth between the 60.10S and the 60T. “He just understands that if the conditions need it, he’ll make the switch. If it gets softer, he’ll go to the S. If it stays firm, he’ll stick with the T. But the first three are really plug-and-play, he can use them from everywhere. And because he’s so good with his hands, he can get away with a little bit less bounce and actually add some versatility to a short game, which is why that M grind, the sand wedge is a good friend as well.” The Vokey T grind was such a popular choice this week at the Old Course that Vokey Tour Rep Aaron Dill ran out of heads on the Titleist Tour Van. Young also played a 60T (bent to 62) among his four Vokey SM9’s. “There’s this trend at this event with these conditions where a T grind really outperforms most of the other grinds we make, just due to how it’s made and what it does. The rear section of the sole of the T grind is the lowest rear section we make, meaning when he opens up the face of the wedge, it sits as close to the ground as anything that we build in the Vokey line. So for guys to say, ‘This one fits me the best here,’ it makes a lot of sense. So I’m not surprised that a T grind was in the winner’s bag.” SMITH CONTINUES TO MAKE HISTORY WITH SCOTTY CAMERON 009M Smith and his Newport-style Scotty Cameron 009M tour prototype putter continue to make history. Smith led the field in Strokes Gained: Putting, while making a record 255 feet of putts during his second round at the Old Course – the highest total ever registered in one round on the PGA TOUR. On Sunday, Smith used his 009M to get up-and-down for par from behind the Road Hole bunker, and then up-and-down for birdie on the 18th hole, just right of the Valley of Sin. Earlier this season at The PLAYERS, Smith gained the most strokes putting versus the field in tournament history (+2.88 per round). He also finished with the most one-putts ever by a PLAYERS champ (42). “I’ve always been a little bit of a fiddler with the putter, but yeah, I just really like this one,” said Smith, who changed to the Newport-style 009M model at the 2021 Sony Open. “It just feels great in the hands. I feel like I’m able to hit really good lag putts with it, which is a big thing out here. We leave ourselves some pretty nasty putts sometimes. I feel like I’m able to get the ball rolling real good. And the biggest thing for me is the strike. So I just feel like I hit lots of good putts with it out of the middle and it feels so good.” “I've always loved the (alignment) dot on top. I’ve never been a line guy. I feel like I can just feel the putt a little bit better. When I don’t get so obsessed with the line, I feel like I'm able to just hit a good putt and a good putt out of the middle means more chances of going in.” Three of the year’s four major champions used a Scotty Cameron putter The Masters champion : Scotty Cameron Special Select Timeless Tourtype GSS tour prototype Justin Thomas (PGA Championship): Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5 Knuckle Neck tour prototype Cameron Smith (Open Championship): Scotty Cameron 009M tour prototype SMITH ON HIS T100 IRONS Smith hit 17 greens in regulation at the Old Course Sunday, the most in a final round by an Open champion over the last 20 years. He plays T100 irons (with a prototype black finish) that he put into play immediately at last season’s Travelers Championship. “I put these in as soon as we got them. They’ve been really good,” Smith said. “I love the consistency. I think they did a lot of really good work, especially on the shorter irons with grinding this heel a little bit. So when you get a bit of an uneven lie, you don’t feel like the heel's digging in and you’re missing shots left.” LPGA | Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational Jennifer Kupcho (Pro V1) and Lizette Salas (Pro V1x) posted a final-round 61 (-9) for a 26-under victory total at Midland Country Club. The pair closed with a final-nine 30 to finish five shots clear of Pro V1x loyalists Matilda Castren and Kelly Tan in the tournament’s four-ball format. Castren made eight birdies on her own ball during Sunday’s final round. With 122 players, over 84 percent of the field teed up a Titleist golf ball this week, more than 11 times the nearest competitor (11). PGA TOUR | Barracuda Championship Chez Reavie (Pro V1) tallied 43 points in the Modified Stableford Scoring System, good for a one-point win at the Tahoe Mountain Club in Truckee, Calif. Final round birdies at Nos. 8, 9, 12 and 16, and a par at 18 secured the crown. WINNER PLAYS VOKEY SM9’s In addition to his Pro V1 golf ball, the winner leaned on his Vokey Design SM9 gap (50.12F), sand (54.10S) and lob (58.10S) wedges to lead the field in Scrambling (84.2%) and tie for 8th in Greens in Regulation. KORN FERRY TOUR | Memorial Health Championship Paul Haley II (Pro V1x) secured his PGA TOUR card for next season with a bogey-free final round 64 and three-shot victory. Haley led a 1-2-3 finish for Titleist golf ball players. Austin Eckroat (Pro V1) closed in 68 to finish second, while Michael Kim (Pro V1x) posted a final-round 67 to finish another shot back in third. Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf balls were played by 12 of the top 13 finishers, as well as 22 of the top 25 for the week. ELITE AMATEUR SERIES | Southern Amateur The winner of the Southern Amateur Championship trusted his Titleist Pro V1x Left Dash and 14 Titleist clubs to victory in Sea Island, Georgia. Birdies on Nos. 16 and 18 propelled the victor to a three-shot win with a final score of 20-under par 264 at Sea Island’s Plantation. The win marks back-to-back victories for a Pro V1x ball and a Scotty Cameron putter in the Elite Amateur Series, which has two events remaining this summer. What’s in the Bag of the Southern Am Champion? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Left Dash Driver: TSi3 10.0° Fairway Metal: TSi2 13.5° Utility Iron: T200 (Utility Build) 3 Irons: 620 CB 4-6 irons; 620 MB 7-PW Wedges: Vokey Design 50.12F, 54.10S, 58.08M Putter: Scotty Cameron Timeless tour prototype putter. ... #TeamTitleist
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www.youtube.com/watch PGA TOUR | Travelers Championship The NEW Titleist TSR drivers – the next generation of the most played drivers on the PGA TOUR – made their debut this week at the Travelers Championship, with 18 players putting new TSR2 , TSR3 or TSR4 models immediately in play, including two of the Top 5 finishers: J.T. Poston (TSR3 9.0°) and Chesson Hadley (TSR3 10.0°). Also among those making the switch to TSR drivers this week: Jordan Spieth (TSR3 10.0°), Cameron Davis (TSR3 8.0°) and Davis Riley (TSR3 8.0°), who led the field in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee (+5.94). Poston and Davis also added NEW TSR fairway metals to their bag, with a total of 13 TSR2 and TSR3 fairways going in play this week in Hartford. Titleist was the overwhelming field favorite for golf balls with 72% of the players teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x (nearest competitor, 10%). In addition to golf balls, Titleist was also the most trusted driver , hybrid , utility iron , iron , wedge and putter at the event. DAVIS RILEY ON HIS TSR DRIVER Playing a TSR3 8.0° driver, Davis Riley averaged a career-best 1.48 strokes gained off the tee per round this week, leading the field. His 2.41 strokes gained off the tee in Sunday’s final round was also the best of his career. “Immediately when I pulled the headcover off, I was like, ‘Dang, this looks really good.’ The overall look, the feel is awesome. It’s really good. The mishits are really good. I’m finding really consistent spin across the face no matter where I’m hitting it, so that you’re maxing out your carry numbers every time. It’s what you really want to look for. It’s not how good your good hits are. It’s, ‘How good are your bad hits?’ And just seeing that consistency across the face is really cool to see. “I actually saw 1 or 2 mph increase in ball speed, which is really nice. Typically when you have a mishit, you see that number drop dramatically. But I noticed right away, I was like, ‘OK, I hit one of those a little high on the toe.’ And the numbers were almost identical to the center hit. “I tend to play a little left right cut with my driver. And the first day out (practice round) with it, it was awesome. My start lines were super consistent and the shot shape was super consistent. Just to see that consistent start line and curvature no matter where you’re hitting on the face is pretty cool.” J.T. POSTON ON HIS TSR DRIVER twitter.com/.../1540129117395451907 J.T. Poston was one of the first players to get fit into a NEW TSR driver. Working on the range Monday morning with Titleist Tour Rep Jim Curran , Poston saw a 2 mph jump in ball speed with his TSR3 9.0° compared to his prior generation TSi3 . “That’s definitely further,” Poston said after making contact for the first time. “I like the sound of that a lot. Feels great. Sounds great. Looks great.” Poston, who recorded his best finish (T2) of the season after rounds of 62-70-67-64, also added a new TSR2 15.0° fairway, commenting that his start lines were improved with better spin off the turf. CHESSON HADLEY ON HIS TSR DRIVER Chesson Hadley earned his best finish (5th) of the season with a NEW TSR3 10.0° driver in the bag, having gained up to 1.5 mph faster ball speed versus his prior generation TSi3 . Said Hadley: “When I set it down, it just looks like the same driver I’ve been hitting, but I’m getting better performance. You couldn’t ask for a better driver. I love it. I picked up a little bit of ball speed. And I mean, look at this thing. It looks like a Ferrari. That’s just so clean. You’ve got to like the way it looks and feels. And Titleist definitely has mastered both of those things. So I’m pretty juiced about it.” www.instagram.com/.../ NEW TSR DRIVERS IN PLAY (18) Josh Creel : TSR4 9.0° Cameron Davis : TSR3 8.0° Bill Haas : TSR3 8.0° Chesson Hadley : TSR3 10.0° Lee Hodges : TSR2 8.0° Charles Howell III : TSR3 10.0° C.T. Pan : TSR2 9.0° J.T. Poston : TSR3 9.0° Davis Riley : TSR3 8.0° Jordan Spieth : TSR3 10.0° Callum Tarren : TSR3 10.0° Vincent Whaley : TSR3 8.0° NEW TSR FAIRWAYS IN PLAY (13): Josh Creel : TSR3 13.5° Cameron Davis : TSR3 15.0° Lanto Griffin : TSR3 16.5° Lee Hodges : TSR3 15.0° Hank Lebioda : TSR2 15.0° C.T. Pan : TSR2 15.0° & 21.0° J.T. Poston : TSR2 15.0° Callum Tarren : TSR2 16.5° Richy Werenski : TSR2 15.0° & 18.0° twitter.com/.../1539297761417363462 TRAVELERS CHAMPION WINS WITH VOKEY WEDGES, LIGHTER SM9 LOB WEDGE The winner of the Travelers Championship played a pair of Vokey Design wedges, including a new, lighter 60-degree lob wedge inspired by Titleist Brand Ambassador Patrick Cantlay . Vokey Tour Rep Aaron Dill built the wedge – an SM9 60.06K with D0 swing weight – after a conversation with the reigning Olympic champion at the Byron Nelson Championship. Said Dill: “He’s been in the same two Vokey 60’s for a long time, mainly the T and the K grinds. He occasionally will carry a couple of others, L and S, and he’ll determine which one best fits the conditions that week. “At the Byron Nelson, he told me he’d spent a little time chipping with Patrick Cantlay’s lob wedge (62.08M @61) and said he thought the weighting was really interesting. “Patrick’s pretty light – he’s about D1. Most guys are right around D5. He said, ‘I kind of like the way it felt, and I want to try it. What do you think? Should I just go down to D2 or D1?’ (He was previously at D3.) And I said, ‘Let’s take you a step further and really see if this feels the way you want.’ ” Dill made him a 60.06K and 60T to his specs at D0 swingweight. “By going lighter you’re able to create a little more speed, dial up the spin and hit it a little higher around the greens. He was like, ‘This thing feels so good. I feel like I can throw it through the ball a little faster, create a little more spin, and have a little more height when I want.’ ” PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | U.S. Senior Open Three-time major champion Padraig Harrington (Pro V1) earned his first senior major title with a one-shot victory over Steve Stricker (Pro V1x) at Saucon Valley. Harrington, who finished the week at 10 under, topped a leader board that featured Titleist golf ball players in the Top 6 positions. That includes Titleist Brand Ambassador Rob Labritz , who earned the best finish (T4) of his rookie season on PGA TOUR Champions to date. Titleist was the overwhelming field favorite for golf balls with 74% of the players teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x (nearest competitor, 12%). U.S. SENIOR OPEN WINNER WINS WITH TS i 3 DRIVER The winner of the U.S. Senior Open won with a Titleist TSi3 driver in the bag, as three of the Top 6 finishers played a Titleist driver. “I drove it great this week,” said the champ, who has worked with Titleist European Tour Rep Liam McDougall to dial in his TSi3 9.0° (Fujikura Ventus Black 70 X) and maximize his distance potential. “Obviously I took on those two par-4s and things. The one thing that I really did this week is drive it well. Very rarely got myself in trouble.” The winner of last week’s U.S. Open at The Country Club similarly gamed a TSi3 9.0° driver, having also worked with McDougall to gain distance and accuracy. In the final round, the U.S. Open champ was the only player to drive the green at the 301-yard 5th hole, where he two-putted for birdie. For the week, he ranked second in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee (+4.78), while hitting 70% of fairways. DP WORLD TOUR | BMW International Open Haotong Li (Pro V1) drained a 40-footer for birdie to top Titleist Brand Ambassador Thomas Pieters on the first hole of an all- Pro V1 playoff. Li closed in 2-under 70 Sunday at Golfclub Munchen Eichenried to finish regulation at 22 under, while Pieters posted 5-under 67 to force the playoff. It marked the sixth-consecutive victory for Titleist golf ball players on the DP World Tour. The win earned Li, 26, a spot in the upcoming Open Championship at St Andrews. Titleist was the overwhelming field favorite for golf balls with 74% of the players teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x (nearest competitor, 12%). In addition to golf balls, Titleist was also the most trusted driver , iron , and wedge at the event. KOREAN TOUR / ASIAN TOUR | Kolon The 64th Korea Open MinKyu Kim claimed his first-career KPGA Tour victory in an all-Titleist playoff with fellow Titleist Brand Ambassador MinGyu Cho , holing a birdie putt on the third extra hole. Both players earned spots in the upcoming Open Championship at St Andrews. Titleist was the overwhelming field favorite for golf balls with 71% of the players teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x (nearest competitor, 14%). What’s In MinKyu Kim’s Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSi2 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSi2 15.0° & 18.0° Irons: T200 (4) & 620 CB (5-PW) Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 50.08F, 54.10S, 60.06K Putter: Scotty Cameron Special Select Newport PGA TOUR LATINOAMERICA | Bupa Tour Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Jesus Montenegro earned his first PGA TOUR Latinoamerica title at the tour’s season-ending championship. Montenegro, who began the week at No. 59 in the Totalplay Cup standings, and was the second-to-last player to make it into the field, closed in even-par 72 to finish at 6 under and win by two shots. The victory jumped him to No. 10 in the standings, earning him conditional status next season on the Korn Ferry Tour and exempt into the final stage of Q-School. Of the 12 winners on the 2021-22 PGA TOUR Latinoamerica, nine played a Titleist golf ball . Titleist was the overwhelming field favorite for golf balls with 83% of the players teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x (nearest competitor, 9%). What’s in Jesus Montenegro’s Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Drive r: TSi3 8.0° Fairway Metal: TSi3 15.0° Utility Irons: T200 (2) Irons: T100•S (4-PW) Wedges: Vokey Design SM8 52°, 56°, 60° ELITE AMATEUR SERIES | Northeast Amateur The winner of the Northeast Amateur – the second stop on this summer’s Elite Amateur Series – played a Titleist Pro V1x golf ball and 14 Titleist clubs on his way to a record-setting victory at Wannamoisett Country Club in Rumford, R.I. The winner closed in 2-under 67 to finish at 19 under, breaking the tournament scoring record by four shots. He also set new marks for 36 (12 under) and 72 holes (17 under). For the second straight week on the EAS, Titleist was the #1 golf ball and top choice of players in every major equipment category. Titleist was the overwhelming field favorite for golf balls with 82% of the players teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x (nearest competitor, 10%). In addition to golf balls, Titleist was also the most trusted driver , fairway , hybrid , utility iron , iron , wedge and putter at the event. What’s In The Northeast Am Champion’s Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSi3 10.0° Fairway Metal: TS3 16.5° Hybrid: TSi2 21.0° Irons: T200 (4) & T100 (5-9) Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46°, 50°, 54°, WedgeWorks 60° Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5.5 AMATEUR | European Amateur Championship (R&A) Titleist was the #1 golf ball at the European Amateur Championship, with the winner trusting a Pro V1x golf ball to victory. The champion posted a closing 3-under 69 at Parador El Saler in Spain to clinch the one-shot win. In addition to golf balls, Titleist was also the top choice of players in every major equipment category, as it was a week prior at The Amateur Championship (R&A). Titleist was the overwhelming field favorite for golf balls with 87% of the players teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x (nearest competitor, 7%). In addition to golf balls, Titleist was also the most trusted driver , fairway , hybrid , utility iron , iron , wedge and putter at the event. ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | United States Open In one of the game’s historic ball-striking performances, Matt Fitzpatrick won his first major championship Sunday at The Country Club, playing the same golf ball model he used to win the 2013 U.S. Amateur on the same course: Titleist Pro V1x . The 27-year-old Englishman closed with his third 2-under 68 of the week, playing his final six holes in 2 under to win by one shot over the next player in the field and Titleist Brand Ambassador Will Zalatoris (Pro V1) – a 1-2-3 finish for Titleist golf ball players. Fitzpatrick’s conquest also marked the third-consecutive major win for Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x players, following Titleist Brand Ambassadors Justin Thomas (Pro V1x) . The low amateur at the U.S. Open also played a Pro V1 golf ball. Fitzpatrick Stats Fitzpatrick became just the 3 rd player ever to win the U.S. Open and U.S. Amateur on the same golf course. He hit 17 greens in regulation on Sunday, becoming only the third player in the last 30 years to accomplish that feat in the final round of a major victory. For the week, he led the field in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green (+16.14) and SG: Around the Green (+5.65) while making a tournament-best 19 birdies. He tied for first in GIR at 72.2 percent. Fitzpatrick posted all four rounds at The Country Club at par or better. The win moved Fitzpatrick up eight spots in the World Ranking to No. 10. FITZPATRICK ON THE PERFORMANCE OF HIS PRO V1 x “The reason [Pro V1x] is so good for me is feel, I like the harder feel off the club face. I just feel like the spin’s consistent, the flight’s consistent, and that’s what you need in a golf ball. You don’t need it kind of in different windows. It’s nice to have that consistency to have the confidence in the golf ball to know how far it’s going to go every time, and to be within a really tight deviation is obviously so important. This is a game of inches after all, the margins are so fine you want it to be as tight as possible. So that’s why I play Pro V1x because it’s exactly that, you know what you’re going to get every shot and you don’t get any strange effects from shots.” “You just know, hitting other golf balls, that as soon as you’ve hit it, it doesn’t have the same effect. I’ve messed around with balls on the range when they’ve been mixed into the Pro V1x bag that I always go to grab, and they just get funky flights. I don’t know how you can play golf with that, to be honest, and not knowing what you’re going to get from shot to shot.” “I feel like, for me, the firmer the ball is, the more I can control the spin. That’s always nice for me (with Pro V1x), knowing that I can increase spin, and take spin off it. That’s been the big thing. I know for a fact I can flight the ball easy, much easier, up and down, with the ball that I use.” “A shot that I can always hit is just anything low, whether it’s with a driver, whether it’s with an iron, I can always bring the flight down really easy, just naturally, the way I play. It’s so nice for me, that having the Pro V1x just keeps the flight down. It doesn’t spin up too much. It doesn’t just dive because it’s not got enough spin. To me, I know the window that it’s going to come out, and it’s very consistent.” “I’ve been Pro V1x ever since I was probably about 15. It was always the best ball. There was never anything else for me growing up, to be honest. That’s all I’ve ever known.” www.instagram.com/.../ TWO MAJORS IN A ROW FOR TS i DRIVERS The winner of the U.S. Open played a TSi3 driver – the most played driver at the U.S. Open and on the PGA TOUR – marking the second consecutive major win for TSi drivers. ( Justin Thomas also played a TSi3 driver in his victory at the PGA Championship.) In Sunday’s final round, the eventual champion was the only player to drive the green at the 301-yard 5th hole, where he two-putted for birdie. He was one of only four players to reach the 561-yard par-5 8th in two, setting up another two-putt birdie. For the week, he ranked second in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee (+4.78), while hitting 70% of fairways. The U.S. Open champion first put his TSi3 9.0° driver in play at the DP Tour World Championship in December 2020, switching from a competitive model after working with Titleist European Tour Rep Liam McDougall in the days leading up to the event. The specs: Mitsubishi Tensei AV Orange 65 TX shaft, standard SureFit hosel setting (A1), and the SureFit Track Weight set at H2 (in the heel) to accommodate his strike location. Said McDougall: “Listening to what the player and his coaches were trying to achieve with the driver, we started looking at counterbalanced shaft options, where he could apply force to the butt end of the club and feel strength in the handle. He preferred the looks of the TSi3 head and the face had the right amount of bulge and roll for him. We were also able to improve his strike location by adjusting the new SureFit Track Weight toward the heel of the club. By moving his miss pattern, we were able to bring him to a stronger launch and spin window that helped him gain distance and accuracy.” MAJOR RUN CONTINUES FOR VOKEY WEDGES The U.S. Open champion gamed three NEW Vokey Design SM9 wedges (52.12F, 56.08M and 60.08M) while gaining more than five strokes (+5.65) on the field around the green, the most of any player this week at The Country Club. All three of the men’s major champions this year have carried at least three Vokey Design wedges, while there has been at least one Vokey wedge in the bag of the last four major winners. In winning the PGA, Justin Thomas played four NEW SM9’s: 46.10F (@ 47.5), 52.12F (@ 52.5), 56.14F (@ 57.0) and WedgeWorks 60.06K. The Masters champion had Vokey Design SM8 50.12F, 56.14F, WedgeWorks 60.06K models in the bag. WHAT’S WILL ZALATORIS' TITLEIST GOLF BAG? Golf Ball: Pro V1 Driver: TSi3 9.0° with a Fujikura Speeder 757 TR X shaft Fairway Metal: TSi3 16.5° with a Fujikura Atmos 8 Red shaft Utility iron: T200 3-iron Irons: T100 4-PW with Dynamic Gold X100 Tour Issue shafts Wedges: New Vokey Design SM9 50.08F, 54.10S at 55, 60T with Dynamic Gold X100 Tour Issue shafts Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 11 Tour Prototype LPGA | Meijer LPGA Classic Jennifer Kupcho (Pro V1) made back-to-back playoff birdies to win her second LPGA victory. Kupcho, who opened the week with a career-best 63, closed in 71 to finish regulation tied at 18 under with Leona Maguire (Pro V1) and Titleist Brand Ambassador Nelly Korda (Pro V1) and join the all-Titleist golf ball playoff. Lydia Ko (Pro V1x) finished another shot back, as Titleist golf ball players finished 1-2-3-4. “It’s really special… I mean, this leaderboard was stacked,” Kupcho said. “I think that’s what I’m most proud of, is players that were up there with me. It was a very close battle to the end and I’m proud of it.” Kupcho, who earned her first win (and major) in April at the Chevron Championship, hit 79 percent greens in regulation (57 of 72) and was 5-for-5 in sand saves. The former Wake Forest All-American played her first 52 holes of the week in 17 under without a bogey. KUPCHO ON HER PRO V1 “Pro V1 is just the ball I’ve always played. The ball flight is so consistent, I love how it flies off the tee, and around the greens I’m able to really control my spin and hit the shots I need to.” PGA TOUR CANADA | ATB Classic Wil Bateman (Pro V1x) chipped in for eagle on the second hole of a three-man playoff to win in his hometown of Edmonton, while becoming the first Canadian to win on the PGA TOUR Canada since 2019. AMATEUR | The Amateur Championship (R&A) Titleist was the #1 golf ball and top choice of players in every major equipment category at The Amateur Championship. That includes the 16-year-old winner of the event, who played a Pro V1 golf ball and full bag of Titleist equipment in securing the 3-and-2 victory in the final match at Royal Lytham & St Anne’s. WITB | The Amateur Champion Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSi3 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSi2 13.5° Utility Iron: T200 2 Irons: T100 3-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM8 46°, 50°, 54°, 58° Putter: Scotty Cameron Special Select Newport 2 ELITE AMATEUR SERIES | Sunnehanna Amateur Titleist was the #1 golf ball and top choice of players in every major equipment category at the Sunnehanna Amateur, the opening event of this summer’s Elite Amateur Series. The winner of the Sunnehanna played a Pro V1 golf ball and three NEW Vokey Design SM9 wedges in completing the wire-to-wire victory. In addition to the Sunnehanna, the Elite Amateur Series consists of the Northeast Amateur, North & South Amateur, Trans-Mississippi Amateur, Southern Amateur, Pacific Coast Amateur and Western Amateur. Top finishers in the series earn exemptions into USGA Championships as well as PGA TOUR and Korn Ferry Tour events. ... #TeamTitleist
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Pro V1x loyalist Matt Fitzpatrick broke through for his first major victory, winning the 122 nd U.S. Open Championship at The Country Club in Brookline, MA, the same site of his U.S. Amateur victory in 2013. Fitzpatrick came into Sunday at 4 under par for the championship and in a tie for the lead. He capped off his steady play all week with a final round 2 under par 68 to secure the U.S. Open Championship Trophy. Here are some other fast facts from Fitzpatrick’s major win: Fitzpatrick posted all four rounds at The Country Club at par or better. For the week Fitzpatrick ranked 2 nd in SG: Off the Tee (+4.78) and tied for 1 st in Greens in Regulation (72%). He ranked 1 st in SG: Short Game (+5.65). Fitzpatrick became just the 3 rd player ever to win the U.S. Open and U.S. Amateur on the same golf course. Fitzpatrick made 19 birdies on the week, leading the field in that category. Fitzpatrick hit 17 of 18 greens at Brookline on Sunday, only the third player in the last 30 years to do so in the final round of a major win. And in case you missed it, check out this exclusive content where we walked a few holes with Fitzpatrick earlier in the week: www.instagram.com/.../ Inside the Numbers at the 2022 U.S. Open Fitzpatrick (Pro V1x) led a 1-2-3 finish for Titleist golf ball players, including Will Zalatoris (Pro V1) who tied for second. Titleist was once again the most ball played at the U.S. Open – marking the 74th straight year Titleist has held this honor. This week at The Country Club, 105 players put their trust in a Pro V1 or Pro V1x , that’s more than double all other brands combined. In addition to golf balls, Titleist was also the most trusted driver , hybrid , utility iron , iron and wedge at the event. The winner of the U.S. Open played a TSi3 driver – the most played driver at the U.S. Open and on the PGA TOUR – marking the second consecutive major win for TSi drivers. Justin Thomas also played a TSi3 driver in his victory at the PGA Championship. The winner also had three new Vokey Design SM9 wedges in the bag including a 52.12F, 56.08M and a 60.08M. What’s in the Bag: Will Zalatoris Golf Ball: Pro V1 Driver: TSi3 9.0° with a Fujikura Speeder 757 TR X shaft Fairway Metal: TSi3 16.5° with a Fujikura Atmos 8 Red shaft Utility iron: T200 3-iron Irons: T100 4-PW with Dynamic Gold X100 Tour Issue shafts Wedges: New Vokey Design SM9 50.08F, 54.10S at 55, 60T with Dynamic Gold X100 Tour Issue shafts Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 11 Tour Prototype ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | PGA Championship The 104th PGA Championship concluded with an all-Titleist playoff between Titleist Brand Ambassadors Justin Thomas and Will Zalatoris – each playing a Titleist golf ball and 14 Titleist clubs — with Thomas emerging from the three-hole aggregate playoff to hoist the Wannamaker Trophy for the second time. Starting the day seven shots back of the lead, Thomas, 29, closed with his third 3-under 67 of the week to force the extra session. He played the three playoff holes – Southern Hills’ par-5 13th, par-4 17th and par-4 18th – in 2 under (birdie-birdie-par) to complete the largest comeback in PGA Championship history, and the third largest comeback in a major. Including the playoff, JT played his final 13 holes Sunday in 6 under par. For the week, Thomas finished T2 in Greens in Regulation (69.44%) while ranking 4th in proximity to the hole. He averaged 14’0” on approaches from 125-150 yards – second best in the field and 11’9” better than the field average. Thomas was also second in Strokes Gained: Putting (+6.313). With the win, JT moved to No. 5 in the World Ranking. Zalatoris, 25, earned his second runner-up finish in major championship while becoming the first player in 28 years to finish in the top-10 in 5 of his first 8 career majors. The performance moved Zalatoris to No. 14 in the World Ranking. JT LEADS FIVE-WIN WEEK FOR TITLEIST GOLF BALL PLAYERS Justin Thomas' PGA Championship victory was one of five wins Sunday for Titleist golf ball players across the worldwide professional tours – marking the fourth-consecutive week of five or more wins for Pro V1 and Pro V1x players. It also marked win No. 20 for Titleist golf ball players on the 2021-22 PGA TOUR. TITLEIST PLAYERS FINISH STRONG AT SOUTHERN HILLS Of the seven players who finished T5 or better at the PGA Championship: Six played a Titleist Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball model: Thomas (Pro V1x) , Zalatoris (Pro V1) , Cameron Young (Pro V1 Left dot), Mito Pereira (Pro V1), Chris Kirk (Pro V1x), and Matt Fitzpatrick (Pro V1x) ; Four played a Titleist TSi driver (all of them TSi3 models): Thomas, Zalatoris, Young and the 15th-ranked player in the world. Four carried full Titleist iron sets – Thomas ( T100 & 621.JT ), Zalatoris ( T100 ), Cameron Young ( 620 CB & MB ) – while three carried a T200 utility iron (Zalatoris, Young and the 67th-ranked player in the world); Six had at least one NEW Vokey Design SM9 wedge in the bag, with 19 total wedges among them: Thomas, Zalatoris, Young and the 15th-, 41st and 67th-ranked players in the world; Four played a Scotty Cameron putter: Thomas ( Phantom X 5 Knuckle Neck), Zalatoris ( Phantom X 11 Long), Young ( Phantom X 5 ) and the 67th-ranked player in the world (Select GoLo). WHAT'S IN JUSTIN THOMAS' TITLEIST GOLF BAG? Golf Ball: Pro V1x Driver: TSi3 10.0° | Mitsubishi Chemical Diamana ZF 60 TX-Flex Fairway Metals: TS3 15.0° and 915 Fd 18.0° Irons: NEW T100 4 and 621JT 5-9 Wedges: New Vokey Design SM9 46.10F (@ 47.5°), 52.12F (@ 52.5°), 56.14F (@ 57.0°) and WedgeWorks 60T (@ 60.5°) Putter: Scotty Cameron X5.5 prototype WHAT’S IN WILL ZALATORIS’ TITLEIST GOLF BAG? Golf Ball: Pro V1 Driver: TSi3 9.0° with a Fujikura Speeder 757 TR X shaft Fairway Metal: TSi3 16.5° with a Fujikura Atmos 8 Red shaft Utility iron: T200 3-iron Irons: T100 4-PW with Dynamic Gold X100 Tour Issue shafts Wedges: New Vokey Design SM9 50.08F, 54.10S at 55, 60T with Dynamic Gold X100 Tour Issue shafts Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 11 Tour Prototype JUSTIN THOMAS ON HIS PRO V1 x GOLF BALL Justin Thomas made the move to his current golf ball – the 2021 Pro V1x – in December of 2020 at the Mayakoba Golf Classic, following a testing session with Fordie Pitts of Titleist Golf Ball R&D . “A key focus for Justin heading into [last season] was to flight the ball higher with his long irons and improve his landing angle into those very firm greens they find most weeks on tour,” Pitts said. “As we started testing Pro V1x, the ball was consistently launching in that slightly higher window and giving him all the distance he needs. It was also a very windy day, and he really liked seeing how stable the ball was flying through all those gusts.” Said Thomas: “I feel like [the Pro V1x] is able to kind of pick up on some of the areas that I was trying to improve in terms of I was trying to get a little bit more height on the ball, trying to be able to hold greens a little bit better when they get firm or with long irons, and I feel like this ball has been able to do that for me." “I need [the ball] to do what it feels like I’m making it do. When I hit a shot, when I make the swing, when I look up and my eyes meet the ball, I want it to be in the window. I want it to be in and expect it to be in and perform the way I want and expect it to perform on the green. When you say it like that, it’s expecting a lot, but they (R&D) somehow seem to do it.” THOMAS WINS WITH TS i 3 DRIVER Justin Thomas' comeback victory included several critical drives down the stretch Sunday at Southern Hills with his Titleist TSi3 driver — the most played driver at the PGA Championship and on the PGA TOUR. After playing last season with a TSi2 model, JT moved into his current driver – a TSi3 10.0° with Mitsubishi Diamana ZF 60 TX shaft – to start 2022 at the Sentry Tournament of Champions in Hawaii. “As JT and his dad (Titleist staff member Mike Thomas) continue to refine his swing, we are regularly checking in on his driver to make sure he’s dialed in with all the shots he needs to hit,” said J.J. Van Wezenbeeck, Titleist’s Director of Player Promotions . “What we found in testing TSi3 was that we were able to go up in loft to the 10-degree head by utilizing the SureFit hosel in the D•1 setting (-0.75 degrees loft, standard lie), which allows him to hit those flighted shots we saw down the stretch Sunday at the PGA, while still being able control the spin when he hits the big ones.” For the week, Thomas finished 17th in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee (+2.629), while ranking seventh in that category for Sunday’s final round, his best performance of the week off the tee. THOMAS’ T100 4-IRON, CUSTOM 621 JT BLADES Justin Thomas' iron set consists of a T100 4-iron and set of custom prototype blade irons (621.JT). “The T100 4-iron just checks a lot of boxes that he needs at that part of the bag in terms of launch and speed performance,” Van Wezenbeeck said. “The higher launch lets him stretch it when he needs to stretch it, but when he has to take something off he still feels like he can hold a green.” The 621.JT models were developed by the Titleist Golf Club R&D team in collaboration with Thomas to better understand some key design variables – such as shaping, sole design and CG placement – that ultimately may find their way into future Titleist iron development. The 5-9 irons went into play for the first time last October at the PGA TOUR’s CJ CUP @ SUMMIT. “Yeah, obviously I love them. I love the look of them, the feel of them, the way they go through the ground,” JT said earlier this season. “And most importantly, too, they do what I feel like they should be doing when I hit them. In terms of specifics, I like very, very little offset. But when you get to a lot of the other stuff, I don’t know how they do it. I give the feedback to the team, like ‘I want to go through the ground a little bit differently here, or I want the weighting this way, or I want it to go through whatever window’ and then they design it. It’s really cool.” This week at Southern Hills, Thomas finished T2 in Greens in Regulation (69.44%) while ranking 4th in proximity to the hole. THOMAS WINS WITH VOKEY SM9, BEATS BUNKERS WITH K GRIND Justin Thomas played four Vokey Design SM9 wedges in winning the PGA Championship – 46.10F (@ 47.5), 52.12F (@ 52.5), 56.14F (@ 57.0), and a WedgeWorks 60.06K grind that helped him go 5-for-5 in sand saves Sunday at Southern Hills. For the week, He averaged 14’0” on approaches from 125-150 yards – second best in the field and 11’9” better than the field average. “When I was testing SM9, it was nice to see the low controlled flight,” said Thomas, who put the new SM9 models in play to start 2022 at the Sentry Tournament of Champions. “For me, for someone who likes to flight my wedges and control my spin a lot, I need to be able to see that ball hit the windows. And I’m looking both low and high, but especially low. Because for me, it’s nice to be able to feel like I hit it and I don't look up and it’s coming high and floaty. It’s hitting the flight that I want, the spin that I want and reacting how I want.” When it comes to his lob wedge, Thomas goes back-and-forth between his WedgeWorks 60.06K and WedgeWorks 60T models, depending on course conditions. Said Vokey Tour Rep Aaron Dill : “The T comes out when it’s pretty firm and the bunkers don’t have a lot of sand. This week was unique because we knew that the Bermuda grass would require a little more bounce and then the bunkers – they were just tough with very unique and coarse sand. I sat in a cart with him on Tuesday and he goes, ‘This sand, it’s really tricky, it’s very inconsistent and sometimes you don’t know what you’re going to get. Between the two models that I brought, the T and the K, the K is feeling the best and seems to be the most consistent out of this style of sand.’ “The K Grind is a wide flange sole, it’s a little wider than you’d see in a lot of other models, and it acts like a skid plate. It really is great for firmer conditions when you’re pitching and chipping off grass, because it sits really close to the ground. But where it really is strong is when you’re in the bunkers, because that added width of the sole allows you to open the face and increase some natural bounce. It’s a very forgiving style of sole and it just wants to pop the ball out of there easily and with spin.” A MAJOR FOR PHANTOM X Justin Thomas captured his second major championship in his second week playing a new Scotty Cameron Phantom X tour prototype. JT, who put the Phantom X 5 Knuckle Neck in play for the first time at last week’s AT&T Byron Nelson, finished the week second in Strokes Gained: Putting, gaining more than six strokes on the field (+6.313) with his new mallet. The Phantom X 5 Knuckle Neck offers less toe flow versus the 2.5 slant neck of his previous gamer (Futura X 5.5). Said Scotty Cameron Rep Drew Page : “He just likes what it does in his stroke. He has a little bit better face awareness and face stability. Growing up, he was always a Newport 2 user, and this kind of brings back that same look, but in the stability of a mallet.” “Thomas played a similar putter at last year’s Open Championship, and provided feedback to the Scotty Cameron team to make it sound and feel more like his Futura X 5.5. They added an aluminum plate to the back cavity that results in more of a higher-pitched sound versus a hollow-sounding hit, according to Page. “He likes that feedback. He likes hearing the sound.” MAJOR SWITCHES FOR WEBB SIMPSON – 2021 PRO V1 & T100 IRONS Traditionally a blade iron player, Titleist Brand Ambassador Webb Simpson stepped to the first tee Thursday at Southern Hills with a set of new T100 irons in his bag, having practiced with them at home leading up to the year’s second major. “I’ve had a couple of short stints with non-blades in my career but not many,” said Simpson, who had been playing 620 MB models. “Approach to the green is typically a strength for me; this year it’s been a weakness, and I’ve struggled out of the rough. I keep getting told that these the irons I’m playing are better out of the rough, better with distance control, better with mis-hits, and so I guess I was being stubborn but finally listened and I really like them.” On Saturday at Southern Hills, Simpson shot one of the best rounds of the tournament – a 5-under 65 in cold, windy conditions – while recording a season-high Strokes Gained: Approach in any round (+4.541). As a result of the iron change, Simpson also moved into the 2021 Pro V1 golf ball from a prior generation model. Webb’s initial testing of the T100's, according to Fordie Pitts of Titleist Golf Ball R&D , showed that his spin was reducing a little bit. “By moving to ‘21 Pro V1, he was able to regain that spin and control.” Pitts said. KORN FERRY TOUR | AdventHealth Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Trevor Cone rolled his Pro V1x golf ball in from 19 feet for birdie Sunday on Blue Hills CC’s 18th green to win by one shot, It marked the second KFT victory for Cone, who finished the week first in putts per green in regulation (+1.648) using his Scotty Cameron Select Fastback 1.5 Teryllium tour prototype putter. Titleist golf ball players have now won 10 of the first 13 events played this season on the KFT. What’s in Trevor Cone’s Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSi2 10.0° Fairway Metal: TSi3 15.0° Hybrid: TSi3 20.0° Irons: T100 4-PW Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM9 52°, 56°, 60° Putter: Scotty Cameron Select Fastback 1.5 Teryllium tour prototype JAPAN TOUR | Golf Partner Pro-Am Tournament 2022 Shugo Imahira (Pro V1x) won for the second-consecutive week, making birdie on the second hole of a three-person playoff. Imahira, who followed up a third-round 9-under 61 with a Sunday 65, now has seven career wins on the JGTO. KOREAN TOUR | The 12th Descente Korea Munsingwear Match Play Titleist Brand Ambassador EunShin Park claimed his first victory on the KPGA Tour, winning 1-up with a birdie on the second extra hole. Titleist swept every major equipment category at the event: golf balls (43/67.2%), drivers (28/43.8%), fairway metals (30/44.1%), hybrids (36/46.2%), irons (27/42.2%), wedges (112/61.9%) and putters (30/46.9%). What’s in EunShin Park’s Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSi3 8.0° Fairway Metal: TSi2 15.0° Utility Iron: T200 (2) Irons: T100 (4) and 620 MB (5-PW) Wedges: Vokey Design SM8 50.12F, 54.14F, NEW SM9 58.08M SUNSHINE TOUR | FBC Zimbabwe Open Albert Venter (Pro V1x Left Dash) claimed his maiden Sunshine Tour title, outlasting Stefan Wears-Taylor (Pro V1) and Titleist Brand Ambassador Louis Albertse (Pro V1x) in a playoff at the Royal Harare Golf Club. AMATEUR | NCAA Men’s Regionals Titleist swept every major equipment category at the NCAA Men’s Regional championships, with more players across the six regional sites combined putting their trust in Titleist golf balls , drivers , fairway metals , hybrids , utility irons , irons , wedges and putters than any other brand: 86% (385) of the 450 players competing in NCAA Regionals played a Titleist golf ball – including 97% of the field at the NCAA Men’s South Central Regional – 11 times the nearest competitor (35). Titleist was the most played driver with 189 players (42%), compared to 110 (24%) for the nearest competitor. More players also chose Titleist fairways (207/43%) and hybrids (41/45%). There were more than two times as many Titleist iron sets (196/44%) in play than any other brand, while players gamed a total of 163 Titleist utilities (62%), more than four times the nearest competitor (35). The most popular putter brand among teams at the NCAA Men’s Regionals? Scotty Cameron (122/27%). AMATEUR | NCAA Women’s Championship Titleist is the overwhelmingly most played golf ball at the NCAA Women’s Championship, with 97 percent of the field playing a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball. Of the 132 players competing this week in Scottsdale, Ariz., 125 are teeing up a Titleist. In addition to golf balls , Titleist is also the most played utility iron (4/36%), wedge (176/44%) and putter (36/27%) this week at Grayhawk GC. ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | AT&T Byron Nelson K.H. Lee (Pro V1x) successfully defended his AT&T Byron Nelson title with a career-low 9-under 63 Sunday in Texas. Lee, 30, tapped his Pro V1x in for birdie on the TPC Craig Ranch’s par-5 18th to finish the week at 26 under, one shot clear of Titleist Brand Ambassador Jordan Spieth , who was seeking his second-consecutive win following the RBC Heritage. Lee, who won last year’s event at 25 under, is the first player in PGA TOUR history to win the same event in back-to-back years with scores of 25-under or better. He played his last 33 holes of the tournament without a bogey, going 15 under over that stretch. For the week, he ranked fifth in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green (+10.238), eighth in SG: Approach (+5.251), 10th in SG: Around the Green (+2.713) and sixth in Scrambling (88.24%). He was perfect from the bunker, going 4-for-4 in sand saves. The win moved Lee to No. 44 in the World Ranking. K.H. LEE ON HIS PRO V1x www.instagram.com/.../ K.H. Lee has played a Pro V1x golf ball ever since he started playing golf at 13 years old. “I never changed to another ball because every performance is perfect for me,” he said. “Driving distance is far. Iron control is really good. And then I love wedge control, spin control.” Pro V1x, Lee said, gives him the ability to dial his spin up or down, whether “I need backspin or a little more release.” He also loves the higher launch and trajectory he gets from Pro V1x. “When I think of the image of my ball flight, it’s a perfect fit for me.” Into the wind, Lee said, he can count on Pro V1x to hit his number. “For example, 150, little against the wind,” Lee said. “If I hit three balls, it’s almost the same distance… not 140, 155, 160.” It’s “150, 151, 152, so I love the consistency.” SEVEN WINS WORLDWIDE Lee’s victory was one of seven wins for Titleist golf ball players across the worldwide professional tours on Sunday. It also marked the 19th victory for Titleist golf ball players this season on the PGA TOUR, with Pro V1 and Pro V1x players making their way to the winner’s circle in five of the last six weeks including Jordan Spieth (Pro V1x/Heritage), Patrick Cantlay (Pro V1x/Zurich Classic), Max Homa (Pro V1/Wells Fargo) . Of the players who finished T5 or better, five played a Titleist golf ball – Lee, Spieth, Sebastian Munoz (T3/Pro V1 Left Dot), Ryan Palmer (T5/Pro V1x) and Titleist Brand Ambassador Justin Thomas (T5/Pro V1x) – while each of the Top 7 finishers, and 10 of the Top 11, played at least one piece of Titleist equipment. Titleist was the overwhelming field favorite for golf balls with 72% of the players teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x (nearest competitor, 8%). In addition to golf balls, Titleist was also the most trusted hybrid , utility iron , iron , and wedge at the event. WINNER PLAYS VOKEY WEDGES The winner of the AT&T Byron Nelson played three Vokey Design wedges, the 17th time a winner on the PGA TOUR this season has had at least one Vokey in the bag. He was also one of six Vokey wedge players to win Sunday across the worldwide pro tours. LPGA | Cognizant Founders Cup The winner of the Cognizant Founders Cup played a Scotty Cameron Tourtype Special Select Timeless SSS putter in securing her first win of 2022 and seventh LPGA title. It’s the same putter she used to win her first major championship (Evian) last season. The winner of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur – playing a Pro V1x golf ball and full bag of Titleist equipment – made her second consecutive cut on the LPGA, having received sponsor exemptions into the last two events. Titleist was the overwhelming field favorite for golf balls with 81% of the players teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x (nearest competitor, 6%). DP WORLD TOUR | Soudal Open Sam Horsfield (Pro V1) rallied to win for the third time on the DP World Tour. Three shots back of the lead Sunday as he stepped to the 9th tee, Horsfield, 25, posted a back-nine 33 (2 under) to close in 3-under 68 and secure a two-shot victory. For the week, Horsfield finished fifth in Strokes Gained: Approach (+1.82 per round) and third in Scrambling (80.95%). The victory comes just two weeks into Horsefield’s return from three months off due to injury. The University of Florida alum, who moved to a career-high 64th in the World Ranking, will tee it up this week at Southern Hills in the PGA Championship. Said Horsfield: “I feel like I have been playing well but I haven’t been able to put four rounds together and this week I was able to do that, so knowing that it’s there and that I can do it, it puts me in a good step forward for next week.” Titleist was the overwhelming field favorite for golf balls with 77% of the players teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x (nearest competitor, 12%). In addition to golf balls, Titleist was also the most trusted driver , iron , and wedge at the event. KORN FERRY TOUR | Visit Knoxville Open Titleist Brand Ambassador Anders Albertson completed a wire-to-wire victory Sunday in Knoxville, closing in 4-under 68 to earn his second KFT title by one shot. Playing a Pro V1 golf ball and 14 Titleist clubs, Albertson opened with an 8-under 62 and slept on the lead every night. He made 21 birdies over the four rounds – the final birdie coming Sunday at Holston Hills CC’s par-5 18th — and just one bogey to finish at 20 under. For the week, he was second in Greens in Regulation (61/72) at 84.72% and second in Scrambling at 90.91%. Titleist was the overwhelming field favorite for golf balls with 79% of the players teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x (nearest competitor, 8%). In addition to golf balls, Titleist was also the most trusted driver , fairway , hybrid , utility iron , iron , and wedge at the event. What's in Anders Albertson's Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSi2 10.0° Fairway Metals: TSi2 16.5° & 21.0° Irons: T100 4-7 and 620 MB 8-PW irons Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM9 52.12F, 56.12D, WedgeWorks 60A Putter: Scotty Cameron Super Rat 2 tour prototype PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | Regions Tradition Steve Stricker (Pro V1x) posted four rounds of 68 or better en route to a wire-to-wire, six-shot victory. It marked the fourth PGA TOUR Champions major and eighth victory overall on the 50-and-over circuit for Stricker, who made 23 birdies and just two bogeys to finish the week at 21 under (65-68-66-68). Stricker led the field in Scrambling at 93.75%. Titleist golf ball players have now won the last five events on the PGA TOUR Champions. Titleist was the overwhelming field favorite for golf balls with 77% of the players teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x (nearest competitor, 12%). ASIAN TOUR/JAPAN TOUR | Asia Pacific Open Golf Championship Diamond Cup Golf Shugo Imahira (Pro V1x) was the only player to shoot four rounds in the 60’s (66-69-69-68) as he claimed his sixth victory on the Japan Tour. Imahira won by one shot over a group of four players, including Titleist Brand Ambassador Kaito Onishi and a 21-year-old amateur, who closed in 7-under playing a Pro V1x golf ball and bag full of Titleist equipment. Titleist was the overwhelming field favorite for golf balls with 53% of the players teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x (nearest competitor, 19%). KOREAN TOUR | Woori Financial Group Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador HeeMin Chang captured his first-career KPGA Tour victory, closing in 1-under 71 to complete a four-shot victory. Nine of the top 10 finishers relied upon Titleist golf balls for their success. Titleist was the top choice in every major equipment category: Golf balls (97/67.4%), drivers (63/43.8%), fairways (76/47.8%), hybrids (80/46.8%), irons (60/41.7%), wedges (254/64.6%) and putters (66/45.8%). What's in HeeMin Chang's Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSi2 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSi2 15.0° & TSi3 18.0° Utility Iron: T200 (3) Irons: 620 CB 4-9 Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 52.08F, 58.04L Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 6S SUNSHINE TOUR | Lombard Insurance Classic Herman Loubser (Pro V1x) claimed his first victory on the Sunshine Tour, edging Ockie Strydom (Pro V1) and an all-Titleist golf ball playoff. Loubser, a Monday qualifier into the event, closed in 2-under 69 to tie Strydom (68) at 7 under. Loubser won on the second playoff hole, chipping his Pro V1x in for birdie on Arabella Country Estate’s par-5 18th at. Eight of the nine Sunshine Tour events played in 2022 have been won by Titleist golf ball players. Titleist was the overwhelming field favorite for golf balls with 83% of the players teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x (nearest competitor, 16%). AMATEUR | U.S. Amateur Four-Ball At the 2022 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship, more competitors trusted their performance to Titleist than any other brand. Of the 252 players competing at the Country Club of Birmingham (Ala.), Titleist is the top choice in golf balls , hybrids , utility irons , irons , wedges and putters (T1): A total of 202 players are teeing up a Titleist Pro V1 , Pro V1x , Pro V1 Left Dot or Pro V1x Left Dash golf ball, more than six times the nearest competitor (32). Titleist TSi3 is the most played driver model (38) at the Four-Ball, just as it is on the PGA TOUR, DP World Tour and Korn Ferry Tour. There are more Titleist hybrids in play than any other brand (53/42%), compared to 22 for the nearest competitor (22/17%). Nearly half the utility irons in play are Titleist (48/49%), more than double the nearest competitor (19/19%). A total of 73 players have Titleist irons in the bag – with T100 models as the field favorites – compared to 49 for the nearest competitor. There are 443 Vokey Design gap, sand and lob wedges in play at the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball, more than four times the nearest competitor (95). No brand has more putters in play than Titleist, with 71 players (T1) trusting Scotty Cameron models. ... #TeamTitleist
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www.youtube.com/watch When Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma hosts the 104th PGA Championship this year, the 156-player field will consist of 16 PGA Champions, 34 Major Champions, 3 World Golf Hall of Fame Members and 4 Ryder Cup Captains, and the top 70 players who have earned the most PGA Championship points through the 2022 Wells Fargo Championship . It will also feature the "Team of 20" PGA Club Professionals who earned their tournament berths in April at the 54th PGA Professional Championship where Titleist was the most played golf ball , driver , fairway , hybrid , utility iron , iron , and wedge in the field of 312 teaching and club professionals. Among those representing Titleist at the second major of the year is Jesse Mueller, who — playing a Titleist Pro V1x golf ball — chipped his way to a five-shot victory at the Omni Barton Creek Resort & Spa to qualify for his first PGA Championship. Mueller, 39, PGA General Manager of Grand Canyon University Golf Course in Phoenix, led a group of 20 PGA professionals who will compete next month in the season’s second men’s major at Southern Hills. “I had another chip-in today,” said Mueller, who holed out for birdie on the 10th hole of his final round, “but my chipping the first three days was as good as it could be. I chipped in three times on the week and I was getting up and down all over the place.” Mueller, who has previously played in one major championship (2012 U.S. Open), was the only player to finish the week in double digits at 10 under, after opening with rounds with 66-67-66. Of the 20 players who will be heading to the PGA Championship, 13 of them had at least one piece of Titleist equipment in their bag. That includes Titleist Staff Member Alex Beach of Westchester Country Club (Harrison, N.Y.), who qualified for his fifth-consecutive PGA Championship after chipping in for birdie on the first hole of a 4-for-3 playoff. JESSE MUELLER ON HIS PRO V1 x “I’ve played it forever and I’m just very comfortable with it. I’m comfortable with the flight in the wind, especially this week, how there’s so much wind out there today and I can hit the ball not pretty much my full shot and go straight through the wind. That’s something that it’d be hard for me ever to change. I’m really comfortable with the ball, playing in the wind, how it controls, trajectory.” TITLEIST PLAYERS BOOK TICKETS TO SOUTHERN HILLS 12 of the 20 qualifiers into the PGA Championship trusted a Pro V1 , Pro V1x or Pro V1 Left Dot ball, including the champion. Seven qualifiers played a Titleist driver, six of them a TSi3 model. The most played driver on the PGA TOUR, TSi3 was also the top choice at the PPC (28%), with a total of 36% players using a TSi1 , TSi2 , TSi3 or TSi4 driver. Titleist irons – the majority of them NEW T100 , T100•S and T200 models – were in the bags of eight qualifiers. Those eight players also used a total of 27 Vokey Design wedges. Four qualifiers used a Scotty Cameron putter. What’s in the Bag of Team Titleist at the 2022 PGA Professional Championship Qualifiers? 1. Jesse Mueller (Grand Canyon University GC, Phoenix) Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Mueller on his Pro V1x: " I played it forever and I'm just very comfortable with it. I'm comfortable with the flight and the wind. Especially this week, how there's so much wind out there today. And I can hit the ball pretty much by full shot and go straight for the wind. So that's something that it'd be hard for me ever to change. I'm really comfortable with the ball playing in the wind, how the control's trajectory." T2. Jared Jones (River Oaks Country Club, Houston) Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSi3 8.0° Fairway Metal: TSi2 13.5° Utility Irons: NEW T200 (2-3) Irons: NEW T100 (4-9) Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM9 46°, 54°, 60° Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 11.5 T2. 2014 PGA Professional Championship winner Utility Iron: NEW T200 4-iron T4. Wyatt Worthington II (The Golf Depot At Central Park, Gahanna, Ohio) Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSi3 9.0° Fairway Metal: TS3 15° Hybrid: TSi3 18° Utility Iron: U•500 3 Irons: 620 CB 4 and 620 MB 5-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46°, 54°, 60° Putter: Scotty Cameron Concept-1 T6. Zac Oakley (Bidermann Golf Club, Wilmington, Del.) Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSi2 9.0° Irons: T100 (3-PW) irons Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM9 51°, 56°, 60° T11. Brandon Bingaman (Bent Tree Country Club, Dallas) Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 T11. Matt Borchert (Isleworth Golf & CC, Windermere, Fla.) Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Borchert on his Pro V1: "I had been playing the Left Dash for quite some time and noticed that on firmer greens I had a tough time spinning it. So I pulled out my Trackman and kind of did some testing and found out this one spun just a bit more, so best of both worlds, distance and spin." T11. Austin Hurt (Wing Point Golf & CC, Bainbridge Island, Wash.) Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Hurt on his Pro V1x: I love the way it comes off the putter face. I love the low spin that it gives me with my driver and all the woods that I have. Irons. Across the board, it's the most consistent flight that I've found and feel amongst all balls. But, I just love the piercing ball flight that I'm able to achieve with it. T11. Nic Ishee (Preston Trail Golf Club, Dallas) Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TS3 10.0° Fairway Metal: TSi2 15.0° Hybrid: TS3 18.0° Irons: NEW T100 (4-9) Wedges: Vokey Design SM8 46°, 50°, 54°, 58° Putter: Scotty Cameron Timeless tour prototype T11. Dylan Newman (Brae Burn Country Club, Purchase, N.Y.) Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSi3 9.0° Fairway Metal: TS2 15.0° Utility Iron: NEW T200 (3) Irons: 620 CB (3-PW) Wedges: Vokey Design SM8 52°, 58° Putter: Scotty Cameron Select Newport 1.5 T11. Casey Pyne (The Stanwich Club, Greenwich, Connecticut) Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSi3 9.0° T18. Alex Beach (Westchester CC, Harrison, N.Y.) Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Left Dot Driver: TSi3 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSi2 13.5° Irons: NEW T100•S (4-7) and 620 MB (8-9) Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM9 9 46°, 50°, 54, 60° T18. Paul Dickinson (Atlantic Golf Club, Bridgehampton, N.Y.) Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | Wells Fargo Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Max Homa earned win No. 4 on the PGA TOUR – his third trip to the winner’s circle in the last 15 months – with an unflappable finish at TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm. Playing a Pro V1 golf ball and 14 Titleist clubs, Homa, 31, closed in 2-under 68 to win by two shots over a group of three players, including Matt Fitzpatrick (Pro V1x) and fellow Titleist Brand Ambassador Cameron Young . The win moved Homa to No. 6 in the FedEx Cup Standings and inside the Top 30 of the world ranking (29th) for the first time ever. Of the four players who finished T2 or better, three played a Titleist golf ball, TSi3 driver and Vokey Design SM9 wedges (11 total wedges). Titleist was the overwhelming field favorite for golf balls with 72% of the players teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x (nearest competitor, 8%). In addition to golf balls, Titleist was also the most trusted driver , hybrid , utility iron , iron , wedge and putter at the event What’s in Max Homa’s Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSi3 10.0° | Fujikura Ventus 6 Black X Fairway Metals: TSi2 15.0° | Alidla Rogue Black 130 MSI 80 TX and TSi2 21.0° | Graphite Design Tour AD XC 9 TX Irons: NEW T100•S 4-iron | KBS TOUR $-Taper 130 X, NEW T100 5-iron | KBS TOUR $-Taper 130 X, and 620 MB 6-9| KBS TOUR $-Taper 130 X Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM9 46.10F | KBS TOUR $-Taper 130 X and NEW Vokey Design SM9 50.12F, 56.14F, 60.04L | KBS Hi Rev 2.0 125 S Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5.5 tour prototype HOMA GAINS HEIGHT WITH 2021 PRO V1 Max Homa moved into the 2021 Pro V1 golf ball – also the choice of Viktor Hovland – earlier this season at the Farmers Insurance Open, following a visit that week to the Titleist Performance Institute in nearby Oceanside, Calif. “Max was looking for a little more height throughout the bag (versus the previous generation Pro V1 he was playing),” said Jeff Beyers, tour consultant for Titleist Golf Ball R&D . “With 2021 Pro V1 he was seeing that increase in peak height and the steeper angle of descent that he wanted. We went through a lot of clubs, he really liked the window, how consistently the ball was flying – and the numbers were right in line. The softer feel was also a big plus for him.” Of the 20 players who finished T15 or better at the Wells Fargo Championship, 16 of them played a Titleist golf ball . HOMA’S CLUTCH DRIVING WITH TS i 3 With the lead, Max Homa stepped to the 18th tee Sunday and – using his TSi3 driver, the most player driver model on the PGA TOUR – sent his drive 322 yards down the left side of the fairway. That one shot gained Homa 0.27 strokes off the tee, the most of any of his final-round tee shots. “I’ve been driving the ball so well this season,” said Homa, who ranked third for the week in SG: Off the Tee (+5.862). “Tee shot (at 18) favors my ball flight, a little cut, wind off the right. I just wanted to give myself a look at birdie and I knew I had to be in the fairway to do that. I just tried to have some confidence in myself and know that that’s kind of been the weapon I’ve been using best for the duration of the season. Got up there, kind of found my slot and just kind of let it go.” During the same session in which Homa switched into the 2021 Pro V1 (see above note), he also made some changes to his TSi3 driver setup while working with J.J. Van Wezenbeeck, Titleist’s Director of Player Promotions . Homa came to TPI having last played a TSi3 9.0° in a Aldila Rogue Black 130MSI 60 shaft and the SureFit Hosel set at D•4. He left with a TSi3 10.0° in a Fujikura Ventus 6 Black X shaft and the SureFit Hosel set at A•1. According to Van Wezenbeeck, this new setup allowed Homa to feel like he could stay on top of his fade easier and apply more force the ball. In combination with 2021 Pro V1, his launch went up, spin went down and ball speed increased. HOMA’S NEW T100•S 4-IRON & T100 5-IRON Having traditionally carried a full set of blade irons, Max Homa this season exchanged his 620 MB 4 and 5 irons for a NEW T100•S 4-iron and NEW T100 5-iron. The T100•S went in the bag for the first time at the Farmers Insurance Open. He added the T100 5-iron at The Genesis Invitational, two starts later. “I was down in San Diego with J.J. (Van Wezenbeeck, Titleist’s Director of Player Promotions), who was fitting me at TPI. And he said, ‘Hey, you should try this 4-iron. It’s a T100•S. It’ll be a lot easier to hit. It will launch a lot higher. So it’ll come down a lot softer. It’ll go a little bit farther in the air, but then shorter once it hits the ground. So I tried it and it was super easy to hit, especially if the lie’s not perfect. I think with the blades, if it’s sitting on a little downslope or sitting a little bit down, you’re not going to get any lift out of it. And it becomes just a club that you are hoping to hit near or maybe on the green. Now with this 4-iron, because of how much easier it is to hit. The forgiveness of it, it's become a weapon, especially on par 5s.” “And then, like two weeks later, we’re sitting around, my caddie and I, Joe, thinking about how a 5-iron has started feeling similar to how that blade 4-iron felt. So we put a T100 in. It feels very, very easy to hit. I can work it a little bit, but it just comes down a lot softer. So those long par 3s, especially that 5-iron, has become a big deal to us.” HOMA ON HIS NEW VOKEY DESIGN SM9’S Max Homa put four NEW Vokey Design SM9 wedges in play – 46.10F, 50.12F, 56.14F, 60.04L – the first week they were available to him at the Sentry Tournament of Champions in Kapalua. “I put [the SM9’s] right in just because honestly I trust Voke and I trust (Aaron) Dill a lot. But I got here and could tell right away it was just something that was going to be a little bit easier to flight in the breeze, which is always good. The extra control is just taking out a variable. If the ball’s flying into the wind, and sometimes it puffs up there and sometimes it doesn’t, that’s just another guess you have to make. So with (SM9), knowing what it’s going to do, it just brings a lot of comfort. Especially if you got one for quite a bit of FedExCup points, you want to know what’s going to happen and not just guess it.” Homa’s win marks the 16th win for Vokey wedge players this season the PGA TOUR, more than all other competitors combined. SUCCESS CONTINUES WITH HOMA’S PHANTOM X Sunday marked the third win for Max Homa in the last 15 months, each of them with a Scotty Cameron Phantom X putter model in the bag. “When you putt it like I did this week, you know, you almost have to mess up to at least not contend, so that was a humongous part of the week, for sure,” he said. The run began at last year’s Genesis Invitational, where Homa, gaming a Phantom X 11.5 model, became the first player to win with a Phantom X on the PGA TOUR. Four months later, he switched to the Phantom X 5.5 , which he used to win the Fortinet Championship in September. That same putter was in his hands this week in Maryland, where he finished fourth in Strokes Gained: Putting (+7.596). Said Homa, on his switch to Phantom X last season: “I was just struggling with face control with my putter. So I tried a few mallets, ended up going with one of the Phantoms and it just felt like it swung a bit better. It didn’t feel like I needed to work so much with my hands to release the putter. And at that time that’s really what I needed and then I got hooked on them.” “I think you almost don't have to do as much with your hands, so you can just focus on the big muscles. And I feel like, especially with putting, especially when you're nervous, that’s a huge part of being consistent and having a lot of repetition. I felt like that was something that I was missing. And when I switched to that, I felt like it just became a lot more predictable just because I could take out a variable.” “Speed control became much easier with the Phantom style. I felt like because of the weight of the head or just the way it swung, I just felt like it was a lot easier to control my putts from 15 to 25 feet. That’s where I’ve typically struggled. That’s definitely the most obvious impact I saw.” “I think we work a lot on alignment with my putting, with getting the face square to the target line and something about the way they set up, I feel like they’re very square. I feel like that’s helped, but I really do think that the speed control has been the main benefactor (to my wins), holing a couple extra 10 to 20 footers. And that typically is mostly speed based, less start line than the closer putts.” DP WORLD TOUR | Betfred British Masters The winner of the Betfred British Masters played a Titleist Pro V1x Left Dash golf ball and Scotty Cameron TourType Timeless GSS tour prototype putter in claiming his sixth DP World Tour title. To close out the victory, the winner finished eagle-birdie for the second consecutive day at The Belfry, vaulting to the top of the leaderboard to win by one shot. On Sunday, he holed a 28-footer for eagle on the par-5 17th and rolled his Pro V1x Left Dash in from 35 feet on No. 18 for the winning birdie. For the week, he ranked third in Strokes Gained: Putting (+2.17 per round), 11th in SG: Approach (+1.56 per round) and eighth in Scrambling (74.19%). Titleist was the overwhelming field favorite for golf balls with 73% of the players teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x (nearest competitor, 15%). In addition to golf balls, Titleist was also the most trusted iron and wedge at the event. KORN FERRY TOUR | Simmons Bank Open The winner of the Simmons Bank Open played a Scotty Cameron TourType Special Select ButtonBack Timeless tour prototype putter, making birdie on the 72nd hole to win by a shot. Three of the last four winners on the Korn Ferry Tour have now played a Scotty Cameron putter. Tyson Alexander won the recent Veritex Bank Championship gaming a Scotty Cameron TourType Special Select Flowback 5 tour prototype putter, while T.J. Vogel used a Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5.5 tour prototype putter to win the Club Car Championship. Titleist was the overwhelming field favorite for golf balls with 79% of the players teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x (nearest competitor, 8%). In addition to golf balls, Titleist was also the most trusted driver , fairway , hybrid , utility iron , iron and wedge at the event. PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | Mitsubishi Electric Classic Steve Flesch (Pro V1x) rallied to win his second PGA TOUR Champions victory, closing in 7-under 65 for a one-shot victory at TPC Sugarloaf. Flesch, who started the day four shots back of the lead, started the final round with five consecutive birdies from Nos. 2 through 6. He finished Sunday with three birdies over the final five holes, including the winning birdie at the par-4 17th. Flesch’s win marked the fourth-consecutive victory for Titleist golf ball players on PGA TOUR Champions. Titleist was the overwhelming field favorite for golf balls with 77% of the players teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x (nearest competitor, 12%). PGA TOUR AUSTRALASIA | Western Australian Open Austin Bautista (Pro V1x) captured his first win on the PGA Tour of Australasia, posting a course-record 10-under 61 Friday at the Palmerston Golf Club on his way to a seven-shot victory in the tour’s final major of the season. Bautista, 25, entered the event with three top-3 finishes. The victory pushed him inside the top 10 on the tour’s final Order of Merit (to No. 9). Said Bautista: “I know I could get it done. I’ve played really good golf this year, I’ve just played my own game and been really consistent. … I have a lot of exciting months and years ahead where I want to get some more wins.” Titleist golf ball and equipment players occupied nine of the top 10 in the final Order of Merit. Led by Jediah Morgan , Titleist Brand Ambassadors finished in each of the Top 6 positions – Blake Windred (2), Andrew Dodt (3), Dimitrios Papadatos (4), Aaron Pike (5), Louis Dobbelaar (6) – and eight of the top 10. Titleist was the overwhelming field favorite for golf balls with 86% of the players teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x (nearest competitor, 6%). ASIAN TOUR/KOREAN TOUR| The 41st GS Caltex Maekyung Open Bio Kim (Pro V1x) claimed his seventh-career KPGA Tour victory, posting rounds of 67-68-68-72 for a two-shot victory while leading a 1-2-3-4 finish for Titleist golf ball players. Twelve of the 15 players who finished among the Top 10 and ties relied upon Titleist golf balls for their success. Titleist was the overwhelming field favorite for golf balls with 74% of the players teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x (nearest competitor, 12%). Said Kim: “(The final round) was long and hard. It was hard mentally and physically. It’s taught me to train harder and more diligently in the future to be able to handle this so I can get better results. … My top priority is the Korean PGA, and then the Asian Tour schedule. There are also plans for the Korn Ferry Tour; I couldn’t give up my dream about America.” PGA TOUR LATINOAMERICA | Quito Open Manav Shah (Pro V1x) earned his first PGA TOUR Latinoamerica title, posting a bogey-free 66 to win by two shots. The 30-year-old UCLA alum birdied three of his final five holes Sunday to secure the victory, moving him to No. 8 on the tour’s points list. The top 5 earn status on the Korn Ferry Tour next season. ... #TeamTitleist
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LPGA TOUR | Palos Verdes Championship Marina Alex (Pro V1x) claimed her second LPGA victory Sunday in California, closing in 6-under 66 to win by one shot over the No. 1 player in the world and fellow Titleist golf ball player Jin Young Ko (Pro V1) , who also posted a final-round 66. Alex made six birdies over her final 14 holes Sunday, including a two-putt birdie at the par-5 16th that moved her into double digits under par (-10) and atop of the leaderboard. Meghan Kang (Pro V1) and Lydia Ko (Pro V1x) tied for fourth, while Ryann O’Toole (Pro V1x) ended the week in fifth, as every player in the Top 5 played a Titleist golf ball . Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x players have now won eight of the first 10 events played in 2022 on the LPGA. Titleist was the overwhelming field favorite for golf balls with 82% of the players teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x (nearest competitor, 6%). WINNER MAKES SWITCH TO TS i 3 DRIVER; 4TH WIN FOR TS i ON 2022 LPGA The winner of the Palos Verdes Championship played a Titleist TSi3 driver, having switched from a competitive model to begin the 2022 season. It marked the fourth win for Titleist TSi drivers on the LPGA through the first 10 events this season, double the nearest competitor. The Palos Verdes champ made the switch to TSi following a pre-season session with Titleist fitter Scott Kraul in which she was only meant to test fairway woods. Kraul, having asked her to hit a few shots with her gamer to see the gapping with her 3-wood, noticed her contact was toward the heel and she was over-spinning it on her preferred shot shape (fade). Her miss was a pull left. In testing TSi3, Kraul fit her into a 9.0° loft in the B•1 SureFit Hosel setting (standard loft, -.75 degrees flat). She immediately began to make consistent contact in the center of the face. Her ball speed increased 1.5 mph on average and she maintained more consistent spin rates. As a result, she picked up an average of 5 yards carry distance. ANWA CHAMP MAKES CUT IN LPGA DEBUT Two shots outside the cutline as she stepped to the 16th tee on Friday afternoon in Palos Verdes, the winner of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur played her final three holes of Round 2 in eagle-birdie-par to make the cut in her LPGA debut. “I knew that I obviously had to make something happen to make the cut. I knew that I had to be kind of aggressive going into the last few holes,” she said. The ANWA champ gamed a Titleist Pro V1x golf ball and full bag of Titleist equipment, as she did last month in claiming one of the biggest titles in amateur golf, becoming the youngest champion in the event's history at 16 years old. What’s in the ANWA Champion’s Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSi2 11.0° Fairway Metal: TSi2 16.5° & 18.0° Hybrid: TS2 23.0° Irons: 620 MB 5-PW Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM9 50.12F, 54.10S, 58.10S Putter: Scotty Cameron Timeless tour prototype PGA TOUR | Mexico Open Titleist was the most played golf ball , driver , hybrid , utility iron , iron , wedge and putter at the Mexico Open, where eight of the top 10 – and 10 of the top 12 – finishers trusted at least one piece of Titleist equipment. That list includes PGA TOUR rookie and Titleist Brand Ambassador Brandon Wu , who matched Tony Finau (Pro V1 Left Dot) for Sunday’s low round of 8-under 63. Wu, who had his best week on the PGA TOUR (T2), played his final 36 holes in bogey-free 13 under par, making six birdies and an eagle over his final 14 holes Sunday. His closing 63 was the lowest score of his PGA TOUR career, as he set career-bests for a single round in Strokes Gained: Off-the-tee (+1.72) and SG: Tee-to-green (+4.07). “I played awesome today,” said Wu, who jumped 77 spots up the FedEx Cup Rankings to No. 73. “Tried to keep it easy, that was kind of the game plan with me and my caddie. Hit a lot of greens, hit a lot of fairways. The conditions were kind of tough especially towards the middle and the end of the round, there’s some tough holes with the wind, but yeah, I just tried to play my game and it was good.” Titleist was the overwhelming field favorite for golf balls with 78% of the players teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x (nearest competitor, 8%). What’s in Brandon Wu’ Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSi3 10.0° | Graphite Design Tour AD GP 7 TX Fairway Metals: TSi2 15.0° | Graphite Design Tour AD GP 8 TX and TSi2 18.0° | Graphite Design Tour AD DI 9 TX Utility Iron: NEW T200 (4) | Nippon NS Pro Modus3 Tour 130 X Irons: NEW T100 (5-9) | Nippon NS Pro Modus3 Tour 130 X Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 52.12F, 56.12D, SM8 WedgeWorks 60.06K | Nippon NS Pro Modus3 Tour 130 X (46), True Temper Dynamic Gold S400 (52, 56, 60) Putter: Scotty Cameron 009M tour prototype RILEY ROLLING WITH NEW PHANTOM X PUTTER Titleist Brand Ambassador Davis Riley – playing a NEW Scotty Cameron Phantom X 7.2 tour prototype putter – led the field in Strokes Gained: Putting (+2.35 round) en route to his third Top 5-finish in his last five starts. His 40 one-putts were also the most of any player in the field. Riley has played a Scotty Cameron Phantom X putter model throughout his rookie season on the PGA TOUR, after switching to a Phantom X 11 late last season on the Korn Ferry Tour. He moved to the Phantom X 7.2 tour-only prototype at the Honda Classic, returning to the plumber’s neck he had played prior to the Phantom X 11 ( Newport 2 ). Said Riley on his Phantom X mallet: “Everybody’s going to mishit putts, even out here. When you’ve got those longer putts and you don’t hit it quite in the center, you want that forgiveness there to still get the speed that you’re trying to hit. And that’s the biggest thing is, it helps you when you off-center the hit, it’s still going to have the speed you’re expecting it to come out at.” KORN FERRY TOUR | Huntsville Championship Harrison Endycott (Pro V1x) won for the first time as a professional, sinking an 11-footer for birdie on the 18th hole Sunday to complete a five-shot victory. The Sydney, Australia, native opened in 7-under 63, tying the 18-hole tournament scoring record, and followed with rounds of 67-64-70 to seal the win. For the week, he led the field (T1) in Greens in Regulation at 80.56% (58 of 72) and was second in Scrambling at 78.57%. The win moves Endycott from 103rd to 12th on the KFT’s Regular Season Points List as he aims to secure a PGA TOUR card for next season. TITLEIST SWEEPS EQUIPMENT COUNTS For the fifth time this season on the Korn Ferry Tour, Titleist swept every major equipment category, with more players choosing Titleist golf balls , drivers , hybrids , utility irons , irons , wedges and putters than any other brand. Titleist was the overwhelming field favorite for golf balls with 78% of the players teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x (nearest competitor, 12%). DP WORLD TOUR | Catalunya Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Oliver Bekker fell just short in a six-hole playoff in Spain, earning his best finish of the season and sixth top-10 of 2022. Bekker – playing a Pro V1 golf ball, TSi3 driver, NEW T100•S irons and NEW Vokey Design SM9 wedges among his Titleist setup – has the third-best stroke average (69.21) this season on the DP World Tour. Titleist was the overwhelming field favorite for golf balls with 71% of the players teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x (nearest competitor, 15%). PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | Insperity Championship Steven Alker (Pro V1) won for the second time in three starts, posting rounds of 67-65-66 to win by four shots. Alker, the only player to shoot all three rounds in the 60s, returned from a two-hour weather delay Sunday by playing holes 11 through 16 in 6 under, including an eagle at the par-5 15th. It was the third-career Champions victory for Alker, who has finished T2 or better in four of seven events in 2022. Since Monday qualifying for last year’s Boeing Classic, Alker has played in 14 events, finishing outside the Top 9 only three times. Titleist was the overwhelming field favorite for golf balls with 71% of the players teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x (nearest competitor, 13%). PGA TOUR AUSTRALASIA | Western Australian Open Titleist Brand Ambassador Braden Becker – playing a Pro V1x golf ball, TSi3 driver and NEW T100 irons among his Titleist setup – claimed the first victory of his PGA TOUR Australasia career. Becker posted rounds of 66-66-65-72 at Royal Fremantle Golf Club to finish at 19 under, one shot ahead of the defending champion – an amateur who plays a full bag of Titleist equipment. Titleist was the overwhelming field favorite for golf balls with 89% of the players teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x (nearest competitor, 5%). What’s in Braden Becker’s Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSi3 Fairway Metal: TSi3 Irons: NEW T100 (4-PW) Wedges: Vokey Design SM8 SUNSHINE TOUR | The Tour Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Tristen Strydom won for the first time on the Sunshine Tour in a record-setting performance at the season finale. Strydom closed in 6-under 66 to finish at 21-under 267, claiming the record for the lowest winning total in the history of the Tour Championship. He broke the previous record of 19-under-par 269 set by Titleist Brand Ambassador Garrick Higgo in 2020. Pieter Moolman (Pro V1) took second place at 15 under, while Titleist Brand Ambassador George Coetzee finished third at 11 under. Titleist was the overwhelming field favorite for golf balls with 76% of the players teeing up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x (nearest competitor, 19%). What’s in Tristen Strydom’s Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSi2 Fairway Metal: TSi2 Irons: T100 Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM9 50°, 54°, 60° Putter: Scotty Cameron Newport 2.5 PGA TOUR LATINOAMERICA | Diners Club Peru Open Jose Toledo (Pro V1x) was the only player to shoot four rounds in the 60s as he cruised to a six-shot victory in Peru. It marked the second PGA TOUR Latinoamerica win for Toledo, who played the week in 67-64-69-66 to finish at 22 under par. IN THE NEWS | Masters Champ donating Vokey lob wedge for Augusta National display The 2022 Masters champion is donating his Vokey Design WedgeWorks Low Bounce K lob wedge to be displayed at Augusta National, according to a report this week by GOLF’s Jonathan Wall. Masters champions have donated one club from their winning setup to ANGC ever since the first tournament was played in 1934. The current World No. 1 played three Vokey Design wedges in his Masters victory, including the WedgeWorks 60.06K model he used to make a pivotal Sunday birdie on the par-4 3rd, chipping in from 29 yards left of the green. For the week, he finished T-2 in Scrambling (69.6%). When asked after the final round what he saw as his biggest strength that week, he said: “I had a lot of nice up-and-downs… If I was to pick one part of my game that excelled the most, I would say it was probably my lob wedge. Even today (Sunday), I had some really good up-and-downs in the beginning of the round and then just kept myself in position.” The Masters champ began making the transition to Vokey wedges from competitive models toward the end of 2020. He played a full set of three Vokeys for the first time at the 2021 Sentry Tournament of Champions in Hawaii, using 60A and 60T grinds for most of that season. At the 2021 Tour Championship, he asked Vokey Tour Rep Aaron Dill to build him a 60.06K after trying one being used by the reigning Olympic champion while in the short game area at East Lake Golf Club. “He hit it and loved it from the start,” Dill said. “He tried it in the bunker, from the rough, and tight cut Bermuda. He described the sole as forgiving and fast. He said it felt forgiving and at the same time gave him confidence to hit all the shots he wanted. He asked me to build one and it went right in play that week.” The K grind is among the most popular of all the available Vokey options, especially with amateur golfers who favor its wide, cambered sole, providing maximum forgiveness on greenside shots and out of the bunker. “He sort of traps everything. If you look at how he hits shots, most of his shots are low with a lot of spin,” Dill said. “So he has a lot of shaft lean. He’s got a descending blow, but I think for most shots, he just really wants to feel it cut, but also slide at the same time. And with a little bit wider sole, you get that sensation a lot of times. I think that’s really what he’s hoping for is just those two feels.” ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | Zurich Classic Titleist Brand Ambassador Patrick Cantlay and his regular Ryder Cup/Presidents Cup partner, the reigning Olympic champion, opened with a best-ball 59 on their way to a record-setting, wire-to-wire victory in New Orleans. The first victors to lead the event from start-to-finish, the duo broke the tournament scoring record, finishing the four rounds (two best ball, two alternate shot) at 29 under par, two strokes clear of Billy Horschel (Pro V1) and his teammate. Cantlay, the defending FedExCup champion and PGA Tour Player of the Year, now has seven-career PGA TOUR victories. Since the beginning of last season, no one has more wins than Cantlay (5). TEAM CHAMPS TRUST VOKEY WEDGES The Zurich Classic champions had a total of six Vokey Design wedges in their bags. Cantlay carries four ( see details below ) while his partner plays two (Vokey Design 56.10S, WedgeWorks 60.06K). The Olympic champion plays the same Low Bounce K model as the 2022 Masters champion. It was at the 2021 Tour Championship where the current World No. 1 asked Vokey Tour Rep Aaron Dill to make him one, having tried the Olympic champ’s 60.06K while in the short game area at East Lake Golf Club. “He (current World No. 1) hit it and loved it from the start,” Dill said. “He tried it in the bunker, from the rough, and tight cut Bermuda. He described the sole as forgiving and fast. He said it felt forgiving and at the same time gave him confidence to hit all the shots he wanted. He asked me to build one and it went right in play that week.” The K grind is among the most popular of all the available Vokey options, especially with amateur golfers who favor its wide, cambered sole, providing maximum forgiveness on greenside shots and out of the bunker. What’s in Patrick Cantlay’s Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TS3 9.5° | Mitsubishi Diamana ZF 60 TX Fairway: 915F 15.0° | Mitsubishi Diamana ZF 70 TX Hybrid: TS2 21.0° | Mitsubishi Diamana ZF 80 TX Irons: 718 AP2 (4-9) irons | True Temper Dynamic Gold 120 Tour Issue X100 Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 (46.10F, 52.08F, 56.08M) & SM8 (61° Proto) | True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S300 Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5 tour prototype PGA OF AMERICA | PGA Professional National Championship Jesse Mueller , playing a Titleist Pro V1x golf ball, chipped his way to a five-shot victory at the Omni Barton Creek Resort & Spa to qualify for his first PGA Championship. Mueller, 39, PGA General Manager of Grand Canyon University Golf Course in Phoenix, led a group of 20 PGA professionals who will compete next month in the season’s second men’s major at Southern Hills. “I had another chip-in today,” said Mueller, who holed out for birdie on the 10th hole of his final round, “but my chipping the first three days was as good as it could be. I chipped in three times on the week and I was getting up and down all over the place.” Muller, who has previously played in one major championship (2012 U.S. Open), was the only player to finish the week in double digits at 10 under, after opening with rounds with 66-67-66. Of the 20 players who will be heading to the PGA Championship, 13 of them had at least one piece of Titleist equipment in their bag. That includes Titleist Staff Member Alex Beach of Westchester Country Club (Harrison, N.Y.), who qualified for his fifth-consecutive PGA Championship after chipping in for birdie on the first hole of a 4-for-3 playoff. JESSE MUELLER ON HIS PRO V1x “I’ve played it forever and I’m just very comfortable with it. I’m comfortable with the flight in the wind, especially this week, how there’s so much wind out there today and I can hit the ball not pretty much my full shot and go straight through the wind. That’s something that it’d be hard for me ever to change. I’m really comfortable with the ball, playing in the wind, how it controls, trajectory.” TITLEIST PLAYERS BOOK TICKETS TO SOUTHERN HILLS Titleist was the most played golf ball , driver , fairway , hybrid , utility iron , iron , and wedge in the field of 312 teaching and club professionals: 12 of the 20 qualifiers into the PGA Championship trusted a Pro V1 , Pro V1x or Pro V1 Left Dot ball, including the champion. Seven qualifiers played a Titleist driver, six of them a TSi3 model. The most played driver on the PGA TOUR, TSi3 was also the top choice at the PPC (28%), with a total of 36% players using a TSi1 , TSi2 , TSi3 or TSi4 driver. Titleist irons – the majority of them NEW T100 , T100•S and T200 models – were in the bags of eight qualifiers. Those eight players also used a total of 27 Vokey Design wedges. Four qualifiers used a Scotty Cameron putter. What’s in the Bag of Team Titleist at the 2022 PGA Professional Championship Qualifiers? 1. Jesse Mueller (Grand Canyon University GC, Phoenix) Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x T2. Jared Jones (River Oaks Country Club, Houston) Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSi3 8.0° Fairway Metal: TSi2 13.5° Utility Irons: NEW T200 (2-3) Irons: NEW T100 (4-9) Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM9 46°, 54°, 60° Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 11.5 T2. 2014 PGA Professional Championship winner Utility Iron: NEW T200 4-iron T4. Wyatt Worthington II (The Golf Depot At Central Park, Gahanna, Ohio) Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 T6. Zac Oakley (Bidermann Golf Club, Wilmington, Del.) Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSi2 9.0° Irons: T100 (3-PW) irons Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM9 51°, 56°, 60° T11. Brandon Bingaman (Bent Tree Country Club, Dallas) Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 T11. Matt Borchert (Isleworth Golf & CC, Windermere, Fla.) Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 T11. Austin Hurt (Wing Point Golf & CC, Bainbridge Island, Wash.) Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x T11. Nic Ishee (Preston Trail Golf Club, Dallas) Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TS3 10.0° Fairway Metal: TSi2 15.0° Hybrid: TS3 18.0° Irons: NEW T100 (4-9) Wedges: Vokey Design SM8 46°, 50°, 54°, 58° Putter: Scotty Cameron Timeless tour prototype T11. Dylan Newman (Brae Burn Country Club, Purchase, N.Y.) Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSi3 9.0° Fairway Metal: TS2 15.0° Utility Iron: NEW T200 (3) Irons: 620 CB (3-PW) Wedges: Vokey Design SM8 52°, 58° Putter: Scotty Cameron Select Newport 1.5 T11. Casey Pyne (The Stanwich Club, Greenwich, Connecticut) Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSi3 9.0° T18. Alex Beach (Westchester CC, Harrison, N.Y.) Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Left Dot Driver: TSi3 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSi2 13.5° Irons: NEW T100•S (4-7) and 620 MB (8-9) Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM9 9 46°, 50°, 54, 60° T18. Paul Dickinson (Atlantic Golf Club, Bridgehampton, N.Y.) Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | ClubCorp Classic Scott Parel (Pro V1x) earned his second PGA TOUR Champions victory, emerging from a three-man, all-Titleist playoff at Las Colinas. Parel birdied the par-5 18th in regulation Sunday to post 65 and finish at 11 under along with Gene Sauers (Pro V1x) and Steve Akers (Pro V1) . Parel made par on the first playoff hole to seal the victory. PGA TOUR AUSTRALASIA | Western Australian PGA Championship Jay Mackenzie (Pro V1x) earned his first victory on the PGA TOUR of Australasia. Mackenzie posted four rounds of 68 or better on his way to a 19-under total and two-shot victory. AMATEUR | U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball The winners of the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball each played a Titleist Pro V1x golf ball, punctuating the week with a 1-up victory in Sunday’s final match.
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LPGA | Chevron Championship Playing a Pro V1 golf ball, Jennifer Kupcho etched her name into the history books Sunday at the Mission Hills’ Dinah Shore Tournament Course, claiming her first LPGA victory and major championship. Kupcho, who three years ago this week won the inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur, took the final champion’s leap into Poppie’s Pond, as the event will move to Houston and a different spot on the calendar next season. Kupcho, 24, played the four rounds in 14 under, highlighted by an 8-under 64 on Saturday that gave her a six-shot lead heading into Sunday’s finale. She finished with a two-shot victory, holding off a late Sunday charge from Titleist Brand Ambassador Jessica Korda , who closed in 69. Titleist golf ball players have now won six of the first seven events to start the LPGA season. KUPCHO ON HER PRO V1 “Pro V1 is just the ball I’ve always played. The ball flight is so consistent, I love how it flies off the tee, and around the greens I’m able to really control my spin and hit the shots I need to.” HOW KUPCHO MARKS HER PRO V1 “I mark my Pro V1 with a pink line (over the sidestamp) and three pink dots (above the Titleist script, to the right of the last “t”). The line is to help me with alignment when I’m on the putting green. The dots – I used to mark it with one dot when I was in college, but all my teammates did the same. So now I just put three.” AMATEUR | Augusta National Women’s Amateur The winner of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur played a Pro V1x golf ball and full bag of Titleist equipment – including a TSi2 driver and fairways, 620 MB irons, Vokey Design wedges and Scotty Cameron Newport 2 putter – becoming the youngest champion in the event's history at 16 years old. The ANWA champ, who started Saturday’s final round at Augusta National two strokes off the lead, played Amen Corner in 2 under, with birdies at the par-3 12th and the par-5 13th, on her way to a 3-under 69 and one-shot victory. The Spring Valley, Calif.-native was the only player who finished the 54-hole event in red numbers, at 1 under (215). She had never stepped foot on AGNC until her Friday practice round. WITB | ANWA Champion Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSi2 11.0° Fairway Metals: TSi2 16.5° & 18.0° Hybrid: TS2 23.0° Irons: 620 MB 5-PW Wedges: Vokey Design SM8 50.12F, 54.10S, 58.10S Putter: Scotty Cameron Select Newport 2 NINE OF TOP 10 PLAY TITLEIST GOLF BALLS Nine of the Top 10 finishers – including every player in the Top 7 – at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur played a Titleist Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball. That includes each of the four players who broke par in Saturday’s final round at Augusta National, including the champion. Of the 72 competitors in the field, 62 (86%) played a Titleist golf ball , more than 12 times the nearest competitor with five. ANWA CHAMP FIT AT TITLEIST PERFORMANCE INSTITUTE The winner of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur played a full bag of Titleist equipment that she was fit for at the Titleist Performance Institute (TPI) in Oceanside, Calif. She has been a regular visitor to TPI, working with Titleist’s expert fitters to ensure she’s dialed in for each season. Prior to Saturday’s win, she won twice in 2021, earning her first amateur victory with a one-shot win at the AJGA’s Heather Farr Classic in April. In July, she won the Girls Junior PGA Championship by seven shots to earn her invitation to the ANWA. She was also a member of the 2021 U.S. Junior Solheim Cup team. PGA TOUR | Valero Texas Open In addition to being the most played golf ball , Titleist was the most trusted driver , hybrid , utility iron , iron , wedge and putter at the Valero Texas Open. The winner of the Valero Texas Open used a Scotty Cameron putter in capturing his first PGA TOUR title, using his Cameron & Co. Newport 2 GSS tour prototype model to finish the week first in putts per green in regulation (1.54). Over the weekend, he made 31-of-31 putts from inside 10 feet, shooting a pair of 69s to win by two shots. It marked the 11th win for Scotty Cameron putters this season on the PGA TOUR, more than any other competitor. Scotty Cameron putters were also the overall top choice of players at the Valero Texas Open, with 53 players using a Scotty at TPC San Antonio. KORN FERRY TOUR | Club Car Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador T.J. Vogel claimed his first victory on the Korn Ferry Tour, closing in 5-under 67 to win by one shot. The win moved Vogel to No. 7 on the Korn Ferry Tour Points List in his quest for his first PGA TOUR card. Playing a Pro V1 golf ball and full bag of Titleist equipment – including a TSi2 9.0° driver, NEW T100 irons, NEW Vokey Design SM9 wedges and Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5.5 tour prototype putter – Vogel posted four rounds in the 60s (69-67-68-67) at The Landings Club’s Deer Creek Course to finish the week at 17 under. He topped a leaderboard that featured three Titleist Brand Ambassadors – Vogel, Mark Anderson (T2) and Jimmy Stanger (4) – in the first four positions, each playing a Titleist golf ball , TSi driver, NEW T100 irons and NEW Vokey Design wedges among their Titleist equipment. WITB | T.J. Vogel Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSi2 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSi2 15.0° Hybrid: TSi3 20.0° Irons: NEW T100 4-5 and 620 MB 6-9 Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 50.12F, 54.14F, WedgeWorks 60V Putter: Scotty Cameron TourType Special Select Flowback 5.5 Button Back tour prototype PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | Lake Charles Championship Steven Alker (Pro V1) played his final 40-holes bogey-free – navigating the weekend in 17 under par – to run away with a six-shot victory in Mississippi. Alker finished the event at a tournament-record 18 under par, boosted by a second-round 10-under 62. With a closing 7-under 65 on Sunday, he cruised to his second PGA TOUR Champions crown, while leading a 1-2-3-4 finish for Titleist golf ball players. Padraig Harrington (Pro V1) and Alex Cjeka (Pro V1x) tied for second, while Bob Estes (Pro V1) finished another shot back in fourth. SUNSHINE TOUR | Limpopo Championship Poland’s Mateusz Gradecki (Pro V1x) closed with a bogey-free 6-under 66 on a rainy Sunday in South Africa to earn the three-shot victory. The only player to shoot all four rounds in the 60’s (68-68-67-66), Gradecki became the first international winner of the event since it was first hosted in 2019. Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x players have won all seven events played this season on the Sunshine Tour. ... #TeamTitleist
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www.youtube.com/watch Next Evolution of Mallet Line Offers New Tour-inspired Designs for 2022 Building upon the success and momentum of Phantom X mallets on the PGA Tour – highlighted by the historic putting performance of 2021 Player of the Year Patrick Cantlay – Scotty Cameron introduces the next evolution of the Phantom X family, bringing the most in-demand mallet shapes from the Tour to golfers everywhere. With seven new models available on April 15 in golf shops worldwide, and three additional models arriving on June 17, the 2022 Phantom X mallet putter lineup features entirely new head shapes and updates to popular models. The putters also feature a new textured grip, new graphics and premium styling. Tour-preferred milled 303 stainless steel face construction carries through to nearly every new model. Expanding on the overwhelming response to the March 2021 Phantom X line extension designs and their adoption by tour professionals, Scotty has updated the Phantom X 5 and 5.5 putters, redesigned the Phantom X 7 and 7.5 models, and created the brand-new Phantom X 9 and 9.5, all of which will be available in April with an updated Phantom X 12. The new Phantom X 11 and 11.5 will be released in June 2022 with a straight-shafted Phantom X 5s, as well. These new mallets complete a 10-putter Phantom X lineup that promises to be the most compelling family of Scotty Cameron high-tech, high-performance mallets to date. QUOTING SCOTTY CAMERON “Each time I develop a line of putters, the new models go into the hands of the best players in the world. From Tour players, we get critical insight into what works for them - what they are looking for - both overall and specifically. From the type of neck configurations to topline thickness, to the sound and feel from the various types of materials and metal we use, professionals know what they want. And I’ve always taken my design cues from what the best in the world demand. With these new Phantom X mallets, I have the benefit of the past few years of input from players and a line that’s already established on Tour. The 2022 Phantom X mallets feature the ‘greatest hits’ of what we’ve developed - the solid stainless-steel faces, the new necks, the new shapes - rolled out in high-end, premium precision milled mallets designed to inspire us all to play better. I believe there’s a putter in this line that will appeal to just about every mallet player.” 2022 PHANTOM X TECHNOLOGY Each new 2022 Phantom X putter is an integration of steel and aluminium, with nine of the 10 models engineered specifically with a solid, precision-milled 303 stainless steel face and body that’s expertly fused with a 6061 aircraft grade aluminium sole and flange component. The new Phantom X 12 employs an aluminium face/sole with stainless steel wings for maximum MOI, while its slimmed down flange section and extended alignment create a longer-looking, easier-to-aim update to the prior model. SOLID STAINLESS STEEL FACE/BODY CONSTRUCTION Precision milled in the United States from a block of solid 303 stainless steel, the new Phantom X 5, 5.5, 5s, 7, 7.5, 9, 9.5, 11 and 11.5 models were designed with a solid stainless steel face that is carried through to the body/wings and integrated with an aluminium sole/flange component for performance and playability with consistent sound and soft feel. PRECISION MILLED, TOUR-INSPIRED SHAPES Designed with feedback from touring professionals - and validated with multiple victories around the world in 2021 - the new 2022 Phantom X mallets further express player preferences with features like precision milled solid stainless steel faces, sleek putter head profiles, refined alignment cues, high durability finishes, and specific shaft and neck configurations. SHAFT/NECK CONFIGURATIONS The refreshed Phantom X 11.5 will continue to feature a low-bend stepless steel shaft installed over a milled topline spud, while the updated Phantom X 7.5 and all-new Phantom X 9.5 will employ small slant/jet necks like the recently revamped Phantom X 5.5. The Phantom X 5, 7, 9, 11 and 12 models each have a stepless steel shaft engineered to minimise face rotation with a single mid-bend aimed directly down the target line. The summer-release Phantom X 5s has a straight stepless steel shaft installed near the centre point of the topline with zero offset. 2022 PHANTOM X LINE MODELS The new additions to the Phantom X line offer golfers multiple mallet options in 33", 34" and 35" lengths, each with one of four specific neck/shaft configurations: In Shops Spring 2022 – April 15: Phantom X 5 Updated for 2022 with a new sole plate design and graphics, this Tour-proven, near-face balanced mid-mallet with a single bend shaft returns with a solid face configuration precision milled from 303 stainless steel, integrated with an updated aluminium sole plate and customisable stainless steel sole weights. Phantom X 5.5 The small slant/jet neck setup inspired by Justin Thomas' prototype gamer returns in the latest Phantom X 5.5. Its solid face/body configuration is precision milled from 303 stainless steel and integrated with the line’s updated aluminium sole plate and customisable stainless steel sole weights. Also available left-handed. Phantom X 7 Completely updated for 2022 as a highly requested shape on Tour and introduced as the 2021 My Girl Limited, this angular wingback mallet with a single bend shaft and an integrated aluminium flange/sole component includes dual purpose alignment features, a solid milled stainless steel face and new sole plate design. Its long, sharp wings not only create alignment value but reposition weight further back, increasing stability and MOI. Phantom X 7.5 Identical to the Phantom X 7 but with a small slant/jet neck to promote slight toe flow, this all-new angular wingback mallet shape unveiled as the 2021 H21 Limited Proto has a solid milled stainless steel face with an integrated aluminium flange/sole component with enhanced alignment options in its longer, sharper wing design. Phantom X 9 Sharing design attributes of the popular Phantom X 5 and 11 shapes, this all-new, near-face balanced compact high-MOI wingback mallet has a solid milled stainless steel face and wings integrated with a rounded 6061 aluminium flange-sole component for a unique profile with simple alignment cues, a “connected” or “solid” look at address, and modern appeal. Phantom X 9.5 With its small slant/jet neck, this is the follow-up to the 2021 Phantom X 9.5 Triple Black Limited. This brand new high-MOI mallet has a solid milled stainless steel face carried through to the body/wings integrated with a 6061 aluminium sole-flange component for a unique profile with enhanced alignment features and toe flow. Phantom X 12 Redesigned with an elongated single continuous alignment line and updated with a thinner mid-section profile and new graphics, the new Phantom X 12 has the highest MOI in the line. With its single mid-bend shaft, swept-back wings precision milled from 303 stainless steel and aluminium face/body, this mallet promotes forgiveness with its perimeter weighting and superior sound and feedback. Left-handed version also available. In Shops Summer 2022 – June 17: Phantom X 5s As part of the upcoming summer release, the popular Phantom X 5 wingback mid-mallet shape enters the line with a straight shaft and a milled topline sight line for players favouring a straight-back-straight-through putting stroke and zero offset. This straight shafted model has a solid milled stainless steel face, customisable sole weights and sports the line’s new precision milled aluminium sole plate design. Phantom X 11 Updated with the 2022 Phantom X sole design and new graphics, the high-MOI face-balanced wingback Phantom X 11 arrives with a mid-bend shaft and a solid precision milled 303 stainless steel face, topline, body and wings integrated with an aluminium flange/sole component with simple alignment cues and customisable stainless steel sole weights. The new Phantom X 11 shares design similarities with the wingback Phantom X 12 and Phantom X 5, yet provides a new option in performance-oriented mallets for players seeking high MOI and stability in a more compact platform. Phantom X 11.5 Identical to the Phantom X 11 except for its shaft configuration, the new 11.5 adds another compact mallet option to the high-tech Phantom X line. This high-MOI wingback mallet with a low-bend shaft for slight toe flow and a solid precision milled 303 stainless steel face, topline, body and wings integrated with an aluminium flange/sole component with simple alignment cues and customisable stainless steel sole weights features the line’s updated graphics and sole design. TOUR VALIDATION The new Phantom X family got off to a fast start on the PGA Tour, as the champion of The American Express won the event playing a new Phantom X 7.5 model for the first time. He finished the week second in Strokes Gained: Putting (+6.402) while averaging 1.577 putts per green in regulation. “The first time he put it down, the putter just set up perfect for him,” said Scotty Cameron Tour Rep Drew Page. “He was really impressed how it sat on the ground, and thought it looked great. It’s been the same story for many players who’ve put Phantoms in play. ‘Man, this thing sets on the ground perfect. I really like the way it looks.’ He rolled a few putts with it on Tuesday, I just threw his grip on and it went into play.” Scotty Cameron is the winningest putter brand on the 2021-22 PGA Tour, with Scotty Cameron players already combining for nine victories. Last season, Patrick Cantlay recorded the Tour all-time putting performance at the BMW Championship with his Phantom X 5, gaining more strokes putting (+14.6) than any player in a single tournament since they began tracking the statistic in 2004. He made 537 feet of putts over the 72 holes of regulation, the longest of any player on the PGA TOUR this season by a margin of 30 feet. Cantlay added another 33 feet, 6 inches of putts in the playoff, putting him over 570 feet (longer than 1 ½ football fields) for the week. The following week, he won the Tour Championship, his fourth victory of the season, and the FedEx Cup. The current World No. 1 on the LPGA plays a Phantom X 5.5 – inspired by the Futura X 5.5 gamer that Justin Thomas has used to win 12 of his 13 PGA Tour titles. Max Homa (twice) and Garrick Higgo have each won on the PGA Tour playing Phantom X models, while C.T. Pan was one of two players to reach the podium in Tokyo last summer playing a Phantom X. Last season’s PGA TOUR Rookie of the year Will Zalatoris plays a Phantom X 11. PHANTOM X WEIGHTING & SHAFTS Each new Phantom X putter features advanced stability weighting with two customisable stainless steel heel-toe weights and stepless steel shafts. NEW GRIPS Each new Phantom X putter comes with an updated Pistolero Plus grip with a non-slip and decorative texture that, like its Pistolero Plus predecessors, has less taper in the low hand for the ideal combination of size, feel and feedback when paired with Phantom X mallet putters. FINISH & GRAPHICS New 2022 Phantom X stainless steel putter heads all undergo Scotty’s silver mist process for a near-permanent, radiant, yet glare resistant, appearance and texture. The 6061 aircraft grade aluminium components have been misted and anodised black. Scotty’s familiar three-dot theme carries through to the back cavities of the Phantom X 5, 5.5, 5s, 7 and 7.5 as unpainted, raw circles milled into the stainless steel. The sight lines on the Phantom X 5, 5.5, 5s are painted black, while sight lines on the Phantom X 7 and 7.5 employ a combination of black and white lines. The Phantom 9, 9.5, 11, 11.5 and 12 models’ sight lines are accented in light grey. AVAILABILITY The new Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5, 5.5, 7, 7.5, 9, 9.5, and 12 putter models will be available worldwide beginning April 15, 2022, through Titleist authorised golf shops. The new Phantom X 5s, 11 and 11.5 models will be available on June 17, 2022. … #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | The Players Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Cameron Smith played 26 holes Monday at TPC Sawgrass, making 11 birdies – including 10 over his final 18 holes, the most final-round birdies ever by a PLAYERS Champion – in claiming the biggest victory of his career. It marked the fifth PGA TOUR victory for the 28-year-old Smith, and second win of 2022 following his win at the Sentry Tournament of Champions. Playing a Pro V1x golf ball, TSi3 driver, NEW T100 irons, NEW Vokey Design SM9 wedges and Scotty Cameron putter, Smith emerged from the five-day, weather-plagued PLAYERS Championship at 13 under, one shot ahead of Anirban Lahiri (Pro V1). He one-putted eight of his final nine holes to post a closing 6-under 66, his final birdie coming on TPC Sawgrass’ island-green 17th. Smith hit his tee shot to No. 17 just right of the traditional final-round back-right pin placement, 4 feet, 4 inches from the hole, the second-closest of any player in Round 4. Said Smith of his tee shot on 17: “I struck the ball really well. It was the shot that I wanted to play. I just thought the wind was going to kind of hold it up for most of the way. It actually kind of drifted right and then held its line at the end there. Yeah, heart was in the throat there for a second, but I knew it was the right club.” Smith also birdied 17 Monday morning while finishing Round 3. With the win, Smith moves to No. 6 in the World Ranking, his highest position ever. What's in Cam Smith's Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSi3 10.0° | Fujikura Ventus Blue 60 X Fairway Metals: TSi2 15.0° | Fujikura Ventus Blue 80 X and TS2 21.0° | UST Mamiya Elements Red 8F5 X Irons: NEW T100 5-9 | KBS Tour 130 Custom Matte Black X Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 52.08F, 56.08M, 60.10S | KBS Tour 130 Custom Matte Black X Putter: Scotty Cameron 009M tour prototype TOP-4 SWEEP FOR TITLEIST GOLF BALL PLAYERS Cameron Smith topped a leaderboard that featured Titleist golf ball players in the top four positions: Cameron Smith : Pro V1x Anirban Lahiri : Pro V1 Paul Casey : Pro V1 Kevin Kisner : Pro V1x Titleist was the overwhelming most played golf ball at TPC Sawgrass with 102 players (71%), more than seven times the nearest competitor (14). Smith’s win marked win No. 11 for Titleist golf ball players over the last 14 PGA TOUR events and 13th overall for the 2021-22 season. Smith put his 2021 Pro V1x in play the first week it was available at the 2020 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. A month later, he teed the ball up at Augusta National, where he became the first player in Masters history to post four rounds in the 60’s. “The biggest thing for me with the [2021 Pro V1x] is the cover and the stickiness it gives me around the greens. I feel as though I can hit a lot of different scoring shots into and around the green... For me, when I tested it, it was a bit hotter off the driver, which was great. The windows were great. The spin was still the same. The irons were basically the same which I love. But for me, the biggest thing that stuck out was the control coming out of the rough and around the greens. So like inside 40-50 yards, just the stickiness of it. I feel as though I can control my shots, especially those difficult, soft shots, just so much better with that new cover they got on there. … I love to be creative around the green, so hitting those high, spinny shots and just being able to hit different shots is really important for me.” Smith led the PLAYERS field in average proximity to the hole from 50-125 yards, averaging 9 feet, 1 inch, while ranking fifth in the field in Strokes Gained: Approach (+1.66 per round). “I think it’s just how it travels through the wind. I think they’ve done a lot of work on that and this new ball is fantastic in the wind,” he said. “It’s just consistent. I feel like I can really dial in my numbers, especially with the shorter irons, and give myself plenty of bird looks.” “I’ll always put it straight in,” Smith said regarding new generation Titleist golf balls. “I trust what they’re doing with it. After a couple of tournaments I’m always comfortable in knowing what it will do. I’ve been playing the Pro V1x since I was about 15 years old and never changed.” 1-2-3 FINISH FOR TSi DRIVERS; 1-2-3-4 FOR VOKEY WEDGES In addition to playing a Titleist golf ball , every player in the Top 3 positions on the final leaderboard played a Titleist TSi driver and Vokey Design wedges, while the fourth-place finisher also had Vokeys in the bag: Cameron Smith : TSi3 10.0° driver, NEW Vokey Design SM9 (46.10F, 52.08F, 56.08M, 60.10S) wedges Second-place finisher: TSi3 10.0° driver; NEW Vokey Design SM9 (50.12F) & SM8 (WedgeWorks 54.08M, 60.08AD+) wedges Third-place finisher: TSi3 9.0° driver; Vokey Design SM7 (52.08F, 56.10S) & SM8 (WedgeWorks 60T) wedges Fourth-place finisher: Vokey Design SM8 (46.10F) & NEW SM9 (WedgeWorks 60T) wedges The top choice of players on the PGA TOUR, TSi drivers were the most played driver at TPC Sawgrass with 46 players gaming either a TSi2 , TSi3 or TSi4 driver. In total, 47 players used a Titleist driver (33%), compared to 34 (24%) for the nearest competitor. Said Smith: “There’s a reason why it’s the best driver on tour. It’s perfect. I feel like when I’m comfortable and I’m hitting it out the middle, it’s just going to go dead straight and as long as you want. … The biggest thing for me is just a little bit more pop off the face. I probably gained three or four meters in the air and it’s just a lot more consistent. The spin’s a lot more consistent. It’s just a great driver.” In January at the Sentry Tournament of Champions, Smith earned the first victory for the NEW Vokey Design SM9 wedges as the new models made their PGA TOUR debut. This week at The PLAYERS, there were more Vokey Design gap, sand and lob wedges (206) in play than all competitors combined, with 35% (142) of all gap, sand and lob wedges in play being SM9, already the overwhelming most played wedge on TOUR. Smith didn’t get his hands on his new SM9’s until the Monday morning of Sentry, when he found them sitting in his locker at Kapalua, a delivery from Vokey Tour Rep Aaron Dill. Smith carried both his SM8’s and SM9’s during the practice rounds, but stepped to the tee for Round 1 with four new SM9’s in the bag. “I put them in the bag straight away. They’re great,” he said. “For me the biggest difference in these new ones is the longer ones, the 46 and the 52, I feel like I’m able to flight a little bit more. (Kapalua) was so receptive and I felt like I could keep being aggressive, I didn’t have to worry about the ball spinning off the front of the green. They set up the courses pretty tricky for us and these are the ones that help us make all the birdies and those really good pars, so you’ve got to be able to rely on them.” SMITH’S HISTORIC PUTTING PERFORMANCE Cameron Smith and his Scotty Cameron 009M tour prototype putter made history at The PLAYERS, as he gained the most strokes putting versus the field in tournament history (+2.88 per round). He also finished with the most one-putts every by a PLAYERS champ (42), while one-putting eight of his final nine holes Monday. “I’ve always been a little bit of a fiddler with the putter, but yeah, I just really like this one,” said Smith, who changed to the Newport-style 009M model at the 2021 Sony Open. “It just feels great in the hands. I feel like I’m able to hit really good lag putts with it, which is a big thing out here. We leave ourselves some pretty nasty putts sometimes. I feel like I’m able to get the ball rolling real good. And the biggest thing for me is the strike. So I just feel like I hit lots of good putts with it out of the middle and it feels so good. “I've always loved the (alignment) dot on top. I’ve never been a line guy. I feel like I can just feel the putt a little bit better. When I don’t get so obsessed with the line, I feel like I'm able to just hit a good putt and a good putt out of the middle means more chances of going in.” SMITH ON HIS NEW T100 IRONS Cameron Smith’s ballstriking was on full display at TPC Sawgrass, as he gained 1.66 shots on the field per round with his approach shots (ranking fifth). Smith games NEW T100 irons (with a prototype black finish) that he put into play immediately at last season’s Travelers Championship. “I put these in as soon as we got them. They’ve been really good,” Smith said. “I love the consistency. I think they did a lot of really good work, especially on the shorter irons with grinding this heel a little bit. So when you get a bit of an uneven lie, you don’t feel like the heel's digging in and you’re missing shots left.” LPGA | Honda LPGA Thailand Nanna Koerstz Madsen captured her first LPGA victory Sunday in Thailand, rolling her Pro V1x golf ball in from 10 feet for eagle to win on the second hole of a playoff. Madsen posted rounds of 65-64-66-67 at Siam CC’s Pattaya Old Course, making 28 birdies, one eagle and just four bogeys for the week. With the win, Madsen, 27, became the first LPGA winner from Denmark. “It’s amazing. It’s a dream come true,” she said. “It was a crazy day; a lot of good things. … I’m really excited to be standing with the trophy right now.” TITLEIST GOLF BALL PLAYERS 5-FOR-5 ON 2022 LPGA Nanna Koerstz Madsen's breakthrough win at the Honda LPGA Thailand marked the fifth-consecutive victory for Titleist golf ball players to start the LPGA season. The first five winners of 2022 : Nanna Koerstz Madsen (Pro V1x), Honda LPGA Thailand; Jin Young Ko (Pro V1) , HSBC Women's World Championship; Leona Maguire (Pro V1), LPGA Drive On Championship; Lydia Ko (Pro V1x) , Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio; and Danielle Kang (Pro V1x) ; Hilton Grand Vacations LPGA Tournament of Champions. KANG MAKES FOURTH-CAREER ACE Titleist Brand Ambassador Danielle Kang , made her fourth-career hole-in-one Sunday, holing her Pro V1x golf ball from 132 yards on the par-3 8th with her Titleist CB 9-iron. It was her first ace since 2014, when she made three that season. Said Kang: “All I thought was like I think I’m due for a hole-out. Might as well just do it here. And then I saw it tracking and then I went, ‘No way.’ It landed and I was like, ‘No way.’ Because normally sometimes it sits. It’s soft out here. I was like, ‘Wait a second, it’s actually rolling … and it went in and everyone screamed.” PGA TOUR AUSTRALASIA | TPS Hunter Valley Titleist Brand Ambassador Aaron Pike birdied the third playoff hole to outlast Momoka Kobori (Pro V1) and capture his third PGA TOUR Australasia title. Pike clinched the victory with a stunning pitching wedge to 2 feet, tapping in his Pro V1x golf ball for the victory. Pike’s win follows last week’s victory by fellow Titleist Brand Ambassador Jarryd Felton , and marks win No. 5 for Titleist golf ball players this season. Titleist swept every equipment category at TPS Hunter Vallery, including golf balls (123 players/85%) and drivers (76/53%). What’s in Aaron Pike’s Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSi3 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSi2 15.0° Utility Iron: U•505 (3) Irons: NEW T100 4-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM8 46.10F, 52.08F, 56.08M, WedgeWorks 60A Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 11 tour prototype ... #TeamTitleist
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If you’ve been following the Tour closely this season, you’ll have seen the name of the Rookie Cameron Young , who’s carded two top 10 finishes this season, highlighted by a runner-up performance at The Genesis Invitational. And while Cam is solid from tee-to-green, leading all PGA TOUR rookies in FedEx Cup standings, he’s generating buzz around his powerful swing that brings him both distance and accuracy off the tee: Yardage covered by drive on par 4's and 5's | 67.6% | Ranked #1 SG: Off the Tee | .837 strokes | Ranked #2 Longest Drives | 413 yards | Ranked #2 Average Ball Speed | 186.42 mph | Ranked #3 Average Club Head Speed | 124.04 mph (#1 Fastest Individual Speed at 130.04 mph) | Ranked #4 Driving Distance | 319.2 yards | Ranked #5 Birdie Average | 4.79 | Ranked #11 Birdie or Better | 9.3% of holes played this season | Ranked #12 Top 20 Total Driving www.instagram.com/.../ We caught up with Titleist Tour Rep, JJ Van Wezenbeeck to get the story on Cam’s TSi3 driver and the adjustments they’ve made this season: “Cameron’s previous driver settings provided a slightly closed face and heel-biased weighting to encourage face closure and prevent the occasional blocked shot that resulted from his pronounced inside-to-out swing path. As his swing path neutralized following off-season work with his instructor/dad (David Young – Head Golf Professional at Sleepy Hollow Country Club), that face closure assistance turned Cameron’s miss from a block to a pull. Working with Cameron at Torrey Pines, we went to the new setup with a more open face and shifted the CG closer to the middle to better match Cameron’s more neutral swing path,” Van Wezenbeeck said. Said Young on his TSi3 driver: “I’ve definitely picked up a mile per hour or two. It spins a little bit less for me and it just keeps the misses straighter. It doesn’t curve as much. I think it’s more rewarding for me when I hit one how I mean to, the shapes come out more how I mean, and it’s just more rewarding in terms of it being a little hotter and just going a little farther.” WHAT’S IN CAMERON YOUNG’S TITLEIST GOLF BAG? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Left Dot Driver: TSi3 10 .0° | Tensei 1K Pro White 70 TX | S ureFit Hosel – D1 (-0.75° loft, 1.5° open face) | SureFit CG – H1 Fairway Metal: TSi3 16.5° | Tensei 1K Pro White 80 TX and TSi2 21.0 | Tensei 1K Pro White 80 TX Utility Iron: NEW T200 4-iron | Nippon NS Pro Modus3 Tour 130 X Irons: 620 MB (5-9)| Nippon NS Pro Modus3 Tour 130 X Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM 9 56.08M, 52.12F, WedgeWorks 62.08M | Nippon NS Pro Modus3 Tour 130 X Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5 Knuckle Neck tour prototype ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | Genesis Invitational Joaquin Niemann became the tournament’s first wire-to-wire winner since 1969 — and the first wire-to-wire winner at Riviera since the 1983 PGA Championship — trusting his Pro V1x golf ball to a two-shot victory and his second TOUR victory Sunday in Los Angeles. The 23-year-old from Chile, the youngest-ever winner of the Genesis Invitational, opened the week with consecutive 63’s on his way to setting the event’s 36-hole (126) and 54-hole (194) scoring records. For the week, Niemann led the field in Strokes Gained: Approach (+1.77 per round), with an average proximity to hole from the fairway of 22 feet, 11 inches (best in the field by more than 3 feet). He was also second in SG: Around the Green (+1.26 per round). Over the four days, his Pro V1x golf ball found the hole for 24 birdies or better (3 eagles), the most by a winner at Riviera since 1988. With the win, he jumped to 20th in the World Ranking. NIEMANN ON HIS PRO V1 x PERFORMANCE “I mean, it’s simple. For me, Titleist Pro V1x is the best ball out there. It just fits my game perfectly. I know that with this ball, I can hit any trajectory that I want, and I love to move the ball a lot, especially when it is windy. I mean, just so much confidence in this ball.” HOW NIEMANN MARKS HIS PRO V1 x “I normally use the number one for Thursdays, number two for Fridays, number three for Saturdays, and number four for Sundays. Those are my four favorite numbers and I just do a line on it (over the sidestamp) so I can align it with my putter. Yeah, it's pretty simple, and always blue (marker). I like the blue.” FIVE IN A ROW FOR TITLEIST GOLF BALLS Niemann's victory marked the fifth-consecutive victory for Titleist golf balls on the PGA TOUR – following wins by Tom Hoge (Pro V1 Left Dot), Luke List (Pro V1) and Hudson Swafford (Pro V1) the last four weeks. It’s also the ninth Titleist golf ball win in the last 10 TOUR events, beginning with Viktor Hovland’s victory at the World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba with his Pro V1 . Talor Gooch (Pro V1) and Cameron Smith (Pro V1x) have also won during this stretch. ANOTHER BIG WEEK FOR ROOKIE CAMERON YOUNG PGA TOUR rookie and Titleist Brand Ambassador Cameron Young , making just his 12th-ever start on TOUR, earned his second T2 finish of the season. Young’s second-round 62 – a nine-birdie, no-bogey effort – was the lowest of the week at Riviera. Playing a Pro V1 Left Dot golf ball, TSi3 9.0° driver and full bag of Titleist equipment, Young, 24, finished the week second in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee (+5.204), fifth in SG: Tee to Green (+8.643) and fourth in SG: Putting (+5.92). He was second in Scrambling at 82.61%. YOUNG AMONG TOUR’S BEST DRIVERS Young’s driving performance at Riviera moved him to second in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee (+.812) for the season. Said Young on his TSi3 9.0° driver: “I’ve definitely picked up a mile per hour or two. It spins a little bit less for me and it just keeps the misses straighter. It doesn’t curve as much. I think it’s more rewarding for me when I hit one how I mean to, the shapes come out more how I mean, and it’s just more rewarding in terms of it being a little hotter and just going a little farther.” What’s in Cameron Young’s Titleist Golf Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Left Dot Driver: TSi3 9.0° | Tensei 1K Pro White 70 TX Fairway Metal: TSi3 16.5° | Tensei 1K Pro White 80 TX and TSi2 21.0 | Tensei 1K Pro White 80 TX Utility Iron: NEW T200 4-iron | Nippon NS Pro Modus3 Tour 130 X Irons: 620 MB (5-9)| Nippon NS Pro Modus3 Tour 130 X Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM 9 56.08M, 52.12F, WedgeWorks 62.08M | Nippon NS Pro Modus3 Tour 130 X Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5 Knuckle Neck tour prototype KORN FERRY TOUR | LECOM Suncoast Classic Playing a Pro V1x golf ball and full bag of Titleist equipment, Titleist Brand Ambassador Byeong Hun An claimed his first worldwide win since 2015 while leading a 1-through-5 finish for Titleist golf ball players in Florida. An, 30, topped a packed leaderboard, closing in 2-under 69 for a one-shot victory over Seonghyeon Kim (Pro V1 Left Dot), Scott Harrington (Pro V1x), Ben Griffin (Pro V1) and M.J. Daffue (Pro V1x). “I hit great shots into the par 5s the first three days, I was able to hit greens under regulation. I set up easy birdies,” said An, who posted four rounds in the 60’s (65-66-67-69). “The first three days I had a lot of two-putts for birdies so I think that makes golf a lot easier when you hit the green in two and make a two-putt birdie. So I think my long irons was great this week and it’s been great for the last couple weeks, so I kind of had confidence, so that’s why I went for almost every green out there.” What’s in Byeong Hun An’s Titleist Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TS3 9.5° Fairway Metal: TSi2 15.0° Utility Iron: U•500 (3) and NEW T200 (4) Irons: NEW T100•S (5) and 620 MB (6-9) Wedges: Vokey Design SM8 48.10F, 52.08F, 56.08M, WedgeWorks 60T Putter: Scotty Cameron Newport tour prototype TITLEIST SWEEPS EQUIPMENT COUNTS For the second consecutive week, Titleist swept every major equipment category on the Korn Ferry Tour, with more players choosing Titleist golf balls , drivers , fairways , hybrids , utility irons , irons , wedges and putters than any other brand. PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS | Chubb Classic Bernhard Langer rolled his Pro V1x golf ball in for birdie on the 18th hole Sunday at Tiburon Golf Club to complete a wire-to-wire victory in Naples. Already the oldest winner in the tour’s history, Langer – who registered Sunday’s win at 64 years, 5 months, 23 days – moves to 43 career victories on PGA TOUR Champions, just two off the all-time mark. Langer started the week by shooting his age (8-under 64), before closing with consecutive 68’s to win by three shots. PGA TOUR LATINOAMERICA | Estrella del Mar Open 2022 Matt Ryan – playing a Pro V1 golf ball and TSi2 driver among his all-Titleist setup – claimed his first PGA TOUR Latinoamerica title Sunday in Mexico. Ryan, 35, made five front-nine birdies Sunday on his way to a 6-under 66 and three-shot victory. He opened the week with a tournament-best 63. What’s in Matt Ryan’s Titleist Bag? Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSi2 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSi2 13.5° Utility Iron: NEW T200 2-iron Irons: 620 CB (4-6) & 620 MB (7-PW) Wedges: Vokey Design SM8 50°, 56°, 58° Putter: Scotty Cameron Timeless tour prototype SUNSHINE TOUR | Bain's Whisky Cape Town Open J.C. Ritchie (Pro V1) became the first player in tournament history to successfully defend his title, holing a 30-foot birdie putt on the 18th to win by one stroke. It was the ninth-career Sunshine Tour victory for Ritchie, who was the only player at Cape Town’s Royal Cape Golf Club to post all four rounds in the 60’s (69-66-67-68). ... #TeamTitleist
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LPGA TOUR | Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions Titleist Brand Ambassador Danielle Kang was the only player to shoot all four rounds in the 60s, and the only player to break 70 on both weekend days, as she claimed the LPGA’s 2022 season opener. Kang – playing a Pro V1x golf ball and full bag of Titleist equipment, including TSi3 driver, Vokey Design wedges and Scotty Cameron Special Select Squareback 2 tour prototype putter – closed in 4-under 68 for a three-shot victory on a blustery, chilly Sunday at Lake Nona Golf & Country Club. Kang led the field in Greens in Regulation at 81.94% (59 of 72) and Putts per GIR (1.68). She needed only 115 putts over the four rounds (leading the field), and never 3-putted. Off the tee, she was 8th in fairways hit (78.57%) while averaging 245.5 yards. WITB | Danielle Kang Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSi3 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSi3 18.0° Hybrid: 816H2 23.0° Irons: 716 CB 5-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM7 46.10F, 50.08F, 54.14F, WedgeWorks 58.06K Putter: Scotty Cameron Special Select Squareback 2 tour prototype putter TS i DRIVERS LEAD THE WAY ON LPGA Titleist TSi drivers were the most played drivers at the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions, led by winner Danielle Kang and her TSi3 9.0° model. Four of the top seven finishers played a TSi driver, including Kang, the third-place finisher (TSi3 9.0), Nelly Korda (TSi1 10.0°) and Jessica Korda (TSi4 10.0°). The 2021 ANA Inspiration Champion (TSi2 9.0°) and 2016 ANA Inspiration Champion (TSi3 9.0°) also switched this week to TSi drivers. Said Kang: “This Titleist driver, I absolutely love it. I used to play a competitor for a long time, but when I first hit this TSi3, I never felt better compression on the face, on the ball. My misses narrowed down. The dispersion of the driver was more compact, so I loved that feel. And driver’s really important because I really value being in the fairway so that I can utilize the irons. So I really like to be able to attack pins. I’m an aggressive player, and where I position myself off the tee is really important.” Titleist was also the most played golf ball , utility iron (T1), iron , wedge and putter (T1) at Lake Nona. PGA TOUR | The American Express Playing a Titleist Pro V1 golf ball, Hudson Swafford claimed his third PGA TOUR victory with a closing 8-under 64 on PGA West’s Stadium Course. Swafford, who rolled his Pro V1 in for nine birdies and one eagle Sunday, played his final three holes in 3 under to win by two shots. Swafford led a 1-through-5 finish for Titleist golf ball players, as nine of the top-10 finishers played a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball. For the week, Swafford finished fourth in Strokes Gained: Approach (+4.308) while making a tournament-leading 29 birdies, with five of those (plus an eagle on No. 16) on the back nine Sunday. CHAMPION CLAIMS FIRST WIN FOR NEW SCOTTY CAMERON PHANTOM X PUTTERS The winner of The American Express became the first player to win using a NEW Scotty Cameron Phantom X putter, having put the NEW Phantom X 7.5 model in play for the first time Thursday in the desert. He first tested the putter Tuesday morning on the putting green at PGA West. A few putts later, he asked Scotty Cameron Tour Rep Drew Page to put on his preferred grip (Scotty Cameron Matador Mid). The next day, he told Page, “It’s in.” “The first time he put it down, the putter just set up perfect for him,” Page said. “He was really impressed how it sat on the ground, and thought it looked great. It’s been the same story for many players who’ve put Phantoms in play. ‘Man, this thing sets on the ground perfect. I really like the way it looks.’ He rolled a few putts with it on Tuesday, I just threw his grip on and it went into play.” Said The American Express champ, in his post-victory press conference: “I actually changed putters this week to a heel-shafted putter to help it swing a little bit more and rolled it incredibly well. … Oh, man, I rolled it really good this week.” How good? He finished the week second in Strokes Gained: Putting (+6.402), averaging 1.577 putts per green in regulation. He sank his Pro V1 from 8 feet for eagle on the par-5 16th Sunday to take a two-shot lead, then made a 19-footer for birdie on the par-3 17th to go up three shots. His 8-footer for par on 18 clinched the victory. The new Phantom X 7, 7.2 and 7.5 models made their TOUR debut just a week earlier at the Sony Open, with five of them in play this week at The American Express. VOKEY SM9 LAUNCH CONTINUES IN THE DESERT The launch of the NEW Vokey Design SM9 wedges continued this week on the PGA TOUR, following Cam Smith's season-opening victory at the Sentry Tournament of Champions with four new SM9’s. Fellow Titleist Brand Ambassadors Jordan Spieth , Justin Thomas and Max Homa also started off 2022 with four new SM9’s in their bags. This week, 38 players put the new wedges in play, with more SM9 pitching, gap, sand and lob wedges used in the desert than any other model. That includes Brand Ambassador Wyndham Clark , who earned his best finish of the season with SM9 46.10F, 52.12F, 56.10S and WedgeWorks 60A models in the bag. Said Clark: “These are incredible. Vokey’s done a great job in creating a wedge that launches at the launch you want, which is kind of a lower launch, but with a ton of spin. And that’s what all of us out here strive and try to get with our wedges is that lower launch that fights through the wind. But then when it lands, it is really receptive. … These SM9s are I think the best wedges ever made.” Also among those putting NEW SM9’s in play this week : Lee Hodges , Lanto Griffin , Cameron Young , the 2018 Masters Champion and 2015 PGA Champion. TS i IS MOST PLAYED DRIVER AT AMEX TSi drivers were once again the most played drivers on the PGA TOUR this week at the American Express, with 45 players (44 of them being TSi models), nine more than the nearest competitor. Four of the top five players on the final leaderboard at The American Express gamed TSi2 or TSi3 drivers: Tom Hoge (TSi3 9.0°), Brian Harman (TSi2 9.0°), Lanto Griffin (TSi2 10.0°) and Lee Hodges (TSi2 8.0°). DP WORLD TOUR | Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship Titleist Brand Ambassador Thomas Pieters – playing a Pro V1 golf ball, TSi2 driver, four NEW Vokey Design SM9 wedges and Scotty Cameron Special Select Squareback 2 tour prototype putter among his Titleist setup – earned his first Rolex Series title with a one-shot victory in Abu Dhabi. Pieters, who closed in even-par 72 at a windy, challenging Yas Links, finished at 10 under, one shot clear of fellow Brand Ambassador Rafa Cabrera Bello and Shubankar Sharma (Pro V1x). It was Pieters’ sixth-career victory on the DP World Tour (formerly European Tour) and second in his last three starts (Portugal Masters). For the week, he topped the field in Strokes Gained: Tee to Green (+2.64 per round) and scrambling (86.67%) and finished second in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee (+1.23 per round). PIETERS WINS IN FIRST WEEK WITH NEW VOKEY SM9 WEDGES The NEW Vokey Design SM9 wedges made their DP World Tour debut this week in Abu Dhabi, with more players using SM9’s than any other model. A total of 41 players had SM9’s in their bags, including winner Thomas Pieters , who put four new SM9 models (46.10F, 52.08F, 56.10S, WW 58L) immediately in play. Cabrera Bello , Ian Poulter , Bernd Wiesbeger , and the world’s 43rd-ranked player were also among those making the Week 1 transition to SM9. PIETERS’ SWITCH TO TITLEIST After several years playing a competitive brand, Thomas Pieters began playing a Titleist Pro V1 golf ball and TSi2 driver at the end of 2020, without an agreement. He saw immediate gains with the new combination, which led him to sign as Titleist Brand Ambassador in 2021. “Thomas is an extremely hard worker who takes performance seriously,” said Liam McDougall, Titleist Tour Representative on the DP World Tour. “He has worked extensively with our team with all the equipment through his bag and on all aspects of his game, but especially around the statistical areas that he felt he needed to improve upon. He has been a regular visitor to the Titleist Performance Centre at Woburn since joining our team and it is great to see all his hard work pay off.” Sunday’s victory moved Pieters back into the top 50 of the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time since April 2018. Said Peters: “When you’re in control of your ball flight and the golf ball, it’s fun. You know, you can be creative and that’s how I felt out there today. I feel like I’ve turned the corner and playing really good golf. Like I said, I’m really in control of my ball flight and it’s nice to feel like that and make putts as well. My putting has improved massively and I felt like that’s the thing that really kept me going on the weekend." WITB | Thomas Pieters Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSi2 10.0° Irons: 620 CB (3-4) & 620 MB (5-9) Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46.10F, 52.08F, 56.10S, 58.04L Putter: Scotty Cameron Special Select Squareback 2 Dual Balance tour prototype PIETERS ON HIS PRO V1 “The ball was, it was a big, big deal and I think matching it with the Titleist driver and irons and wedges has really narrowed the gaps, and the consistency in the wedges and the ball flight have been noticeable.” PIETERS ON HIS TS i2 DRIVER “To me this was the first driver that I put down on the ground and I said, ‘Oh, that looks nice.’ I'm a very visual player. So if I try a club, one or two shots in and I’ll have enough feedback, but this one really, from the start, even when I put it down, it just matched straight away. Numbers were better. Really the first driver – Liam, he was watching me hit some with the old driver and I think the first one he built was the correct one straight away. We tried some other ones later, but the first one was dead on, so I love it.” PIETERS ON HIS SCOTTY CAMERON PUTTER Following his win Sunday, Pieters was asked what has been the difference for him in winning two of his last three events on the DP World Tour. Said Pieters: “My putter for sure. I worked with the guys from Titleist. They just kind of analysed that my putting was not so good. Been working hard with my coach and wasn't getting the results. They gave me this putter (Scotty Cameron Special Select Squareback 2 Dual Balance tour prototype) I’ve been using now everything and has been flowiinng and I've been making a lot of putts.” ASIAN TOUR | Singapore Open Titleist Brand Ambassador Sadom Kaewkanjana of Thailand earned his second Asian Tour title, closing in 2-under 69 for a three-shot victory to close out the Asian Tour’s pandemic-disrupted 2020-21 season. With the win, the 23-year-old also qualified for this summer’s Open Championship at St. Andrews, one of four spots up for grabs in the event. Also heading to the Old Course: Last week’s winner, Titleist Brand Ambassador Joohyung Kim , who finished second, and fellow Brand Ambassdor Sihan Kim , who finished fourth. Joohyung Kim topped the final Order of Merit with over $500,000 in winnings, while Kaewkanjana finished second. Brand Ambassador Wade Ormsby claimed third, as Titleist players swept the top three positions. WITB | Sadom Kaewkanjana Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSi3 8.0° Fairway Metal: TS3 19.0° Irons: NEW T100 Wedges: Vokey Design SM8 50°, 54°, 58° WITB | Joohyung Kim Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSi3 9.0° Fairway Metal: TSi2 15.0° & TS3 19.0° Irons: NEW T100 Wedges: Vokey Design SM8 52°, 56°, 58° Putter: Scotty Cameron Newport 2 GSS tour prototype ... #TeamTileist
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PGA TOUR | Sony Open in Hawaii TITLEIST SWEEPS EQUIPMENTS COUNTS AT SONY For the second time of the 2021-22 season – and 25th time since the beginning of the 2019 calendar year – Titleist was the top choice in every major equipment category on the PGA TOUR, a feat that has never been matched by another brand. Of the 144 players in the field at the Sony Open in Hawaii, Titleist was the most played brand in golf balls , drivers , fairways , hybrids , utility irons , irons , wedges and putters . Titleist Brand Ambassador Russell Henley finished runner-up, closing in 5-under 65 to make the playoff. Playing a Pro V1x golf ball and bag full of Titleist equipment, Henley has finished out of the top 25 only once in his first six starts this season. A total of 102 players teed up either a Titleist Pro V1 , Pro V1x , Pro V1 Left Dot or Pro V1x Left Dash golf ball, more than five times the nearest competitor (18), including Henley (Pro V1x), T3 finishers Kevin Kisner (Pro V1x) and Seamus Power (Pro V1) , and T5 finishers Michael Thompson (Pro V1) and Lucas Glover (Pro V1x Left Dash) . Titleist was the most played driver (42 players), with 93% of the Titleist drivers in play being TSi2 , TSi3 or TSi4 models. TSi3 continues to be the most played driver on the PGA TOUR, with 29 players gaming a TSi3 driver at Waialae Country Club, including Henley (TSi3 10.0°) and fellow Titleist Brand Ambassador Hayden Buckley (TSi3 9.0°). A PGA TOUR rookie, Buckley earned his third top-12 finish of the season at Sony, where he finished second in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee (+3.929) while leading the field in driving accuracy (82.1%) and hitting 34 of his last 35 fairways to finish the tournament. WITB | RUSSELL HENLEY Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSi3 10.0° | Project X HZRDUS Smoke Black 70 6.5 TX Fairway Metal: TS3 16.5° | Project X HZRDUS Smoke Black 80 6.5 TX Hybrid: TSi2 21.0° | Mitsubishi MMT Hybrid 100 Irons: T100 4-9 irons | True Temper Dynamic Gold AMT (4-6), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 (7-9) Wedges: Vokey Design SM8 48.10F @47°, 50.08F @51°, 54.10S, @55° 58.08M @59° wedges | True Temper True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 (48°), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 (50°, 54°, 58°) Putter: Scotty Cameron Special Select Timeless Long Neck tour prototype SCOTTY CAMERON | THE WINNING PUTTER The winner of the Sony Open in Hawaii trusted a Scotty Cameron Timeless Newport 2 GSS tour prototype putter to a playoff victory in Honolulu, where he led the field in Strokes Gained: Putting (+7.264) while averaging 1.64 putts per green in regulation. It was his second win of the 2021-22 PGA TOUR season, following his victory at the ZOZO Championship in Japan using the same putter. He played a similar-style Newport 2 tour prototype model in his victory at last year’s Masters. That victory at Augusta National was one of 18 wins for Scotty Cameron players during the ‘20-21 season, six more than the nearest competitor. His win Sunday was the fifth for Scotty Cameron players already this season, including victories by Max Homa (Phantom X 5) , Sungjae Im (Flowback 5) and Cameron Smith (009M) , who also led the field in SG: Putting (+6.464) in last week’s Sentry Tournament of Champions victory. Last week’s winner, Cameron Smith , who also plays a TSi3 10.0° driver, finished first in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee (+3.996) at Kapalua, while hitting 14 of 15 fairways (93.3%) with an average driving distance of 320.5 in Sunday’s final round. Said Smith: “There’s a reason why it’s the best driver on tour. I feel like when I’m comfortable and I’m hitting it out the middle, it’s just going to go dead straight and as long as you want. The biggest thing for me is just a little bit more pop off the face. I probably gained three or four meters in the air and it’s just a lot more consistent. The spin’s a lot more consistent. It’s just a great driver. … You definitely have to feel comfortable with driver around Kapalua. There’s a couple of holes where the fairways are quite wide, but if you miss the fairways, you can be in some strife pretty quickly. So I just felt really comfortable all week.” No brand had more fairway metals (58) or hybrids (24) in play at Sony, with TSi2 being the most played model in each category (24 fairway, 6 hybrid). Titleist irons were in the bags of 43 players, more than double the nearest competitor (21), with more players using NEW T100 irons (18) at Waialae than any other model. Titleist was the most popular utility iron (31) with more NEW T200 (Utility Build) irons (18) in play than the nearest competitor’s total number of utilities (12). There were 204 Vokey Design gap, sand and lob wedges in players’ bags, more than three times the nearest competitor (54). This includes the four new Vokey Design SM9 wedges (46.10F, 52.08F, 56.08M, 60.10S) that Smith put in play last week at Sentry, the first week that the new SM9’s were available for competition. The tour launch for SM9 continues Monday at The American Express, as Vokey Tour Rep Aaron Dill gets back behind his grinding wheel in the Titleist Tour Truck at PGA West. More players put their trust in a Scotty Cameron putter (54) than any other brand, with the winner using his Scotty Cameron Timeless tour prototype putter to lead the field in Strokes Gained: Putting (+7.264). KORN FERRY TOUR | The Bahamas Great Exuma Classic The opening event of the 2022 Korn Ferry Tour season began Sunday in the Bahamas, with more players using Titleist golf balls , drivers , fairways , hybrids , utility irons , irons , and wedges . The event concludes Wednesday. PGA TOUR AUSTRALASIA | Fortinet Australian PGA Championship Playing in just his fourth event as a professional, the winner of the Australian PGA Championship claimed a record-setting 11-shot victory in Brisbane. The 22-year-old – playing a Pro V1 golf ball and TSi3 driver among his bag of Titleist equipment – opened with rounds 65-63-65 to take a nine-shot lead into Sunday’s final round at his home course of Royal Queensland GC, where he also won the 2020 Australian Amateur. He closed in 2-under 69 to finish the week at 22-under 262, besting the previous low 72-hole total (266 in 2006) by four shots. At 22 years, one month and 18 days old, he also became the youngest winner in the event’s stroke-play era by more than a year. With the win, he earned three mid-year starts this season on the DP World Tour, while moving to the top of the Australasian PGA Tour Order of Merit. The top 3 earn DP World Tour cards for 2022-23. What's In The Bag? | Australian PGA winner Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Driver: TSi3 10.0° Fairway Metal: TS2 16.5 ° Utility Iron: U•505 3 utility iron Irons: 620 MB 4-9 Wedges: Vokey Design SM8 48°, 52°, 56°, 60° ASIAN TOUR | Singapore International Titleist Brand Ambassador Joohyung Kim rolled his Pro V1x golf ball in for birdie from 14 feet on the first hole of a playoff to claim his second-career victory on the Asian Tour. Playing a full bag of Titleist equipment, the 19-year-old closed in 2-under 70 to force overtime with fellow Brand Ambassador Rattanon Wannasrichan , making it a 1-2 finish for Titleist Pro V1x, TSi3 driver, T100 irons and Vokey Design wedges. With his win, Kim now sits atop the Order of Merit heading into the final event of the 2020-21 season to be played next week at the SMBC Singapore Open. Twelve of the 15 players who finished in the Top 10 and ties played a Titleist golf ball . WITB | Joohyung Kim Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Driver: TSi3 9.0° Fairway Metals: TSi2 15.0° & TS3 19.0° Irons: NEW T100 Wedges: Vokey Design SM8 52°, 56°, 58° Putter: Scotty Cameron Newport 2 GSS tour prototype
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Pro V1 loyalist Jin Young Ko's historic performance at last week’s CME Group Tour Championship – where she hit an a seemingly unfathomable 63 consecutive greens in regulation, with no player on any Tour having recorded a streak of 50-plus greens in regulation since 1995 – marked the 24th victory for Titleist golf ball players in 28 individual events played this season on the LPGA. The Jutanugarn sisters – Ariya and Moriya – also won the LPGA’s team event (Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational), each playing Pro V1x . twitter.com/.../1466495720484179970 In total, 87 percent of LPGA winners in 2021 played a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball – including major champions Nelly Korda (Pro V1), Patty Tavatanakit (Pro V1x), Yuka Saso (Pro V1) and the AIG Women’s Open champ (Pro V1x). Titleist was the winningest equipment brand from tee to green on the 2021 LPGA, with the majority of champions also choosing Titleist drivers , irons , wedges and putters for their success: Playing a Titleist TSi3 driver, the winner of the CME Group Tour Championship hit 51 of 56 fairways (91.8%), including all 14 in the final round, and averaged 260 yards off the tee, while claiming win No. 12 for Titleist drivers on the 2021 LPGA. That is more than double the nearest competitor’s win total (5). Of the 12 Titleist drivers that found the winner’s circle, 11 were TSi1 , TSi2 or TSi3 models. With her victory at the Gainbridge LPGA in Feburary, Titleist Brand Ambassador Nelly Korda became the first player on a major professional tour to play and win with a TSi1 driver model. She won three more LPGA titles in 2021 with her TSi1 10.0° (Graphite Design Tour AD IZ 6), including the KPGA Women’s PGA Championship. The winner of the AIG Women’s Open also used a TSi3 driver. Titleist was the most played iron among winners on the LPGA, with all seven winners – including two major champions (Korda, AIG Women’s Open champ) – using T100 models. Vokey Design SM8 wedges were in the bags of 18 winners, more than four times the nearest competitor with four, including three major champions (Korda, U.S. Women’s Open champ, AIG Women’s Open champ). Scotty Cameron putters found the winner’s circle a total of 12 times, including the LPGA’s season finale, where the LPGA Player of the Year earned her fourth LPGA title and seventh top-6 finish in seven starts since switching from a competitive mallet model to a Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5.5. In addition to her four LPGA wins, Nelly Korda also brought her Pro V1, TSi driver and fairways, T100 irons, Vokey Design SM8 wedges and Scotty Cameron putter to the top of the podium in Tokyo. The silver and bronze medal winners also had Vokey wedges in the bag, while the bronze winner played a Titleist Pro V1x Left Dash . ... #TeamTitleist
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The 2021 European Tour came to an end last week, with Titleist as the most played equipment brand across the season’s 33 events (not including PGA TOUR co-sanctioned majors and World Golf Championships): Titleist golf balls were put into play a total of 3,211 times (73%), more than five times the nearest competitor (587), while Pro V1 and Pro V1x players – such as Viktor Hovland (Pro V1) , Tyrrell Hatton (Pro V1x) , Paul Casey (Pro V1x) , Matt Fitzpatrick (Pro Vx) and Billy Horschel (Pro V1) – combined for 22 victories. For the second consecutive season, Titleist was the top choice among players making it to the European Tour’s season finale, with 18 competitors at the DP World Tour Championship playing a Titleist driver – all of them TSi models. TSi3 was the field favorite (16 players), as it was all season long on the European Tour. TSi3 drivers were played a total of 1,153 times, more than double the nearest competitive model (518). TSi drivers also topped the European Tour with 13 victories – including wins by Garrick Higgo , Antoine Rozner , Bernd Wiesberger , Thomas Pieters and Rafa Cabrera Bello as well as the current 22nd-, 24th- and 28th-ranked players in the world – compared to seven for the nearest competitor. TSi3 was also most played driver model on the 2020-21 PGA TOUR. More than 30 percent of players on the European Tour last season stepped to the first tee with Titleist irons in the bag. Titleist irons were used in competition a total of 1,360 times, compared to 1,179 for the nearest competitor. Nobody hit more greens in regulation compared to the field average this season than Bernd Wiesberger (+6.96), playing a mixed set of T100•S , 620 CB and 620 MB irons. He also led the 2020-21 European Tour season in strokes gained from tee-to-green (+1.8). Once again, Vokey Design wedges were the overwhelming most played wedge at every event on the European Tour. A total of 7,459 Vokey wedges (46%) were put into play in 2021, more than double the nearest competitor with 3,644. A total of 20 winners this season had at least one Vokey wedge in the bag. More players (14) brought a Scotty Cameron putter to the winner’s circle than any other brand, five more than the nearest competitor (9). Two of those victories came from Garrick Higgo, who led the European Tour in strokes gained putting with +1.04 per round, gaming a Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5.5 tour prototype putter. ... #TeamTitleist
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PGA TOUR | RSM Classic Playing a Pro V1 golf ball, Talor Gooch posted a flawless 6-under 64 on Sunday at Sea Island to claim his first PGA TOUR victory. The 30-year-old former Oklahoma State standout birdied four of his first six holes on the back nine on his way to a three-shot victory. For the week, Gooch ranked second in both Strokes Gained: Approach (+6.28) and SG: Around the Green (+2.88), while hitting 60 of 72 (83.3%) greens in regulation. He was also fifth in Scrambling at 83%. Gooch’s victory was his third finish of T-5 or better, and fifth finish of T-11 or better, of the fall season. He enters the offseason at No. 1 in the FedEx Cup Season Standings and No. 33 in the World Ranking. TOP 15 FINISHERS TRUST PRO V1 Every single player in the top 15 at Sea Island played a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball, led by a trio of Pro V1 players: Gooch, runner-up Mackenzie Hughes and Sebastian Munoz (Pro V1 Left Dot) , who finished solo third. GOOCH ON HIS PRO V1 www.instagram.com/.../ “I love the Pro V1 simply because of reliability, consistency. At the highest level that we play, you have to have consistency. You have to have reliability. For me, it’s very important to be able to control the flight of my golf ball, and the Pro V1 is great at that. When I need to hit it low, it stays low on me. When I need to get one up in the air, it can get up in the air easy. So those are super crucial to what I do, and the Pro V is the best. “For us around the greens, it’s super crucial to have control, to have spin control, to have height control. If I need to flop one up and get some air on it, the Pro V can do that. If I need to hit a low nipper, the Pro V can do that. I know what the ball’s going to do around the greens. And when we’re trying to be as precise as we are on the PGA TOUR, you’ve got to be able to rely on the ball to do what it’s supposed to do. So that’s why it’s so important that I play the Pro V1 because there’s no ball better for controlling trajectory, for consistency, and that’s why I love it.” HOW GOOCH MARKS HIS PRO V1 “I’m from Oklahoma, and I like to, when I mark my golf ball, make sure everyone knows I’m from Oklahoma. So, over the number, whatever the number is, I like to write “405” because that’s the area code of where I’m from and where I still live. So instead of Titleist [1, 2, 3 or 4], it becomes a Titleist 405.” FORMER U.S. OPEN CHAMPION SWITCHES TO TS i DRIVER The 2013 U.S. Open champion put a new Titleist TSi4 driver in play this week at Sea Island on his way to a T-12 finish that included a final-round 65 in which he hit 13 of 14 fairways (93%) and averaged 310.7 yards off the tee. Working on the range Tuesday with Titleist Tour Rep Larry Silveira , he tested a TSi4 9.0° with HZRDUS Smoke Black RDX 70 in two setups – one at 44.5 inches with the SureFit hosel set at B•2, the other at 45 inches in the C•2 setting – versus the competitive model he had been playing. With TSi4, according to Silveira, he was seeing up to 3 mph faster ball speed with the drawing ball flight he prefers. The 44.5” provided better control and more consistent flight, with the same speed gain as the 45” setup. He also plays a Pro V1 Left Dot golf ball and three Vokey Design wedges. For the ninth consecutive week to start the 2021-22 PGA TOUR Season, the most played driver at Sea Island was Titleist TSi . A total of 53 players teed up Titleist drivers, nine more than the nearest competitor, with 51 of them being TSi2 (10), TSi3 (35) or TSi4 (6) models. LPGA | CME Group Tour Championship Pro V1 loyalist Jin Young Ko ended the 2021 LPGA season by hitting 63 consecutive greens in regulation, propelling her to a new tournament scoring record (23 under) and one-shot victory at the LPGA’s season finale. Ko, who did not practice this week at Tiburon GC due to a nagging wrist injury, hit every fairway and every green in her final-round 9-under 63, securing Ko her fifth LPGA victory of the season (and 12th of her career), along with the $1.5 million prize and Rolex Player of the Year honors for the second time in three seasons. For the week, she hit 91% (51 of 56) of fairways and 93% (67 of 72) greens in regulation. She totaled 26 birdies, including a stretch of seven consecutive birdies from Nos. 2-8 during Round 3. In her last nine events to end the season, Ko had more wins (five) than rounds in the 70s (four), along with 11 bogey-free rounds, a 67.4 scoring average and hit 87.8% greens in regulation. Ko’s victory marked the 26th win for Titleist golf ball players in 30 events played this season (87%). That’s more than six times the nearest competitor (4 wins), the only other golf ball brand to win this season on the LPGA. LYDIA KO WINS VARE TROPHY Lydia Ko (Pro V1x) claimed the LPGA’s Vare Trophy for lowest scoring average (minimum 70 rounds). She finished with a 69.34 mark over her 73 rounds, capped by a closing 8-under 64 Sunday. It was the sixth final round of 65 or better in 2021 for Ko, who won once and had 10 top-10 finishes. Said Ko: “It’s really special because obviously it sums up the whole season. All the other things do, too, but at the end of the day golf is about how consistently well you can play and what kind of low score you can shoot.” WIN NO. 12 FOR TITLEIST DRIVERS ON LPGA Playing a Titleist TSi3 driver, the winner of the CME Group Tour Championship claimed win No. 12 for Titleist drivers (11 for TSi models) on the 2021 LPGA Tour. She first put her Titleist TSi3 11.0° model into play at the KIA Classic in late March, making a mid-tournament switch from a competitive model. Following the first round, she made the short drive from Aviara GC in Carlsbad, Calif., to the Titleist Performance Institute in nearby Oceanside to test the new TSi models. It took no more than 30 minutes for her to get dialed in to a TSi3 11.0° driver with a Graphite Design IZ 5R shaft (45”), while working with Titleist fitters Aaron Luttrell and Nick Geyer . The new setup, which she gamed for Round 2, delivered added ball speed with a more optimal spin number for increased carry distance. Over the final three rounds that week, she averaged 264 yards off the tee, 12 yards longer than her Round 1 average. She’s had it in the bag ever since. This week, she hit 51 of 56 fairways (91.8%), including all 14 on Sunday, and averaged 260 yards off the tee. CHAMPION PLAYS TSi METALS, VOKEY WEDGES, SCOTTY CAMERON PUTTER In addition to her Pro V1 golf ball, the winner of the CME Group Tour Championship had a total of eight Titleist clubs in the bag, the majority of which she put into play for the first time in September at the Cambria Portland Classic, her second of five wins on the season. Having worked with Titleist fitters in Korea following the Olympics, she added two TSi2 fairways (15.0°, 18.0°), two TSi2 hybrids (21.0°, 24.0°), three Vokey Design SM8 wedges (50.08F, 52.08F, 58.06K) and a Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5.5 putter to the bag. She had been playing a TSi3 11.0° driver since the Kia Classic in late March. (Note: She put both TSi2 hybrids in play at Portland, using only the 21.0 this week). CHAMPION WINS AGAIN WITH PHANTOM X 5.5 The winner of the CME Group Tour Championship claimed her fourth LPGA title and seventh top-6 finish in seven starts since putting a Scotty Cameron Phantom X 5.5 putter in play. She switched to the Phantom X 5.5 from a competitive mallet model following a fitting session with Scotty Cameron fitter Eric Kong in Korea, where she took an extended break after a T-9 finish at the Olympics. She debuted her new Phantom X 5.5 – inspired by the putter Justin Thomas has used for 13 of his 14 PGA TOUR wins – several weeks later at the Cambria Portland Classic, where she needed only 78 putts over 54 holes (1.44 average) on her way to a four-shot win. “I changed this putter five or six weeks ago in Korea, and I use this putter four weeks in a row from the Portland and here,” she said after her victory at Cognizant Founders Cup. “I got two wins with this putter and two top-10s, so, yeah, I think I will love this putter (smiling).” EUROPEAN TOUR | DP World Tour Championship Titleist was the most played golf ball , driver , iron , and wedge among the field of 53 players who earned their way to the European Tour’s season finale: 34 players teed up a Titleist Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball in Dubai, compared to nine for the nearest competitor. For the second consecutive season, Titleist was the most player driver at the DP World Tour Championship. Eighteen players had a Titleist driver in the bag, with all 18 playing TSi models. TSi3 was the field favorite (16 players), as it was all season long on the European Tour. More players (15) had Titleist irons in play in Dubai than any other brand (Nearest competitor: 11). There were more than twice as many Vokey Design wedges (87) in play than the nearest competitor (35). JAPAN TOUR | Dunlop Phoenix Pro V1x loyalist Chan Kim birdied his final two holes Sunday, closing in 8-under 63 to win by one shot. It was the second victory of the season (and seventh of his career) for Chan, who moved to No. 1 on the Japan Tour money list and 63rd in the World Ranking. Last month, Kim finished T-15 at the PGA TOUR’s Zozo Championship. He’s also played in the last three major championships, making the cut at the PGA Championship (T-23) and Open Championship (T-53). ... #TeamTitleist
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