Titleist is introducing the 2025 model of the Professional V1 and Professional V1x golf balls this week on the Shriners Kids’s Open in Las Vegas, and it’s an important day. That is the twenty fifth 12 months since Titleist unveiled a golf ball that reshaped the skilled sport.
That so many gamers used it in Las Vegas in 2000 was not a shock as a result of a majority of gamers used Titleist, anyway. However for years, most tour professionals used a wound ball that gave them extra spin and management across the greens, even when that meant sacrificing far.
This new Professional V1 had a stable core and urethane elastomer cowl that allowed for higher distance with out shedding management.
Titleist was anticipating two dozen gamers to make use of it in competitors and introduced 60 dozen golf balls to Las Vegas. As a substitute, 47 gamers made the swap, which Titleist says is largest pluralist change to new gear in PGA Tour historical past.
Billy Andrade switched and received in Las Vegas. Phil Mickelson switched and was runner-up. Mickelson ended the 12 months beating Tiger Woods on the Tour Championship and mentioned of the ball, “I really feel I’m an entire totally different participant.”
As a lot consideration as Titleist will get with the golf ball, Mark O’Meara truly was the primary participant to make use of a contemporary solid-core golf ball to win a serious. He used a Prime-Flight manufactured Strata Tour ball when he received the Masters and The Open in 1998.
Woods was utilizing the wound Titleist Skilled till switching to a Nike solid-core golf ball in Could 2000, proper earlier than he received the U.S. Open by 15 pictures at Pebble Seaside to start out his unprecedented run of 4 straight majors.
Titleist launched the Professional V1 about 5 months later. Its first main champions utilizing the brand new ball have been Karrie Webb within the 2001 U.S. Ladies’s Open at Pine Needles and Retief Goosen within the U.S. Open at Southern Hills two weeks later.
