Titleist is introducing the 2025 model of the Professional V1 and Professional V1x golf balls this week on the Shriners Youngsters’s Open in Las Vegas, and it’s a special day. That is the twenty fifth yr since Titleist unveiled a golf ball that reshaped the skilled recreation.
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 a long way.
This new Professional V1 had a strong core and urethane elastomer cowl that allowed for better distance with out dropping 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 change, which Titleist says is greatest 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 yr beating Tiger Woods on the Tour Championship and stated of the ball, “I really feel I’m a complete 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 significant. 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 Might 2000, proper earlier than he received the U.S. Open by 15 photographs at Pebble Seashore to begin 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. Girls’s Open at Pine Needles and Retief Goosen within the U.S. Open at Southern Hills two weeks later.