A quarter-century of groundbreaking golf ball innovation continues this week in Las Vegas with the introduction of the new 2025 Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf balls on the PGA Tour, marking the 25th start of the year for the most trusted golf balls in the game. I marked it. The best-selling model of golf balls.
The original Pro V1 was first available for competitive use in October 2000 at the PGA Tour’s Invensys Classic in Las Vegas. 47 players immediately moved to Pro V1 that week, including eventual champion Billy Andrade.
Pro V1 and Pro V1x (Pro V1x was first introduced in 2003) have been the overwhelming choice for PGA Tour players ever since. According to Darrell Survey, from the 2000 Invensys Classic to last week’s Sanderson Farms Championship, Pro V1 and Pro V1x models have been played more than 97,000 times in PGA Tour competition, six times the total ball count of their closest competitors. Equivalent to above.
For the Titleist golf ball research, development and operations teams, the challenge has remained the same over the past 25 years. The question was how to take the best performing, most consistent golf ball in the game and make it even better.
Answer: Through a collaborative process that has no beginning or end. This process is rooted in continuous golfer feedback, rigorous research and development and testing, world-class manufacturing techniques, and performance validation by the world’s best and most discerning players.
2025 PRO V1 and PRO V1x: Tour Validation
Prototype Titleist golf balls featuring new experimental technology are regularly tested by tour players during practice rounds throughout the year.
Fodie Pitts, Titleist’s Director of Tour Validation and Research, brought the final round of the 2025 Pro V1 and Pro V1x prototypes to the PGA Tour earlier this season, with the final selection going to Titleist’s Tour representatives after the Tour Championship. Published.
Several PGA Tour players set up before the start during a September visit to Titleist’s fitting and testing facilities, the Titleist Performance Center at Manchester Lane (Massachusetts) and the Titleist Performance Institute (California). We were able to test the 2025 model while making adjustments. their fall season.
That list includes Hayden Springer (Pro V1) and Zach Blair (Pro V1x), who tested the new model at TPI before joining them to begin the PGA Tour’s fall season at the Pro Core Championship. was introduced. Lee Hodges made the transition to 2025 Pro V1 at Sanderson Farms a week after his visit to Manchester Lane.
This week at TPC Summerlin, at the same driving range where the original Pro V1 was first released, every Titleist ball will be a 2025 Pro V1 or Pro V1x model, giving every player the next generation of golf’s #1 ball. provides an opportunity to test. .
Original PRO V1 debuts in Las Vegas (2000)
Before the original Pro V1 was introduced at the 2000 Invensys Classic, approximately 20 to 25 players were expected to play the Pro V1 right away, and 60 dozen Pros in Titleist’s white box prototype packaging. V1 was shipped to the TPC locker room. Summerlin. What happened next was unprecedented.
“It was about 50 percent below expectations,” said Mack Fritz, Titleist’s senior vice president of tour promotions at the time. “When players come into the locker room and say, ‘I’m definitely going to play in Pro V1 this week,’ I’m like, ‘Okay, well, wait a minute.’ And I’ve already got dozens of them. I went up to the other two players and took a few sleeves from each of them. Some of them headed to the first tee with half-empty boxes.”
Forty-seven players made the switch on the fly, marking the largest multidimensional change in equipment usage in PGA Tour history. That included winner Billy Andrade and runner-up, giving Pro V1 a 1-2 finish in his first week on tour.
Andrade credited the win with reviving his career, saying, “I remember when I participated in that event I wasn’t having a very good year.” “I was about 160th on the prize list and there were only a few events left. I had already submitted my check-in to qualifying school. I was desperate. The first time I played it in the practice round I vividly remember that it hit the ball 20 yards farther than the Tour Prestige I was playing at the time, but I recorded some height with the chalk, along with the overall performance of the ball. It was something I had never played before.”

The Pro V1’s large solid core, multi-component construction, and high-performance urethane elastomer cover give players superior distance off the tee and control in and around the green. Players no longer have to sacrifice one for the other.
“The Pro V1 responds to the changing nature of the game,” said Mary Lou Vaughn, President of Titleist Golf Balls. “With the advent of the power game on tour, we needed a golf ball that delivered extremely low spin for the long game while maintaining the spin, feel and control of a premium liquid center wind technology golf ball. Walking the fairways with players during practice rounds, it was amazing to hear so many great players raving about the Pro V1’s record-setting performances. If you look at the early success of our players, the results speak for themselves.”