New Titleist Pro V1x prototype golf ball makes PGA Tour debut – and wins immediately

By Lewis Daff, Golf Equipment Writer. Sometimes good, always sensational.

Last updated: 04 August 2025

The new Titleist ProV1x prototype that Cameron Young secured victory with

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After visiting the Titleist performance team, Cameron Young made the decision to switch into a new Titleist ProV1x prototype golf ball. In his first week putting the ball into play, the American took home his maiden title.

When switching to new equipment, there’s usually a period of adaptation before you can fully maximize any potential gains. Tour pros will normally spend months working with a brand’s R&D team to dial in new clubs and golf balls before putting them into competitive action.

But Cameron Young and his Titleist ProV1x prototype is a little bit of a different story.

Cameron Young will take home the winner's share of the Wyndham Championship prize money.

At Sedgefield Country Club, Young claimed his first PGA Tour title with a runaway six-shot victory in the Wyndham Championship. Having been one of the tour’s highest earners without a win, Young knows how to make his way around the golf course, but he turned his reputation of being another nearly man into that of a champion immediately after making a key equipment switch.

“I think it definitely contributed to some of the good play this week,” he said in his press conference following the win. “I’m excited about the next few weeks.”

So what was the difference-maker he moved into? Young chose to switch to a new Titleist ProV1x prototype golf ball with some specific properties that could benefit his game.

The new model has two dots – which would suggest it’s an even lower-spinning version of the Titleist Pro V1x Left Dot golf ball, a model designed to produce lower long-game launch and spin than the standard ProV1.

Titleist refer to these prototype options as CPOs (Custom Performance Options), and they help influence the next generation of ProV1 golf balls as the team at Manchester Lane, the company’s lead ball R&D site, learn from new design aspects and player desires.

While most of these balls won’t make it to market, with the odd exception like the ProV1 Left Dash, elite-level players can use them to tweak their ball flight in very minute details, depending on what they need or desire.

“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,” said Fordie Pitts, Titleist Director of Tour Research and Validation. “He was then curious to see some shots out on the course.”

Young asked Titleist to put the ball into production for him to test as soon as possible in tournament conditions. The Wyndham Championship was the first event where the prototype became available.

In his first practice round, with Pitts joining him to observe, it took all of one hole for Young to decide to make the switch, choosing to exclusively play with the ProV1x model from the second hole onwards, including hitting a club less into greens than he would with his previous ball.

Pitts noted that, on the 7th hole, a par-3 that would normally require Young to hit a 5-iron, the difference was clear.

“He 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.”

We look forward to seeing how these prototype options will impact the next generation of ProV golf balls, but you can still play the outstanding current line from Titleist, including the new AIM alignment model, which is built from the preferences of tour pros, like Cameron Young, on how they mark their own balls.