I found a pro 2 piece ball back in the day. I still have it somewhere. I’m glad i know the story about it. It’s taken a long time but thank you Titleist.
I'm no pro but I love Titleist golf balls, my first golf ball I used in the 70's was an accushnet which to me was the first Titleist, and I came back to the ProV1 last year, Thanks Titleist
The ProV was THE game changer! I played the Tour Balata, Profesional 90 and the Tour Prestige prior to Pro V. I remember after that first thin shot your tour balata looked like an egg. Titleist engineered an ICON...thank you and congratulations on 25 years.
So iconic that even the issue number hasn’t changed. With all the innovation it should be called the Pro-V6 or 8 or 19 by now, but it’s still the Pro-V1. Amazing. Fantastic that Titleist are still manufacturing in the US. I’m a Brit and am definitely envious, but even so that makes my heart swell with pride for you guys. Always love finding a Titleist ball when I’m playing! Currently playing with DT Trusoft, will go back to Pro-V1 when I’ve ironed my swing out!
I almost feel spoiled because I played Pro V1s when I was a kid and my dad played exclusively Acushnets and Balatas in his childhood. The jump in technology is incredible and I didn't even know the V stood for Veneer. Amazing video.
It’s what I play and what I will always play. The Pro V1 is the very definition of quality and performance. Great video. Great company. Greatest golf ball in history.
Best golf ball I use and never even think about changing. The feel off the driver and around the greens is outstanding. The piece in golf that I never think about switching,
I commend you All at Titleist, for your passion and innovation for truly producing the best golf ball..There's no substitute! You're my partner for life!
Fantastic documentary. I am an engineer by trade and absolutely love testing all types of products. The ProV1 was a difference maker for my game. I can feel the ProV1 stay connected to my clubs much longer than any other ball I had tested and that feel has been approached by a couple different tour balls but none have duplicated it. I still try the "new thing" when it hits the market just to make sure ProV1 is still the best for me. I turn 60 soon and my bag still has a dozen ProV1 in it.
Great video. As a Titleiest loyalist, for 30 years, I appreciate this information. Since graduating from focusing on just my physical ability to blending that and the science of the game and equipment, I look for videos like this.
When I retired in 2007 after 25 years in the Foreign Service I took a min. wage job a Starter a 9 hole Par 35 course (now closed) in Bristow, VA were I found a lot of golf balls in the woods. The Pro V1 an V1x were always deepest in the the woods on the left where the better players pull hook over swinging trying to get a few extra yards. I still have about 200 of them. A few are marked TEST I love shaping shots and working at the course and playing for free as a perk gave me the opportunity to play hundreds of solo rounds practice rounds where I’d take a dozen balls and hit three straight, three fade, three draw to dial in my approach shot distances with every club from 3i to LW. The ability to shape shots was unmatched by any other ball I tried. I got to where I could open stance 45° to the left take two more clubs than for a straight shot, open it two clubs worth and ‘Bubba’ it onto the front left of the green and watch it kick and roll left to right to the back right pin. As Jack Nicklaus explained to me - in his book Golf My Way - back in the late 80’s when I first read it shaping approach shots isn’t about the flight path but the action on the ball. Earlier this year - at age 73 - I had an approach shot on a par 5 to a short sided right left angled green \ from the left side of the fairway and set up so far right / one of my playing parters commented ‘you know you are aiming at that house over there’. I was using two clubs less than I need for the straight distance with face closed, landing it exactly where I had targeted (front right edge of green) it kicked hard left \ as planned and rolled 60ft into the hole for an Eagle 😊 The ball? ProV1 of course! To paraphrase Lee Trevino, “You can talk to a ProV1. Those other balls just don’t listen.” 😂
The left dash pro v is the best ball I've ever played. I do wish I could spin it a little more greenside, but other than that, it's a game changer at my swing speeds.
People of the world must understand that during mass production, it takes less tolerance deviation to cause a larger error %. Titleist nails it!!! From sleeve to sleeve, ball to ball, year to year, the ball stays consistent! Go watch a tennis match, notice how the serving player chooses 2 out of 3 balls to use every point. 1 in hand, 1 in pocket. The 3rd ball bounced or felt different, one may say inconsistent...🎉
lol. From the Titleist balata days. 90 and 100 compression also had Titleist DT balls Maxfli balata balls. Top flite Molitor. Slazenger Tour edition with a zinthane cover. The list goes on but PRO V1 x has been my choice for some time now. I remember the first pro v 1 then the pro v 1 with the dot and also the star. Awesome memories from Jr Golf and now 🙏🏼
I worked at a Nevada Bob’s when the ProV1 released. We got a box of 6 dozen. A regular happened to be in the shop when we opened them. They weren’t even in the system yet but he plopped $100 on the counter and took a dozen.
how does the "roll back" effect the R&D that has already gone into this balls extensive history? & what does that mean for the future of the PRO V1? (I lose too many balls to continuously play with Pro v1's but I have always enjoyed the feel of them)
The golf balls are so important to your game. My 7yr old son plays tournaments, and is a pretty consistent striker. He was using random balls, callaway, Srixon US kids balls. But when we switched to ProV 1x his game changed stared hitting further off the tee and the most diff was around the greens was spinning the ball on short shots and had way better distance control on mid and short irons. It shaved shots of his round for sure. Like I said he’s only 7 but the game is hard enough get a ball that will make it easier for you. And this ball did just that.
I have played all he top balls and I am struck at how consistently good the Pro V1 and Pro V1X are. While I may like some of the other premium golf balls on the market the Pro V1 and Pro V1X are always exceptional. What I find interesting is the early Nike Ball had similar outstanding qualities as the Pro V1 but the product was never launched or marketed in a way that reached the mass golfing market. Perhaps Titleist as the premier ball manufacturer was better positioned to get these next gen balls out to the consumer.
The Strata was available a year before that was 2 pieces with a spinny Urethane cover that started it all. It cut up much easier than the first Pro V1. Still waiting for the Pro V2, haha
This was interesting played the old balls and it was an amazing time if you could control spin you could put a ball anywhere with spin. Miss the 30 foot backspin to the front pin.
It's crazy how ionomer/surlyn/urethane are still main ingredients of golf balls. Been around for decades. Surlyn and Ionomer are same material guys-just Dupont has patent over "Surlyn" name.
Is it fair to say the Pro V1 engineers outsmarted the U.S.G.A. and R&A antiquated ball testing? "Suddenly I'm hitting it 20-30 yards farther." Billy Andrade.
I would change names to pro v2 once the roll back balls are delivered. This way everyone would be able to determine what ball they are actually playing, it would underline that pro v1 stays „the original“ and „the legend“ forever and the shorter distances would not interfere with peoples egos as much. Because let’s face it, regular customers are mostly not able to tell pro v1 generations apart and will be bashing the roll back balls, if they influence their game or not…
Um.... Wouldn't it have made sense to switch to the name ProV 2 And then 3 along the way? Just to eliminate the consumer confusion? I mean, if it's always going to stay Pro version 1, why even have the 1? Or even the V? Just Titleist Pro would have been sufficient, if there's never going to be a V2. Right?
Why can't you guys just call it the Pro V [year]? I don't like having to figure out Pro V1 solid arrows vs hollow arrows, etc etc. Pro V 25 and Pro VX 25 would be great. Does Pantene have Pro V trademarked or something?
All this work and innovation is just going to be thrown in the trash because the USGA and R&A just can’t stand that players have become stronger, more capable athletes.can’t believe this current release is the penultimate ProV before the old heads neuter the game.
I will never forget being 15 years old and hearing about that ball for the first time. Game changer.
Absolutely love this history lesson! Amazing!
I found a pro 2 piece ball back in the day. I still have it somewhere. I’m glad i know the story about it. It’s taken a long time but thank you Titleist.
me at 20 was not imaging me at 35 looking a golf ball documentary rather than drink on a Saturday night
I wish 20 year old me would have put the bottle down and picked up a golf club. I'm 35 and would probably be breaking 90 by now 😂
Wait until you will tear up watching golf documentary at age 45
I can't afford these.
I'm no pro but I love Titleist golf balls, my first golf ball I used in the 70's was an accushnet which to me was the first Titleist, and I came back to the ProV1 last year, Thanks Titleist
The ProV was THE game changer! I played the Tour Balata, Profesional 90 and the Tour Prestige prior to Pro V. I remember after that first thin shot your tour balata looked like an egg. Titleist engineered an ICON...thank you and congratulations on 25 years.
So iconic that even the issue number hasn’t changed. With all the innovation it should be called the Pro-V6 or 8 or 19 by now, but it’s still the Pro-V1. Amazing. Fantastic that Titleist are still manufacturing in the US. I’m a Brit and am definitely envious, but even so that makes my heart swell with pride for you guys. Always love finding a Titleist ball when I’m playing! Currently playing with DT Trusoft, will go back to Pro-V1 when I’ve ironed my swing out!
I do love finding them! I buy a box or 2 a year but they’re so expensive. Pretty cool story!
I almost feel spoiled because I played Pro V1s when I was a kid and my dad played exclusively Acushnets and Balatas in his childhood. The jump in technology is incredible and I didn't even know the V stood for Veneer. Amazing video.
It’s what I play and what I will always play. The Pro V1 is the very definition of quality and performance. Great video. Great company. Greatest golf ball in history.
Best golf ball I use and never even think about changing. The feel off the driver and around the greens is outstanding. The piece in golf that I never think about switching,
I commend you All at Titleist, for your passion and innovation for truly producing the best golf ball..There's no substitute! You're my partner for life!
Only the best.
Left dash for me
Love Titleist quality
Fantastic documentary. I am an engineer by trade and absolutely love testing all types of products. The ProV1 was a difference maker for my game. I can feel the ProV1 stay connected to my clubs much longer than any other ball I had tested and that feel has been approached by a couple different tour balls but none have duplicated it. I still try the "new thing" when it hits the market just to make sure ProV1 is still the best for me. I turn 60 soon and my bag still has a dozen ProV1 in it.
Great video. As a Titleiest loyalist, for 30 years, I appreciate this information. Since graduating from focusing on just my physical ability to blending that and the science of the game and equipment, I look for videos like this.
An amazing video with an amazing story. Thanks Titleist! On behalf of all golfers, THANK YOU!
Fantastic look back at the #1 ball in golf. I still have a few of the original Pro V1s on my shelf. Time to test the OG versus the new ‘25 version!
Two players with early success using the Pro V1 (Andrade, Faxon) just happened to grow up less than 30 miles of Ball Plant 3. Pretty cool !
What a great video
The best!
wow! the amazing people behind the brand. the synergy of the teams. the ability to constantly innovate. what a gift, what a story....🙏🏾💯
Titleist is all around just the best golf company in the world. They aren’t cheesy or over dramatic. Everything is class and performance.
When I retired in 2007 after 25 years in the Foreign Service I took a min. wage job a Starter a 9 hole Par 35 course (now closed) in Bristow, VA were I found a lot of golf balls in the woods. The Pro V1 an V1x were always deepest in the the woods on the left where the better players pull hook over swinging trying to get a few extra yards. I still have about 200 of them. A few are marked TEST
I love shaping shots and working at the course and playing for free as a perk gave me the opportunity to play hundreds of solo rounds practice rounds where I’d take a dozen balls and hit three straight, three fade, three draw to dial in my approach shot distances with every club from 3i to LW. The ability to shape shots was unmatched by any other ball I tried. I got to where I could open stance 45° to the left take two more clubs than for a straight shot, open it two clubs worth and ‘Bubba’ it onto the front left of the green and watch it kick and roll left to right to the back right pin.
As Jack Nicklaus explained to me - in his book Golf My Way - back in the late 80’s when I first read it shaping approach shots isn’t about the flight path but the action on the ball. Earlier this year - at age 73 - I had an approach shot on a par 5 to a short sided right left angled green \ from the left side of the fairway and set up so far right / one of my playing parters commented ‘you know you are aiming at that house over there’. I was using two clubs less than I need for the straight distance with face closed, landing it exactly where I had targeted (front right edge of green) it kicked hard left \ as planned and rolled 60ft into the hole for an Eagle 😊 The ball? ProV1 of course!
To paraphrase Lee Trevino, “You can talk to a ProV1. Those other balls just don’t listen.” 😂
Just picked up my first 2 boxes of the new ProV1x
I love this.
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Thanks for the lifetime supply of ProV1s :)
So a table is essentially responsible for the lakeball industry. Good video!
awesome video!
I am 55 years old, and the Pro V1 is the best ball I have ever played. Keep up the good work.
No. 1 ball in sports.
Best ball I have played….ever
The left dash pro v is the best ball I've ever played. I do wish I could spin it a little more greenside, but other than that, it's a game changer at my swing speeds.
A realy cool shirt/poster would be all the PV1 logos! this is great stuff;
People of the world must understand that during mass production, it takes less tolerance deviation to cause a larger error %. Titleist nails it!!! From sleeve to sleeve, ball to ball, year to year, the ball stays consistent!
Go watch a tennis match, notice how the serving player chooses 2 out of 3 balls to use every point. 1 in hand, 1 in pocket. The 3rd ball bounced or felt different, one may say inconsistent...🎉
Well that’s not fluff breakdown tennis balls go through, usually the server is picking the fuzziest one(less hit)
lol. From the Titleist balata days. 90 and 100 compression also had Titleist DT balls Maxfli balata balls. Top flite Molitor. Slazenger Tour edition with a zinthane cover. The list goes on but PRO V1 x has been my choice for some time now. I remember the first pro v 1 then the pro v 1 with the dot and also the star. Awesome memories from Jr Golf and now 🙏🏼
#1❤
I worked at a Nevada Bob’s when the ProV1 released. We got a box of 6 dozen. A regular happened to be in the shop when we opened them. They weren’t even in the system yet but he plopped $100 on the counter and took a dozen.
Had my first eagle with an OG 392. Really wish they would bring that iteration back.
how does the "roll back" effect the R&D that has already gone into this balls extensive history? & what does that mean for the future of the PRO V1? (I lose too many balls to continuously play with Pro v1's but I have always enjoyed the feel of them)
I love playing with Pro V1 golf balls, but I refuse to pay for a 5-dollar ball, so I am always happy when I find them in the weeds!
The golf balls are so important to your game. My 7yr old son plays tournaments, and is a pretty consistent striker. He was using random balls, callaway, Srixon US kids balls. But when we switched to ProV 1x his game changed stared hitting further off the tee and the most diff was around the greens was spinning the ball on short shots and had way better distance control on mid and short irons. It shaved shots of his round for sure. Like I said he’s only 7 but the game is hard enough get a ball that will make it easier for you. And this ball did just that.
I have played all he top balls and I am struck at how consistently good the Pro V1 and Pro V1X are. While I may like some of the other premium golf balls on the market the Pro V1 and Pro V1X are always exceptional. What I find interesting is the early Nike Ball had similar outstanding qualities as the Pro V1 but the product was never launched or marketed in a way that reached the mass golfing market. Perhaps Titleist as the premier ball manufacturer was better positioned to get these next gen balls out to the consumer.
I love titleist - from balls to my entire set up is from titleist . I will never change to any other .
The Strata was available a year before that was 2 pieces with a spinny Urethane cover that started it all. It cut up much easier than the first Pro V1. Still waiting for the Pro V2, haha
This was interesting played the old balls and it was an amazing time if you could control spin you could put a ball anywhere with spin. Miss the 30 foot backspin to the front pin.
Imagine what short game spin would be like with the 2025 balls using square grooved wedges of 2000.
It's crazy how ionomer/surlyn/urethane are still main ingredients of golf balls. Been around for decades. Surlyn and Ionomer are same material guys-just Dupont has patent over "Surlyn" name.
Is it fair to say the Pro V1 engineers outsmarted the U.S.G.A. and R&A antiquated ball testing? "Suddenly I'm hitting it 20-30 yards farther." Billy Andrade.
10:09 does anyone else miss the titanium wood sound??
Should technically be Pro V 25 by now. They should do that this year as a special named run of balls
I have a Pro 2 Piece in my collection
I would change names to pro v2 once the roll back balls are delivered. This way everyone would be able to determine what ball they are actually playing, it would underline that pro v1 stays „the original“ and „the legend“ forever and the shorter distances would not interfere with peoples egos as much.
Because let’s face it, regular customers are mostly not able to tell pro v1 generations apart and will be bashing the roll back balls, if they influence their game or not…
ProV has always sucked. Go back to Balata, the best feeling golf ball ever.
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Um.... Wouldn't it have made sense to switch to the name ProV 2 And then 3 along the way? Just to eliminate the consumer confusion? I mean, if it's always going to stay Pro version 1, why even have the 1? Or even the V? Just Titleist Pro would have been sufficient, if there's never going to be a V2. Right?
Why can't you guys just call it the Pro V [year]? I don't like having to figure out Pro V1 solid arrows vs hollow arrows, etc etc. Pro V 25 and Pro VX 25 would be great. Does Pantene have Pro V trademarked or something?
Ye but what has it ever won in the game ?
i care cheap ball long distance some spin. Most hacker lose balls. So there need to be a solution for that.
I use Vice. Just as good as Pro V1, and WAY cheaper.
Pro V1 is WAY over priced.
All this work and innovation is just going to be thrown in the trash because the USGA and R&A just can’t stand that players have become stronger, more capable athletes.can’t believe this current release is the penultimate ProV before the old heads neuter the game.
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