When Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma hosts the 104th PGA Championship this year, the 156-player field will consist of 16 PGA Champions, 34 Major Champions, 3 World Golf Hall of Fame Members and 4 Ryder Cup Captains, and the top 70 players who have earned the most PGA Championship points through the 2022 Wells Fargo Championship.
It will also feature the "Team of 20" PGA Club Professionals who earned their tournament berths in April at the 54th PGA Professional Championship where Titleist was the most played golf ball, driver, fairway, hybrid, utility iron, iron, and wedge in the field of 312 teaching and club professionals.
Among those representing Titleist at the second major of the year is Jesse Mueller, who — playing a Titleist Pro V1x golf ball — chipped his way to a five-shot victory at the Omni Barton Creek Resort & Spa to qualify for his first PGA Championship.
- Mueller, 39, PGA General Manager of Grand Canyon University Golf Course in Phoenix, led a group of 20 PGA professionals who will compete next month in the season’s second men’s major at Southern Hills.
- “I had another chip-in today,” said Mueller, who holed out for birdie on the 10th hole of his final round, “but my chipping the first three days was as good as it could be. I chipped in three times on the week and I was getting up and down all over the place.”
- Mueller, who has previously played in one major championship (2012 U.S. Open), was the only player to finish the week in double digits at 10 under, after opening with rounds with 66-67-66.
- Of the 20 players who will be heading to the PGA Championship, 13 of them had at least one piece of Titleist equipment in their bag.
- That includes Titleist Staff Member Alex Beach of Westchester Country Club (Harrison, N.Y.), who qualified for his fifth-consecutive PGA Championship after chipping in for birdie on the first hole of a 4-for-3 playoff.
JESSE MUELLER ON HIS PRO V1x
“I’ve played it forever and I’m just very comfortable with it. I’m comfortable with the flight in the wind, especially this week, how there’s so much wind out there today and I can hit the ball not pretty much my full shot and go straight through the wind. That’s something that it’d be hard for me ever to change. I’m really comfortable with the ball, playing in the wind, how it controls, trajectory.”
TITLEIST PLAYERS BOOK TICKETS TO SOUTHERN HILLS
- 12 of the 20 qualifiers into the PGA Championship trusted a Pro V1, Pro V1x or Pro V1 Left Dot ball, including the champion.
- Seven qualifiers played a Titleist driver, six of them a TSi3 model. The most played driver on the PGA TOUR, TSi3 was also the top choice at the PPC (28%), with a total of 36% players using a TSi1, TSi2, TSi3 or TSi4 driver.
- Titleist irons – the majority of them NEW T100, T100•S and T200 models – were in the bags of eight qualifiers.
- Those eight players also used a total of 27 Vokey Design wedges.
- Four qualifiers used a Scotty Cameron putter.
What’s in the Bag of Team Titleist at the 2022 PGA Professional Championship Qualifiers?
1. Jesse Mueller (Grand Canyon University GC, Phoenix)
Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x
- Mueller on his Pro V1x: "I played it forever and I'm just very comfortable with it. I'm comfortable with the flight and the wind. Especially this week, how there's so much wind out there today. And I can hit the ball pretty much by full shot and go straight for the wind. So that's something that it'd be hard for me ever to change. I'm really comfortable with the ball playing in the wind, how the control's trajectory."
T2. Jared Jones (River Oaks Country Club, Houston)
Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1
Driver: TSi3 8.0°
Fairway Metal: TSi2 13.5°
Utility Irons: NEW T200 (2-3)
Irons: NEW T100 (4-9)
Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM9 46°, 54°, 60°
Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom X 11.5
T2. 2014 PGA Professional Championship winner
Utility Iron: NEW T200 4-iron
T4. Wyatt Worthington II (The Golf Depot At Central Park, Gahanna, Ohio)
Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1
Driver: TSi3 9.0°
Fairway Metal: TS3 15°
Hybrid: TSi3 18°
Utility Iron: U•500 3
Irons: 620 CB 4 and 620 MB 5-9
Wedges: Vokey Design SM9 46°, 54°, 60°
Putter: Scotty Cameron Concept-1
T6. Zac Oakley (Bidermann Golf Club, Wilmington, Del.)
Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1
Driver: TSi2 9.0°
Irons: T100 (3-PW) irons
Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM9 51°, 56°, 60°
T11. Brandon Bingaman (Bent Tree Country Club, Dallas)
Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1
T11. Matt Borchert (Isleworth Golf & CC, Windermere, Fla.)
Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1
- Borchert on his Pro V1: "I had been playing the Left Dash for quite some time and noticed that on firmer greens I had a tough time spinning it. So I pulled out my Trackman and kind of did some testing and found out this one spun just a bit more, so best of both worlds, distance and spin."
T11. Austin Hurt (Wing Point Golf & CC, Bainbridge Island, Wash.)
Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x
- Hurt on his Pro V1x: I love the way it comes off the putter face. I love the low spin that it gives me with my driver and all the woods that I have. Irons. Across the board, it's the most consistent flight that I've found and feel amongst all balls. But, I just love the piercing ball flight that I'm able to achieve with it.
T11. Nic Ishee (Preston Trail Golf Club, Dallas)
Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1
Driver: TS3 10.0°
Fairway Metal: TSi2 15.0°
Hybrid: TS3 18.0°
Irons: NEW T100 (4-9)
Wedges: Vokey Design SM8 46°, 50°, 54°, 58°
Putter: Scotty Cameron Timeless tour prototype
T11. Dylan Newman (Brae Burn Country Club, Purchase, N.Y.)
Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x
Driver: TSi3 9.0°
Fairway Metal: TS2 15.0°
Utility Iron: NEW T200 (3)
Irons: 620 CB (3-PW)
Wedges: Vokey Design SM8 52°, 58°
Putter: Scotty Cameron Select Newport 1.5
T11. Casey Pyne (The Stanwich Club, Greenwich, Connecticut)
Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1
Driver: TSi3 9.0°
T18. Alex Beach (Westchester CC, Harrison, N.Y.)
Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1 Left Dot
Driver: TSi3 9.0°
Fairway Metal: TSi2 13.5°
Irons: NEW T100•S (4-7) and 620 MB (8-9)
Wedges: NEW Vokey Design SM9 9 46°, 50°, 54, 60°
T18. Paul Dickinson (Atlantic Golf Club, Bridgehampton, N.Y.)
Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x
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