Hey Team Titleist,
In case you missed it on our social feeds, we wanted to share a pretty cool story, straight from Jordan Spieth, about his golf ball testing process and how he decided to put new Pro V1x into play for the first time in competition this past week at the AT&T Byron Nelson Championship, opening with a 9-under 63 on his way to a T-9 finish.
We caught up with Jordan last week to get the scoop, so check out the video below to hear from him and then keep reading below for even more in-depth background into his switch.
SPIETH ON PERFORMANCE OF 2021 PRO V1X
“I’m trying to optimize launch conditions through the bag. For me, the 2021 Pro V1x, I get more spin around the greens. It’s softer, spinnier around the greens with my short game shots. And then when I went up the bag, I started to get a little bit higher launch, but it didn’t add spin in the long clubs. It just added ball speed and launch. So it’s a little higher window, but it just looks like it’s screaming through the air. And then from the 7-iron on down, I didn’t see much difference in the full shots, just like I said more action around the greens."
“I’m trying to just hit optimal windows and if I can gain – really, in my long clubs – just a little bit better peak height with a little bit faster ball speed, it actually helps fill my gaps a little bit easier. And then it’s just coming down – it has the potential to come down a little bit softer, which is obviously important. But I’m not seeing a massive difference through kind of that mid-iron into short iron. And I still can hit each shot that I want to with the scoring clubs. So being able to tee off and all you do is change the ball and it’s actually in a similar window that’s going 3-4 yards further, that's nice. And then when I get to the scoring range clubs, I feel like if anything, I just have the ability to hit an even softer shot if I want to. But the rest of them were all still there.”
“When you get into some trouble with some windy, tough golf courses, and you've got to hit these shots to short sided hole locations, to be able to have that extra spin around the greens will be really nice.”
SPIETH ON TESTING 2021 PRO V1X
“It was really like three days of hitting balls in different conditions into the wind, downwind, trying to get a nice day in there, too, where you kind of don’t have to fight any. And then hitting shots around the greens, being comfortable with that feel – which was easier. If you can get a little more spin, that’s only going to make things better. But really in those kind of three-quarter wedge shots, a lot of different kind of wedge control shots with the scoring clubs, I was looking at – How different does it feel? Am I getting any that are problematic? I like to play my wedges lower. And so just having a little bit of that extra spin I think is going to make it even more consistent.”