The new 2023 Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf balls made their PGA Tour debut last week at the Sanderson Farms Championship.
Titleist’s tour seeding and validation process for the next generation of the most trusted golf balls on the PGA Tour and at every level of competitive golf had been scheduled to begin this week at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas.
However, in the days leading up to last week’s Sanderson Farms, Titleist tour reps received multiple requests from Garrick Higgo, M.J. Daffue and Gary Woodland, each of whom had done extensive testing during the prototyping process, asking to put the new balls in play as soon as possible.
• “I was the first man to win with a Pro V1”
The final Pro V1 and Pro V1x prototypes, manufactured at Titleist Ball Plant 3 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, were delivered overnight and arrived Tuesday morning at The Country Club of Jackson in Titleist’s white box prototype packaging.
On Thursday, Higgo (Pro V1), Daffue (Pro V1x) and Woodland (Pro V1x) became the first three players to game the 2023 models in competition.
The switch paid instant dividends.
Four holes into his first round, Daffue’s new Pro V1x rolled into the hole at the 182-yard par-3 4th for an ace, whilst Higgo led the field in birdies (24), finishing one shot out…
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