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Gear Notes: Titleist's Tour-Only Pro V1 Balls, Ernie Els' New Driver, Retief Goosen's New Grooves - The Shop Blog

January 19, 2010
Gear Notes: Titleist's Tour-Only Pro V1 Balls
Posted at 12:19 PM by David Dusek

Cameron Morfit, a senior writer for Golf Magazine, spoke with a few golfers at the Sony Open and heard about new Titleist Pro V1 golf balls some players were using.

Since last August, Titleist has made two tour-only versions of the Pro V1 ball available to PGA Tour players. The Pro V1 Plus Spin is marked with a <s----PRO V1---s> on the seam while the Pro V1x Plus Trajectory has a <+---PRO V1x---> on its seam.<

According to a Titleist tour rep, "These products are customized versions of 2009 Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf balls that have been designed to optimize performance for a small handful of PGA Tour players."

According to Titleist, of the 96 players in the field at Sony last week who played a Titleist ball, just six used the Pro V1x Plus Trajectory and only two played the Pro V1 Plus Spin.

The tour rep also wrote in bold, "These products are not in response to nor designed to address new groove rules and they are not planned to be sold commercially."

Titleist is not planning on making any changes to the current Pro V1 or Pro V1x ball in response to the USGA's new groove rule changes. The ball was most recently updated for the 2009 season.
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Dent said:
anyone wanna guess how much these will go for on ebay?
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Not as much as a Pro V1 that has scuff marks that looks like the virgin mary.
 
We heard about this over the weekend and there are rumors as to why it is being done. The biggest story we are hearing, is that this has nothing to do with grooves and everything to do with the patent issues in the past they were having.
 
JB said:
We heard about this over the weekend and there are rumors as to why it is being done. The biggest story we are hearing, is that this has nothing to do with grooves and everything to do with the patent issues in the past they were having.
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In other words, now that the injunction has been lifted and the case remanded on appeal, they are going back to the previously court-banned ball?
 
Harry Longshanks said:
In other words, now that the injunction has been lifted and the case remanded on appeal, they are going back to the previously court-banned ball?
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JB said:
We heard about this over the weekend and there are rumors as to why it is being done. The biggest story we are hearing, is that this has nothing to do with grooves and everything to do with the patent issues in the past they were having.
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Could it be a mixed bag of going back to the original formula of the court banned ball and the new groove rules? Even though they're saying it has nothing to do with them?
 
Harry Longshanks said:
In other words, now that the injunction has been lifted and the case remanded on appeal, they are going back to the previously court-banned ball?
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No idea personally. Just relaying the story going around the events. It makes sense to me. But at the same time, in my mind, it seems like they could be just trying out new balls and some of the players have requested them.

Do you remember when Nike was SLAMMED over this very thing. That Tiger was playing a ball that was different than what could be bought at stores and golfers were outraged?
 
Do you remember when Nike was SLAMMED over this very thing. That Tiger was playing a ball that was different than what could be bought at stores and golfers were outraged?
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i never understood that. but i don't understand a lot of things. 99.9% of the golfing population couldn't tell the different between a ProV1 and a Prov1x to begin with.
 
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