Titleist Pro V1x and Pro V1x Left dash are both marked at a premium price as these are used for professional and practice matches. Although, the prices are almost head-to-head. Of the three performance golf balls the AVX offers the lowest flight, lowest spin, and a soft feel. True Price is how we quantify the quality of a golf ball. It's a projection of what you'd have to spend to ensure you get 12 good balls.

Titleist’s core material splits quite a bit, and anecdotally, I believe the material in the new models is more brittle than the previous model. My gamer for years have been the Pro V1x. The last 5 rounds I switched to the V1 and my last 5 rounds were in the 70's. As we’ve come to expect, Left Dash isn’t perfect. Minor defects, specifically slightly off-center cores, and layer concentricity issues, while not prevalent, are not entirely uncommon either. It’s also a reasonable assumption that some golfers will have an issue with the firm feel.

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I tested the left Dash against the Pro V1, Pro V1x, and the AVX.:popcorn: The weather was 61* and really windy. My home course is a link style, started drizzling on #8 and lasted the rest of the round. I hit all 4 balls on every shot. I took the longest drive and played all 4 from there. I putted all four on every green and chipped from at least 2 different spots at every green. There are golfers out there who do spin it too much with their scoring clubs and who do hit it too high, so it's a great option. We speak to hundreds of golfers daily and softness is a massive preference."

Titleist introduced the Pro V1x golf ball in 2003 after its predecessor Pro V1 in 2000. The aim was to improve it internally and change some gaming aspects. Tom says: "If you're a golfer that needs a bit more height, Pro V1x will give you that. It's a higher-flying golf ball through dimple pattern. It spins more than Pro V1 when you're playing irons and wedges - your scoring clubs - and it feels firmer than Pro V1." AVX Can you play aggressive low flighted chips with one hop first bounce, grip on the second and gently release out kind of flight?If there is a widespread and significant problem with the cores, it’s going to show up on the gauges. It’s why we,. as soon as we realized cutting wasn’t nearly enough, we invested in a proper set of tools. If you're like most golfers, you'd probably love a few more yards off the tee. The problem is, you don't want to sacrifice. You don't want to give up the high level of performance in other phases of your game that you've come to expect from Pro V1, Pro V1xand AVX. As you can see on the box, Titleist states that the short game spin of the Pro V1x Left Dash is lower than the standard Pro V1x. This is a little jarring in the context of every OEM stating that all of their Tour-level balls feature equally amazing, stupendous, super duper wedge spin.

To make it easier for the audience to understand which one is the right one, we will provide a comparison table below. If you read carefully, you will discover the key differences between Pro V1x and Pro V1x Left Dash. Features Short version – it became readily apparent that what I was seeing was likely attributable to the cut itself. CPO modelsare designed to fit players with very distinct needs and preferences,"said Fordie Pitts, Titleist's Tour Consultant for Golf Ball R&D. "They might launch in a slightly different window to fit a player's eye, offer slightly more or less spin, or feel softer or firmer.CPOs give us more tools in the toolbox to optimize and personalize performance forplayers we work with on tour." That's not bashing Titleist however. They make it clear that the left dash is (really) only made for pros, and maybe a small percentage of amateurs. I certainly don't have a 120 swing speed, and don't have that much spin on my launch anyway, so balls like this don't mean much to me. My broad stroke conclusion from my samples were that balls that looked a bit off-center were actually centered and that balls that looked way off-center were only slightly off-center. Noted, but not flagged as bad.

Titleist Pro V1x Left Dash – Weight and Diameter

We observed a single ball with a small blob of paint in a dimple. It chipped out without much issue and therefore was considered minor. Minor pin marks from the painting process were also observed in several balls. General Observations For those that don’t know, the left dash is a “tour” only ball that you won’t find at your typical golf store on the shelf. At least not here. Roughly 80 percent of professional golfers use the Titleist Pro V1 or Pro V1x currently available to the public, but for a select few who require highly specific launch and spin characteristics, there are three “Custom Performance Option” prototype versions that have remained Tour-only offerings, until now.

Fordie Pitts, Titleist’s Tour Consultant for Golf Ball R&D, confirmed at the Shriners that Titleist’s goal with the new Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf balls was to make them “a little bit longer,” by reducing spin on high speed full shots. To avoid a tradeoff on short game performance, though, Pitts and team sought to keep the short game performance the same within 100 yards. Outside of this elite group, however, the ball doesn’t have a massive following, which is why Titleist has been content to keep it on Tour. With the release of low launch/spin AVX last year, Titleist now has a ball for every conceivable elite player profile. Fully measuring balls is time-consuming, and not nearly as glamorous as cutting a ball and screaming about how bad it looks, but we also know it’s also the right way to do it. Titleist’s PGA Tour seeding of its new 2023 Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf balls began at the 2022 Shriners Children’s Open in Las Vegas (although several pros actually started using them the event prior, at the 2022 Sanderson Farms Championship).

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Tour players one hundred percent strike the ball better than I do, so won’t suffer with the low spin numbers I produced. I was surprised that a ball that feels so firm could produce such high-spinning numbers, and I’m starting to see why tour players use this ball. The combination of a soft cover, firm inner casing layer, and progressively soft inner cores allowed Titleist to decrease spin in the long game and increase distance on full shots, while maintaining the short game spin that Titleist golf ball users have grown accustomed to in recent years. 2023 Titleist Pro V1 vs. Pro V1x The -V1x is a great ball in it's own, but its not for me. It's to loud and hard feeling off the driver. It just doesn't work for me off the driver. I need all the distance I can get off the tee box. I can not afford to give up 10 to 20 yards. But, for someone trying to show some skills, small details matter to them a lot. So now we will tell you the key differences between Pro V1x and Pro V1x Left Dash. Ball Speed Bryson is swinging it up to 148mph clubhead speed during training. It takes a very very firm ball to not turn into a marshmallow when it’s compressed at 135+mph. I’d be curious to see if Bridgestone doesn’t release a “Bryson Ball” kinda like how the XS is the “tiger ball”