The 2025 Titleist Professional V1 and Professional V1x at the moment are within the professional outlets and within the luggage of loads of tour execs.
On the current Ras Al Khaimah Championship, 104 gamers have been utilizing a Professional V1 or Professional V1x which amounted to 75.4% of the sphere with the closest competitor sitting on 12.
Of these, 22 already had the 2025 balls in play with 16 of these counting on the Professional V1.
Based on Titleist the planning for the 2025 ball started as quickly because the 2023 model was within the fingers of the gamers. From there they have been in a position to perceive what the perfect gamers on the earth have been after and the brief reply is that they have been searching for extra spin within the brief irons with out a compromise within the different departments.
To start with the Titleist engineers checked out each ingredient of the three-piece ball: the core, casing layer, urethane cowl and aerodynamics. The story right here was the core and the chance so as to add some velocity in addition to the spin that the gamers needed.
The 2025 Professional V1 is barely firmer than the 2023 ball and that’s going to assist get extra spin together with your irons. The gradient/inside core is firmer on the surface and softer on the inside portion and that encourages extra spin.
“Via a whole core reformulation, Titleist engineers have been in a position to steepen the so-called ‘spin slope’, successfully sustaining low spin off the tee whereas rising spin with the scoring golf equipment. Mix that with a measurable achieve in ball velocity, and the result’s a product that’s demonstratively higher than its predecessor,” clarify Titleist.
All superb however what did our tester Mark Townsend make of it?
What have been my first impressions?
Not that you just spend very lengthy packaging however the field and sleeve are very slick and extra traditional black than earlier variations. The wording on the sleeve is sort of equivalent to the Professional V1x however with some refined variations.
‘Steady enchancment is a course of. It’s the results of a extremely structured, disciplined, and time-tested strategy to design and manufacturing. The Titleist course of ensures consistency and purposeful innovation. The New Titleist Professional V1 golf ball is a results of this course of. A reformulated sooner core produces extra velocity and iron and wedge spin for extra management.’
Participant advantages: Extraordinary distance – Elevated drop-and-stop management – Very low lengthy sport spin – Penetrating trajectory – Constant mushy really feel
There may be additionally a stuffed in Professional V1 stamp which is simpler on the attention for alignment and look.
Did it dwell as much as the hype?
A primary impression from the opening few photographs with the motive force is that this feels quick. With out happening a launch monitor most of us are judging this with our eyes however the ball genuinely felt sooner than different Professional V1s that I’ve performed prior to now.
It is a ball that I’ve used religiously for a minimum of a decade and I used to be enjoying a course that I’m a member of (Moortown) so I’ve a reasonably good grasp of the place my tee photographs usually end and this had numerous distance to it. We will all do with a number of extra yards and this actually delivers that.
The Professional V1 guarantees a penetrating ball flight and that is one thing that I’ve at all times liked about earlier variations. The excellent news is that there isn’t numerous noticeable distinction, in accordance with Titleist, off the tee with both the Professional V1 and Professional V1x.
Each balls are clearly low-spin balls within the lengthy sport – the Professional V1x will launch increased – and the 2025 balls will supposedly behave equally with the motive force. That is by a long way, no pun meant, the primary ball in golf and, when it comes to spin charge and launch angle, this appeared to behave very equally to different Professional V1 variations. Nevertheless it positively did really feel quick.
What was the stand-out energy of the 2025 Professional V1?
It’s a bit early within the 12 months to say an excessive amount of concerning the greenside spin – the Professional V1 sits someplace between excessive and better for short-game spin whereas the Professional V1x has probably the most spin – however the place this ball actually impressed was the ball flight and workability with the longer irons.
As somebody who likes to punch the ball with the a fairway wooden or 5/6-iron this was distinctive. On my higher photographs the ball by no means even wavered and produced some very satisfying photographs.
What stunned me concerning the 2025 Professional V1?
There was one shot – a 9-iron to a par 3 from 145 yards – that actually stood out. Firstly, I’d battle to get all of that distance and in addition there was loads of management.
The texture and pontificate every membership, like all Professional V1s however possibly much less so the Professional V1x, was excellent. It’s solely once you strive different balls that you just actually admire how good these balls are. There may be nothing that jars and the texture off the putter, with the brand new alignment stamp, felt just like different iterations.
The opposite big constructive is how forgiving these balls are. Titleist insist that every one golfers will profit most from the Professional V1 or Professional V1x and, whereas all of us prefer to know what the professionals love concerning the ball, that bears little or no resemblance to our video games.
We mishit numerous photographs and the 2025 Professional V1 was exceptionally good at serving to with tee photographs that didn’t discover the center of the clubface. Likewise, irons that weren’t struck out of the center positively benefited from its forgiving properties.
However it’s once you actually swing the membership correctly that you just admire fairly how good a ball the 2025 Professional V1 is.
