From Las Vegas to Tokyo – to the bottom of the cup on the par-4 ninth hole at Sunningdale’s Old Course – the final validation process for the new 2025 Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf balls is in full swing.
Just ask Christian Foreman, Director of Golf at Sunningdale Golf Club in the southeast of England, who received his white box of NEW 2025 Pro V1x and headed right out to Sunningdale’s Old Course for testing.
On the ninth hole, a 273-yard par-4, Foreman teed up a 2025 X and – with one swing of his NEW GT fairway metal – aced it. (Let’s not forget the albatross, too!)
On the PGA TOUR, a total of 35 players have already made the late-season move to 2025 Pro V1 and Pro V1x, including Nico Echavarria, who claimed the first victory for the new models at the ZOZO Championship in Japan.
While ’25 Pro V1 and Pro V1x officially launched on TOUR at the Shriners Children’s Open in Las Vegas — marking the start to year No. 25 for the game’s most trusted and best-selling golf ball models — a few players were able to test the 2025 models at Titleist’s fitting and testing facilities as they dialed in their setups prior to the start of their fall seasons.
That list included Hayden Springer (Pro V1) and Zac Blair (Pro V1x), who after testing the new models at the Titleist Performance Institute in California asked to put them in play to begin the PGA TOUR’s fall season at the Procore Championship.
When Tyson Alexander heard about the new models in Napa, he asked Titleist reps for some 2025 Pro V1x to test at home during the following off week.
A couple of those sleeves ended up in Echavarria’s hands.
“I was actually playing 18 holes with Tyson in Jacksonville back home,” said Echavarria at the Shriners. “It was in between Napa and Sanderson Farms, and I was actually low on balls. I didn't grab balls from my house, and he had some extra and they were the new ones, and I just tried it out.”
“[‘25 Pro V1x was] maybe just the hair faster and something a touch spinner around the greens is what I felt. It worked very well last week [at the Black Desert Championship] with altitude. I’ve struggled hitting my numbers in altitude and this was very good how the numbers were.”
Echavarria put the new ball in play in his next start at the Sanderson Farms Championship – and has achieved three of his four-best finishes of the year since, including his win at ZOZO and a T6 at the Worldwide Technology Championship in his following start.
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