The new 2023 Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf balls made their PGA Tour debut last week at the Sanderson Farms Championship a week earlier than expected.
Titleist’s tour seeding and validation process for 2023 Pro V1 and Pro V1x had been scheduled to begin this week at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas.

In the days leading up to Sanderson Farms, however, Titleist tour reps received multiple requests from Garrick Higgo, M.J. Daffue and Gary Woodland asking to put the new balls in play.
The final 2023 Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x prototypes, manufactured at Ball Plant 3 in New Bedford, Mass., were delivered overnight and arrived Tuesday morning at The Country Club of Jackson in Titleist’s white box prototype packaging.
Expect that the tour van will be stocked this week at the Shiners and that more tour testing will take place. You will also be able to follow along as THPers go through an extensive ball fitting next week at Club Champion HQ with the Titleist Golf Ball team.
Same here, even though I don’t game the ProV-1’s Back in the days, when I could actually play this game, I found a ball that I loved. Embarking upon a new season, I went and bought a fresh couple of dozen. They were nothing like the previous years’ iterations! They didn’t feel the same, fly the same, hold the green the same, nothing! So, I haad to find a new ball to play, and was stuck with nearly 2 dozen balls that I considered unplayable!
Gosh, if I only had a new Pro V1x to have some fun with …
I’m pretty excited to hit these in next season. I would say in January but doubt it will be warm enough in beautiful Ohio to get any real good ideas of performance.
Wait they put yours in your phone??
That seems way more comfortable..
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Landed just short left of the pin, and leaked a few feet right. Must have tickled it. And that’s not an easy spot to hold on those greens. Runs away. Lots of good stuff again today.
Did you make the putt?
Do you have to possess a decent amount of speed to take advantage of the V1x’s spin characteristics or is just sort of a universal thing? I always thought the ball was more of a high-speed player’s choice over the V1.
Thats super helpful. Do appreciate it.
How do you feel about the feel? Another (borderline negative) assumption on my part has always been it’s a hard ball.
I’m going to grab a box of RCT balls for some testing and going back and forth.
Great info. I think I I’m going to give it a shot.
Ran out of time taking pictures.
Nope, definitely don’t have to be a fast mover to have it fit. Some of them will benefit from the higher spin and flight. Feel is somewhat individual. As a faster-ish mover compression shows up a bit more to my hands and the X was about 10 compression points firmer last time. That ratio should be about the same with these.
Are you saying the 2023 Pro V1x feels softer than the 2023 Pro V1?
Yes
I’ve no idea about the 2023 versions but I’m a long, long way from a "decent amount of speed" and with every version from 2013-2021 when I compared Pro V1 to Pro V1x the Pro V1x seemed fly higher and maybe just a touch longer than Pro V1 with my driver and even with my irons.
The only ball I’ve ever tried that’s longer than a Pro V1x for my moderate swing speed (high 80’s with a driver) would be the AVX but it gets the distance through shallow landing angle and extra rollout which isn’t the kind of distance I really need.
Guess I won’t know for six months or more but I’d expect the 2023 Pro V1x to continue to work just fine for those of us with modest clubhead speed.
P.S. Now if you want to talk about a ball that did NOT work without "a decent amount of speed" that would be the early versions of Pro V1x circa 2003 or so. Yikes those things just fell out of the sky for me!
That’s very interesting because based on compression, the new Pro V1 is still softer than new Pro V1x. From what I am hearing from people that have played the balls is the 23 V is about the same feel but is spinning a bit less off the 6i thru driver and spinning a touch more around the green and the 23 X is a tick softer feeling (but firmer than V1) while maintaining similar long and short spin.
Feel for me is relative haha.
Go on with your normal golf talk.
I nominate ? guy @AnthonyC .
We do that all of the time for equipment testing for our Albatross Club Members.
The two in this thread @OldandStiff and @AnthonyC also won a free trip from THP to go and get fit with the leading ball fitter from Titleist
Done!
But I came damn close for one attempt.
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so I think I’m pretty dialed in with them. And I like them. The consistency with them is awesome, and that ball has had I couldn’t even guess how many shots and strikes, and looks really good.
#7ironfor @Hamfist
I see you’re back to @oldandhatefilled.
glad to hear Titleist is keeping up with their reputation.
Similar experience for me, especially with the AVX. I don’t mind that low shot with a driver, but with approach shots it’s no bueno. I like the regular ProV1 slightly better than the X on approach, but the X is the best short game ball on the planet IMO. So easy to get it to do what I want around the green. That’s where an AVX struggles the most. I felt like I was always begging the AVX to stop on short game shots ?
Welcome to the club!!!
A year or two ago I was kind of going back and forth between Pro V1x and AVX. I don’t have that "low spinner" short game shot but I still notice a difference in Pro V1x and most other balls.
Even on my usual little bump and run PW thing when I’m 20-30 yards off the green, when I was switching between those two balls I always had to remind myself to play it totally different. With the AVX, it was always best to kind of bang it into the upslope of the fringe a couple yards short of the green and let it hop on, landing it on the green would roll out too far. With Pro V1x if I bumped in into the fringe it would stop dead. I had to fly that onto the green.
Of course with a 2pc balls like a Supersoft or something I have to hit those halfway to the green and let it run up through the fringe and on. So the AVX is still pretty well behaved, it just ain’t a Pro V1x.
I work on that too. I wouldn’t want that to be my stock 7 or anything.
Yeah they’ve been extremely consistent and predictable. I’ll be getting some of the new ones with RCT as soon as they’re available. I’m going to work on a couple swing things this winter and I love being able to access and interact with the Trackman stuff more, and not have to dot up my clubs.
In years past, I had the same problem with the AVX. The latest model, though, gives me plenty of spin greenside and with short irons while also providing extra distance off the driver. #winning
Example: Here’s a 7-iron shot from yesterday with the AVX.
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Yes I’m feeling better, thank you.
Take the markings off that ball and I would have thought that was a Callaway ball based on looks of the dimples…
7-iron? I wish.
You’ve got to catch it juuuuuuuust right.
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If I was a betting man, I would say you will get some balls to test and/or try out in like 1 month…not to deter you from these, but just saying

Very true
Hamfist looks at the lie, pulls the 7 halfway out, thinks "I’m an idiot." Grabs the 5 hybrid and tops one 72 yards. #cinemaverite
Parrot has 175 in and pulls 7 iron. And skulls it 210.
Literally had/have zero idea what to expect on this, so you’ll have to tell me if this is good ball performance for this club and my dynamics. Hit a couple stockers, then tried to knock one down, throw one up a tad more, and another stock.
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Just really bizarre for someone who doesn’t do this. Interesting experience. Felt like hitting blind folded. Lol
I’d say those numbers are pretty solid. 7500 rpm on a 50 yarder is above average IMHO.