TITLEIST Pro V1x Left Dash Golf Balls

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Despite the balls being produced in different factories, we found no appreciable difference in average compression across the sample. The ball performance category tests a “good” ball against competition/manufacturer claims. A ball that lives up to the claims, or stands up against the competition and hits all the performance metrics (spin, flight, feel, durability, etc.) will score highly. On our gauge, the average compression of the Pro V1x Left Dash is 102. It’s the firmest ball in our database. For reference, the Cut Blue DC and Mizuno RB Tour X both average 99 compression while the Bridgestone Tour BX is roughly 98.5 on average. Given the correlation between compression and speed, along with Left Dash’s high-launch, low-spin characteristics, it’s reasonable to conclude that it will prove to be one of the longest urethane balls on the market– likely the longest. Titleist Pro V1x Left Dash – Weight and Diameter 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.

For those situations, Titleist offers what it calls CPOs – Custom Performance Options. The current CPO catalog consists of 3 golf balls, each to some degree different from the retail offerings. Pro V1x Left Dashis for players who are looking for lower spin on all shots. It features flight characteristics very similar to Pro V1x (high flight),and a higher compressiondesign,which deliver both lower spin and a firmer feel than both Pro V1 and Pro V1x. Bauer Media Group consists of : Bauer Consumer Media Ltd, Company number 01176085; Bauer Radio Limited, When I got the Left Dash on the launch monitor next to the new Pro V1x, I saw that, indeed, it produced less wedge spin. Where the new Pro V1 and Pro V1x [review HERE] are dead even in wedge spin, the Pro V1x Left Dash spins about 10% less. While so many players crave more spin, those that play in high winds or in soft conditions may prefer this slightly reduced spin. Left Dash started as a CPO model (Custom Performance Option) on the PGA Tour. While the majority ofplayers on the worldwide professional tours fit into Pro V1 and Pro V1x, CPOsare Titleist golf ball modelsdesigned by Golf Ball R&D to offer specific performance variationscompared toPro V1 and Pro V1x.

Left Dash?

That said, we know that not every golfer can discern subtle differences between golf balls. Titleist concedes that from one shot to the next, you’re going to find plenty of overlap between balls. What it’s hoping to learn is whether there’s enough difference in Left Dot for average golfers to change what Titleist’s VP of Golf Ball Marketing Jeremy Stone calls the “total aggregate outcome.” So, while full details are likely nearly three months away, you probably know what to expect. The new balls are unlikely to be radically different. Titleist accounts for more than 70 percent of play on the PGA TOUR and the reality is that while Tour players may like the idea of a better ball, they certainly don’t want a different ball. Based on the relative numbers of previous Pro1x vs Tp5x tests can be used as a relative difference for the ProV1x vs left dash tests to get a comparison. Of course it's not head to head and there are swing differences that could skew these numbers. On a comparative basis, the Pro V1x flies higher and spins more while AVX flies lower and spins less. AVX is also considerably softer. The “left” options confuse things just a bit but what’s worth remembering is that whether we’re talking about the limited-run Pro V1 Left Dot or the Pro V1x Left Dash, both fly similarly with less spin than their mainstream counterparts.

We already discussed that the Pro V1x left dash is made for a lower spin. Because of aerodynamics, lower spins help to get higher heights. Pro V1x Left Dash is a modified version of Pro V1x with some changes for players looking for a lower spin. Here are some benefits you can get from Pro V1x Left Dash and some Cons. Titleist Pro V1x Vs. Pro V1x Left Dash Golf Ball: Comparison Chart There is no yellow option, and customization (custom player numbers) are not available at this time, though I suppose it’s worth noting that at this time often means maybe later, let’s see how this goes. In this section, we detail the consistency of the Titleist Pro V1. While the above sections largely evaluate conformance to USGA rules, our consistency metrics provide a measure of how similar the balls in our sample are to one another relative to all of the models we’ve tested to date.

Let’s start with the simple part. Compression consistency across the Titleist Pro V1x is good (above average). High-speed tour players hit the ball so hard and compress it so much that they need a ball that doesn’t just melt into the face of a driver or spin up too much, the Left Dash Pro V1x is the right solution to their problem. Per Titleist, the ProV1x Left Dash feels firmer than the standard Pro V1x. In testing all three Titleist Pro V1 balls head to head with a putter, I found that there was a clear stair step progression from Pro V1 to Pro V1x to ProV1x Left Dash. If the Pro V1 is a three and the Pro V1x is a five, the Pro V1x Left Dash is a seven. Impact is louder and firmer. The ball doesn’t feel like it compresses or melts into the face like it does with the Pro V1. This difference is much less noticeable with an insert putter. We suggest you decide how you will play your game and which golf ball matches your style. Once you do that, you will know which is correct. FAQs.

We want to shift the bell curve in a positive direction,” says Stone. “If we can save you one stroke, that’s meaningful.” Have found the performance characteristics to be exactly as Titleist describes.Performance bears a striking resemblance to perhaps my favorite ball of all time, the Nike Tour Accuracy DD.Definitely has the heavy feel and louder impact sound that one would associate with a higher compression ball. It reminds me of Callaway's tour balls before Chrome Soft in that regard.While I've found the short game spin sufficient for the current conditions at my home club, I can see where most PGA Tour guys would want more spin than this has for the green firmness and speed they typically see.Ball does feel heavy at impact, but it also has the "heavy" flight characteristics often more associated with the V1. Head winds and cross winds just don't seem to bother the LD that much for how high it wants to fly.Don't notice much difference in the feel off the putter, but I do use a White Hot Pro insert which tends to make balls feel and sound more similar than milled putters typically do.While I was concerned about flyers on short irons with this ball, it's only happened once so far and I think it was my fault more than that of the ball. I can get a bit shallow and sweep-ish with short irons at times, and I think that's why I got 15 bonus yards out of one 8 iron from a clean and dry lie.Durability is exceptional, perhaps the best I've ever encountered in a urethane covered ball.It's as long as anything else out there.Six? Assuming for a moment that Pro V1 Left Dot eventually comes to market and nothing else changes, that’s where Titleist would be. Most of its competitors have three urethane offerings; Bridgestone has four. It’s tough to quantify for sure. Unfortunately, I think a good bit of golf ball marketing has been driven by a reliance on the idea that golfers can’t (or think they can’t) identify performance differences between golf balls (and that’s before we have the discussion about consistency and quality control). All the balls performed really well. The V1x missed my target the most. All balls that hit the green never really ran out more than 5 feet. Again the -V1x was loud. My 7-iron data with the Pro V1x Left Dash ball is great. Look at how consistent those numbers are! The spin, launch angle, descent angle and carry distance all have incredibly small variances. There is not one thing I could criticise about the ball from my 7 iron shots.

The risk of too many isn’t lost on Titleist but, according to Stone, it recognizes that “a perfectly tuned one of one is becoming the expectation.” From that perspective, nothing is too much. Any ball that helps golfers play better is included in the “right” number. But I’ve also become incredibly confused about ball choice — so confused that I can’t remember the last time I bought a golf ball (mostly playing OP’s that I find).. I’ll be 70 in a few months and driver swing speed is probably in the mid-80s. I didn’t start playing until in my 40s so I never went through the “hit as hard as you can and we’ll fix direction later” phase and I’ve never had much stopping power on the greens. Even so, I managed to get handicap index down to its lowest point yet (12.3) earlier this year.With Left Dot, the answers seem a bit less certain though, in limited fittings, Titleist is fitting five to ten percent of golfers into Left Dot. Those may not seem like big numbers but, extrapolated to the market as a whole, we’re talking about a huge number of golfers.