PGA TOUR | Wyndham Championship
From his GT metals to Scotty Cameron Phantom putter, Titleist Brand Ambassador Cameron Young had every shot in the bag this week in Greensboro, running away with his first PGA TOUR victory after making the move to a Titleist Pro V1x prototype golf ball.
- Young, whose all-Titleist equipment setup includes his Pro V1x golf ball model, GT2 driver, GT3 fairway, GT2 hybrid, blended set of T200, T100 and 631.CY prototype MB irons, Vokey Design SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron Phantom putter, gained over 19 shots on the field (+19.184) on his way to rounds of 63-62-65-68 and a six-shot victory.
- From tee to green, Young gained nearly nine shots (+8.852/3rd) on the field, showing total control from off the tee (+4.571/2nd) and on approach (+3.107/22nd).
- On the greens, he was lights-out, gaining over 10 shots (+10.335) while making 110 feet of putts with his Phantom mallet.
What’s in the Bag? | Cameron Young
Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x prototype
Driver: GT2 9.0° | A•1 SureFit hosel setting | Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Pro Orange 70 TX
Fairway Metal: GT3 15.0° | A•1 SureFit hosel setting, Neutral CG | Mitsubishi Tensei 1K White 80 TX
Hybrid: GT2 21.0° | A•1 SureFit hosel setting, Heel 5g, Toe 7g weights | Fujikura Ventus HB Black Velocore+ 10 X
Irons: T200 4 | True Temper Dynamic Gold X7, T100 5 | True Temper Dynamic Gold X7, and 631.CY 6-9 | True Temper Dynamic Gold X7
Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 48.10F, 52.12F, 56.14F, WedgeWorks 60K* | True Temper Dynamic Gold X7
Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 9.5R tour prototype
MEISSNER FINISHES RUNNER-UP, 8 OF TOP 10 PLAY TITLEIST GOLF BALL
What’s in the Bag? | Mac Meissner
Golf Ball: 2025 Titleist Pro V1x
Driver: GT3 9.0 | Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Red 70 TX
Fairway Metal: GT2 15.0° | Mitsubishi Tensei 1K White 80 TX
Irons: NEW T250 3 | Graphite Design Tour AD DI 105 X, and NEW T100 4-9 | | Nippon N.S. Pro Modus3 120 X
Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 48.10F, 52.12F, 56.14F, 60.04T | Nippon N.S. Pro Modus3 120 X
Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 9.2 tour prototype
INSIDE CAMERON YOUNG’S MOVE TO PRO V1x PROTOTYPE
- Cameron Young's breakthrough PGA TOUR victory at this week’s Wyndham Championship began with a crucial decision to tee up a Pro V1x prototype golf ball for the first time, following recent testing sessions with the Titleist Golf Ball R&D team.
- Titleist R&D is constantly soliciting feedback from the world's best players on the performance of their golf ball and their evolving performance needs.
- This process will often result in the development of new prototypes, some of which are designed to finely tune very specific flight, spin and feel characteristics.
- These Custom Performance Options (CPOs) – such as Pro V1 Left Dot and Pro V1x Left Dash – play an important role in the discovery of new technological advancements that are frequently incorporated into next generation Pro V1 and Pro V1x models.
- CPOs also provide key learnings in the continued development of more robust custom performance options for all golfers and their unique launch conditions.
- During a visit to the Titleist Performance Center at Manchester Lane (Acushnet, Mass.), Young, who was previously playing Pro V1 Left Dot, spent a range session with Fordie Pitts, Titleist’s Director of Tour Research & Validation, testing early iterations of what would eventually become the ball he used to win his first PGA TOUR title.
- This week at the Wyndham Championship marked the first opportunity for Young to test the final Pro V1x prototype on site at a TOUR event and potentially play it in competition.
- “We weren't sure if he was going to test it this week, but as he was warming up, he asked to hit a couple on the range,” Pitts said. “He was then curious to see some shots out on the course.”
- Young, accompanied by Pitts, teed off Sedgefield’s first hole with both his gamer and the Pro V1x prototype. By the second hole, he was exclusively hitting shots with the Pro V1x.
- Said Pitts: “Performance-wise, he was hitting tight draws everywhere. His misses were staying more in play. He hit some, what he would call ‘11 o'clock shots,’ where again he's taking a little something off it. He had great control there.”
- Further validation came on the seventh hole, a par 3 that played between 184 and 225 yards during the tournament. The setup on Tuesday's practice round called for a 5-iron from Young, who thought there was “no way” he could fly a 6-iron to the flag with his Left Dot.
- “He then hits this 6-iron [with the Pro V1x prototype] absolutely dead at the flag, and it lands right next to the pin, ending up just past it,” Pitts said. “And his response was, ‘remarkable.’ He couldn't believe that he got that club there.”
- After the nine-hole practice round on Tuesday, Pitts walked with Young for nine more holes on Wednesday. Following the round, Young asked the team to put the Pro V1x prototypes in his locker.
- The results were immediate. Young opened the week 63-62, making 16 birdies over the two rounds before running away with a six-shot victory.
- “I think it definitely contributed to some of the good play this week,” he said in his press conference following the win, “so I’m excited about the next few weeks.”
HOW CAMERON YOUNG MARKS HIS GOLF BALL
- Sixty percent of PGA TOUR players who play a Titleist golf ball use alignment aids when putting.
- Cameron Young is one of many professionals who elect to mark their golf ball with a long, straight line – the common marking that inspired Titleist’s new AIM Performance design now available on Pro V1, Pro V1x and Pro V1x Left Dash golf balls.
- Said Young: “I go back and forth whether I'm using the line to putt, and I've had short stints of trying other colors if the ball just will not go in the hole. I've tried blue, I've tried green for a week or two here and there, but I always come back. The line on my putter is black, and so I just always come back to a black line and lining those two up and hitting a putt.”
- “I guess the other thing I do with it is on the tee, I'll put [the line] kind of on whichever side I'm working it away from for whatever reason. When I go to hit a draw, I put the line on the outside. Same thing when I putt, if I'm not using a line, when I get a right to left putt, I'll put the big black stripe on the outside, kind of on the high side for whatever reason. It's just how it makes sense in my head to look down at it.”
YOUNG DIALED OFF THE TEE WITH GT2 DRIVER, GT3 FAIRWAY, GT2 HYBRID
- Cameron Young's victory marked the 12th win for TItleist drivers this season on the PGA TOUR, more than any other brand, and the third victory for GT drivers in the last three weeks (3M Open, Barracuda Championship).
- The top end of Young’s bag consists of three GT metalwoods: a GT2 9.0° driver, a GT3 15.0° fairway and GT2 21.0° hybrid.
- He used that setup to gain over 4.5 shots on the field off the tee (+4.571), ranking second this week. He also ranked second in Driving Distance and T14 in Driving Accuracy.
- “I've just got a GT2 9-degree set on A•1... I feel like I was more comfortable with this right off the bat than really anything previously. So it was a very easy switch. I went from the 3 [model] to the 2 and I, I've really had no trouble doing that and making that switch. And I've driven it pretty well thus far.”
After driver, Young typically decides between two different 3-wood setups: a 15-degree GT3 or a 13.5° GT2.
- “Currently, I will decide which one to use any day, but I've got a 13.5 GT2 and a 15-degree GT3. That GT2 is a little bigger head, kind of more geared toward just consistency off the tee,” explained Young back in late June.
- In Young’s past three starts, he has opted for the 15-degree GT3 3-wood, which gives him more workability than the stronger-lofted and larger GT2: “For me, sometimes I feel like I need a little more versatility. I just think that I need the ability to manipulate it a little bit more than I do with that 13.5-degree 3-wood.”
- Finally, Young moves to a 21° GT2 hybrid, which he first added to the bag at the Travelers Championship this year and has played in each start since.
- He was previously gaming a T350 3-iron in its place.
- According to Young, the hybrid fits better for tee shots that call for a 250-yard carry and a softer landing, where the 3-iron carries the ball closer to 245 yards but with more roll.
INSIDE YOUNG’S CUSTOM BLADE IRONS, BLENDED SET
- For his irons, Young plays a blended set comprised of a T200 4-iron, a T100 5-iron and 631.CY prototype 6-9 irons.
- Young's T-Series long irons give him optimal peak heights and gapping through the top end of his iron setup.
- Young’s custom blades were designed with a pre-worn leading edge and a slightly wider sole to help reduce dig and improve turf interaction for Young’s delivery.
- Titleist R&D also moved weight lower in the head for slightly higher launch and peak height.
- Said Young on the development process: “It started just as basically a question. It was, ‘Hey, if your irons could do anything different what would they do?’ I said, ‘help me not dig quite as quickly into the ground at impact, and if anything, launch a little higher.’”
- “I think it was one year from then they came and handed me a blank iron and said, ‘here, hit this,’” Young continued. “And I hit about three shots. They said, ‘what do you think?’ I said, ‘that seems great.’ Didn't hear from him for about six more months. And then they handed me a 6-iron and I said, ‘that feels great.’ And then all of a sudden, bang, I had my own set, and I wouldn't change anything about them. They’re honestly everything I could have ever asked for.”
- This week, Young’s ball-striking was dialed into the greens, as he gained over three shots on the field with his approach play (+3.107, 22nd).
- He hit 57 of 72 greens in regulation (72%), ranking T11.
YOUNG GAINS WITH VOKEY SM10 SETUP; ANOTHER WIN FOR K* GRIND PLAYERS
- Gaming four Vokey Design SM10 wedges (48.10F, 52.12F, 56.14F (@ 57), WedgeWorks 60K* (@ 62)), Cameron Young got up-and-down for par 11 of 15 attempts (5th) and gained 1.171 shots on the field around the greens (28th).
- Over the past four years, Young has worked closely with Vokey Tour Rep Aaron Dill to dial in his wedge setup.
- One of the key changes involved moving from 56-degree (@ 57) M Grind to, eventually, a 56.14F (@ 57), which improved consistency in carry numbers from distance and gave him more purpose greenside with his sand wedge.
- Young’s victory also makes it back-to-back wins on the PGA TOUR for Vokey K* Grind lob wedge users, with the winner of the 3M Open also gaming a WedgeWorks 60K* lobber.
- Aldrich Potgieter won the Rocket Classic in late June with a 60K*, while the men’s world No. 1 won two majors in 2025 with a 60.06K lob wedge, the wedge from which K* originated.
- Instead of the full, smooth sole of the .06K Grind, the sole of the K* Grind features a steeper pre-wear on the leading edge to provide forgiveness from the square-faced position.
- K* – now one of the most popular lob wedge grinds on the PGA TOUR – also has heel, toe and trailing edge relief, which allows the leading edge to sit closer to the ground when the face is opened.
- And like all K Grind variations, K* has a wide sole that excels out of the bunker.
- For Cameron Young, bunker performance was the primary motivation to move to K* last May from his previous lower-bounce T Grind lob wedge setup:
- “The 62 is a 60 bent a little weak just to get the bounce right, but that's what I use mostly around the greens,” Young said. “So I've got a little bit more bounce than I used to have. Probably last time we did this, I was on a very low bounce version of it, and we went to this just to help improve bunker play... That one was a switch we made just over a year ago, PGA Championship Valhalla. I came to Aaron Dill and was having some issues and he said, ‘Hey, try this.’”
- “Cameron's 60T lob wedge was doing well but lacked the effortless height around the greens that he needed,” said Dill. “We built a 60K* that day, and it performed exactly as he had hoped. The added height around the greens freed him up to swing harder. He hit the ball higher and produced more spin and stopping power.”
- Said Young: “I think I went 10 for 10 out of bunkers that week, and [K* has] been in ever since.”
YOUNG LEADS SG: PUTTING WITH SCOTTY CAMERON PHANTOM PUTTER
- Cameron Young was locked in on the greens with his Scotty Cameron Phantom 9.5R tour prototype putter, gaining over 10 shots on the field on the greens (+10.335, 1st).
- Young also ranked second in Putts per GIR (1.61).
- Young began this year with Scotty Cameron Phantom 5 head shape but moved into a Phantom 9 head at the Cognizant Classic.
- While he started with a 9.2R (.2 models feature a plumbing neck), he quickly switched to a 9.5R model that featured a short jet neck.
- Young has stuck with his gamer since, which features a single black line for alignment and rounded contours.
- “I've actually had a really, really good year putting, and I’ve always been one to switch around a little bit with the putter, but I'm pretty well on this one for now,” said Young on his gamer back in late June. “I feel like it’s just a really, really nice clean look. The long line helps with my alignment and yeah, I've putted really nicely lately.”
- Young currently ranks 10th on TOUR in SG: Putting (+0.534) for the 2025 season.
- “Scotty's the best,” he continued. “I think they've always had a reputation for extremely high quality, and I think it feeds into all the feel stuff that you guys at Titleist do. I mean, the feel to me is just what I want. Kind of just that milled face, solid piece of metal. That's what I've always liked.”
TOP-RANKED AMATEUR KOIVUN FINISHES T5
- The world’s top-ranked amateur Jackson Koivun made it three straight starts of recording his best-ever finish on the PGA TOUR, bettering his T11 finish at the John Deere and his T6 finish at the ISCO with a T5 finish this week.
- Koivun shot rounds of 68-66-65-67 around Sedgefield Country Club, posting 14 under for the week after draining a 25-foot birdie putt on the 72nd hole.
- The 20-year-old's game was dialed across the board, as he gained strokes off the tee, approaching the green, around the green and on the green.
- He led the field in Driving Accuracy (46 of 54 fairways, 82%) and ranked 3rd in Putts per GIR (1.65).
What’s in the Bag? | Jackson Koivun
Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1
Driver: GT2 9.0° | Fujikura Speeder 661 TR X
Irons: NEW T250 3-iron | Graphite Design Tour AD HY 95 X, NEW T100 4-iron | Project X 6.5, and 620 MB 5-9 | Project X 6.5
Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, 50.08F, 54.08S, WedgeWorks 60L | Project X 6.5 (46°-50°), Project X 6.0 (54°), Project X I/O 6.0 (60°)
Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 9 tour prototype
KORN FERRY TOUR | Utah Championship
Julian Suri (Pro V1) made five birdies over his final eight holes to come home in 31 on Sunday and stage a comeback win.
- Suri carded rounds of 64-63 over the weekend en route to an 18-under total, good for a two-shot margin of victory.
- The win is his first career PGA TOUR-sanctioned title.
- Suri is projected to climb 40 spots in the season-long Points List, up to No. 16 from No. 56 with six events left on the schedule.
JGTO | Richard Mille Charity Tournament
Tomoyo Ikemura (2025 Pro V1) carded four sub-70 rounds (65-66-69-64) to post 24 under and win by two.
- The 29-year-old rallied for a come-from-behind victory on Sunday, carding a bogey-free 8-under final round that featured four birdies and an eagle on the back nine.
- The win marks Ikemura’s third career JGTO title.
KLPGA | 2025 Aurora World Ladies Championship
Gaming an all-Titleist setup that included her 2025 Pro V1x golf ball, GT3 driver, GT2 fairway, NEW T250 and T100 irons,Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron Newport 2 prototype putter, Titleist Brand Ambassador Sohyun Bae earned her fourth career KLPGA title.
- Bae closed in 5-under 67 on Sunday to post 19 under and win by one.
What’s in the Bag? | Sohyun Bae
Golf Ball: 2025 Titleist Pro V1x
Driver: GT3 9.0°
Fairway Metal: GT2 13.5°
Hybrid: TSR3 19.0°
Irons: NEW T250 4, NEW T100 5-PW
Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 48.10F, 54.14F, 58.10S
Putter: Scotty Cameron Newport 2 CS tour prototype
AMATEUR | Western Amateur
The winner of the 123rd Western Amateur cruised to a 6-and-5 victory, tying the largest margin of victory for the championship match in the history of the Western Am.
- The champion, gaming his 2025 Pro V1 golf ball, GT3 driver, blended set of T100 and 620 CB irons, Vokey SM10 wedges and Scotty Cameron Phantom putter, made it to match play after posting a 1-under total in medal play.
- It was an all-Pro V1 final, as the No. 9-ranked amateur took down this year’s winner of the Amateur Championship (No. 3 in WAGR).
What’s in the Bag? | Western Amateur Champion
Golf Ball: 2025 Titleist Pro V1
Driver: GT3 10.0°
Irons: T100 4-5, and 620 CB 6-PW
Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 50°, 54°, 60°
Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 9.2 tour prototype
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