This golf ball is sold out every time. But why?

The Titleist Pro V1 Left Dot Golf Ball has collected a Cult -Hang. It has never been added to the line -up of the retail and is only available in selected fittings, on tours and in limited releases on any diagram of title. Even when those releases touch, you can only buy two boxes at Titleist at the same time. So the question is then, why? Why is the Pro V1 -Linker Stip so wanted? And with this amount of popularity, why is the ball not out of the “Custom performance option” program?

The difference between Pro V1 and Pro V1 Left Dot

As a variant of the Pro V1, the left point option takes the feeling and the short-game performance that players love the standard Pro V1 and tweaks the long-game performance. In your longer irons and forests, the left spin will launch a spider, only a touch lower. This lower, more penetrating route is partly due to the spherically tiled, 352 Tetraërian pit tour of the left dot, compared to the 388 wells of the standard Pro V1 model. Thirty-six pit may not seem like a big change, but take the size of a golf ball into account is a huge difference. Many players have also said that this new flight is extremely stable in strong wind, which can be a concern for lower golf balls.

Who is the left dot for?

Although the difference in performance is easy to understand – and easy to see in my tests – it is not an easy ball to fit. The Pro V1 is already the lower version of the high performance line-up from Titleist compared to the Pro V1X. That is why a special player is needed to need the benefits of the Pro V1-Linker point and the lower launching, lower-spinning properties. My personal care when placing players in lower spin-golf balls has a low-spin-miss. If you do not produce enough spider, the ball will fall out of the sky faster, especially to the tensile side. Yes, I am talking about that feared duck hook. So for me, when a player looks at something like the Pro V1 -Linker Stip, they must have a total control over their golf ball. This usually means that she has the opportunity to produce spider, or that they are already a high-spin player who is able to spin-off when they need it.

I like to tell players that we want to find them a golf ball that is naturally in a useful launch and spider window instead of forcing that preferred window by choosing every golf ball, makes their equipment works. For a good player who can really drive their flight, the Standard Pro V1 will probably check all the boxes. It is a wonderful feeling golf ball with a very neutral twist and launch profile that leaves the player room to manipulate it.

However, the left spot would work great in the bag of a player whose launch ceiling is just a bit too high, and tweaks are excluded for their equipment. It also ensures a great golf ball in less than ideal conditions. A lower flight usually gives more control, especially in windy circumstances. In one Titleist Social Media Post from 2021Tony Finau said about the left dot: “It is very stable. Gapwind, below wind, in the wind, I seem to get the right figures with it.”

Why did it not leave the title ‘Custom Performance Options’ program?

The short answer is that there is not enough real performance question to the golf ball. It makes up less than 6 percent of all titleistic use in large tours. It is Majors, it is in the bag with big names such as Finau and rising star Jake Knapp, but it is still a very nichegolf ball. Its use is not as widespread as something like the Titleist Pro V1X (Left Dash), which was also originally a CPO offer. This does not mean that the golf ball has not inspired other launches. The High Gradient ZG process core that is now found in the standard Pro V1, was originally designed in the left point model, and then after testing and success it was taken to the Retail Pro V1 Golf Ball.

Dimple patterns in the CPO program are still being tested and taken over in the Retail setup. As I said above, it’s just a niche customer for this golf ball, and for the general consumer base it is probably not a huge advantage for players playing a Pro V1. Most golfers can probably switch to a lower intense driver, or find a better launch axis for their driver and call it a day. But at the highest levels of Golf, with most control over their golf ball, some elite players prefer to play the left dot and enjoy it.

The golf balls are already sold out on Titleist.com, but search around, because there are some other sources with a few in stock before you have to pony on eBay.

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Listen to Johnny Wunder Talk with Patrick Reed (who won the 2018 Masters with a left spot) about his equipment in our last episode of fully equipped.

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