--- title: "Titleist is in 19 of 34 PGA bags and 14 of 24 LPGA bags. The Pro V1x leads 13–6 on one tour and loses 5–9 on the other" url: "https://ifrothgolf.com/read/pro-v1-split-pga-lpga" type: "explainer" topic: "balls" author: "Ross Hamilton" published: "2026-09-23T18:00" publisher: "ifrothgolf" --- # Titleist is in 19 of 34 PGA bags and 14 of 24 LPGA bags. The Pro V1x leads 13–6 on one tour and loses 5–9 on the other > Brand share barely moves between the two tours. The model choice inside that share turns over completely — and it is the cleanest illustration we have of why the two balls exist at all. ## In short - Across the 69 tour bags we maintain — 34 PGA, 24 LPGA, 7 LIV and 4 creators, each with exactly one verified ball row — Titleist appears in 19 of the 34 PGA bags and 14 of the 24 LPGA bags, about 56 and 58 per cent. Brand share barely moves. The model inside it inverts: the Pro V1x leads the Pro V1 13–6 among the men (including Jordan Spieth's Left Dash) and trails 5–9 among the women. TaylorMade is 5 of 24 LPGA against 3 of 34 PGA, Srixon 5 of 34 against 1 of 24, Callaway four and four. This is our maintained set, not a census, and bags change week to week. Most gear findings that split along tour lines are findings about difference. Someone counts something in the women's bags, it comes out unlike the men's, and the piece writes itself as a divergence story. This one starts the same way and then refuses to go there, and the refusal is the story. We maintain 69 tour bags — 34 on the PGA Tour, 24 on the LPGA Tour, 7 in LIV and 4 content creators who play the same equipment cycle — and every one of them carries exactly one ball row, verified against named sources. So we counted the ball brand on each tour, expecting a gap. There isn't one. ## The number **Titleist appears in 19 of the 34 PGA bags and 14 of the 24 LPGA bags — about 56 per cent and about 58 per cent. Inside that near-identical share, the model choice inverts: the Pro V1x leads the Pro V1 by 13 to 6 among the men, and trails it by 5 to 9 among the women.** The men's 13 includes Jordan Spieth's Pro V1x Left Dash, the firmer, lower-spinning tour-only variant, which is still a Pro V1x by construction and name. Twelve bags are on the standard Pro V1x. Nobody on the LPGA side of our file plays a Left Dash. The standing caveat, stated where you can see it rather than buried at the bottom: this is the set of 69 bags we maintain and re-verify against named sources, not a census of either tour. Twenty-four LPGA bags is a small base — one player switching moves the figure by four percentage points — and bags change week to week, with a ball change being one of the quieter moves a player makes. The tour counts are in the paragraph above precisely so the edges are visible. ## The rows, so you can check us On the LPGA side, the nine Pro V1 players are Leona Maguire, Lottie Woad, Angel Yin, Linn Grant, Maja Stark, Lauren Coughlin, Jennifer Kupcho, Allisen Corpuz and Alison Lee. The five on the Pro V1x are Lydia Ko, Lilia Vu, Céline Boutier, Carlota Ciganda and Megan Khang. On the PGA side the shape is the other way up. The six Pro V1 players are Scottie Scheffler, Viktor Hovland, Corey Conners, Adam Scott, Rickie Fowler and Max Homa. The twelve on the standard Pro V1x include Ludvig Åberg, Justin Thomas, Patrick Cantlay, Justin Rose, Robert MacIntyre, Matt Fitzpatrick, Russell Henley, Cameron Young, Sungjae Im, Wyndham Clark, Maverick McNealy and Tom Kim, with Spieth's Left Dash making thirteen. You can read [Lydia Ko's bag](https://ifrothgolf.com/witb/lydia-ko) or [Scottie Scheffler's](https://ifrothgolf.com/witb/scottie-scheffler) line by line if you want to see how these rows are built. ## What we published before, and why this is not that In May we ran the whole-file version of this count and reported that across the 49 bags we then maintained, the Pro V1x led the Pro V1 by 19 to 7 — close to three to one. That number is still in [Pro V1 vs Pro V1x](https://ifrothgolf.com/read/pro-v1-vs-pro-v1x) and it was right for the file it was computed on. What it could not show, because the file barely had a women's tour in it at the time, is that the three-to-one figure is an average of two populations pulling in opposite directions. The roster has since been rebalanced toward the LPGA, and the split is what fell out. The same applies to [the firm-versus-soft count](https://ifrothgolf.com/read/tour-pros-play-the-firmer-ball) we published earlier this month. That piece asks which half of a two-ball family a player sits on across every brand; this one asks whether the answer to that question depends on which tour you are standing on. For Titleist, it does. ## The other brands, briefly Three more splits are worth a line each, and none of them is big enough to build a thesis on. TaylorMade runs the other way from Titleist: 5 of the 24 LPGA bags against 3 of the 34 PGA bags, which is a materially larger share of a smaller tour. Those five are three on the [TP5x](https://ifrothgolf.com/product/taylormade-tp5x) and two on the TP5. Srixon is the mirror image — 5 of 34 on the PGA side, 1 of 24 on the LPGA — with the [Z-Star XV](https://ifrothgolf.com/product/srixon-z-star-xv) doing most of that work and the softer [Z-Star](https://ifrothgolf.com/product/srixon-z-star) absent from both tours in our file, which is a fact about our 69 bags and not a verdict on the ball. [Callaway](https://ifrothgolf.com/product/callaway-chrome-tour) is the one brand that does not move at all: four bags and four bags. ## Why the model flips, as honestly as we can put it The two balls are built to do different things, and the marketing is unusually straight about it. The Pro V1x is the four-piece build: it flies higher, spins a little more — most visibly with the long clubs and into greens — and feels firmer at impact. The Pro V1 is the three-piece: lower, flatter, more penetrating, and the softer of the two. Whether extra height is an advantage or a cost depends almost entirely on how fast you are swinging, because speed is what turns spin into height and height into a landing angle. Trackman's published tour averages put LPGA driver club speed in the region of twenty miles an hour below the PGA Tour figure, and a gap that size changes which end of a ball family you want. A player who generates enough speed to launch and spin a ball plenty has a reason to want the flatter, more penetrating one — which is exactly the profile of the six men above. A player at lower speed generally needs help getting the ball up and holding a green, which points the other way. Except that is not what our rows say, and this is the point at which an honest data piece has to stop. Our rows say the higher-flighting ball is more common among the faster players and the lower-flighting one is more common among the slower ones, which is the opposite of the tidy physics story in the paragraph above. Both things can be true at once: launch conditions are fitted as a system — ball, loft, shaft and delivery together — so a fast player can want a higher-spinning ball to control a wedge window and a slower player can want a penetrating flight for wind. Fourteen LPGA bags and nineteen PGA bags cannot tell you which mechanism is doing the work, and anyone claiming otherwise from a base this size is guessing with a table in front of them. ## The same shape of finding, the opposite result We published a piece last month on graphite iron shafts, where the LPGA bags we maintain diverged sharply from the men's — that is a genuine difference between the tours and [the numbers are there](https://ifrothgolf.com/read/lpga-bags-run-graphite-irons). This one is the control case for it. On ball brand, the tours do not diverge at all: Titleist's share is within two percentage points across both. Only the model inside the share moves. That contrast is the actual finding. It is easy to assume that anything measured separately on the women's tour will come out different, and the equipment cycle is full of examples where it does. Ball brand is not one of them. So what do you do with it? Almost nothing, if you are shopping. Neither of these numbers is a recommendation, and the worst possible use of them is picking a ball because a tour that shares your rough swing speed leans one way. Tour players are fitted to their own launch numbers with a launch monitor and a coach, and the count above is a record of 69 individual fittings, not a rule. The useful version is much smaller. These two balls cost the same, sit on the same shelf, and most golfers have played exactly one of them for years without ever trying the other. Buy a sleeve of the sibling you do not play, give it nine holes, and watch two things only: whether your long irons flight higher or lower than you expect, and whether full wedges stop where you expect. Those are the two places the difference is genuinely perceptible. Skip it entirely if you lose more than a couple of balls a round. The gap between these two is comfortably inside the noise of your own strike, and you are choosing between two premium balls that will spend most of their lives in a hedge. ## The takeaway Across the 69 tour bags we maintain — 34 PGA, 24 LPGA, 7 LIV and 4 creators, each with exactly one verified ball row — Titleist appears in 19 of the 34 PGA bags and 14 of the 24 LPGA bags, about 56 and 58 per cent. Brand share barely moves. The model inside it inverts: the Pro V1x leads the Pro V1 13–6 among the men (including Jordan Spieth's Left Dash) and trails 5–9 among the women. TaylorMade is 5 of 24 LPGA against 3 of 34 PGA, Srixon 5 of 34 against 1 of 24, Callaway four and four. This is our maintained set, not a census, and bags change week to week. ## FAQ ### Do LPGA players play the Pro V1 or the Pro V1x? The Pro V1, more often. Across the 24 LPGA bags we maintain and re-verify against named sources, 14 players are on a Titleist ball: nine play the Pro V1 and five play the Pro V1x. That is the reverse of the men's tour, where across 34 PGA Tour bags the Pro V1x leads the Pro V1 by 13 to 6, one of those 13 being Jordan Spieth's Pro V1x Left Dash. This is our maintained set of bags rather than a census of either tour, and ball choices change through a season. ### How many tour players use a Titleist golf ball? In the set of bags we maintain, Titleist appears in 19 of the 34 PGA Tour bags and 14 of the 24 LPGA Tour bags — roughly 56 per cent and 58 per cent, which is close to identical across the two tours. The brand's overall share does not meaningfully differ between the men's and women's games in our file; what differs is which of the two Pro V1 models players choose. ### What golf ball do most PGA Tour players use? The Titleist Pro V1x is the single most common model in the 34 PGA Tour bags we maintain, appearing in 12 of them, with a thirteenth player on the Pro V1x Left Dash variant. Six more play the standard Pro V1. Srixon is next with five bags, then Callaway with four, TaylorMade with three and Bridgestone with two. ### Is the Pro V1 or the Pro V1x better for a slower swing speed? There is no single right answer, and tour data cannot settle it. The Pro V1x is a four-piece ball that flies higher, spins a little more with the longer clubs and feels firmer; the Pro V1 is a three-piece ball that flies lower and flatter with a softer feel. Launch conditions are fitted as a system of ball, loft, shaft and delivery together, so the only reliable test is playing a sleeve of each on the same day and watching your long-iron flight and your full wedges. ## Products mentioned - [Titleist Pro V1 Golf Balls (Dozen)](https://ifrothgolf.com/product/titleist-pro-v1) · $70 approx — The lower, softer, more penetrating half of the pair, and the one that leads on the LPGA side of our file. **Where to buy:** [Check price at Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJVQX373?tag=ifrothgolf-20&ascsubtag=md_titleist-pro-v1) (affiliate link) · also stocked by Clubhouse Golf - [Titleist Pro V1x](https://ifrothgolf.com/product/titleist-pro-v1x) · $60 approx — The higher-flighting, firmer half, and the one that leads by more than two to one among the men. **Where to buy:** [Check price at Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FH5NN34D?tag=ifrothgolf-20&ascsubtag=md_titleist-pro-v1x) (affiliate link) · also stocked by The Golf Shop Online - [TaylorMade TP5x Golf Balls](https://ifrothgolf.com/product/taylormade-tp5x) · $60 approx — TaylorMade's firmer model, and the single biggest non-Titleist presence in the LPGA bags we track. **Where to buy:** [Check price at Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B086WQ7FVK?tag=ifrothgolf-20&ascsubtag=md_taylormade-tp5x) (affiliate link) · also stocked by Clubhouse Golf - [Callaway Chrome Tour Golf Balls (Dozen)](https://ifrothgolf.com/product/callaway-chrome-tour) · $60 approx — The one brand whose count is identical on both tours in our file, four bags and four bags. **Where to buy:** [Check price at Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CLVRHLJS?tag=ifrothgolf-20&ascsubtag=md_callaway-chrome-tour) (affiliate link) · also stocked by Callaway Golf - [Srixon Z-Star XV Golf Balls](https://ifrothgolf.com/product/srixon-z-star-xv) · $50 approx — The firm Srixon, and the reason Srixon reads as a men's-tour brand in our rows. **Where to buy:** [Check price at Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F171QM27?tag=ifrothgolf-20&ascsubtag=md_srixon-z-star-xv) (affiliate link) · also stocked by The Golf Shop Online - [Srixon Z-Star Golf Balls (Dozen)](https://ifrothgolf.com/product/srixon-z-star) · $50 approx — The softer Srixon, and a reminder that a model's absence from a tour file is not a verdict on the ball. **Where to buy:** [Check price at Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D5XTP4CS?tag=ifrothgolf-20&ascsubtag=md_srixon-z-star) (affiliate link) · also stocked by The Golf Shop Online --- Source: [ifrothgolf](https://ifrothgolf.com) — independent golf-gear editorial. 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