New 2025 Titleist Pro V1x golf ball notches first victory

It didn’t take long for the new Titleist Pro V1x golf ball to register its first victory.

Nico Echavarria, who had the 2025 Titleist Pro V1x in play in Japan at the Zozo Championship over the weekend, picked up his second PGA Tour title.

The Columbian posted a total of 20-under-par, to win by a single shot. That was helped by an impressive closing round of 67, which included two birdies in his last three holes.

It was certainly a strong display of ball striking at Accordia Golf Narashino Country Club from the 30-year-old. He gained ten shots on the field from tee to green for the week, which helped him to make a whopping 24 birdies.

Echavarria wasn’t the only one to put the new ball in play, either. A total of 28 players have made the switch to the new Pro V1 or Pro V1x. Doug Ghim, who finished runner-up at the Shriner’s Children’s Open, is also a convert to the new ball.

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In fact, a total of 23 players put a new Pro V1 or Pro V1x into play at the Shrines Children’s Open.

Echavarria was one of them, and he had this to say on the process of putting the new ball in play.

“I was actually playing 18 holes with Tyson Alexander in Jacksonville back home.

“It was in between Napa and Sanderson Farms, and I was actually low on balls. I didn’t grab balls from my house, and he had some extra and they were the new ones, and I just tried it out.”

“The Titleist ‘25 Pro V1x was maybe just the hair faster and something a touch spinner around the greens is what I felt. It worked very well last week (at the Black Desert Championship) with altitude.

“I’ve struggled hitting my numbers in altitude and this was very good how the numbers were.”

“One of the only things we have in control is the ball, as golfers, and for me it’s more playing and seeing it while I’m playing than on the range because when I’m hitting balls, I don’t go to where it landed. I prefer trying them out in the golf course, seeing if the numbers that I felt were the right ones, where it landed on the green, how it reacted on the green, how it flew with the wind, what I thought, maybe it pitched short of what I thought, maybe it pitched long and then you adjust and see if you like it or not.”

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Echavarria also said that having confidence in his ball helps him to play his go-to shot, a fade, the way he needs.

“It’s relying on that fade, especially on those off days where we’re not feeling a hundred percent with our game, and I have to rely on that shot because I don’t have the draw that day,” he said.

“I just hit fades out there and luckily, I have a ball that does what I feel like it should do.”

The 2025 iteration of the Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x is a momentous one, and it already has a winner on tour.

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Lewis Fraser As bunkered’s Performance Editor, Lewis oversees the content that’s designed to make you a better player. From the latest gear to tuition, nutrition, strategy and more, he’s the man. A graduate of the University of Stirling, Lewis joined bunkered in 2021. Formerly a caddie at Castle Stuart Golf Links, he is a member of Bathgate Golf Club where he plays off four.

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