New Titleist mini driver, Bettinardi zero-torque putters

Cameron Young won the 2026 Players Championship and on Sunday won a PGA Tour signature event, the Cadillac Championship, moving him to No. 3 on the Official World Golf Ranking. While his pause at the top of his swing gets a lot of attention, a recent change in his golf ball is harder to spot.

In 2024, Young was playing Titleist's Pro V1 Left Dot, a low-spin option designed to help him keep the ball down and counteract his high-spin shots that flew too high. However, he was still creating too much spin with his wedges, which resulted in distance control issues. That year, he tested the prototypes that would become the current Pro V1 and Pro V1x, and asked Titleist golf ball reps what they could do to help him because the new balls still weren't the ideal match.

Eventually, while testing at Titleist's Manchester Lane facility in Massachusetts, Titleist fit Young into the Pro V1x Double Dot ball, a Custom Performance Option (CPO) that is only available to Tour pros and not the general public. After learning the Pro V1x Double Dot ball worked for his irons and wedges, Young worked with Titleist PGA Tour reps to make sure the ball worked off the tee. Not surprisingly, the ball created a lower flight off the tee.

To counteract that off the tee, Young wound up adding about 0. 75 degrees of loft to your driver to get the flight he wanted, which created a "spin floor" around 2,400 rpm of spin that gives him enough carry distance. Young now plays a Titleist GT3 with 11 degrees of loft, set in the D1 hosel position, which reduces the loft by 0.