Cameron Young reportedly playing golf ball that would conform under rollback

Cameron Young confirmed earlier reports that his golf ball is conforming under the new rollback that is set to begin in a couple of years. Jack Hirsh/GOLF One of the PGA Tour’s best players over the past eight months has apparently been playing with a ball that would be legal under the USGA and R&A’s proposed rollback. As first reported by Golf Channel on Tuesday night, the Titleist prototype Pro V1x Double Dot ball Cameron Young began using last summer would conform under the USGA and R&A’s new ODS Test conditions.

Both Titleist and the USGA declined to comment for this story. To curb the extreme driving distances at the game’s highest levels, the USGA and R&A announced in 2023 a change to the Overall Distance Standard used to test golf balls . The rollback, which is slated to be implemented in the professional game in 2028 and recreational play by 2030, would see the testing conditions for balls changed to a 125-mph clubhead speed (up from 120) and launch angle increased to 11 degrees (up from 10).

Balls would still need to fly no farther than 317 yards with a 3-yard tolerance. “Obviously, there is no conforming list,” Young said at the PGA Championship on Wednesday. “I suppose I read something that said it passed that test, but I wasn’t aware of that until very recently.

So at no point was that a consideration. It was just really me trying to optimize my golf, and it’s the ball that seems to work the best for me. ” Young put the ball in play for the first time at the Wyndham Championship in August and won by six strokes.