Nico Echvarria captured the primary win on the PGA Tour for the 2025 Titleist ProV1x.
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It’s a sense all too many people have encountered on the golf course; Nico Echavarria was working out of golf balls.
Fortunately for Echavarria, who earned his debut PGA Tour win on the Puerto Rico Open final yr, he wasn’t enjoying a PGA Tour occasion on the time. As an alternative, he was enjoying a apply spherical final month with pal and fellow PGA Tour professional Tyson Alexander when he bought himself into the relatable scenario.
What’s unrelatable is that his answer to working out of golf balls performed an element in him profitable on the PGA Tour lower than a month later.
Alexander began listening to phrase the week prior on the Procore Championship about Titleist’s new 2025 Professional V1 and Professional V1x golf balls, a sentimental launch of the Tour’s hottest golf ball because it marks 25 years since its introduction. Alexander requested Titleist for a number of sleeves of the brand new Professional V1x to check at residence.
When Echavarria wanted some pellets, Alexander provided him the prototypes.
“I didn’t seize balls from my home, and he had some additional they usually had been the brand new ones, and I simply tried it out,” Echavarria instructed Titleist final week on the Shriners Youngsters’s Open.
It didn’t take him lengthy earlier than he began liking what he was seeing with the brand new ball.
Titleist is conserving technical particulars of the brand new golf balls below wraps for now, however the Tour adoption has been swift. A handful of professionals put the 2025 Professional V1 and Professional V1x in play on the Procore whereas Echavarria put the ’25 Professional V1x in play in his subsequent begin after his spherical with Alexander on the Sanderson Farms Championship. He missed the reduce that week however stored the ball in play in Utah on the Black Desert Championship the place he completed T11.
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“[The ‘25 Pro V1x was] possibly simply the hair sooner and one thing a contact spinner across the greens is what I felt,” Echavarria mentioned. “It labored very properly final week [at the Black Desert Championship] with altitude. I’ve struggled hitting my numbers in altitude and this was superb how the numbers had been.”
At Titleist’s official PGA Tour launch of the brand new golf balls on the Shriners, 23 gamers instantly switched to one of many fashions. 5 extra gamers added the brand new balls to their baggage this week in Japan on the Zozo, however the ball bought its first win with Echavarria, who held off Justin Thomas with a final-round 67 to win by one shot.
