Titleist Golf Balls Tested - 70s, 80s, 90s vs Pro V1

Ryan Rastall test out the Titleist golf balls through the ages - comparing Titleist golf balls from the 70s, 80, 90s and the modern day Titleist Pro V1. In this video Ryan talks through the updates to the golf balls over the years and tests out using his indoor studio at Howley Hall Golf Club in Leeds where he puts the balls under the spotlight using Trackman.



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[HughJarsol]

This just proves that Titleist have always made fantastic golf balls. For simply a club difference between a 70’s ball and the best ball in golf today, it’s very impressive.

[paulthrossell]

you missed the Titleist Tour Balata. That was between the Titleist Tour and the Titleist Professional. I started playing golf as a kid in 93 and back then the balata ball was not something companies really advertised, because only top amateurs and pros used it, which was not a big market. It was kind of kept off to the side in golf shops and you had to kind of ask for a balata ball especially. I was getting my handicap down quick as a kid then and when I asked in the golf clubs pro shop about balata balls I was shown some Titleist Tour balls, I bought a sleeve. The next year in 94 the Titleist Tour Balata was in shops so it replaced the Tour as Titleists balata ball. It had a firmer kind of elastic like feel, was slightly more durable, if you hit a crisp wedge shot sometimes it would leave groove marks but they would lay back down on the ball and would not scuff up where they were rough to the touch, and felt like it spun a bit more than the Tour ball before it. The Titleist Tour Balata was very popular from 94 through to the late 90s, even when the Titleist Professional ball came out around 97 or 98 Titleist still sold the Tour Balata because some people preferred it. I remember seeing some pros talk about the Titleist Professional ball in the late 90s, saying they prefer the feel of the Titleist Tour Balata but have to use the new Professional ball because it gives them an extra few yards distance. The Titleist Professional ball was in my opinion one of Titleists worst premier balls they ever made, it didnt spin enough and all it did was feel soft and go a bit further, it really missed the point of a premier ball which was to spin easily around the greens and on approach shots. Yes it felt soft but that was it. The best ball in the late 90s was the Maxfli Revolution, which Fred Couples used in the 98 Masters when he was leading with a few holes to go. In around 2000 or 2001 Titleist brought out the Pro V1 and in 2001 they announced they were stopping production of their Titleist Tour Balata ball, and that was the end of Balata balls, as other companies like Maxfli had already stopped making them, very sad, but it was the start of the ridiculous search for more and more distance from golf balls and clubs to where now golf courses are having to be changed or cancelled because they are too short for pro events. How long before Pebble Beach and other great courses are cancelled because they are too short, its got beyond a joke.

[jbulick]

Love it. Just proves, Jack is THE GOAT;-)

[clevited]

You are aware that those old balls lose massive amounts of performance just from age right? These tests always bother me because they are essentially useless but spread incorrect data about how the wound balls of the 90s performed vs the modern ball.

[xchiro]

The Tour doesn't need to dial the ball back: just have a standard Tour ball, and make them play with a Tour Balata. Problem solved.

[Handletaken]

Your test is trying to hit the ball far and straight. Try hitting them around a tree to a tucked pin.

[photo]

just a suggestion... maybe avoid putting your head insert over the data your trying to explain