Grab the remote control and throw on your workout gear. Season 8 of "Golf Fitness Academy" presented by Titleist premieres tonight, Monday, March 26, at 5:30 p.m. (EDT) on Golf Channel.

While filming the season's 10 episodes last month, Dr. Greg Rose and Dave Phillips, the show's hosts and co-founders of the Titleist Performance Institute, welcomed several PGA Tour players and TPI Certified instructors to the set inside TPI.

The mission: Improve play and maximize performance on the golf course through fitness.

In Episode 1, Greg and Dave focus on all-around fitness with the help of several special guests, including Titleist Brand Ambassador S.Y. NohTPI Nutrition Advisory Board Member K.C. Craichy, Symetra Tour Player Taylor Carl, TPI Head Athletic Trainer Lance Gill and TPI Advisory Board Member Robert Yang.

Our friends at TPI sent along some pictures from the season's filming, featuring Titleist Brand Ambassadors Adam Scott, Kyle Stanley and Pro V1x loyalist Mark Wilson, which you can view in the slideshow below. You can also check out a preview of tonight's episode in the following video.

The full Season 8 schedule is listed at the bottom of this post.

 The full Season 8 schedule is listed below the slideshow.

 

Golf Fitness Academy Season 8 schedule (all air times at 5:30 p.m. EST):

• March 26 (All-Around Fitness)?
• April 9 (featuring Adam Scott & Dave Darbyshire)?
• April 16 (20-minute Home Workout featuring TPI Cofounders Dave Phillips and Dr. Greg Rose)?
• April 23 (Power featuring TPI Certified Fitness Professional Robert Yang & 5-Time World Long Drive Champion Jason Zuback)?
• April 30 (Nutrition featuring John Berardi (Precision Nutrition), KC Craichy (Living Fuel) )?
• May 14 (featuring TPI Certified Fitness Professional Derek Lemire & Kyle Stanley)?
• May 21 (Junior golfers featuring TPI Certified Junior Coach Milo Bryant)?
• May 28 (Deceleration Power with TPI Certified Fitness Professional Jason Glass & Titleist Loyalist and pro snowboarder Devun Walsh)?
• June 4 (TPI Certified Fitness Professional & Luke Donald's trainer Ben Shear/Red Cord)?
• June 18 (featuring TPI Certified Fitness Professional Cory Puyear & Mark Wilson)

For more updates on the "Golf Fitness Academy" filming, check out TPI's Facebook page.



Back-to-back 65's earned Titleist Brand Ambassador Michael Hoey his fourth European Tour victory over the weekend at the Trophée Hassan II in Morocco.

Trusting a Pro V1x golf ball and a bag of Titleist equipment – including 910 driver and fairway metals, AP2 (712 Series) irons and Vokey Design SM4 wedges – Hoey charged to victory with birdies on three of his last five holes at Golf du Palais Royal.

It was one of three wins for Titleist golf ball players last weekend around the globe, including Pro V1x loyalist Yani Tseng's second-consecutive triumph on the LPGA. Titleist Brand Ambassador Nick Cullen also trusted a Pro V1x golf ball to victory at the OneAsia Tour's season-opener.

 Through the first three months of 2012, Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x players have combined for 33 victories across the worldwide professional tours, more than six times the nearest competitor with six and more than all competitors combined.

A total of 3,898 players have teed up Titleist golf balls in those same competitions, more than six times the nearest competitor and more than all other golf balls combined.

In Morocco, Hoey rebounded from an opening 2-over 74 with rounds of 67-65-65 for a 14-under 271 total and three-shot victory. 

Also a winner of last year's Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, Hoey made 22 birdies and one eagle over his final 54 holes. Eight of those birdies came on holes 15 through 18.

“It’s all a bit surreal at the moment but it always feels like that for me,” said Hoey.

 “I was actually thinking that I might struggle to make the cut after shooting two over in the first round but I started swinging the club really well and the confidence was there so it was great to back that up with the scores too. The second round was a good 67 and then to shoot two 65s over the weekend was pretty special really.”

Hoey was one of 70 players in the field that relied on Titleist golf balls for their success, more than three times the nearest competitor with 21 and more than all other competitors combined.

Pro V1 loyalist Jamie Donaldson shot a course-record 61, including a back-nine 28, to share third place at 13-under 275 with Phillip Price (Pro V1x) and Robert Coles (Pro V1x). 

Here' a closer look at Michael Hoey's Titleist equipment:

BallTitleist Pro V1x
DriverTitleist 910D3 8.5º (Diamana Kai'li 70)
Fairways: Titleist 910F 13.5º (Diamana Kai'li 80)
Hybrid: Titleist 910H 18º (Fujikura Tour Spec)
IronsTitleist AP2 (712 Series) 3-PW (Dynamic Gold)
WedgesVokey Design SM4 54•11º, 58•09º (Dynamic Gold)

• LPGA: Pro V1x loyalist Yani Tseng's winning momentum continued at the LPGA's Kia Classic, where she led a 1-2-3-4 finish for Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x players.

 Tseng, 23, led wire-to-wire, closing with a 2-under 70 for a 14-under 274 total and six-shot victory, her second in a row and third in five events to start the season.

The World No. 1 won the RR Donnelley LPGA Founders Cup last week in Phoenix and also won the LPGA Thailand in February.

It marked Tseng's 15th victory overall and sixth in her last 12 starts.

"To win this week is just very special, especially with all the fans from everywhere coming out and supporting me today," said Tseng, who has broken par in her last 10 rounds. "That was so much fun to play in front of the crowd and winning this tournament."

Tseng was one of 98 Titleist golf ball players at the Kia Classic, more than seven times the nearest competitor with 13 and more than all competitors combined.

Sun Young Yoo (Pro V1x) was runner-up at 8-under 280, while Shanshan Feng (Pro V1x) and Jiyai Shin (Pro V1) tied for third, another shot back.

Of the 11 players who tied for 10th or better, nine trusted a Titleist golf ball for their success.

• ONEASIA: Titleist Brand Ambassador Nick Cullen kicked off the OneAsia Tour season with a win the Enjoy Jakarta Indonesia Open.

 Cullen, 27, rolled his Pro V1x in for birdie on the 17th to take a one-shot lead and got up-and-down for par on No. 18 to secure the victory.

"This means the world to me," said Cullen, who finished at 8-under 279, one shot clear of fellow Titleist Brand Ambassador David Smail (Pro V1x).

"I have been practicing hard and playing well but I didn't know what to expect when I came here."

A total of 114 players in the field relied on Titleist golf balls for their success, nearly 100 more than the nearest competitor with 17 and more than all other golf balls combined. Titleist was also first in hybrids (65); iron sets (57); and sand, lob and approach wedges (180).

• PGA TOUR: Titleist was the overwhelming golf ball of choice at the Arnold Palmer Invitational with 72 players, more than six times the nearest competitor with 13 and more than all other golf balls combined. Titleist also led the field in sand, lob and approach wedges (103); and putters (46).

• CHAMPIONS TOUR: At the Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic, 58 players teed up Titleist golf balls, more than six times the nearest competitor with nine and more than all other golf balls combined.

• NATIONWIDE TOUR: Titleis was No. 1 at the Chitimacha Louisiana Open with 102 players, more than eight times the nearest competitor with 12 and more than all competitors combined. Titleist also led the field in iron sets (37); sand, lob and approach wedges (137); and putters (53).

**UPDATE: Thanks everyone for your great ideas! We will announce Scott's selections early next week here on the Team Titleist Tour Blog and post pictures of his newly-stamped Vokey wedges.

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In just over a week, Titleist Brand Ambassador Scott Stallings will drive down Magnolia Lane for the first time as a Masters participant, his bag full of Titleist Pro V1 golf balls and 14 Titleist clubs carefully packed in the trunk.

Four of those clubs will be brand new Vokey Design Spin Milled wedges, which Master Craftsman Bob Vokey is building this week at WedgeWorks in Carlsbad, Calif.

Bob has all the specs: SM4 46•08º (Project X 6.5), 252•08º (Project X 6.5), SM 56•12º (Project X 6.5) and SM4 Prototype 60•03º K Grind (Dynamic Gold S-400); Raw finish; Lamkin Crossline grips (Black, .580" Round).

 He's just waiting on a few more details…

"Voke's asking what I want custom-stamped on my wedges for the Masters," says Scott, who earned his invitation to Augusta National by winning last year's Greenbrier Classic in a sudden-death playoff.

"I'm hoping Team Titleist can help me with some ideas!"

You heard him.

If you have an idea for Scott's custom-stamping, please log-in in to your Team Titleist account and describe it in the comments section below.

It could be the same word (or words) on each wedge. Or different words on each wedge that go together to create a neat phrase or sentence. Or anything else you can think of!

On Monday, Scott will pick his favorite idea and let Bob know what to stamp on his four Vokeys headed to Georgia.

If your idea is chosen, we'll send you a signed hat from Scott and a special gift from Team Titleist. And best of all, your stamping will go into play on Scott's wedges at the Masters!*

For a closer look at Scott's four Vokeys, click on the image below to launch the slideshow.

To learn more about Scott and his road to the PGA Tour, please click here. For more insight on Scott's four-Vokey wedge setup and why it works best for him, please click here.

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