Inside the Game-Changing Fitting for Cameron Young

Young first teed up Pro V1x Double Dot at the 2025 Wyndham Championship, where he opened in 63-62 before running away with a six-shot win, his first on the PGA TOUR. He earned top-10 finishes in seven of his next 11 starts, including his momentous victory at THE PLAYERS Championship in March 2026. His triumph at TPC Sawgrass was highlighted by a 375-yard drive Sunday down the treacherous 18th fairway, the longest drive ever recorded on that hole in the ShotLink era. 

Titleist Golf Ball R&D is constantly soliciting feedback from the world's best players on the performance of their golf ball and their evolving performance needs. This process will often result in the development of new prototypes, some of which are designed to finely tune very specific flight, spin and feel characteristics.  

These Custom Performance Options (CPOs) play an important role in the discovery of new technological advancements that are frequently incorporated into next generation Pro V1 and Pro V1x models. CPOs also provide key learnings in the continued development of more robust performance profiles for all golfers and their unique launch conditions. 

Pro V1x Double Dot began as a concept initiated by Fordie Pitts, Titleist’s Director of Tour Research & Validation, to develop prototypes that could help players like Young operating in the highest tiers of speed and spin gain more control with their irons and wedges.

During a visit to the Titleist Performance Center at Manchester Lane (Acushnet, Mass.) in the fall of 2024, Young, who was previously playing Pro V1 Left Dot, spent an extended session with Pitts testing early iterations of what would eventually become Pro V1x Double Dot.   

“The first time I hit it (at Manchester Lane) was kind of blind testing,” Young said. “Just immediately, the window it came out of was really nice. I really liked that the top of the flight looked like it just came back down. I’ve never liked to see anything floating and so that just really indicated a real consistency.”  

That session proved critical in finalizing the Pro V1x Double Dot construction that Pitts introduced to Young at the Wyndham Championship.

“We weren’t sure if he was going to test it [that] week, but as he was warming up, he asked to hit a couple on the range,” Pitts said. “He was then curious to see some shots out on the course.”   

Young, accompanied by Pitts, teed off Sedgefield’s first hole with both Left Dot and the Pro V1x prototype. By the second hole, he was exclusively hitting shots with Double Dot.     

Once Pro V1x Double Dot was confirmed as the foundation of Young’s setup, the Titleist Golf Club team took the next step — dialing in his driver and the top end of his bag to ensure it matched the characteristics of Young’s new ball to maximize performance.

“When Fordie is testing a golf ball with players, they’re really working from the green backwards,” said J.J. Van Wezenbeeck, Senior Director of Club Promotions. “[Cam] was looking for a golf ball that was going to enhance his wedge play and his iron game. And so as Fordie worked through the process [with Double Dot], they saw really great results. Then when we got to the top of the bag, there were some flight differences that were at a point where we were going to have to make some adjustments…

“The characteristics we changed were really focused on loft and center of gravity to create easy launch for him and lift. We had a golf ball that really fit his irons and wedges, and then we were able to counteract some of that flight in the woods to give him ideal performance across the bag,” Van Wezenbeeck said.

In his 13 events so far with Double Dot, Young has won twice, earned eight top-10 finishes and reached a career-best third in the Official World Golf Ranking. (He was ranked 44th heading into Wyndham.) 

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