You need a second job to pay for them. Does it really cost Titleist $6.00 / dozen to manufacture them? Good ball though, good feel, longer than the Titleist Professionals but doesn't compare to the Strata Tour Ultimate which is longer,straighter and a heck of a lot cheaper!

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Titleist Professional, Strata Tour Ultimate

First of all these are great balls. I am not to fond of them off the tee, they are slightly too high, especially when coupled with a 10.5 driver which i have been meaning to swap for a lower one. That presents a real problem in England as the wind takes the ball, and the rain soaked fairway gives little carry. Of the irons, especially 6-iron up, these are brilliant. THey go straight up, with no arc and drop almost vertically. Easy to control, and they are longer of the irons. The price is stupid, and surprisingly the only ball i have played that matches them is the Top Flite XL2000 spin. As these are cheaper i use them and the PRO V1's are reserved for competitions.

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All titleists and most big brand balls like nike and maxfli

This ball will probably save my old bod,
I can cut it easily 250-260 , too easy ,
althogh you have adjust for less movement. I had one approach totally freak out - but I dont care this ball is
long and easy to steer.

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Titleist Pros ,Prestiges

What is all the hype about? Decent ball but I didn't find it to be any longer than any other two-piece spin ball I've played. Plus, it seems to be affected more by crosswinds than competing models. Does have great greenside feel -- very soft. Bottom line, save your money.

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Yes, it is a good ball, it launches high and does drop and stop but I can make an old "Accushnet Club Special" do the same thing for a lot cheaper and with more spin. Unless you are hitting it 300+ and straight and are under a 5 hdcp. you won't notice the much change put your money into better things like hitting 500 range balls a day.

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If it's round and can be hit with a club, I've hit one.

Excellent driver trajectory yields very long tee shots. These balls are fully as long as any spin ball on the market, and seem to deliver distance more consistantly. I think my average driver distance with these balls has gone up slightly from when I was using Strata and Maxfli Revolution. Iron shots perform very well and, with the shorter irons, generally stop within five feet or so. The ball is quite workable with any club, but the corollary to this is that these Tits do nothing to reduce hooks or slices. That's okay by me, but at $4.50 a ball a slicer on a tight course might want to look elsewhere. Overall I was very impressed by driver performance, and reasonably pleased with iron shots. In the short game, however, this ball left me a little cold. On chips and pitchs, the V1 comes off the club a little hot. (hot, cold---I should make up my mind :-)). Putting feel also seems hot, although the ball has a nice direct action off the putter face. Maybe I'm just used to wound Titleists and Maxflis, but I seemed to have more trouble controling this ball around the green. Overall feel is more like the light pop of an HP Tour than the well damped squish of a Professional. I liked the feel everywhere except around the green.Moving on to looks, I have always liked the way high end Titleist look, and this ball makes no departure from the classic Titleist aesthetic. The dull gloss of the cover and fine lines of the Titleist signature look just perfect to my eye. The "Pro V1 392" on the side of the ball looks a little busy to me, but I still prefer it anything else. Despite the rather soft looking cover, the V1's durability is excellent. You can easily play a full round with one before it begins to lose paint and form small "scales". Summing everything up: If money were no object I would rather play these balls than any other. Overall performance of this ball is second to none for everything except greenside work. And, while I would rather have a Professional or a Maxfli Elite at greenside, the V1 is perfectly playable everywhere, while delivering top-notch distance and good spin. Of course, in the case of these balls, Money is very definitely an object. If you can even find these royal orbs, you'll have to pay over four dollars a ball to put them in your pocket. I really can't see trying to hit a priceless Faberge egg onto that 185 yard par-3 water hole when a ball that costs less than half as much will play almost exactly the same. These balls work very well for me. But so do Strata Pro Balata, and I can get them for a little over two bucks each. It's up to you how much you want to spend for an extra 4-5% performance. But are these balls really worth twice as much as Strata, or 33% more than Revolution? No, not really.

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Tit Profs, Prestiges, Tour Balata, Maxfli Revolution, Top-Flite Strata (Balata, Prof), Precept MC

First reviewed this ball on 17 April. Was generally very pleased with the performance and at the time actually preferred the reduced spin compared to e.g. Titleist Pros and Prestige. Was probably also a bit influenced by all the hype. However, now that greens are drying up and getting firmer, the lack of spin is becoming a problem on most shots below full pitch shots. I guess you need to hit most greens in reg. if you want to really profit from using this ball; if not, i.m.h.o. other premium balls offer better all-round characteristics (Titleist Pro, Callaway Blue, Strata Tour Pro etc.).

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Sorry, in my opinion, "the Emperor is naked". To be more humble, I do not hit this ball high enough to appreciate its claimed attributes. I lost confidence with ProV - but that's just my opinion.

I played a Strata TP (my usual) against a ProV and a Strata Tour Ultimate. Both ProV and TU were better off the tee than Strata - less spin, more distance. ProV1 was just too hard to dial in on. Good distance but won't hold a green for me. FYI - the Strata Tour Ultimate is the best of both worlds in my own opinion - equals the distance of the ProV1, but in all other respects acts like a Strata - spins well, putts true and is softer feeling than ProV. Overall, for me, it's a more predictable ball. As between the ProV and TU, I'll take the Strata. As between the TU and the Strata Tour Pro - I'll take the Tour Pro - at least until the price drops, or until I'm flirting with breaking 80s.

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Strata Tour Pro, Strata Tour Ultimate

They may be good, but I hate them... Only reason being, I hit a rather high ball and these go REAL high. So my normal 190-200 yard 3 iron balloons and goes about 175... I'm sticking with Strata Professional's... Cheaper and better ball...

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Well, first off, this is not a premium golf ball. This is a premium distance ball. Yes, its long. That is the plus. Lets go through a few pros and cons

Pros - Long; Has a nice firm (not rock-like but a firm soft feeling) feel when putting; Very Durable, opposite Precept Tour Premium and Nike TA; Pros play it

Cons - The Drop and Stop thing is not spin... it just sends your short irons 30,000 feet into the air (I hear Iraq has made a deal with Titleist so they can start using these as anti-aircraft weaponry); this high trajectory makes it extremely hard to not it close in any type of wind whatsoever; Pros play it because Titleist pays them to. In fact, many still use the professional.

So, in conclusion, this is a good ball. I don't prefer it over the Maxfli Revo's or the Slazenger Players or the Srixon Hi-Spin or the Nike Tour Accuracy TW... but it's a good ball. Does not live up to hype. Too hard to find, everyone's going crazy about them and there are better balls out there that won't sell worth a damn. People don't understand that probably more than half of the PGA Tour is getting paid to play this... Thats why this ball has won so many tournaments.


Value here gets a 1 you can get better performance out of the Srixon Hi-Spin for half the price

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