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Cameron Young won the 2026 Players Championship and on Sunday won a PGA Tour signature event, the Cadillac Championship, moving him to No. 3 on the Official World Golf Ranking. While his pause at the top of his swing gets a lot of attention, a recent change in his golf ball is harder to spot.

Cameron Young's v golf balls.

In 2024, Young was playing Titleist's Pro V1 Left Dot, a low-spin option designed to help him keep the ball down and counteract his high-spin shots that flew too high. However, he was still creating too much spin with his wedges, which resulted in distance control issues. That year, he tested the prototypes that would become the current Pro V1 and Pro V1x, and asked Titleist golf ball reps what they could do to help him because the new balls still weren't the ideal match. Eventually, while testing at Titleist's Manchester Lane facility in Massachusetts, Titleist fit Young into the Pro V1x Double Dot ball, a Custom Performance Option (CPO) that is only available to Tour pros and not the general public.

After learning the Pro V1x Double Dot ball worked for his irons and wedges, Young worked with Titleist PGA Tour reps to make sure the ball worked off the tee. Not surprisingly, the ball created a lower flight off the tee. To counteract that off the tee, Young wound up adding about 0.75 degrees of loft to your driver to get the flight he wanted, which created a "spin floor" around 2,400 rpm of spin that gives him enough carry distance. Young now plays a Titleist GT3 with 11 degrees of loft, set in the D1 hosel position, which reduces the loft by 0.75 degrees, so the club has a 10.25-degree "playing" loft.

Young added the ball at the 2025 Wyndham Championship, and he won his first PGA Tour event that week. Young went on to be a stud for the U.S. Ryder Cup team at Bethpage and has now won twice with it in 2026.

So why aren't Titleist CPO balls like the Pro V1x Double Dot available to everyone? The vast majority of golfers, according to Titleist, get good performance from the Pro V1 and Pro V1x, while a few likely benefit from the Pro V1x Left Dash. You don't swing like Cameron Young, and only a handful of players in the world do. What he needs from a ball is different than what Justin Thomas needs, what Lydia Ko needs, from what your local pro needs and what you and your friends need.

The real story here isn't that Young or other pros are playing equipment you can't get. It's that they are ideally fit with a ball that matches their game, while too many golfers play a golf ball at random. They use the same ball they've played for years, balls that were a gift or balls that have a color they like. Just like using a driver or set of irons that match your game is critical, finding and using the right golf ball can make a massive difference in your game.