Hey Team Titleist!
Match play has begun at Cherry Hills Country Club, where the game’s best amateur players are competing to make history at the 123rd U.S. Amateur Championship.
We were on site earlier in the week to walk inside the ropes with #TeamTitleist (mic’d up!) as they prepared for one of the biggest amateur events of the year. Watch the video above and keep reading to get the details on the equipment trusted by the majority of this week’s 312-player field.
Titleist was the overwhelming #1 ball and the most played brand in all major equipment categories:
• A total of 262 players teed up a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball, more than ten times the nearest competitor (25) and 84% of the 312-player field.
• There were 132 players gaming a Titleist driver (43%), compared to 70 (23%) for the nearest competitor. The field's favorite model was TSR3, with 78 in play this week.
• Titleist was the top choice in fairways (139, 38%) and hybrids (38, 43%), and there were 106 Titleist utilities in play in stroke play (62%), more than five times the nearest competitor (21).
• 133 players were gaming Titleist iron sets, accounting for 42% of the field. Nearest competitor: 55 (18%).
• There were a total of 558 (61%) Vokey Design gap, sand and lob wedges in play, more than all other brands combined.
• On the greens, 115 players gamed a Scotty Cameron putter, compared to 67 for the next closest brand.
The clear favorite among the best amateurs in the world, Titleist also swept the counts at last week's U.S. Women’s Amateur, as well as this year’s NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s National Championships, the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship, U.S. Four-Ball Championship and all seven Elite Amateur Golf Series events (Sunnehanna Amateur, Northeast Amateur, North and South Amateur, Trans-Mississippi Amateur, Southern Amateur, Pacific Coast Amateur, Western Amateur).
Following two rounds of stroke play (one at Cherry Hills C.C., the other at Colorado Golf Club), 64 players out of the 312-player field advanced to match play. After the 36-hole cut:
• Fifty-one players played a Pro V1 or Pro V1x (80%), compared to the nearest competitor (7).
• There were 27 Titleist drivers in play as well as 27 Titleist iron sets.
• Thirty-one players had at least one Vokey Design wedge in the bag.
After the field was cut once again, this time to 32 players, Titleist remained the most played ball (25, 78%), driver, iron and wedge.