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The incredible Titleist GT driver takeover of the PGA Tour continues apace
By James Richardson,
10 hours ago
Titleist GT Drivers
The rapid adoption of NEW Titleist GT drivers continued last weekend, as 31 players added a new GT2, GT3 or GT4 model to the bag at the Rocket Mortgage Classic.
That includes 25 players who played with a GT driver in their first PGA TOUR start since the new models launched at the Memorial.
Titleist proved to be the most played driver at Detroit Golf Club with 62 drivers in play (39%) – and a whopping 44 of those were GT models, more than the nearest competitor’s total number of drivers (33).
When GT drivers made their DP World Tour debut, 28 players made the switch straight away.
A week earlier on the Korn Ferry Tour, 25 players put GT in play in their first week of availability.
“The whole [Titleist Golf Club R&D] team from top to bottom is just obsessed with making things as good as they can and they have such a deep understanding of us on the PGA TOUR and golfers in general,” said Titleist Brand Ambassador Cameron Young.
“They’ve seen everything, and there’s no little thing that you can bring to them that isn’t fixable or something they can’t experiment with. They all have such a deep knowledge of the equipment, there’s always a solution to what you’re looking for.”
Among the NEW GT drivers making their TOUR debut at Rocket Mortgage:
GT drivers also launched on the DP World Tour at the KLM Open, with 28 players making the immediate move to a GT2, GT3 or GT4 model, including Titleist Brand Ambassador Marcus Kinhult, who put a GT3 9.0 driver in the bag before finishing T2 in a sudden-death playoff.
At the Italian Open, Titleist was the most played driver with 61 (39% of the field) in play, compared to 43 (28%) for the nearest competitor. Thirty-three of those were NEW GT drivers, with 15 more players making the move, including:
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