On The Ball: The Most Used Ball on the PGA Tour (2026)

No matter your skill level, every golfer, from amateurs to Tour pros, relies on one piece of equipment for every shot: the golf ball.

So given then their focus on gaining whatever competitive advantage they can, wherever they can, it makes sense for us to know what is the most used ball on the PGA Tour.

Titleist is still the most used golf ball brand on the PGA Tour, with 61% of the top 100 playing a version of the Pro V1 series (the Pro V1, Pro V1x, Left Dot or Left Dash). That’s down from 71% just two years ago.

Callaway and Srixon are used by 12 and 11 players in this elite group. TaylorMade has climbed to 9 users, Bridgestone to 5 and Maxfli now appears for the very first time with a single pro choosing it – Ben Griffin.

Overall, 18 ball models from these 6 brands are in used by the top 100.

Even after that slide, Titleist is still played by more of the top 100 than every other brand combined.

But the gap has closed, and a few of the moves underneath the headline are well worth your attention, including what they tell you about the ball in your own bag and whether you can even get your hands on the balls some of the top pros use!

Golfing Focused Takeaways For Time Pressed Golfers

•  Titleist still rules the PGA Tour, but its grip is loosening: 61% of the top 100 now play a Pro V1 series ball, down from 71% two years ago._
• The Pro V1 and Pro V1x are now used in near-equal numbers (27 each), after years of the V1x being out front.
• Titleist’s lead is real, not just paid: of the 19 players with no club brand endorsement deal, 16 still chose Titleist.
• Bridgestone is the big mover, more than doubling to 5 players, led by two-time 2026 winner Chris Gotterup.
• Some of the pro balls (Left Dot, Pro V1x Plus, prototypes) aren’t ones amateurs can buy off the shelf.

How Many PGA Players Use Pro V1s?

When we first ran this study a few years ago, Titleist sat at just over two-thirds of the top 100.

That climbed to 71%, but this year it’s eased back to 61%. Even after that drop however, no other brand comes close.

The more interesting shift is underneath the brand number.

For years the Pro V1x was the more popular of Titleist’s two flagship balls. This year our count among the top 100 PGA Tour pros has them dead level, with 27 on the Pro V1 and 27 on the Pro V1x.

World no.1 Scottie Scheffler keeps the softer and slightly shorter Pro V1 in play, alongside the likes of Corey Conners, Viktor Hovland, Robert MacIntyre and Gary Woodland.

The Pro V1x camp is just as strong, including Patrick Cantlay, Justin Thomas, Jordan Spieth, Ludvig Åberg, Russell Henley and Wyndham Clark.

A further five players, including Tony Finau and Tom Hoge, use the Pro V1 Left Dot, a lower-flying, lower-spinning version built for long-game shots.

Two of the top 100 (Cam Davis and Aldrich Potgieter) meanwhile play the Pro V1x Plus , engineered to produce more spin and especially with irons and partial wedge shots.

2026 Players champion Cameron Young is gaming a prototype lower flying Pro V1x “double dot”, a ball also seen in Bryson DeChambeau’s bag.

It’s important to note also that not everyone is chasing the newest model, either.

Multiple 2026 PGA Tour winner Matt Fitzpatrick still plays the 2019 Pro V1x, and well-known retro-gear fan Adam Schenk continues to put an older Pro V1 in play.

In Fitzpatricks’ case he previously made the switch from the 2019 version of the Pro V1x to a newer 2021 Pro V1x after he swapped out his trusty PING s55 irons, which he had been using since he turned pro in 2014, for Titleist T100 irons.

And the reason he gave for this ball change?

“To me, I just needed a little bit more flight and a little bit more spin, and the combination of the ball and the irons did that for me” Fitzpatrick said.

He’s back using his PING s55 irons and the 2019 Pro V1x now but it’s important to recognise that the best PGA Tour pros can change golf balls in combination with other equipment changes they make.

Titleist have claimed the title of the #1 ball in golf since the 1949 US Open at Medinah Country Club, and based on these numbers they still have good reason to keep making the claim.

It continues to be played by more PGA Tour players than every other golf ball brand combined.

And for those not familiar with golf balls such as the Titleist Pro V1 Left Dot there is good reason for that.

It has never been on retail shelves, is only ever sold for very limited times, and almost exclusively through Titleist.com.

We discuss the question of whether pro golfers use special golf balls in more depth in another one of our posts but in brief the Pro V1 Left Dot is what is called a Custom Performance Option or CPO golf ball.

And that is simply a ball that is only available to you if you play on one of the pro tours or if you are one of a very select few elite amateur golfers!

It came about when some pros asked for a ball that flew lower and spun less in the wind off the longer clubs, while keeping the same greenside spin as the standard Pro V1.

The same goes for the Pro V1x Plus and Cameron Young’s “double dot” prototype. They must still appear on the USGA’s conforming ball list and carry a unique identifying mark, such as a dot, dash or diamond.

It’s worth keeping that in perspective, though. As veteran club builder Jeff Markgraf points out, these tour-only versions are “not better than what is sold to consumers, but just have a little different performance that certain players are looking for.”

So if you ever find any for sale, either online or through a Titleist sales rep, grab them and ask questions later!

For me, we did a lot of testing with the ProV1s  and X’s. I’ve been trying both balls. With [the] X, it kind of feels like it spins a little bit more, but I can have more control around the green, and it goes a little bit higher. So, I can hit a little bit of higher, softer shots.

Byeong Hun An, youngest ever winner of us amateur

Sponsorship Impact on What Balls Pros Use

There’s an obvious objection to all of this. Plenty of these players are paid to play specific gear, so are they really choosing Titleist, or just cashing the cheque?

We tried to test.

Of the 19 players in the top 100 with no club endorsement deal, equipment free agents who can play whatever they like, 16 chose a Titleist ball, including Patrick Cantlay.

The other three, including two-time 2026 winner Chris Gotterup, went to Bridgestone.

There’s a caveat worth being honest about however.

Some of those free agents still appear on Titleist’s website, so even they may be paid to play the ball specifically. But when the players with the most freedom mostly land on the same ball, it tells you the dominance is about performance, not just pay.

And that’s the useful bit for you. You can’t sign a tour deal, but you can copy the logic. Pick one ball that suits your game and commit to it, rather than switching every time you open your bag.

Who Plays TaylorMade Golf Balls On The PGA Tour?

Not everyone uses the same golf ball on the PGA Tour of course and a few big names opt for versions of balls produced by the other big manufacturers, including Taylor Made.

And the number of the top 100 PGA pros using either the TaylorMade TP5x or TP5x Pix golf balls has climbed to 9.

And three of those nine are in the world top 10 – Tommy Fleetwood, Collin Morikawa and Rory McIlroy

The TP5x, used by Rory McIroy and Collin Morikawa, is higher launching and lower spinning than the TP5 ball while the Pix version, preferred by Tommy Fleetwood and Rickie Fowler, is designed to help with putting alignment.

The TP5, with its compression being almost identical, is the most similar TaylorMade ball to the Titleist Pro V1.

Fowler co-developed the Pix version of both the TP5 and TP5x golf balls with TaylorMade and it has helped Tommy Fleetwood solve a key issue with his putting.

Fleetwood assumed originally that the pixelated orange and black markings were simply a funky design feature added as a nod to Fowler’s alma mater, Oklahoma State University.

But after discussions with TaylorMade, he realised the triangle design was actually there to assist with alignment of putts.

Fleetwood had been struggling on the greens, with where he thought he was aiming being a fraction off from where he was actually lined up.

After some testing, he found the Pix markings, designed to roll end over end and create a pathway as the ball rolls, helped solve his aim problem.

“Every player at this level has a high-spin ceiling and a low-spin floor with each club. The best way to judge the performance of a golf ball is to measure how much spin jumps on their high-spin swings. When that jump is minimal, or “holds”, that’s when the ball is right.”

TaylorMade’s Senior Tour Rep and Equipment Expert, Adrian Rietveld

Interestingly, our yearly studies have also tracked players moving between the two main TaylorMade balls at different points of their careers and even between tournaments.

Collin Morikawa is the classic example.

He used a TP5x when he first turned pro, then found it hurt his chipping because he wasn’t spinning the ball enough. He switched to the TP5 and stuck with it for three and a half to four years, before settling on the lower-spinning TP5x because, in his words .. it just fit the perfect windows for me a lot.”

That hasn’t stopped him changing again when the circumstances call for it.

At the BMW Championship, played at 6,200 feet of elevation at Castle Pines, Morikawa noticed in a practice round that his ball flight “lacked a bit in control” in the thin air, and switched to the higher-spinning TP5 for the week.

So while we may see a PGA Tour pro playing one type of ball some are open to changing should the circumstances, or a change in another piece of equipment, dictate.

What PGA Tour Players Use Srixon Golf Balls?

Srixon has quietly become one of our pro golf ball study’s movers, climbing to 11 of the top 100, and the split between its two tour balls is now almost even.

Six players use the Z-Star Diamond, including Texas Open winner J.J. Spaun, Hideki Matsuyama and Keegan Bradley, while five head up the firmer, longer Z-Star XV group, led by Shane Lowry and Lucas Glover.

As in previous years though, none of the Srixon players in the top 100 use the standard Z-Star.

Srixon’s balls have also been showing up in the winner’s circle in 2026, not just the bag count, which is a meaningful signal for a brand that a few years ago barely registered in this study.

They still clearly have a long way to go to trouble Titleist, but the trend is clearly upward rather than flat.

What Callaway Golf Ball Do the Pros Use?

2024 USPGA and Open champion Xander Schauffele has been a loyal Callaway man for years, and he’s still on the Chrome Tour.

When it comes to what golf balls most PGA players use, Callaway remains the second most-used brand by headcount among the top 100, holding steady a 12 pros using them.

There has been a shift this time in the model mix.

The Chrome Tour X is now the dominant choice among their pro users (seven of the twelve), where the standard Chrome Tour led before.

The complete list of the top 100 players on the PGA Tour currently using Callaway balls is as follows:

1.  Xander Schauffele (Chrome Tour)
2. Akshay Bhatia (Chrome Tour)
3. Si Woo Kim (Chrome Tour)
4. Sam Burns (Chrome Tour X)
5. Thomas Detry (Chrome Tour X)
6. Max Greyserman (Chrome Tour X)
7. Min Woo Lee (Chrome Tour X)
8. Kevin Yu (Chrome Tour X)
9. Erik van Rooyen (Chrome Tour X)
10. Nicolai Hojgaard (Chrome Tour X)
11. Emiliano Grillo (Chrome Tour Triple Track)
12. Rasmus Hojgaard (Chrome Tour)

Who Plays Bridgestone Golf Balls On the PGA Tour?

Bridgestone is the biggest mover in this year’s study.

The golf ball brand most famously associated with Tiger Woods has more than doubled its presence among the top 100, jumping from just 2 players to 5: Chris Gotterup – who won twice on the PGA Tour in 2026 with a Tour B X in play – Harry Hall, Kurt Kitayama, Jason Day and Takumi Kanaya.

Adam Rehberg, Bridgestone’s golf ball fitting manager remarked once that the sound of the golf ball was so important to Tiger that he would “turn a ball away just for the fact that it didn’t sound like he wanted it to.”

Tiger played the Tour B XS model in all of his 15 major wins, only switching to the Tour B X prior to the Masters a couple of years before.

And while you may query whether Tiger really used a Bridgestone rather than a Nike ball for some of the famous shots in his career, it was Bridgestone, in the words of the man himself, who made the golf ball for them!

Before You Go …

Do you listen to the marketing of the golf ball manufacturers and get the impression that every ball they produce will give you the maximum possible distance both off the tee and with all your clubs?

That is clearly not the case and given the 1,200+ golf ball options available according to the latest ‘List of Conforming Golf Balls’ it can be difficult to work out which ball will give you the most distance.

Read our next article to help you choose the best ‘distance’ ball for you as we break down the science and explain how hard or soft, heavy or light, new or old, a golf ball affects distance.

Do All Golf Balls Go the Same Distance?

And what is your favourite golf ball? Let us know in the comments and tell us why you choose the golf ball you play with. We’d love to know and whether what the ball the PGA Tour pros use makes any difference to your own choice!

Products mentioned in this article:

1. BRIDGESTONE TOUR B X – Check the latest price on Amazon here
2. BRIDGESTONE TOUR B XS – Check the latest price on Amazon here
3. CALLAWAY CHROME SOFT X – Check the latest price on Amazon here
4. CALLAWAY CHROME TOUR– Check the latest price on Amazon here
5. SRIXON Z-STAR – Check the latest price on Amazon here
6. SRIXON Z-STAR Diamond – Check the latest price on Amazon here
7. SRIXON Z-STAR XV – Check the latest price on Amazon here
8. TAYLORMADE TP5 – Check the latest price on Amazon here
9. TAYLORMADE TP5x – Check the latest price on Amazon here
10. TAYLORMADE TP5x Pix – Check the latest price on Amazon here
11. TITLEIST PRO V1 – Check the latest price on Amazon here
12. TITLEIST PRO V1 Left Dot – Check the latest price at Titleist.com
13. TITLEIST PRO V1x – Check the latest price on Amazon here
14. TITLEIST PRO V1x Left Dash – Check the latest price on Amazon here

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