Pro borrowed the new 2025 Titleist ProV1x. Then he won with it

It’s a feeling most of us have experienced on the golf course; Nico Echavarria was running out of golf balls.

Fortunately Echavarria, who won his first PGA Tour title at the Puerto Rico Open last year, was not playing a PGA Tour event at the time. Instead, he was playing a practice round last month with friend and PGA Tour coach Tyson Alexander while getting himself in good shape.

Ironically, his solution to running out of golf balls contributed to his victory on the PGA Tour less than a month later.

Alexander first heard word last week at the Procore Championship about Titleist’s new 2025 and ProV1x golf balls, a celebratory release of the Tour’s most popular golf ball as it celebrates its 25th anniversary. Alexander asked Titleist for a few sleeves of the new ProV1x to test at home.

When Echavarria needed pellets, Alexander gave him prototypes.

“I didn’t catch balls in my house, and he had some and they were new, and I just tried,” Echavarria told Titleist last week at the Shriners Children’s Open.

It didn’t take long for him to start liking what he saw with the new ball.

Titleist is keeping the technical details of the new golf balls under wraps for now, but travel adoption is fast. A number of pros fielded the 2025 ProV1 and ProV1x at Procore while Echavarria sported the ’25 ProV1x in his debut after his round with Alexander at the Sanderson Farms Championship. He missed the cut that week but made it to Utah in the Black Desert Championship where he finished T11.

“[The ‘25 Pro V1x was] maybe the hair just quickly and something spina touch near the green is what I felt,” Echavarria said. “It worked really well last week [at the Black Desert Championship] by height. I struggled to hit my numbers at altitude and this was pretty good for what the numbers were.”

When Titleist’s new Shriners golf balls were officially introduced to the PGA Tour, 23 players switched to one of the models immediately. Five other players added new balls to their bags this week in Japan at Zozo, but the ball got its first victory with Echavarria, who held off Justin Thomas with a final-round 67 to win by one shot.

A victory that might not have happened, had Echavarria not run out of golf balls last month while practicing with Alexander. To his credit, Alexander also introduced the new ProV1x to the game, doing so at the Shriners.

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