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Rule 20-6 Golf Pool
The 2019 Edition
(Or under the new rules, The Rule 14.5a Golf Pool)
How To Identify the Year of Your Pro V1's
For those of you who have some Titleist Pro V1 or Pro V1x balls lying around, this will help you figure out just how old they are.
The picture below shows the stamps on the side of the balls.
Titleist has changed the stamps on the ProV's every two years.
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| 2011 | 2013 | 2015 |
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| 2017 | 2019 | |||
For a little more detail:
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| 1999 & 2000 | 2001 & 2002 | 2003 & 2004 | ||
| The original Pro V1 had only the brand name and the number of dimples. It debuted on The PGA Tour in 2000. | This was the year(s) the ball started to take off. They added the arrowheads and put a dot in between the brand name and the dimple number. | This version has a dot beside each arrowhead and no dot in the middle. The Pro V1x came out in 2003. The "X" uses the same markings, except it has 332 dimples. | ||
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| 2005 & 2006 | 2007 & 2008 | 2009 & 2010 | ||
| These years there were only the arrowheads and a dash between the name and the dimple number. | In this version, and future versions, Titleist took the dimple number off and added a more obvious alignment aid and let their marketing department call it "A.I.M. Technology", Alignment Integrated Marking. No really, I'm serious. Someone got paid for coming up with that. | They brought the dots back these years and put them in between the arrowhead and the line. | ||
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| 2011 & 2012 | 2013 & 2014 | 2015 & 2016 | ||
| This version is similar to the '07/'08 version, but there is no space between the line and the arrowhead. | This version has the same markings as '11/'12 but the arrows are grey with a black outline. | This one has the same black outline with the grey fill color like the previous version, but there is a gap between the line and arrowhead. | ||
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| 2017 & 2018 | 2019 & (probably) 2020 | |||
| With this version the arrow is kind of like the first year they added the arrowheads ('01-'02), only it has been stretched out a lot. | The newest version is just like the '17-'18 version but the arrowhead is grey with a black outline, like '15-'16. Also, for the 1st time the ball is available in yellow. | |||
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In all years (2003 and later) the Pro V1x has the same markings as the Pro V1 except the "X" has a different number of dimples and, obviously, it says Pro V1x. |
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