{"id":957722,"date":"2026-05-13T19:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/957722\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T19:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:50:17","slug":"cameron-young-inadvertently-debunked-the-golf-ball-rollback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/957722\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron Young inadvertently debunked the golf ball rollback"},"content":{"rendered":"

Young went on to win that week at Sedgefield Country Club \u2013 a long-awaited maiden PGA Tour title that finally got him off the list of players<\/a> who had made the most money without a trophy to show for it. He\u2019s since added The Players<\/a> and the Cadillac Championship<\/a> \u2013 a Signature Event\u00a0\u2013 to his resume, and will tee up at the 108th PGA Championship as the third favorite<\/a> behind Rory McIlroy and defending champion Scottie Scheffler.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been some run for the New Yorker, who turned 29 last week \u2013 and one that has understandably put focus on his switch to a new Titleist Pro V1x that\u2019s been in his bag<\/a> since August. <\/p>\n

But it\u2019s come to light in recent weeks that this tour-only Pro V1x \u2013 a prototype CPO, which stands for \u2018Custom Performance Option\u2019 \u2013 will be considered conforming under the new rules<\/a> which are now due to come into play in 2030 after a recent delay<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The twist, if you haven\u2019t worked it out already, is that Young knew nothing about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI put it in play for the same reason that everybody else plays the ball that they play,\u201d he shrugged during his pre-tournament press conference at Aronimink<\/a>. \u201cI hit it during a ball test at one of the Titleist facilities probably close to two years ago and didn\u2019t know anything about it. I said, \u2018Hey, what\u2019s that one?\u2019 Because I liked the flight. Then, as things progressed, I was able to test it last year at the Wyndham, able to put that in play, and it\u2019s been there since.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Cameron<\/p>\n

The R&A and USGA, the governing bodies behind the changes, said players at the very top of the game were expected to lose \u201cup to 15 yards\u201d when the rollback came into force. But despite the fact his ball will conform to the new rules, Young hasn\u2019t given up anything on the fairways. Up to the Wyndham Championship, when Young was using a Titleist Pro V1 Left Dot, he was 29th in the PGA Tour driving stats, averaging 311.1 yards. In 2026, with the prototype Pro V1x in play, he\u2019s 27th, with an average of 312 yards.<\/p>\n

But for Young and his peers, distance isn\u2019t the focus anyway.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think any of us are out really here playing the ball that goes the farthest,\u201d Young explained. \u201cI think you\u2019d struggle to find a single person that\u2019s doing that. We\u2019re all sacrificing a certain amount of things that we feel are worth it. For me, the biggest thing is being able to control spin, and this is the ball that does the best for me.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe driver is the easiest thing to deal with. For me to get it where it needed to be, I had to just add a little bit of spin, and it comes out at a perfectly playable range. For me, the biggest thing is the irons. This ball is easier to control with the irons. It doesn\u2019t spin as much, and it just allows me to be better with my distance control just because it\u2019s more consistent.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for the ball being conforming, Young said he \u201cwasn\u2019t aware of that until very recently\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt no point was that a consideration,\u201d he added. \u201cIt was just really me trying to optimize my golf, and it\u2019s the ball that seems to work the best for me.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was surprised, in a sense, but at the same time it didn\u2019t change that I had played well with it, and I was comfortable. I feel like I\u2019m playing a golf ball that\u2019s best for how I\u2019m playing the game at the moment. If that works out to mean that this goes into effect and I\u2019m still playing the ball however many years from now, that makes it an easy change.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe manufacturers are so good. They\u2019re going to find their way to make a good golf ball no matter what the restrictions are. So it doesn\u2019t really concern me that much, frankly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Young gets his latest bid to add a major to his swiftly blossoming CV underway at 1.54pm<\/a> alongside former champions Keegan Bradley and Justin Thomas at the PGA Championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Young went on to win that week at Sedgefield Country Club \u2013 a long-awaited maiden PGA Tour title…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":957723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-957722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116569009713559160","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/957723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}