We recently passed the midway point on the calendar across the worldwide professional golf tours and over the course of the first half of the 2016-2017 season, Titleist has once again been the #1 ball for more players and more champions. To date this season, the game's finest players have relied on a Titleist Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball 15,411 times, more than seven times the nearest competitor with 2,123 and more than all competitors combined.

During this same time, Titleist golf ball players recorded 115 worldwide victories, more than seven times the nearest competitor with 16.

Let's take a look at some highlights as we look forward to the second half of the 2016-2017 season...

PGA TOUR

Justin Thomas (Winner) - CIMB Classic / SBS Tournament of Champions / Sony Open in Hawaii: Titleist Pro V1x golf ball, 917D3/9.5° driver, 917F3/15° and 915Fd/18° fairway metals, 716 MB (4-9) irons, Vokey Design SM6 pitching (46.08 F grind), gap (52.12 F grind), sand (56.14 F grind) and lob (60.10 K grind) wedges, Scotty Cameron Futura X5 putter

• Titleist golf ball players have stepped into the winners circle 18 times so far during the 2016-17 PGA Tour season, compared to seven for the nearest competitor.
• Of the 18 PGA Tour victories recorded by Titleist golf ball players so far this season, eight were achieved by Titleist Brand Ambassadors who also relied on Titleist golf clubs for their success.
• Titleist Brand Ambassador Justin Thomas (Pro V1x) jumped out to the fastest start of any player on Tour, winning three tournaments before February. Thomas successfully defended his CIMB Classic title during the late 2016 shoulder season and then went on to win back-to-back tournaments during the Tour's Hawaiian swing. Thomas's amazing streak was highlighted by the 59 he shot in the first round of the Sony Open. He became the youngest player in history to break 60 on Tour.
• Titleist Brand Ambassador Jordan Spieth (Pro V1x) has also enjoyed multiple wins in 2016-2017. Spieth captured the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in February and then won the Travelers Championship by holing a dramatic bunker shot to prevail in a sudden-death playoff. Spieth rode that momentum to Royal Birkdale, where he seized the Claret Jug for his third victory of the season (see European Tour, below).
• This year, the Zurich Classic of New Orleans made a significant change, adopting a 2-man best-ball format. Titleist Brand Ambassador Cameron Smith and Titleist golf ball loyalist Jonas Blixt both trusted a Pro V1x golf ball and teamed up to win the revamped event in exciting playoff fashion.
• In June, Titleist Brand Ambassador Jason Dufner played some inspired golf, trusting a Pro V1x golf ball and a full bag of Titleist clubs as he captured The Memorial Tournament. Dufner drove the ball exceptionally well with his 917D2 driver (10.5°) at Murifield Village, averaging 299 yards off the tee and hitting 73% of fairways. Dufner's win represented the 30th victory across the worldwide professional tours by players relying on a Titleist 917 driver. Since then, players trusting a 917D2 or 917D3 driver have gone on to capture seven more worldwide titles...and counting.
• Titleist Brand Ambassador Cameron Smith (Pro V1x) earned his maiden victory on the PGA Tour this season (at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans), as did Titleist golf ball loyalist Mackenzie Hughes (Pro V1x / RSM Classic).

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EUROPEAN TOUR

Jordan Spieth (Winner) - 146th Open Championship: Titleist Pro V1x golf ball, 915D2/9.5° driver, 915F/15° fairway metal, prototype 718 T-MB (3), 716 T-MB (4) and 716 AP2 (5-9) irons, Vokey Design SM6 pitching (46.06 F grind), gap (52.08 F grind), sand (56.10 S grind) and lob (60.04 L grind) wedges, Scotty Cameron 009 putter

• With his dramatic win at last week's Open Championship, Titleist Brand Ambassador Jordan Spieth became only the second golfer in history to win three of four major championships before his 24th birthday. He's now won threee legs of the career Grand Slam with a chance to become the yougest ever to capture all four legs if he wins The PGA Championship next month at Quail Hollow. Trusting a Pro V1x golf ball and Titleist golf clubs through the bag at Royal Birkdale, Spieth was the only player to fire four consecutive rounds in the 60’s (65-69-65-69). He played his final five holes in 5-under-par to close with 1-under-par 69, good for a 12-under-par 268 victory total, three shots clear of his playing partner and nearest competitor.
• In addition to his strong 4th-place showing at this year's U.S. Open, Titleist golf ball loyalist Tommy Fleetwood (Pro V1x) has won twice this season on the European Tour, capturing the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship in January and the HNA Open de France in late June.
• Titleist Brand Ambassador Renato Paratore (Pro V1x) held off the challenges of fellow Titleist golf ball loyalists Chris Wood (Pro V1x) and defending champion Matthew Fitzpatrick (Pro V1x) to claim the Nordea Masters for his first career European Tour title. The 20-year-old Italian became the youngest winner on the European Tour since 2013.
• Also celebrating their first victories on the European Tour this year are Titleist golf ball loyalists Dylan Fritelli (Pro V1 / Lyoness Open) and Matt Wallace (Pro V1x / Open de Portugal).

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LPGA TOUR

So Yeon Ryu (Winner) - ANA LPGA Inspiration / NW Arkansas Championship: Titleist Pro V1 golf ball

• Titleist golf ball loyalists have won 17 of the 20 events contested so far on the 2017 LPGA Tour, more than eight times the nearest competitor with 2.
• Players trusting a Pro V1 or Pro V1x golf ball have won each of the three major championships staged so far this year on the LPGA Tour, including So Yeon Ryu (Pro V1 / ANA LPGA Inspiration), Danielle Kang (Pro V1x / KPMG Women's PGA Championship) and Sung Hyun Park (Pro V1x / U.S. Women's Open). These wins marked the first career major titles for each player.
• Titleist golf ball loyalist In-Kyung Kim (Pro V1x) captured both the ShopRite LPGA Classic and the Marathon Classic, joining Pro V1 golf ball loyalist So Yeon Ryu as the only multiple winners on the LPGA Tour so far this season.
• When Sung Hyun Park (Pro V1x) won the U.S. Women's Open earlier this month, it also marked the first LPGA Tour title of her career. Park joins Danielle Kang (Pro V1x), whose major victory at the KPMG Women's PGA Championship was also her maiden LPGA Tour victory.

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PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS

Bernhard Langer (Winner) - Mitsubishi Electric Championship / Regions Tradition / KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship: Titleist Pro V1 golf ball

• Titleist golf ball loyalists have won 9 of the first 13 events contested on the 2017 PGA TOUR Champions schedule, more than four times the nearest competitor with 2.
• Titleist golf ball loyalist Bernhard Langer (Pro V1) is leading the tour once again with three victories. He earned his record ninth career senior major with a one-shot victory at the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship, becoming the first player in history to win all five Senior Major Championships.
• Joining Langer with multiple wins this season is Titleist golf ball loyalist Scott McCarron (Pro V1), who followed up his win at the Allianz Championship with his first major victory, a one-stroke victory over two players (one of whom was Langer) at the Constellation Senior Players Championship.
• Also enjoying a major victory this season was Titleist golf ball loyalist Kenny Perry (Pro V1x), who captured his second U.S. Senior Open crown with a record-setting score of 16-under-par 264 at Salem Country Club, eclipsing the previous mark of 267, which he set during his 2013 victory at Omaha Country Club.

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OTHER GLOBAL HIGHLIGHTS

Stephan Jaeger (Winner) - BMW Charity Pro-Am / Rust-Oleum Championship: Titleist Pro V1 golf ball

• In June, Titleist golf ball loyalist Stephan Jaeger (Pro V1) captured his second victory of the season on the Web.com Tour, following up his BMW Charity Pro-Am win with a two-shot victory at the Rust-Oleum Classic. The win locked up his PGA TOUR card for next season.
• Also winning twice so far this season is Titleist golf ball loyalist Oliver Bekker (Pro V1), who earned victories at both the Zambia Sugar open and the Lombard Insurance Open on the South African Sunshine Tour.
• Joining Jaeger and Bekker as a multiple winner this season is Titleist golf ball loyalist Chan Kim (Pro V1x), who has collected two victories so far on the Japan JGTO Tour.
• And finally, Titleist Brand Ambassador Dimi Papadatos has trusted a Pro V1x golf ball and a full bag of Titleist club equipment to capture two wins to date on the Australasian Tour - at the Victorian PGA Open Championship and at the WA PGA Championship.

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Below, check out all of the 2016-2017 wins to date and congratulations again to all of #TeamTitleist for an amazing start to the year!

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