Last week, 312 of the game’s elite amateurs arrived at New Jersey’s Ridgewood Country Club to compete for the U.S. Amateur Championship, the grand finale of the amateur golf summer.

Of those players aiming to etch their name onto the Havemeyer Trophy – as well as the tee sheets of next year’s Masters Tournament, U.S. Open and Open Championship – a total of 87 percent (271) of them chose to play a Titleist golf ball.

That group included the eventual U.S. Amateur Champion and runner-up, all four semifinalists, seven of the eight quarterfinalists, 57 of the 64 match-play qualifiers and three of the stroke-play co-medalists.

A week earlier at the U.S. Women’s Amateur, 83 percent (130) of the field at Chambers Bay teed up a Titleist.

Year after year, when the biggest titles in golf are on the line, the overwhelming majority of the game’s best players choose to place their trust in the performance, quality and consistency of Titleist golf balls:

EVENT (2022)	TITLEIST GOLF BALLS	% FIELD	NEAREST COMPETITOR	% FIELD
U.S. Amateur	271	87%	24	8%
U.S. Women’s Amateur	130	83%	13	8%
Augusta National Women's Amateur	62	86%	5	7%
NCAA Men’s Championship	140	90%	9	6%
NCAA Men's Regionals (6 sites)	385	86%	35	8%
NCAA Women’s Championship	125	95%	3	2%
The Amateur Championship (R&A)	240	83%	16	6%
European Amateur	125	87%	10	7%
European Ladies Amateur	129	91%	6	4%
Australian Amateur	67	74%	9	10%
Australian Women's Amateur	56	85%	6	9%
Latin America Amateur	76	75%	19	19%
KGA President Cup Men's (Korea)	190	70%	38	14%
KGA President Cup Women's (Korea)	250	79%	21	7%
U.S.  Junior Championship	198	75%	39	15%
U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship:	119	76%	17	11%
Western Amateur	122	79%	18	12%
Sunnehanna Amateur	85	82%	9	9%
Northeast Amateur	74	82%	9	10%
North & South Amateur	97	82%	10	8%
Trans-Miss Amateur	131	91%	7	5%
Pacific Coast Amateur	73	84%	7	8%
St. Andrews Links Trophy	118	86%	7	5%
Lytham Trophy	126	88%	5	3%
Curtis Cup	14	88%	1	6%
U.S. Amateur Four Ball	202	80%	32	13%

Titleist Equipment Success on the PGA TOUR

This season on the PGA TOUR, Titleist golf balls were teed up a total of 4,461 times in competition (72%), more than seven times the nearest competitor with 598 (10%).

Titleist also topped every major equipment category on the PGA TOUR – leading the field in drivers, fairways, hybrids, irons, utility irons, wedges and putters – four times during the 2021-22 season, including this week’s TOUR Championship. Titleist has swept the equipment counts on the PGA TOUR a total of 27 times since the start of the 2019 calendar year, a feat that has never once been matched by another brand.

The World's Best Amateurs Trust Titleist

Complete trust of Titleist from tee-to-green also continues to be a theme at every level of competitive golf:

• Titleist was the most played golf ball, driver, fairway, hybrid, iron, utility iron, wedge and putter at the U.S. Amateur, The Amateur Championship (R&A), Australian Amateur, Lytham Trophy, European Amateur, U.S. Junior Amateur and the six NCAA Men’s Regional Championships sites, among others.
• Titleist also swept the counts across this summer’s Elite Amateur Series events, which comprises seven of amateur game’s most prestigious titles: Sunnehanna Amateur, Northeast Amateur, North & South Amateur, Tran-Miss Amateur, Southern Amateur, Pacific Coast Amateur and Western Amateur.
• The concluding event of the Elite Amateur Series, the Western Amateur, also marked the beginning of the seeding and validation process for the NEW TSR metals, with players getting their first opportunity to play the new models in competition. A total of 37 players put NEW TSR drivers immediately in play that week, including the stroke-play medalist (TSR4 8.0°), at what is widely considered the toughest test in amateur golf.
• Among that group was Vanderbilt’s Gordon Sargent, who is bringing his NEW TSR driver, Pro V1x golf ball and bag full of Titleist equipment to Paris this week as part of the U.S. team in the World Amateur Team Championship. Earlier this year, Sargent became the ninth freshman in history to win the individual trophy at the NCAA Championship, making birdie on the first hole of a four-man playoff to claim the title.
• In April, Anna Davis, playing a Pro V1x golf ball and 14 Titleist clubs, became the youngest champion in the event’s history at 16 years old. Davis, who started the final round at Augusta National two strokes off the lead, played Amen Corner in 2 under, with birdies at the par-3 12th and the par-5 13^th, on her way to a 3-under 69 and one-shot victory. She was the only player who finished the 54-hole event in red numbers, at 1 under (215). She had never stepped foot on ANGC until her Friday practice round.

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