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Titleist launches Pro V1 RCT (Radar Capture Technology) golf balls
If you’ve hit golf balls indoors on a TrackMan, you’re familiar with the annoyance of orientating a ball’s reflective marker for tracking.
Beyond the inconvenience of tinkering with every ball before hitting, the current “position the sticker” system is far from perfect — if you don’t orientate the ball the right way, the sticker is damaged or has fallen off, spin numbers will be estimated, and thus, less accurate.
And while this phenomenon is bothersome to the golfer beating balls on a TrackMan indoors, it’s even more problematic for indoor fitters who rely heavily on spin numbers and accuracy in peak height, roll out, carry distance, and more to make their club and shaft recommendations.
Fortunately, Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf balls with Radar Capture Technology (RCT), launched today, offer a solution and provide the most accurate ball flight information possible (more on the 2021 Pro V1 and Pro V1x here).
“Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x RCT golf balls combine the game’s greatest combination of speed, spin, and feel with new technology that more consistently captures precision performance and golf ball data from TrackMan units used in an indoor setting,” said Jeremy Stone, Vice President, Titleist Golf Ball Marketing. “We have worked closely with TrackMan for more than two years to optimize this embedded radar reflective, patent pending technology. The result is a reliably strong ‘signal’ that enables spin capture on all shots.”
Years in the making, these golf balls have the same performance characteristics of Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf balls. According to Titleist, golfers can play them outside, if they’re so inclined, and they won’t notice a difference in performance, and RCT balls conform with R&A and USGA rules.
It took Titleist and TrackMan engineers years of collaboration to develop a technology that would both stand up to the wear and tear of a golf ball in an indoor environment and return 99-plus percent signal capture.
Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x RCT golf balls will be available through authorized Titleist trade partners in North America and EMEA, as well as Titleist.com beginning Nov. 3, Global distribution will follow in April 2022. $64.99/dozen.
Team Titleist produced this Q&A to answer additional questions regarding the RCT balls.
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sky
Oct 21, 2021 at 7:20 pm
Or just buy a Foresight Sports Launch Monitor?
gticlay
Oct 21, 2021 at 3:08 am
You mentioned durability. I am wondering how long they do last. I work at a GolfSIM with TM4 units and we provide a few Supersoft balls for people that want to hit them. They last about two weeks before splitting. Any idea how long a ProV1 will last?
Ray
Oct 20, 2021 at 11:49 pm
Radar based systems are on the way out. High speed camera based systems (GC Quad) are taking over.
Jonathan L
Oct 20, 2021 at 3:28 pm
I want a ball that has gps in it and I can track it with my phone so I don’t spend forever trying to find it.
Rascal
Oct 20, 2021 at 5:02 pm
Sure, at $64.99 per ball they will gladly oblige you.
chip75
Oct 20, 2021 at 8:14 pm
It would be fine for the rough, but they’d have to provide SCUBA gear and abseiling equipment for our other wayward shots. It wouldn’t be much fun knowing your ball was the middle of a lake and you couldn’t retrieve it!
Greg
Oct 21, 2021 at 4:44 am
Not if you paid a monthly subscription fee for the upgrade or self retrieving ball , in the premium app version ??