“I’m going to hit the best shot of my life right here.”

It was the overarching thought Cameron Young had in his head before pounding a 375-yard tee shot down TPC Sawgrass’ 18th, the longest drive ever recorded on that hole in the ShotLink Era. It was the setup for the biggest victory of his career at The Players Championship.

But leading up to his second victory on tour, Young and the Titleist team had been working behind the scenes to fine-tune his setup, preparing him for this position.

“It’s a really cool story of the evolution of getting on Tour and seeing what needs are,” Titleist Tour Rep Nick Geyer told GolfWRX. “His Pro V1x prototype golf ball, Fordie’s team saw unique delivery and unique flight conditions and needed something that kind of helped him with that. … His golf bag has evolved kind of over the time that we’ve been with him on Tour and it seems like every iteration is just, he’s gaining more control and that golf bag kind of reflects that.”

Many know where Young’s journey to becoming The Players champion started, last year with a ball swap to Titleist’s Pro V1x Double Dot. The lower-flying Double Dot was put in play for his maiden victory at the 2025 Wyndham Championship. But as time went on and swing changes took effect, Young was looking for a bit more launch and spin off the tee again, without changing the golf ball.

“As he works on his golf swing and seeing different flights with the driver, him and JJ (Van Wezenbeeck) worked at Bay Hill on making sure that when he wanted to hit draw, like we saw on 18 – incredible shot, that it had enough spin on it and it had enough underneath it,” Geyer added. “I think one of the underrated things out here that we often talk about within the truck is kind of spin is your friend, and that for him, making sure that that number stayed up enough so that there was control was kind of his priority.”

At Bay Hill, Young moved from Titleist’s GT2 head at 9 degrees to an 11-degree GT3 head (set at D1 on the SureFit setting at 10.25 degrees. The change in head and loft gave Young two degrees more launch (from nine to 11 degrees) and increased his spin from 2,400 rpm to 2,500 rpm.

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“Just gave him a little bit of spin, a little bit of control, a little bit of launch too to get it up in the air,” Geyer said. “All things that he felt like were, he was able to kind reign in and feel like he had command of his golf ball.

“… Him (Young) seeing a little bit of loft was probably beneficial to his golf swing.”

While the driver change caught the eye, Young also moved into Titleist’s GT1 lineup of fairway woods. Interestingly, Young plays both the Mitsubishi Diamana PD 80 TX in his 3-wood and his 20-degree hybrid, which increased the peak apex height and gave him more consistency than his previous hybrid gamer.

“We’ve noticed that the increased launch of GT1, both in the fairways and the hybrids without necessarily an increase in spin with the ability to shift forward aft weighting, has been really cool for some players that like that little bit shallower look because it feels like it’s going to go up in the air, it launches really high quickly, but it doesn’t necessarily rise,” said Geyer.

Young also spent time with Van Wezenbeeck at Riviera in February to adjust the lie angles on his Titleist 631.CY short irons, moving them more upright to produce his desired start lines, after swing changes were in full force.

“JJ and Cam have a really consistent dialogue, which is really cool,” Geyer added. “They’re constantly talking about what Cam wants to see and where that progression is. …Obviously, the trophies prove it, but it’s always exciting to know that the player is getting where they want to go because we know that the results will reflect that shortly.”

Young’s newest trophy is the perfect example of a golf swing changing over time and a player’s WITB adjusting accordingly.