Has Titleist contacted you yet? I think they'd love to hear their ProV1 is 20 yards longer than the original ProV1's...have a big number in mind David, I love a happy ending!
As they say, Jim, your results may vary.
But even so I think you misread my post. For this golfer the early generation ProV1
x-392 was about 20 yards longer than the same generation ProV1-392. That number is consistent with the gains seen by some of the tour professionals in 2003 when they switched to the ProV1x. Titleist was aware of the difference.
As for the early model ProV1-392 versus the more recent ProV1, for this golfer the difference was about 12 yards. I guess this number could be inflated by the age of the older ball, or the difference could be attributable to this guy's particular swing. Or it could be the ball has been greatly improved for a narrow range of golfers. Whatever the explanation, I think it fair to say that ProV1 has changed over the years, so I don't think it would be at all surprising to Titleist that a particular golfer hits the newer version about a dozen yards beyond where he hits the older version.
Anyway my point was that these balls have different distance characteristics. Not every ball could possibly have identical distance characteristics as the old rock hard Pinnacle. At some point we've got to let that legend go. No one but Garland is longing for that old rock hard ball.
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Bryan,
BTW, I think you stated earlier that optimizing launch conditions could result in the loss of ball speed. Why do you think that? Just curious.
Bryan, I think I said that
trying to optimize by adjusting one particular component may adversely impact other components. For and exaggerated example, in theory one could increase club head speed trying to swing really hard and by switching to a 50 inch shaft, but ultimately that might have an adverse impact the quality of strike and the efficiency of the energy transfer to the ball. You keep talking about launch angle, but changing one's swing (or equipment) to achieve a certain launch angle might have a detrimental impact on other components, such as ball velocity. They are all interrelated.