Some of the best players in the world favour Titleist clubs, but it might surprise you just how many top players use a Titleist driver.
Over 50 players active on the professional tours use some variation of a driver from the maker.
Titleist currently sell four drivers, with many of them falling under the blanket of the TSR brand, but they still market the former flagship TSis and even have one professional still using a TS3.
Strangely enough, Patrick Cantlay went back to the TS3 as recently as January 2024, with Titleist making a variety of head options available to its professional staffers.
However, the most popular head on tour belongs to the TSR3. It’s designed for players who sport a consistent impact pattern around the centre of the face.
As a result, the face features a special variable-thickness pattern that emphasises the best performance for centre strikes.
Unsurprisingly for a professional-favoured driver, the TSR3 has a more compact size, but it also adds a movable weight that allows players to shift the centre of gravity slightly. While this helps somewhat with draw or fade preferences, mostly it’s designed for lining up the CG with where a player is making their impact with the ball.
The result is better energy transfer although not every player yields the same results from that transfer of energy.
“[When] I switched to the TSR3, it had a touch more ball speed and a little more spin for me, which was huge,” said Wyndham Clark. “And then I was able to keep it straighter. I sometimes tail it off too much with fade. And so … we did some fittings and, honestly, that was one of the biggest keys.”
The TSR4 hasn’t really caught on with tour players, although South African up-and-comer Garrick Higgo and South Korea’s Byeong Hun An have adopted the club.
With the TSR4 playability has been improved from past versions by changing the face design.
Its variable-thickness pattern calls back to the TSR2, with the result being a little more forgiveness on off-center hits.
Though low spin is its hallmark, the sole weights (one heavier, one lighter) can be flipped around to dial in the ideal spin reduction for the individual golfer.
The TSR2 remains popular as the most forgiving and welcoming shape in the range.
It features a larger face area and most importantly a unique face-thickness pattern that emphasizes performance on mis-hits.
That is further enhanced by the larger footprint that makes for the most stable head in the TSR line.
The sleeker external lines and curves make the larger shape sail through the air a bit smoother to allow players to generate more clubhead speed.
Ludwig Aberg and Jordan Spieth are notable professionals who use the TSR2.
| Model | Players | Bag Date |
|---|---|---|
| Titleist TSR4 | Garrick Higgo
Byeong Hun An |
February 2024
January 2024 |
| Titleist TSR3 | Kevin Streelman
Chesson Hadley Cameron Young Peter Malnati Luke List Cameron Davis Wyndham Clark Billy Horschel Max Homa J.T. Poston Tom Hoge Justin Rose Justin Thomas Tom Kim Sergio Garcia Cameron Smith Davis Riley Matt Kuchar Matt Wallace |
April 2024
March 2024 March 2024 March 2024 March 2024 February 2024 February 2024 February 2024 February 2024 January 2024 January 2024 December 2023 November 2023 October 2023 June 2023 June 2023 April 2023 April 2023 March 2023 |
| Titleist TSR2 | Ludwig Aberg
Brandt Snedeker Lanto Griffin Robert MacIntyre Charley Hoffman Will Zalatoris Jordan Spieth Lee Hodges Ryan Palmer Thomas Pieters Chez Reavie Jazz Janewattananond |
April 2024
February 2024 February 2024 February 2024 February 2024 January 2024 December 2023 July 2023 July 2023 June 2023 February 2023 July 2022 |
| Titleist TSi2 | Brian Harman
Nick Hardy Sungjae Im Charles Howell III Matt Jones |
July 2023
April 2023 March 2023 September 2021 March 2021 |
| Titleist TSi3 | Russell Henley
Matt Fitzpatrick Nick Taylor Camilo Villegas Webb Simpson James Hahn Scott Stallings Antoine Rozner Bernd Wiesberger Paul Casey Harold Varner III Ian Poulter |
March 2024
February 2024 February 2024 October 2023 June 2023 February 2023 August 2022 July 2022 March 2022 March 2022 February 2022 September 2021 |
| Titleist TS3 | Patrick Cantlay | February 2024 |
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