Usually, equipment rundowns start with the driver. I mean, why not? It’s the club that players swing the fastest and goes the furthest. But for Cameron Young’s “Building the Bag,” his journey to a complete setup focuses on the thing used on every shot – the golf ball, and more specifically, the recently announced Titleist Pro V1x Double Dot.

For Young, the golf ball has become the key to his success. Since turning to the Double Dot, Young claimed his maiden PGA Tour title at the Wyndham Championship last year, before cementing his status as one of the PGA Tour’s best by winning the flagship Players Championship.

“I think as you look at his golf bag, he’s a high-speed player and needing help with control,” Nick Geyer, Titleist Tour Rep told GolfWRX. “You look at that golf bag and it’s all full of control and 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.”

His journey began during a 2025 visit to the Titleist Performance Center in Manchester Lane, Massachusetts, where Young, who was previously playing Pro V1 Left Dot, spent an extensive range session with golf ball guru Fordie Pitts, director of Titleist’s Tour research and validation for its golf ball output. During this testing, Young and Putts tried multiple prototype models.

Testing continued on-site at Sedgefield, ahead of the Wyndham Championship. During the Tuesday practice round, Young found that the prototype ball they had brought to North Carolina was flying one club farther than the Pro V1 Left Dot, giving him more control and confidence with his iron play.

“Performance-wise, he was hitting tight draws everywhere,” Pitts shared. “His misses were staying more in play. He hit some, what he would call ‘11 o’clock shots,’ where again he’s taking a little something off it. He had great control there.”

After the nine-hole practice round on Tuesday, Pitts spent more time with Young the following day. After that second practice round, Young asked the team to put the Pro V1x Double Dot in his locker. The rest is history.

“I think it definitely contributed to some of the good play this week, so I’m excited about the next few weeks,” Young said after winning for the first time at Wyndham with the new ball. “I’ve always been a super high spin person, so it’s really just trying to manage that. And given I hit it pretty hard, so if I hit it hard and hit down on it a lot, that just generates spin, so it’s just trying to manage that.”

Other changes have taken effect thanks to the switch in golf ball, and as Young’s golf swing has progressed.

Initially, in a Titleist GT2 driver at 9 degrees, and as time went on with new swing changes taking effect, Young was looking for a bit more launch and spin off the tee, without changing the golf ball. Young decided to move to an 11-degree GT3 head (set at D1 on the SureFit setting at 10.25 degrees) after working with the Titleist team earlier this year, during the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

“As he works on his golf swing and seeing different flights with the driver, him (Young) and JJ (Van Wezenbeeck) worked at Bay Hill on making sure that when he wanted to hit draw, … 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.”

The change in head and loft gave Young 2 more degrees of launch, from 9 to 11 degrees, and increased his spin from 2,400 RPM to 2,500 RPM.

“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 of reign in and feel like he had command of his golf ball.”

Young’s 3-wood is another club in the bag that was impacted by the switch to Titleist’s Double Dot golf ball. He switched into the GT1 wood to help his launch.

“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’s prototype 3-wood features a custom silver face to help with loft, similar to the recently added 7-wood in his bag.

Initially, in a Titleist GT1 hybrid, lofted at 20 degrees, Young decided to swap it out for the newly released on Tour GTS3 7-wood. Young added a high-lofted fairway wood at the Masters to likely improve stopping power on the difficult Augusta National greens.

Finally, with the golf ball swap and swing changes throughout the fall of 2025, Young spent time with Van Wezenbeeck at Riviera in February this year 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.

Young’s prototype 631.CYs originated from the custom grinding the team at Titleist had to add to the 620 MBs he was initially playing to help with turf interaction due to his steeper swing and shaft lean.

“The short irons in the 631.CYs have a little more leading-edge bounce, and then they float to a little bit wider sole than the 620 MBs into his 6-iron,” Van Wezenbeeck said to the PGA Tour when they were first added to the bag in 2023. “All the (631.CYs) are higher-bounce than the 620 MBs, but there’s also a little more sole width as you graduate (through the set).”

The rest of the bag

Young’s biggest wedge story came at the 2024 PGA Championship. During a wet week at Valhalla, Vokey wedge rep Aaron Dill first introduced Young to the K* grind for his lob wedge. Having played the low-bounce T grind, Young has found the K*’s wider sole tremendously helpful with his bunker play that week and ever since.

“I said, if the simple play is just to create some height and forgiveness, it’s a K star, it’s a no-brainer,” Dill told GolfWRX about the sawp. “… Within just three or four hits, he was like, oh my gosh, okay. This is more of what I was hoping to feel. I’m not getting it with the gamer, but I feel like now I can swing the way I want, be a little faster and it’s coming out easier and landing and falling softer.”

Rounding out Young’s bag is his Scotty Cameron Phantom 9.5R Tour Prototype. Young’s journey to finding the right putter started at the 2025 Cognizant Classic. Previously, in a Scotty Cameron Phantom 5.5 Tour Prototype, Young messed around with the 9.5 versions that had just been released. Liking the way it felt at setup, Young tested different neck styles to see how the putter could flow in the stroke.

“The big thing to him was different bends and different neck and different ways of putter set and he felt the way the 9 was sitting,” said Scotty Cameron’s Brad Cloke. “Finally, he could go into that jet neck, that little flow neck and it’s really kind of just been from there on out. “I think the way that it sets up to him, the way it sits for him week to week, different grasses, different green complexes, I think that’s really helped his confidence knowing that hey, he can just sit it down, line it up and go.”

Young settled on a putter with a short slant neck to give the putter more toe hang and flow, and doing so, he’s now become a top-10 putter on the PGA Tour.