What goes on in tournaments, behind the scenes for titleist?

Hi Ben,

Excellent question. Although I have some idea of how this works, I thought it best to forward this to one our Asian Tour Leadership Team, the guys who look after the players every week at the events, to get a more complete answer. He is currently in Shanghai at the HSBC Champions Event looking after our players there. I will post his response as soon as I get it. Cheers.

Tom H
Team Titleist SEA Manager

Hi Ben,

Here is the reply I've received back from our leadership team. I hope this helps give you some insight into how all of this works. Feel free to let me know if you have any other questions.

Q: How many golf balls do you give players? Only 'registered' titleist players? 
It varies from tour to tour, but for the US and European Tour, it's normally 3 dozen per event. 
Any player entered in the tournament can pick up balls from us as long as they will use them.

Q: Are players given 1 new pair of golf shoe every day.. or?
No, again, shoes are budgeted differently from tour to tour and players get a minimum of 6 pairs per year

Q: Is there free flow golf shoes, golf balls, golf gloves etc in the golfers locker room?
We are only allowed to work the locker room on the US Tour- we work out of the truck or around the clubhouse on all other tours.
We give a minimum of 3 gloves per event and shoes are usually special ordered for each player.

Thanks.

Tom H
Team Titleist South East Asia Manager

Wow!

Thanks for taking the trouble to answer.

Golf shoes, that's a minimum of 1 pair per 2 months. Great. I remember seeing a youtube video of Ian Poulter, his garage is absolutely filled with custom MyJoy golf shoes.

it seems fun to be on tour. cant wait for the singapore open in 2 weeks, maybe the titleist european tour truck is gonna come down too? haha.