Just $58 A Dozen!
Thursday, February 24, 2005 at 09:14 PM Steve Pike plugs the new $58-a-dozen Pro V1, which wasn’t generating much buzz at the Nissan Open.
In fact, a few Titleist players said they sticking with the old version
as long as they could. The press rel, err, PGA.com article also reports
that “actor John Cleese has reprised his role as semi-deranged golf
course architect Ian MacCallister in TV spots for the NXT line. The
MacCallister character remains on his mission to design over-the-top
golf courses in an effort to combat the performance of the NXT golf
ball.”
Unfortunately it seems Jim Nantz is no longer doing voiceovers to the ads, ending his raging-conflict-of-interest as non-partisan broadcaster/traditionalist/ball company pitchman. Maybe this year he won't shill at the Memorial for the dwindling “it’s all progress” movement. You may remember that last year, he attempted to rebut Jack Nicklaus over solutions to the ball going too far.