Nike Tour Accuracy

“Tiger didn’t need an equipment edge to dominate the competition, but his decision to put Nike’s Tour Accuracy in play that spring at the Deutsche Bank-SAP Open in Hamburg proved to be a turning point for not only the 15-time major winner, but the equipment industry as a whole.”

“Tiger is the greatest of all time for sure, but in the summer of 2000 he had an unprecedented equipment advantage over the field. Nike had developed the Tour Accuracy, one of the first solid core golf balls, pre cursor to the Pro V1.”

“It was May 2000 when Hal Sutton heard that Tiger Woods had changed from a wound Titleist Professional 90 golf ball to Nike’s solid-core, urethane-covered Tour Accuracy sphere.”

“Woods was seeing roughly 2-3 mph of additional ball speed with the Tour Accuracy, which required him to adjust his carry yardages through the bag.”

“When it finally went into play—the Tour Accuracy, which later evolved and changed names as it was refined—almost nobody else could sustain it.”

“At the 2000 Masters, one month before Woods put Tour Accuracy in play in Germany, 59 of 95 competitors were still using wound balls.”

“When Tiger put a solid core Nike Tour Accuracy golf ball in play in 2000, he forever changed the golf ball market”

“In 2001, Woods began playing the new Nike Tour Accuracy TW golf ball - branded for Tiger.”

“After just two starts with the Nike Tour Accuracy, Woods was sold—with one reservation.”

“He first put a Nike golf ball, the Tour Accuracy TW golf ball, into play in 2000.”

“That week, Woods had put a new golf ball into play, the Nike Tour Accuracy.”

“The ball he was using that day was a Nike Tour Accuracy, but what else was in his bag for the victory?”

“At the turn of the millennium, Woods cut ties with the Titleist golf ball and switched to Nike, namely the solid-core Tour Accuracy golf ball.”

“Then, in 2000, everything changed with the introduction of the solid construction, lower-spinning Nike Tour Accuracy, which Woods played”