A few months ago I got the chance to head back to Titleist Performance Institute in Oceanside, Calif., and get fit for the new GTS series with my now permanent (please, Titleist) fitter: Hunter Brown. The GT lineup never found its way in my bag, other than the GT1 3Tour, so I was anxious to try the new GTS lineup and see what it could possibly do to get a driver in my bag from Titleist.
There are a couple of very key changes that were made to the lineup that were big positives for me. The biggest one I knew before walking in the door was the addition of dual weighting on every model, which is a massive upgrade for a player like me who performs better with back weight. My fitter Hunter and I had already exchanged some messages about the fitting and he had shared some major excitement for me particularly. I went in skeptical, but I left a big believer. Here’s why.
During the fit we took the opportunity to run through the entire lineup. We started off with the GTS3 as sort of a teaser for what would come in the fitting, and on the first swing my initial reaction was “sold”. It just felt so much better to me, and we hadn’t done anything other than match the build that I was in with GT3. We did hit the GT3 “gamer” before we went into the new heads, and it showed its flaws for my swing, as well as some demons that I had been battling at the start of 2026 regardless of which product was in my hands. Even a few swings later with the GTS3, where I had the same high-toe ducky miss, there wasn’t much to complain about. The ball was still in the fairway. At this point, I was locked into the fitting and Hunter had me.
Before we hit the GTS2, Hunter also made a really cool statement that stuck with me through the rest of the fitting just from an equipment geek standpoint. He mentioned that if you keep loft the same, there’s 22 different CG positions that you can fit the lineup into. This was a very unique way of saying that there was a driver in the lineup for everyone. By mentioning that you’d keep loft the same and have that many different positions, he was referencing the idea that all three new heads now had dual weighting front and back. The GTS3 and the GTS4 also have heel to toe weighting in the front track.
Over the past few years, we’ve started to hear OEMs talk about driver lineups in different ways. Most of them are talking more and more about how the drivers fit different kinds of players and how these lineups can be fit to get dialed in for every swing, but I hadn’t specifically heard a fitter talk to me so much about CG location before. But it makes sense. CG location helps to determine performance from the strike. Matching up the right CG with not only where a player strikes it on the face but also how that face comes through impact is huge.
With 22 different total positions within the 3 different drivers, Titleist now has more power to fit players than they ever have before, and once they combine that with loft offerings and adapter settings, and there are over 350 total combinations of Titleist drivers, and that doesn’t include shaft selection. That’s exactly why this fitting ended up changing my season.
GTS2 and GTS4 were also really great in their own ways. The biggest differences that I felt during the fitting were that the GTS2 was definitely the easiest to turn over, and the GTS4 felt so much better than the previous generation GT4 thanks to its return to a 460cc shape that matches the rest of the lineup.
The GTS4 is a really interesting driver, and something I would love to experiment with a little bit more, but the spin profile made it hard for me to consider as a gamer. What’s fascinating though is it’s not a fade machine. It does work really well for players who like to move the ball left to right, but I wouldn’t say that it’s fade biased by any means. It’s been mentioned to me by some Titleist staff that it’s working really well on Tour for players who like the ball to start left and cut, but it’s also working quite well for guys who like to see sort of a straight line draw that gets up in the air easily but tumbles as it lands and rolls out. They also did something really cool and essentially used the body silhouette of the TSi3 which is arguably the most loved shape for Titleist staffers on Tour, and they turned it into the GTS4 with all the great technology they added to the modern lineup. The GTS4 also sounds the best out of the group for me. It’s a very satisfying muted crack at impact that grows in volume as you add more speed to it.
The GTS2 was very impressive. I think it does a good job of backing itself away from the GTS3, and it’s also got a much different sound profile compared to the GTS3, as does the GTS4. This was something they did on purpose. The GTS4 is a little bit more of a muted crack at impact while the GTS2 is a big loud, more confidence inspiring with just a touch of pitch. They all sound great, and how you’d expect a Titleist to sound, but they definitely have distinct sounds and feel profiles that apply to the different types of players that each head is aimed at.
With the GTS2, it just felt a bit too loud and firm for me. Performance wise in terms of speed, spin and launch it was actually really close to the GTS3, which is cool to see, and maybe it was just my first swing love with the GTS3, but there was just something about it that made me want to go back and see how dialed we could truly get with it.
Once we were settled on the GTS3 as our starting point, Hunter moved the heavier weight to the back of the head, and he also added a bit of additional weight. The final configuration ended up being 4 grams in the front middle position and 13 grams in the back of the head. We moved the adapter setting from D4 to the standard A1 setting and it was bombs away. The only other change we made was to move to a 10.0º head, which was really more of a comfort thing for me than anything else. Having a little bit of extra loft just makes me feel more comfortable on the tee, and gives me the big towering draw shape that I am after. Living outside of Chicago, everywhere we play is soft, so optimizing for roll isn’t appropriate; it’s all about carry.
I’ve now played about 12 rounds with my GTS setup, and it still remains unchanged and very successful on the golf course. Hunter always does a terrific job, and I am looking forward to the next time I get to go back and mess around at TPI with him. This GTS3 is easily the best driver I have ever played myself, and it’s completely changed my outlook on Titleist woods. I always felt left out of the hype when it came to Titleist and not for lack of trying. The GTS family brought me into the mix finally, and getting to experience the benefits of Titleist woods has been really fun. It’s also created a new confidence in my game that has helped me score better across the bag as well.
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