Titleist labels its standard GT1 head 15 degrees, but it plays closer to 16.5. The 3Tour is a true 14.5, and the head it shares finished first in a 2026 accuracy test.
What's new
This is a lower-lofted GT1 that started life on tour. Titleist offered a 14.5 degree prototype to PGA Tour players in February 2025, and roughly 20 percent of its tour fairway woods are now GT1 models, so the August 2025 retail release gives everyone else a head the pros already asked for.
Underneath that loft sits a 180 cc head with a Seamless Thermoform Crown, built to 43 inches on a SureFit hosel. Two weights of 11 g and 3 g swap between front and back, with the heavy one forward as standard. It sells at flagship money per club, and a premium build adds about half again on top.
How it plays
With the heavy weight forward, the GT1 head posted 5.3 yards of dispersion in a 2026 accuracy test, against a field average of 13.5. It also came down at one of the steepest angles in that test, 41.4 degrees against 38.2, which surprised us for a head designed to fly lower.
Feel earns an 8.9, its best mark, and forgiveness holds at 8.6 despite a loft most amateurs would call strong. Distance rates 8.3. If the forward setting flies too low on a given day, moving the 11 g weight back raises launch at some cost to penetration.
Where it lacks
Taking loft off a fairway wood only helps golfers who can already get it airborne. Anyone who launches low will find 14.5 degrees harder work than the standard GT1, and workability, at 7.8, trails every other score.
Shaft choice is narrow as well. Titleist lists Project X Denali Red, Tensei 1K Blue, HZRDUS Black 5th Gen and Tensei 1K Black, all tour-stiff patterns that give slower swing speeds no obvious fit, and value sits at 8.0 before you look at the pricier premium build.
“If you can launch it, the line you aim at is the line you get.”- The Club Stand gear team
Reasons to buy
- Shares the head that led a 2026 accuracy test, with 5.3 yards of dispersion against a 13.5 yard average
- Tour players had the 14.5 degree prototype in the bag months before it reached retail
- Flipping the 11 g and 3 g weights fore or aft trades launch for penetration in one move
Reasons to think twice
- A 14.5 degree loft does nothing for a golfer who already struggles to launch the ball
- Four stock shafts, all tour-stiff patterns, leave slower swingers without an obvious match
- The premium configuration costs about half again as much as the standard head
Specs
| Loft | 14.5 (tour loft) |
|---|---|
| Head | 180 cc |
| Length | 43 in |
| Crown | Seamless Thermoform Crown |
| Weights | Dual Performance Control: 11 g + 3 g, fore/aft flip |
| Hosel | SureFit |
| Stock shaft | Project X Denali Red / Tensei 1K Blue / HZRDUS Black 5th Gen / Tensei 1K Black |
| Hand | Right, left |
More fairway woods we've scored
- Cobra OPTM X Fairway 2026 - 9.2/10. Cobra's OPTM X fairway gets close to driver ball speed off the deck and stays straight on mishits.
- TaylorMade Qi4D Fairway 2026 - 9.0/10. The core Qi4D head won the 2026 fairway wood test by pairing top-two ball speed with tight dispersion.
- Mizuno JPX One Hybrid 2026 - 8.9/10. Mizuno's high-launching hybrid finished first in an eight-club test by hitting the tightest group of the year.
- Tour Edge Exotics Max Hybrid 2026 - 8.8/10. The longest hybrid in an eight-club 2026 test also carries the lowest price in that field.
- PING G440 Max 2025 - 8.8/10. PING's best-selling fairway wood of 2025 leads no single category, yet sits above average in all of them.
- Callaway Elyte Ti Fairway 2025 - 8.7/10. Callaway's titanium Elyte fairway wood pairs a carbon crown with a Step Sole that glides through turf.