Volvik staff player and Hall of fame golfer Larry Nelson won the Champions Tour Bass Pro Shops Legends of Golf – Legends Division Sunday playing a Volvik S4 golf ball.
In the only partner event on the Champions Tour, Nelson and partner Bruce Fleisher won with a 45-hole total of 12-under-par to win by three strokes in the Legends Division. They each took home $60,000 for the win.
“It was kind of nice to go with a 3 or 4 shot lead into the last round especially when it’s 9 holes, but it’s kind of nerve racking a little bit,” said Nelson. “So it kind of reminds you of what it used to be like.”
The wire-to-wire win at Big Cedar Lodge marks the first victory for a male professional on the PGA TOUR, Champions Tour and Web.com Tour using a Volvik golf ball. It’s the 13th win for a professional playing Volvik golf balls since 2012, including two victories with their signature color golf balls on the LPGA Tour. Earlier this year Volvik staffer Tim Petrovic finished 2nd in a PGA TOUR event using Volvik’s S3 golf ball after getting knocked out of a 5-man playoff.
Nelson’s victory at the Bass Pro Shops Legends of Golf is his 20th win on the Champions Tour and his 42nd victory of his career, including 10 PGA TOUR wins and three victories at major championships. Nelson started playing Volvik golf balls for the 2014 season after he and his son Drew tested every tour ball on the market in their Dynamix Golf fitting studio. Dynamix Golf spent five years creating a world-leading golf simulator in terms of accuracy of true distances and ball flight. The Nelsons found the Volvik Vista series to be the longest of any of the balls they tested. Nelson has since switched to the new 105-compression Volvik S4 golf ball, a ball that he has been quoted as saying is the ‘best golf ball I’ve ever played.’
“I have always tried to be on the edge of technology throughout my career and I am very excited to be involved with Volvik,” said Nelson. “Their golf ball is the longest ball I have ever played, and the feel around the greens reminds me of the old balata balls. This ball is really the best of both worlds.”
Last year, Nelson and Fleisher were the leaders after the opening round and ended up finishing 2nd in the Legends Division. This year, the Bass Pro Shops Legends of Golf used a two-man better-ball competition with a modified alternate shot format. That means both players on a tee hit a tee shot before alternating the rest of each hole.
This two-man team competition played their 2nd annual event over 54-holes on the Big Cedar Lodge resort’s Par-3 Top of the Rock course, designed by Jack Nicklaus, and the 18-hole Buffalo Ridge Golf Course (formerly known as Branson Creek), designed by Tom Fazio.
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Volvik is the #1 Color Golf Ball on Tour with over 75 professionals using Volvik’s ultra high-performance color golf balls on the world’s professional tours. Since 2012, players using Volvik golf balls have earned over $8 million in prize money on the PGA TOUR, LPGA Tour, Champions Tour,Web.com Tour, Ladies European Tour, LAGT and Symetra Tour with 13 victories and over 100 Top 10 finishes.
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