Titleist's New GTS Fairway Woods Are Official, and Retail Starts June 11

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The early-tour tease is over. Titleist’s new GTS fairway woods are now an actual retail story.

On May 13, 2026, Titleist officially launched the GTS2 and GTS3 fairway woods, opening fittings and pre-sale immediately and setting June 11 as the retail date. According to the company’s launch release, pricing starts at $399 with standard shafts and $599 with premium shafts.

That matters because Titleist’s April tour rollout gave us the “these exist and tour players are already poking at them” version of the story. This is the version normal golfers can actually use.

This piece is based on Titleist’s official May 13, 2026 launch release, checked again on May 22, 2026. No made-up testing diary. No fake “I hit them against three competitors and found enlightenment” nonsense.

What Titleist Actually Announced

Here is the straightforward list:

• GTS2 and GTS3 fairway woods officially launched on May 13
• fittings and pre-sale are open now
• retail begins June 11, 2026
• MSRP is $399 with standard shafts and $599 with premium shafts
• Titleist says the line is built for higher flight, lower spin, and more forgiveness

The core tech points from the release:

• wraparound composite crowns to free weight and lower CG
• new heel-toe dual weighting for more fitting adjustability
• a forged L-Cup face design to preserve speed and launch on low-face impacts
• flatter soles to sit better off the turf

That is a much more complete launch than the earlier “tour seeding” phase.

GTS2 and GTS3 Finally Have Cleaner Jobs

One thing Titleist seems to have done well here is separate the two models more clearly.

GTS2

Titleist says GTS2 has:

• a shallower face
• a larger address profile
• lofts of 13.5, 15.0, 16.5, 18.0, and 21.0

That reads like the broader-fit head, especially for golfers who sweep fairway woods a bit more and want the club to help them launch it cleanly without looking oversized in a dumb way.

GTS3

Titleist says GTS3 has:

• a deeper face
• a more compact profile
• lofts of 15.0, 16.5, 18.0, and 21.0

The interesting bit is the 21-degree GTS3, which gives better players another 7-wood-style option in a more compact, player-favored shape.

That is smart.

We already saw some of that story in our earlier GTS fairways-on-tour piece, but the official launch makes the fit map much easier to read now.

The Low-Face Story Is a Real Fairway-Wood Story

The detail I like most is that Titleist is talking openly about low-face impacts.

That is a real fairway-wood issue for normal golfers. Drivers get all the marketing love, but fairways have to do the harder job: they have to work from the tee and from the turf, where strike quality gets weird fast.

Titleist says the new forged L-Cup face is there specifically to help preserve ball speed and launch in that low-face miss zone. That is the kind of claim that at least lines up with the way golfers actually use these clubs.

It is also more believable than the usual equipment-language disease where every new club is somehow longer, easier, softer, faster, higher, lower-spin, more forgiving, and blessed by woodland spirits.

This Makes the Whole GTS Family Feel More Real

The fairway launch also matters because it completes more of the top-of-the-bag picture.

Now the GTS story is no longer just:

• drivers hit tour
• drivers got official retail details
• maybe fairways are coming eventually

Now it is a coherent family.

That gives more context to Titleist’s official GTS driver launch, the tour-first breadcrumb trail in the original GTS driver rollout story, and the player-fit angle in our Jordan Spieth gear-change column before the PGA Championship.

Should Golfers Actually Wait for These?

If you are shopping fairway woods right now, yes, these belong on the shortlist.

Not because every new Titleist launch automatically deserves your money. But because now we finally have:

• the real release date
• the real pricing
• the clearer model split
• a better sense of what each head is trying to do

That is enough information to justify waiting for a fitting if you were already leaning premium.

Bottom Line

Titleist officially launched the GTS2 and GTS3 fairway woods on May 13, 2026, with fittings and pre-sale open now, retail availability starting June 11, and pricing beginning at $399.

That turns the GTS fairways from a spring tour-van rumor into an actual buying decision.

And because the model split looks cleaner than before, this launch feels a lot more useful than the average “new fairway wood just dropped” corporate fog.

For the rest of the GTS picture, read our original fairway-tour rollout story, the official GTS driver launch breakdown, and the GTS300 mini-driver watch story.