Mud balls!

[delc]

Yesterday the mud at our course seemed to be just the right consistency to stick to golf balls in quite big lumps. I hit some shots from the rough or semi-rough that had some very strange trajectories, something like an out of control November 5th rocket. On one occasion I didn't bother to pick clean and place under Winter rules on the fairway, because the ball looked clean and was lying nicely, but got the same problem. I guess that the ball either had a lump of mud underneath that I couldn't see, or picked up some mud as I hit it. Does anybody know a way of predicting the flight and distance of a mud ball? They all seemed to lose distance btw.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Well scientist could help you but other than that it's pretty much unpredictable

And if you didn't bother to pick and clean then there is only one area at fault

 

[Curls]

Yes.

http://www.golfwrx.com/342840/the-science-of-mud-balls-and-predicting-their-flight/

 

[delc]

Yes.

http://www.golfwrx.com/342840/the-science-of-mud-balls-and-predicting-their-flight/

Thank you for a much more helpful answer than Liverpoolphil's! :thup:

 

[Curls]

Thank you for a much more helpful answer than Liverpoolphil's! :thup:

You're welcome! Buddy of mine sent the video to me around Christmas time, I'll confess i didn't even look at it

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Bloody hell Del is there nothing on a course that doesn't happen to you or annoy you? It's still winter golf and conditions aren't ideal. Accept it and deal with it and consider how lucky you are to be playing rather than many on here where their courses are firmly closed

 

[snell]

Yes.

http://www.golfwrx.com/342840/the-science-of-mud-balls-and-predicting-their-flight/

Great article that. Cheers for linking that Curls!

 

[delc]

Bloody hell Del is there nothing on a course that doesn't happen to you or annoy you? It's still winter golf and conditions aren't ideal. Accept it and deal with it and consider how lucky you are to be playing rather than many on here where their courses are firmly closed

Anything else you would like to have a go at me about?!!!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Anything else you would like to have a go at me about?!!!

Give me a mo :thup:

You do seem to like to moan about your golf though. Relax, enjoy it (especially as others can't at the moment) and stop tweaking and over thinking :cheers:

 

[Robobum]

Relax, enjoy it (especially as others can't at the moment) and stop tweaking and over thinking :cheers:

Oh the irony

 

[pokerjoke]

Give me a mo :thup:

You do seem to like to moan about your golf though. Relax, enjoy it (especially as others can't at the moment) and stop tweaking and over thinking :cheers:

Haha that is just pure gold Homer you are the king of tweaking and over thinking.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Haha that is just pure gold Homer you are the king of tweaking and over thinking.

Use to be. Still trying to simplify. Getting better more work to be done

 

[delc]

Oh the irony

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Oh the irony

:thup: :rofl:

 

[Hobbit]

Use to be. Still trying to simplify. Getting better more work to be done

"Use to be." And, "still trying..." Seems to me you've just shot yourself in the keyboard.

 

[Smiffy]

Oh the irony

Comedy gold....

 

[Norrin Radd]

Oh the irony

the real irony is ,Homer knows he overthinks and is now thinking even more ,when trying not to overthink.:thup:

 

[guest100718]

I have a vague recollection of a tour pro saying the ball will tend to go in the direction that mud id stuck to.