Ultra Slo Mo Golf Ball Velly Squashy!!!!

[freddielong]

Not sure if you have seen this it is cool, golf ball hitting steel very fast slowed down


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkB81u5IM3I

 

[USER1999]

Beeb showed that during the Scottish open. It is quite impressive. It also demonstrates that repeated bashing with a driver will damage the ball, and so you should not play with the same one round after round. It's performance will drop off.

 

[Adrena1in]

I'm sure they said that was a ball hitting a plate at 150mph, which I think is rubbish, because the balls only squish slightly when a club hits them at around 120mph.

I'm thinking that ball was travelling way faster. (Or did I just hear it wrong?)

 

[USER1999]

I think you will find that they squash an awful lot at 120mph. That said, I can't prove it because my swing speed with a driver is only 96.

You certainly squash it to the centre line.

The proV1x has a core the size of a pea, which you need to compress down to to get the ball to really work. A lot of the guys who play proV1x's don't hit it hard enough to really reap the benefits.

 

[Twire]

I'm sure they said that was a ball hitting a plate at 150mph, which I think is rubbish, because the balls only squish slightly when a club hits them at around 120mph.

I'm thinking that ball was travelling way faster. (Or did I just hear it wrong?)

You also need to take into account, the clubface (Driver and woods) is not solid and gives a little on contact, so this would reduce the "squash" considerably

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Even so I can see why my ball hates being hit with a driver and does its best to run and hide in the long grass after every tee shot.

 

[JustOne]

I actually emailed Peter Alliss about this on the day asking what I had missed "was the ball fired at 10,000mph or was it the worlds squishiest golfball?" because it clearly doesn't do that under normal impact conditions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y57pw_iWlk

No reply yet, I guess he's busy getting his sandwiches ready for The Open

 

[Dan24]

There will be a totally different effect on a golf ball hitting a steel plate compared to a golf ball being hit by a golf club at the same speed.

In the case of the steel plate, this will almost completely resist the force of the ball, which will therefore have to decelerate from 150MPH to 0 in about an inch.

Whereas the golf ball offers very little resistance to the club, so the force exerted by the club is transferred into the forward motion of the ball.

Simple

 

[Adrena1in]

You say the steel plate will completely resist the ball, but in that video the steel plate moves right out of shot after the impact...so *this* steel plate *does* give.

I still think that's either a rubber golf ball or it's going way faster than 150mph. Plus I just can't see it wouldn't split apart when being compressed almost flat like that.


Not that it's not still a really cool video. I bought myself a high speed camera for the very purpose of seeing things go all weird in slow motion.

 

[JustOne]

I bought myself a high speed camera for the very purpose of seeing things go all weird in slow motion.

Yeh, yeh... heard that one before
We know why you bought it

 

[Adrena1in]

We know why you bought it

(I must be too innocent and naive, because I can't think of a dodgy reason for having a slow-mo camera!)

 

[USER1999]

When you replay it it makes you last longer?