How does water effect your golf balls?
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- Опубліковано 16 сер 2022
- Do you play with balls found in the pond at your course? Today I test Titleist ProV1's that have been submerged in water for differing amounts of time against a normal ProV1. We test indoors and on course. How will the water affect the distance these balls fly?
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Deer in the background is awesome. The course looks great!
Thank you! It was pretty good timing!
I have only read one study on the subject that was done at a University and not someone trying to sell anything. And that study showed virtually no difference between balls that had been submerged for as long as 11 months and new ones. What does make a difference, not surprisingly are balls that have scuff or impact marks that you can feel. Rough spots catch the wind and effect spin, often drastically. But apart from that, I don't have any hesitation in using recycled golf balls. Basically I keep 2 supplies, new in box and recycled from trusted sources and those have been cleaned. If I'm on a hole that has a water hazard, I use one of the recycled balls and the rest of the time I use the new ones. I appreciate your honest and straightforward opinions here, great job as always!
Thank you so much. That's good information!
1:39 Fawn!.... Another great video! It seems no mater what, golf balls generally perform about the same. As an average weekend hacker (95-100 scores), I can't find much practical difference between new, used, sun bleached, and even submerged golf balls. They all pretty much play the same as long as they are not damaged or worn down like a range ball.
Thank you for watching! The differences do seem to be slight among most balls. If you are a casual golfer I think finding a ball you like is important. You could find that in almost any price range. Thanks again!
I read somewhere not long ago that water balls lose 20 yards on average from the tee. Depends how long they've been in the water. Don't know how true that is. Great video.
Thank you! 20 yards is a lot!
Good video! I figured it would be pretty negligible, but it's tiny in hindsight. I think there was some "studies" that said water balls lose a lot of distance. But when Ive seen people that are not looking for a profit from ball sales (Go figure, lol) testing them, they consistently found basically no difference (within 5 yards of distance, a few hundred rpm in spin, etc...). Thus it's likely more about the individual "ball" than whether or not it has been soaked a while. Kind of like slight manufacturing variables. So in your case, maybe the water ball was a slightly under-performing ball even before getting dunked and the water did nothing. There's also a ton of variables by the nature of the game too from tiny swing differences to balls getting slightly more dirty in some way. Thus I guess unless there's something drastically different about a ball, it's perfectly playable.
Thank you for watching!
@@mistahshorthitter You're welcome!
For “found” balls I hold one about waist high along with a brand new ball, drop both at the same time and compare the bounce height off my garage floor. Usually not much difference between the two if any, but sometimes the water-logged ball will bounce obviously less high- those go in the trash.
Interesting. Maybe I'll test that out. Thank you!
Great video 📸
Thank you 🙌
Great video, I tend to find golf balls while walking, I will stripe them on a spinning machine, easy to identify, if I double bogey I will chuck them into the green bunker, I figure someone else might be able to hit it better than I did,
Thank you!
Dude starts off with talking about a waterlogged golf ball then forgets and proceeds to have a good good type of youtube golf round.
Actually, this dude didn't forget at all. I played a few holes so the viewers could see me play with the water logged golf ball. Thank you for watching. This dude appreciates it.
@@mistahshorthitter Keep on keeping on :) it was just a rib tickler joke.
@@truthvenum5468 😆
You missed the chance to name the video.. "How does water affect your balls?" lol.
LOL!