While we wait for the report from TFlan ponder this:
> > 1. I thought golfers and non golfers would be interested in seeing > this. No one has a swing speed of 150 mph, including Tiger Woods, who is just > under 130 mph. I had no idea the golf ball compresses this much. But first > a little history I recently learned; The Pro V-1 golf ball by Titlist is > actually a three part ball, but you have to have a club head speed of at > least 100 mph or more to be able to compress all three stages. If you don't, > the ball never fully compresses and you don't get the distance out of it that > the pros do. > 2. We will get more distance out of a ball that only has two stages of > compression... like the Titlist NG Tour. It is more suited to our swing > speed and we can compress it upon impact and can hit it further than the Pro > V-1 ball. > 3. So the secret is not to buy the most expensive balls out there > because we are actually decreasing the distance we can hit the ball, unless > your club head speed is over 100 mph, which unless you are 21 to 50 years > old, > isn't going to happen! > > Watch this video, this shows what a golf ball goes through when hit at 150 > mph... it's pretty amazing to me how long these balls last. Maybe that's > why the Pro's use new balls ever time they play. > > http://www.flixxy.com/golf-ball-slow.motion.htm > > >
