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By bweiss711 ·
I've posted this link in a few other places in the forum, but it keeps coming up as relevant for a lot of different discussions surrounding golf balls. Its about the most objective data you can find about golf ball compression at different swing speeds. The actual data can be found near the end of the article (middle of the page, the comments at the end take up a lot of space) if you'd like to try to draw different conclusions than the author does in the main article. But long story, short, the data shows that a ball that is long off the driver for a 115 mph swing speed is also long off the driver for a 85 mph swing speed. And those balls are higher compression balls. The Best Golf Balls | Golf Ball Buyer's Guide | MyGolfSpy Always play your best game. Read the Golf Ball Buyer's Guide from MyGolf Spy to always get the best golf balls. Read more so you can improve your game! I think the Top Flight Gamer ball has a similar pattern. Not sure if that's what you're thinking. -
By bweiss711 ·
Day 25 (7,13) - Back to full swings. Trying to hammer home my work on the takeaway and forearm rotation in the backswing. Really starting to feel good about my progress so far. Consistently better ball striking than even a week ago, and ball speeds on the launch monitor are 5-6 mph faster than last week too. A few more days of good results, and I'll get a new swing thread post up to see where I'm at. -
By boogielicious ·
@IowaGreg, In the GIF below, Newton’s Cradle, the steel balls have almost no kinetic energy loss due to deformation. This demonstrates an elastic collision. A perfect elastic collision with no energy loss would go on forever. If the balls could deform slightly, as in plastic balls, the energy transfer would be less. The cradle would stop rather quickly. A cradle with say Playdoh on it would have complete deformation. They stop almost immediately. This is called an inelastic or “plastic” collision. If we put golf balls in the cradle of different “compression”, which is really deformation, you could theoretically measure the energy loss. Soft golf balls that deform more, would lose more energy at impact and slow down sooner. OEM ball manufacturers measure deformation with various tools. But deformation is only one part of golf ball aerodynamics. Spin and lift due to spin with various dimple patterns also contribute. Deformation characteristics and cover softness can also affect spin. The end result is to find the ball that best fits your game and budget. Try different ones out and see. -
By iacas ·
Yes, sorry, I’ll fix above. Think of it this way, @IowaGreg: the more a ball compresses, or deforms, the more energy is lost in that transaction. Would a cotton ball go farther at any speed than a golf ball (or a golf ball that weighed as much as a cotton ball)? -
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