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(FAKE) Golf Ball Hitting Steel at 150 MPH

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Ignorant Great Member

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the only way that is possible, is if you hit it w the HAMMER!!!!!!

That wouldn't help in creating more trustworthiness. The elasticity of a golf ball is not nearly enough to support such changes of dimensions, it would just simply break instead of returning to its original shape.

That video is a fake, either created digitally or a hollow and very elastic core of a ball has been used.

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haven't we covered this bullshit video already...?

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haven't we covered this bullshit video already...?

Yep.

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Comical video and an even more comical thread. I needed a good laugh and seeing that douche bag hit the metal face provided just that.

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el shanko Well Established Member

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How hard is a golf ball...

Golf Ball hitting steel at 150 mph.

This one you will not believe, but @ 70,000 pictures a second will make you a believer.


Whether you are a golfer or not, this is pretty amazing. I thought golf balls were fairly hard.


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:

1- The Pro V-1 golf ball by Titleist 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 pro's do..

2- We, will get more distance out of a ball that only has two stages of compression...like the Titleist NX 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 amazing to me how long these balls last.
Maybe that's why the Pro's use new balls ever time they play... Golf Ball hitting steel at 150 mph


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Very impressive, I knew they compressed but not to that extreme.

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Paradox Great Member

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thats a fake video..been discussed on this site more than a few times.

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Pretty sure that's fake, but we'll let the golf ball engineers chime in

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Paradox Great Member

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lol I'm telling you guys..its completely fake.
there you go..a real golf ball impact at 150mph.

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Originally Posted by Paradox

lol I'm telling you guys..its completely fake.

there you go..a real golf ball impact at 150mph.

Now that looks believable.

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el shanko Well Established Member

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the thing between the 2 who's make of ball is those, pro v 1 doubt it, could be a soft ball vs a hard composite ball who knows


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Originally Posted by Paradox

thats a fake video..been discussed on this site more than a few times.

I thought so, friggin' ball would be useless after every drive.

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the thing between the 2 who's make of ball is those, pro v 1 doubt it, could be a soft ball vs a hard composite ball who knows

The ball in the video you posted is softer, that is for sure, but it is not a golf ball, even though it may look like one. You wouldn't be able to hit a ball that soft very far.

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Originally Posted by Zeph

The ball in the video you posted is softer, that is for sure, but it is not a golf ball, even though it may look like one. You wouldn't be able to hit a ball that soft very far.

hackey sack maybe...........


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Originally Posted by Ernest Jones

I thought so, friggin' ball would be useless after every drive.

it would have great use because it wouldn't go very far..but who knows what direction it would fly in, lol..

Just think about it when you see that video..even if the speed were toned down to 120 mph..the amount of compression and deformation on that "ball" would still be so silly that you wouldn't be able to hit it very far(lack of energy transfer) and you'd have no directional control at all because of the deformation.  Does this seem like something the pros have a problem with?

Even in the video of the real ball hitting the plate at 150mph..its more deformation than you will see with a ball striking a clubface since the metal is so thin compared to the steel plate that it gives a little and absorbs some of the energy.

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