my curiosity talking: what happens to the ball when you actually make contact?

[calicaddy]

yesterday morning on the course, I hit my ball of the tee, and got to thinking what actually happens in the split second the club hits the ball. Does the ball actually roll up the club then leave (like with a wedge mostly) or does it just come off the club. just wondering, thought it would be fun to ask.

-calicaddy

[Clambake]

Here is a series of videos showing the ball being hit with a variety of clubs, wedges through driver and even putter.

[jshots]

It momentarily goes into another dimension where time is very very very slow, like the movie inception. Little garden gnomes in this other dimension load your ball into a cannon and the fire it back into your dimension at high velocity... that's why sometimes after you hit it, you can't find it, that's when the gnomes are on coffee break.

[jshots]

Originally Posted by Clambake

Here is a series of videos showing the ball being hit with a variety of clubs, wedges through driver and even putter.

WOW on the putter shot! I wouldn't have guessed it would have 0 spin.

[Timmy]

Very cool video.  Very interesting, thanks for sharing and OP thanks for asking!

[xxsoultonesxx]

OK, so on this video that was a terribly stroked putt, right? And you'd think they would hit the driver in the middle of the club face for a nice slo-mo video, right?

[jshots]

Originally Posted by xxsoultonesxx

OK, so on this video that was a terribly stroked putt, right? And you'd think they would hit the driver in the middle of the club face for a nice slo-mo video, right?

I'm thinking that it wasn't a badly stroked putt. At first I didn't think thats what a putt would look like, but now I don't think there would really be any way to get it spinning end over end off of the putter face. To do that you would have to hit it on the upswing but the face would have to still be sort of perpendicular to the ground. Even if you were able to do that I don't imagine it would start with much spin at all.