I just think that is a groovy video.
Golf Digest did a short article on how dimples affect the flight of a golf ball and they included this little Titleist video of Iron Byron hitting a golf ball. It looks like they used ProTracer to show the ball flight. Make sure you pay close attention to the first one; that's a normal golf ball. You can see that it flies very high and has just a slight fade. Presumably Iron Byron likes the fade for added control. ;-)
Then they go to a ball this is half of-dimpled and half of-easy. (A cool-searching golf ball, to be sure!) Iron Byron hits it with the dimples at the left aspect of the ball, then at the right side. You get two low difficult curves.
Finally they use a very clean ball which is going nowhere as compared to the first ball. You can see how a great deal decrease the ball flight is.
The video allows give an explanation for why the ball organizations spend a lot time experimenting with new dimple patterns and shapes. I marvel if they will ever be able to make the ball do barrel rolls just like the Blue Angels? The most effective dimples the Angels want are due to their smiles as they zip overhead.
The Blue Angels picture got here from the USA Navy's authentic weblog.
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