Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
British Columbia Sport & Outdoor Lounge => Sport Chat => Topic started by: oddjob on June 07, 2007, 03:05:56 PM
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To all you golfers ,I need your opinion .Would a frozen solid golf ball go further than a regular ball ? I have a co worker that uses only frozen golf balls, he claims he gets an extra 25 yards per drive off the tee. What is your opinion ? I have seen his drives with the frozen balls and they are averaging around the 275 yard mark.
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hey try it and see! I will now that that i can stretch my drive to 255!
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no you can not because the doesnt impact as much when frozen
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How does he keep them frozen? If he freezes them at home they are thawed before he gets to the coarse.
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How does he keep them frozen? If he freezes them at home they are thawed before he gets to the coarse.
Totally! I think he's pulling one. I believe you need the ball to compress to make it go farther, freezing it would take this quality away. Try a ProV1! ;)
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he has the golf balls in a small cooler ,when he opens the cooler a mist comes out .I think he packs them on dry ice .
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Hes cheating.
Really i do think he is hurting not helping his drives.
275 pffft ::) ;D
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i have golfed many times and i cannot see how in any way how frozen gold balls would help ones drive.
hes yakin your chains :D
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thanks for the help on the frozen golf balls ,I will tell him he is full of $h.t . However I have seen him hit a ball from his cooler and it went a lot further than mine .
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I think you would cave in your driver face pretty quick by hitting frozen balls. I think you would get greater distance if you put heat to the balls.
THis is a challange for mythbusters or my kids science project for next year. ;D
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I golf regularily. I play about 3-4 times a week. I think that freezing the balls can make a difference. The thing is, is that harder balls go further, and softer balls less distance, but with more accuracy and spin. I can see how freezing a golf ball may give you some extra distance, but I doubt 25yrds :P. When your club head makes contact with the ball, the ball compresses. By freezing he ball, little compression will be made, most likely giving it more distance.
I know one ball that has added some distance to my shot. Nike Juice GINORMOUS This will most likely soon be the only ball I golf with. I play right now with a Nike Mojo. I refuse anything else.
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Total and absolute crap..and he's cheating as well...
First off, the optimum distance you can get with a golf ball is over 70*F and better as it gets hotter. Do you hit a ball further (carry) in the summer or winter??? For every 5* below 45* you lose roughly 5 yards down to something or other...basically what really matters is dimple patterns, core material and the thickness of the face of the driver...
A golf ball that is frozen or taken out of a cooler while in play is a violation of the rules of golf and would be forfeiture of a match and two strokes per hole that it is used on...
Ben Hogan used to heat his golf balls inside his house during cold weather play and then before the match always carry one in his pocket to keep it as warm as possible...
Kind of already said...but it should be obvious to you guys....You ever hit your 8 iron 160 yards here then go down to phoenix or over to kamloops or kelowna and you hit the same 8 iron 180+ yards????
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Total and absolute crap..and he's cheating as well...
First off, the optimum distance you can get with a golf ball is over 70*F and better as it gets hotter. Do you hit a ball further (carry) in the summer or winter??? For every 5* below 45* you lose roughly 5 yards down to something or other...basically what really matters is dimple patterns, core material and the thickness of the face of the driver...
A golf ball that is frozen or taken out of a cooler while in play is a violation of the rules of golf and would be forfeiture of a match and two strokes per hole that it is used on...
Ben Hogan used to heat his golf balls inside his house during cold weather play and then before the match always carry one in his pocket to keep it as warm as possible...
Kind of already said...but it should be obvious to you guys....You ever hit your 8 iron 160 yards here then go down to phoenix or over to kamloops or kelowna and you hit the same 8 iron 180+ yards????
Thats because the ground is harder and you get the roll and bounce. Also you can hit a ball further if you are in high altitude.
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Total and absolute crap..and he's cheating as well...
First off, the optimum distance you can get with a golf ball is over 70*F and better as it gets hotter. Do you hit a ball further (carry) in the summer or winter??? For every 5* below 45* you lose roughly 5 yards down to something or other...basically what really matters is dimple patterns, core material and the thickness of the face of the driver...
A golf ball that is frozen or taken out of a cooler while in play is a violation of the rules of golf and would be forfeiture of a match and two strokes per hole that it is used on...
Ben Hogan used to heat his golf balls inside his house during cold weather play and then before the match always carry one in his pocket to keep it as warm as possible...
Kind of already said...but it should be obvious to you guys....You ever hit your 8 iron 160 yards here then go down to phoenix or over to kamloops or kelowna and you hit the same 8 iron 180+ yards????
Thats because the ground is harder and you get the roll and bounce. Also you can hit a ball further if you are in high altitude.
Just like sprinting . Every ones PB is always at altitude. Thinner air has less resistance.
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Total and absolute crap..and he's cheating as well...
First off, the optimum distance you can get with a golf ball is over 70*F and better as it gets hotter. Do you hit a ball further (carry) in the summer or winter??? For every 5* below 45* you lose roughly 5 yards down to something or other...basically what really matters is dimple patterns, core material and the thickness of the face of the driver...
A golf ball that is frozen or taken out of a cooler while in play is a violation of the rules of golf and would be forfeiture of a match and two strokes per hole that it is used on...
Ben Hogan used to heat his golf balls inside his house during cold weather play and then before the match always carry one in his pocket to keep it as warm as possible...
Kind of already said...but it should be obvious to you guys....You ever hit your 8 iron 160 yards here then go down to phoenix or over to kamloops or kelowna and you hit the same 8 iron 180+ yards????
Thats because the ground is harder and you get the roll and bounce. Also you can hit a ball further if you are in high altitude.
No brian, I hit greens and spin the ball so they don't bounce..alitude is one thing but I don't think phoenix is above sea level...something about the "valley" of the sun.. It's about the heat, the warmer the ball the further it goes up to 90* I beleive...I use your interior as it's hot...anything around us at sea level and with the air density we have is going to cause restricted ball flight..but I would have thought you knew all this as a golfer...
When Tiger played the PGA down in Seattle, he was asked how he liked playing out here...he said he loved it, except for the fact that he was hitting his 7 iron 200 yards the week before and now he was hitting it 150 yards out here...
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Actually Phoenix is 1290 feet above sea level. Seattle is 232 feet and Kelowna is 1220 feet above sea level. Elevation does has something to do with it, great example is in baseball. Mile high stadium in Colorado(6800 feet above sea level) has more home runs then most stadiums.
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Ok, you genius's win...freeze your balls...incredable the stupid sheeit you'll argue but have it your way.. ;) have to put that in or my post will be deleted again..
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And here's the physics behind frozen balls in layman's terms:
Cold rubber cores are generally not as flexible as warm rubber. When a cold ball is struck by a hitting surface such as a club face, the deformation that follows the collision is concentrated at the side of the ball which is struck. This concentrated deformation causes the rubber molecules to collide with each other, producing warmth rather than rebound.
In other words, if golf ball manufacturers intended for the interior cores of golf balls to be static, ie: the effect that freezing has, then they would manufacture them out of a solid core. The entire reason that the cores are made from elastic bands is to gather the energy of the strike and release it while in flight. Freezing negates a large part of this effect.
If your friend hits his frozen balls farther, it is entirely because he BELIEVES he's going to, but he'd actually do better by warming them in his pocket. As is so often the case, athletes perform better because they THINK they can. Witness the number of guys who swear they score more with play-off beards, run faster 100 meters with their lucky gold necklace, etc.
The next time you go out golfing, just remember that your friend is actually hurting his golfing game with that slick little cooler of his; then pull a hot one out of your pocket and see how far you can drive it.