NewGlfr
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This is absolutely incredible:
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There is a difference between a club with a 175 mph head speed hitting a stationary ball that will move forward in the same direction as the club head and a ball travelling at 150 mph hitting an immovable object like a steel plate.
As some of the inertia of the club head is transferred to the ball and since the ball can move, that inertia then travels forward. A ball hitting an immovable object is basically one hundred percent of that inertia stopping cold since all of the energy of that inertia is transferred to that steel plate.
Different physical scenario.
Doesn't make that much difference. I'd like to see how much a ball can be compressed before it starts to lose its structural integrity. I wish I was still working so I could put some different models on a 100 ton hydraulic press and see what happens. If they don't break down before they are compressed like that ball in the video, then I might give some credence to it, but I'd still like to see some sort of certification that verifies that it was an honest test with a real golf ball. People can and do post just about anything on You Tube, and half the time it's faked.
I understand what you're saying, but the vid was shot at 70 000 fps. This means what you're seeing happening to that golf ball happens in milliseconds. Unless you can get an industrial press to compress at that speed, rate and with the exact same force, your trials would not equate to what we are seeing. Compressing a ball that is stationary is also not exactly what is happening here. I wonder if they heated the ball up at all before the test. That could change things for sure.
Is it fake? I've watched vids from that FB page before and they have always been credible. Why would you attempt to fake THAT? To what end?
Not saying anything about the OP, but this was on the USGA YouTube page from 2010:
Must have been a DUO..