Dimples also affect lift. A smooth ball with backspin creates lift by warping the airflow such that the ball acts like an airplane's wing. The spinning action makes the air pressure on the bottom of the ball higher than the air pressure on the top; this imbalance creates an upward force ...
Many observers of the game of golf, including the legendary Jack Nicklaus, are advocating for the powers that be to roll back how far the golf ball travels. Well, what form would that take? Golf could go back to the ball that was used for hundreds of years. It was called a “feather...
I’ve been playing the same ball for the last year or so (vice pro plus). I like it the most based on feel and metrics (I have the Rapsodo mlm2pro). But I’ve recently gotten to the point where I don’t lose a ball in a round or two, even though I still
The size and depth of the dimples also affect performance. Shallow dimples generate more spin on a golf ball than deep dimples, which increases lift and causes the ball to rise and stay in the air longer and roll less. Deep dimples generate less spin on a golf ball than shallow dimples, ...
Dimples Contrary to popular belief, dimples do not affect the amount of backspin you can impart on a golf ball. However, dimples do affect how long a golf ball stays in flight and, therefore, how long you can hit the ball. The best engineering minds in the world are working for golf ...
I used to find a hexagonal pattern of dimples on an unprinted part of the golf ball and use a Sharpie marker to color them in with one extra dimple colored either side of the hexagon forming a diamond shape. It took longer than expected when getting a sleeve of balls and marking them ...
Everybody wants a golf ball that goes faster and farther, but TaylorMade’s latest improvements to its five-layer TP5 and TP5x focus a lot of attention on improving these balls as they lose speed. Specifically, the dimples were redesigned with a flatter, less curved bottom. The idea is ...
Focuses on the use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software to determine if a golf ball will fly. Significance of the dimples on the body of the golf ball; Benefits of the CFD software; Use of bad design information in designing golf balls.Thilmany...
After being released into the public sphere, this aerodynamic coating was studied by the Wilson Sporting Goods Company, where its engineers learned that by applying dimples to the surface of a golf ball, the ball could glide more smoothly with less aerodynamic drag. With special 3D computer graph...
When I brought a friendto see Lizzo perform at Brooklyn Steel this past May, she cried. We’re both roughly the same size as the pop star, wide and curvy, with leg dimples and arm flab and round bellies. She cried because she has never been able to say that about a person sh...