Have you ever wondered how a golf ball behaves when you change the number of dimples? DP World Tour winner Nicolai von Dellingshausen gets to the bottom of this together with our Golf Ball Fitting & Education Leader Luke Staudt. To do this, they compare Titleist R&D golf balls with 50% dimples and none at all. You’ll be amazed at how this affects the ball flight behaviour of Nicolai’s drives. #TitleistGolfBalls #TitleistProV1 #1ballingolf
00:00 Introduction
00:58 No Dimples
03:38 Half Dimples
06:28 Donkey vs Elephant
07:58 Conclusion
FINDE UNS AUF ANDEREN SOZIALEN NETZWERKEN
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[Music] Good morning, Nico. So, this morning we’re going to be doing a little golf ball demonstration. Nothing like uh starting the day at 10:00 a.m. with a bit of science. Sound okay? That’s fine. Good. So, your current ball is 2025 Prov1X. Correct. Great. High numbers. High numbers. Important. So, we’ll have you start with a driver with your current gamer. Yeah. All right. So, just like a normal standard stock shot stock driver. Okay. Okay, we’re done. It’s good. Very acceptable. Very acceptable. Now on to the fun stuff. All right. So, take a peek here. Let me know what you’re thinking, what you’re seeing. I don’t see any difference. No difference. Okay. So, there’s no dimples on this one. Tireless R&D demonstration ball. Uh, I have no idea what to expect. I think it’s going to dive bomb somewhere, but I’ll see. Let’s see. You know what? It looks like a ping pong ball. It’s a good comparison. Oh my god. I don’t think I’m going to like the sound of it either. All right. Please behave ball. What? Where is it? There. That would have been good for the Genesis Open Scotland. Can I see the track? That came off a bit funky on that one. Or came off a bit funky, you think? Okay. So, where did that one land? Did we land in fairway? probably almost at on the ladies tea. Yeah. So, as you predicted, it dive bombed. Yeah. Any any different uh sound or feel to that? It felt like crap. Felt rock hard. Rock hard. And like no feedback. Why do you think it did that nose dive? What’s the What’s the reasoning behind your difference between your first shot and shot number two? Um, I would say that I mean there were no dimples on the golf ball, so it was a completely like flat surface. I would say there’s I don’t know how to say it the best way, but I think the dimples are there for aerodynamics as well for spin. And I think this ball probably no spin and just no lift through that. So first shot with 2025 Proonx carry 270 total 293. Yeah. Okay. Any guess on carry number for the second ball? I mean, this thing landed like right behind the T- box there. I don’t know, maybe like 30 m, 35. Carry 115. Better than you thought. 115. 115. Really? But to your point, the dimples serve a purpose and they are meant to Yeah. reduce drag. Yeah. And increase lift. Yeah. With that ball, we had neither. Yeah. There. That’s the problem. Now test number two. So what do you see here on this on the second ball? This this is half half. So we have half of the ball is with dimples and the other half is completely flat like flat surface. I have no idea what to expect. I think it might be going cuz one side probably has no lift where the other one has lift. So depending on how I tee it up, it’s going to either go left or right or high or low. Depending on how you tee it up is the oper operative phrase for sure. Yeah. So again, with that first ball, let’s think about uh what happens when the golf ball goes through the air. Mhm. When air hits the golf ball, instead of air coming in Yeah. going around the golf ball and coming out with a small narrow wake. I would call it kind of like the back of a boat. You have high pressure coming in. Yeah. It goes around the ball and comes out with a wide wake. So again, exactly. Not very efficient in the air. So with this, you’re right. It’s kind of a kind of a blend. So let’s see what happens. If you could please tee it up with as you look down the fairway, the dimples on the left hand side. Dimples left side. Correct. All right. There’s nobody on the course here, right? We are in the clear. Okay. Good. I should have mentioned if we back up, your second ball was a peak height of 4 m. Yeah. Okay. What happened here? That’s a normal ball fly for me. Um, yeah, that was the golf ball. I mean, I probably hit it a touch toward, but not this much. You want to try it again, please? Reverse. Yes. Okay. So, same exercise, but looking downrange, dimples on right. Such a bad feeling seeing these boards. Feel like feel like an arm. Okay, so that one carried 86 m, apex of 5 m. Good spin though. Two and a half consolation prize, right? That’s very powerful to think, you know, is it me? Yeah. Or is it the ball? Yeah. That really ties back to when Titleist started, our founder Phil Young, he maybe you’ve heard the story, but he missed a short putt um in the club championship and he was convinced that it was the ball. Yeah. Here. Similarly, it’s uh it’s not the operator, it is the equipment. Yeah. Okay. I promise not a lot more torture, but just a little bit more. A little bit more. Okay. I I have no idea what’s going to happen. I just see. What is this one? Is this a donkey? It’s a donkey and an elephant. And an elephant. Yeah. There’s different arrows on it. So, the donkey has a blue arrow pointing this way. Well, the elephant has a red arrow pointing this way. There’s I don’t know if the dimple pattern is a little bit different, but I I I don’t know what to expect. So, I just hit one and then we see. Let’s go for it. Let’s go donkey first. Pointing this way. Pointing down range. Okay. Correct. Dimple difference, you say? But otherwise, visually visually it doesn’t look Didn’t notice much. I mean, I’ve never played with a donkey on my golf ball, but we’ll see if it works. What is that? So, what did you feel and expect to see versus what you looked out at? I I I didn’t expect anything cuz I didn’t know what it was or what to expect. But what I saw was kind of a not like a penetrating ball flight, but more like a spinny ball flight like up in the air. But direction went It went a bit left, right? It went a bit left. Yeah. Might have been me though. What was that? Let’s do a control. Yeah. So instead of donkey, you do the elephant. We go elephant. Yep. Same target line. I’m never doing this with you any like ever again. What is this? So this felt like it felt heavier like impact wise, but like nose was it? I don’t know. It’s a weird weird feedback. So again, both sides had dimples. Yeah. Right. unlike the um second R&D balls you hit. Only thing that was different from if you cut that ball directly in half. Okay, is that one side had slightly shallower dimples than the other side which had slightly deeper dimples. Okay, and when I say slightly, I I truly mean slightly. We’re talking one or two thousands of an inch. But that bears the question is why do we have different depths of dimples? For example, we have uh Prov1 and Pro 1X. You play Pro 1X presumably because you like a higher ball flight, shallower dimples, produce higher trajectory. Okay. Prov1 has deeper dimples which produce more of a penetrating flight. As a summary, uh any any grand takeaways from the R&D balls you hit versus your first one which you striped? Yeah, I stick one 251. But just a quick wrap-up, aerodynamics matter. We have seven different models with seven different dimple patterns. We own and operate our own manufacturing with our own associates. And in golf ball R&D alone, we have more than 80 people who work in golf ball R&D. So again, there’s a lot of effort that goes into making these golf golf balls perform well and do what you expect them to do, not to question the equipment. So I appreciate you going through the exercise. And now we go back to your stock. Thanks. Sound good? All right. Cheers. Thanks, Nico.
