Do you play with balls found in the pond at your course? Today I test Titleist ProV1’s that have been submerged in water for differing amounts of time against a normal ProV1. We test indoors and on course. How will the water affect the distance these balls fly?
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1:39 Fawn!…. Another great video! It seems no mater what, golf balls generally perform about the same. As an average weekend hacker (95-100 scores), I can't find much practical difference between new, used, sun bleached, and even submerged golf balls. They all pretty much play the same as long as they are not damaged or worn down like a range ball.
Great video 📸
Deer in the background is awesome. The course looks great!
I read somewhere not long ago that water balls lose 20 yards on average from the tee. Depends how long they've been in the water. Don't know how true that is. Great video.
Good video! I figured it would be pretty negligible, but it's tiny in hindsight. I think there was some "studies" that said water balls lose a lot of distance. But when Ive seen people that are not looking for a profit from ball sales (Go figure, lol) testing them, they consistently found basically no difference (within 5 yards of distance, a few hundred rpm in spin, etc…). Thus it's likely more about the individual "ball" than whether or not it has been soaked a while. Kind of like slight manufacturing variables. So in your case, maybe the water ball was a slightly under-performing ball even before getting dunked and the water did nothing. There's also a ton of variables by the nature of the game too from tiny swing differences to balls getting slightly more dirty in some way. Thus I guess unless there's something drastically different about a ball, it's perfectly playable.