To reduce drag & increase distance & accuracy, a golf ball has many of these cute little depressions
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Why Golf Balls Have Dimples - Today I Found Out  Dec 17, 2010 ... Not only that, but they also increases the lift somewhat. ... The dimples on golf balls accomplish both of these things by creating turbulence in the layer ... This can reduce drag by as much as 50% over a smooth ball. ... airplane wing, they create very little wake relative to the skin friction drag they experience.
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Look Ma!! It's a Dimpled Paintball!!! - Automags.Org Online Forums  They are way to big (out of proportion to a golf ball dimples) ... has anyone actually seen these fly? ... I believe it was supposed to increase range, on a flight. .... Long story short typical paintball spin has little to do with paintball accuracy. ... the dimples might reduce drag a bit allowing for a longer distance.
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Questions & Answers - Ask the Physicist!  This is the first time that I have ever used one of these "Ask Jeeves" sites and will ..... this problem many times before but always for specific masses and distances. .... So, technically, the earth's mass is increasing and therefore the acceleration ...... The dimples on a golf ball and the fuzz on a tennis ball reduce air drag and...
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Aerospaceweb.org | Ask Us - Golf Ball Dimples & Drag  Feb 13, 2005 ... Can you explain why a golf ball has dimples? If dimples reduce drag, why don't we see this surface feature on other ... Whenever a flow encounters increasing pressure, we say that it experiences an adverse pressure gradient. ... change in the drag on a smooth sphere at a Reynolds number of about 3x105.
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October 11, 2008  ... owl;spotted Sports Stuff: To reduce drag & increase distance & accuracy, a golf ball has many of these cute little depressions dimples;dimple Varieties of this...
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Practice Like the Pros - Santa Teresa Golf Club  If you'd like to improve your golf game but don't have a lot of time, this series of ... If you don't have four or five hours to play a round you can still satisfy your golf ... you understand what practice is and what you are really trying to accomplish. ... or lob shot around the green, developing the ability to work the ball from right to...
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Golf Lingo | Golf for Cause - Tempe, AZ  Hitting the ball into the hole in one stroke. ... Bunker: A concave area containing sand or the like, considered a hazard. ... Out of bounds: The area outside the course where play is not allowed, most ... Pitching: A high-trajectory golf shot made near the green, intended to land ... Rough: The long grass bordering the fairway.
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Golf Lingo | Golf for Cause - Tempe, AZ  Sometimes called "a cut shot. ... Sometimes also called "thick" or "chunked. ... Gimme: A putt that is so close to the hole that it's assumed that the player will make...
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Degrees of Loft in Golf Clubs | Golfsmith Blog  Jun 20, 2016 ... The more loft a club has, the higher the trajectory of the ball it hits and ... Golfers often use hybrids to replace lower-lofted irons such as the 3-, 4- and even 5-iron. ... Due to their loft and the distances they can achieve, these clubs are the ... has a loft in between that of your pitching wedge and sand wedge.
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Golf club - Wikipedia  A golf club is a club used to hit a golf ball in a game of golf. Each club is composed of a shaft with a grip and a club head. Woods are mainly used for long-distance fairway or tee shots; irons, the most ... The biggest wood, known as the driver or one wood, is often made of hollowed out titanium with feather-light shafts.
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Golf Today's A to Z of Golf: Names of old golf clubs and their closest ...  Each was a unique creation, and the clubs were given names, not numbers. ... Brassie. 3 wood. Spoon. 4 wood. Baffy, baffie, baffing spoon, wooden cleek. 1 iron.
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Golf Today's A to Z of Golf: Names of old golf clubs and their closest ...  Mashie iron, jigger. 5 iron. Mashie. 6 iron. Spade mashie. 7 iron. Mashie niblick. 8 iron. Lofting iron. 9 iron. Niblick. Wedge. Pitching niblick, jigger, chipper. Putter.
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Fairchild Wheeler Golf Course | Golf Fairfield, CT  When you finish the hole, please rotate the flag between the cups so that the ... Take your ball mark repair tool and insert the prongs into the turf at the edge of the ... Just use your ball mark repair tool to work around the rim of the crater, so to...
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Tennis ball - Wikipedia  A tennis ball is a ball designed for the sport of tennis. Tennis balls are fluorescent yellow at major sporting events, but in recreational play can be virtually any color. Tennis balls are covered in a fibrous felt which modifies their aerodynamic properties, and each has a white curvilinear oval covering it. ... Modern tennis balls must conform to certain criteria for size, weight,...
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Tennis ball - Wikipedia  A tennis ball is a ball designed for the sport of tennis. Tennis balls are fluorescent yellow at major sporting events, but in recreational play can be virtually any color. Tennis balls are covered in a fibrous felt which modifies their aerodynamic properties, and each has a white curvilinear oval covering it. ... Yellow and white are the only colors approved by the ITF, and most balls...
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Rules of Golf - USGA  Rule 6-3a is amended to provide that the penalty for starting late, but within five .... read the Local Rules on the score card and the notice board ..... Lost Ball. If a player believes his ball may be lost outside a water hazard or is out ...... Attention is called to ...... Note: In Great Britain and Ireland, the R&A is the Governing Body.
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jeopardy/1877_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  Number: 15. OLD SPORT | Before these were assigned numbers, the 5 wood was known as the baffy | Golf clubs. right: Wrong: Triple Stumper. Mike: What is golf...
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How Do Golf Courses Cut the Grass So Short on the Putting Green?  At that time, golf courses began to use three or four various types of grass ... This was a challenge because golfers desired to have a putting surface that ... Both varieties can be cut very short without difficulty, and provide a superior rolling surface. ... The problem is that bentgrass is difficult to grow in the summer, so Bermuda...
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Inside Out Shank - Instruction & Academy - GolfWRX  Jul 9, 2007 ... did you try just S&T on its own without the imagainary ball? ... This will often lead to crossing the line at the top and a steep transition (if you ... If I hit the nail on the head with any of this stuff then let me know and I can give you...
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Glossary of GOLF terms and phrases | Murdo Frazer Golf Course  back nine: the last 9 holes (10-18) of an 18 hole golf course; ball in pocket (B.I.P.) ... shaping or bending a shot to fit a hole's terrain or curve around something; casual .... the continuation of a golf stoke after the bottom of the swing and impact area ..... short grass: another phrase for the fairway; shot: 1. a stroke in golf and its...
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Patent US8956488 - Diamine as adhesion enhancer - Google Patente  molding the second golf ball layer on the layer consisting of the at least one diamine ... Both feather and wooden balls were in use until the gutta percha ball was made. ... For example, a golf ball having a rubber core and an elastic thread wound .... but are considered diamines in this disclosure because they have 2 terminal...