Why is there small depressions around a golf ball?
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2 reasons:\n\n1) They create a rougher surface that allows the grooves on a club to impart backspin on the ball better than if the ball was smooth.\n\n2)  Once airborne and spinning, they serve to increase lift and reduce drag, which generates longer shots compared to a smooth ball.
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Tennis balls should have diameter between two and a half inches (6.35cm.) and two and five-eighths inches (6.67cm.)\n\n\nFor golf balls, minimum diameter is 42.67mm
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The root cause of a fade or draw is an open or closed face club when striking through the ball, thus causing the ball to travel with a sidespin motion. Naturally this sidespin, unless adjusted for, will occur on a side hill lie. However, a unwanted fade from a reasonably flat position  usually indicates a fault in the players swing. One or several corrections of a players swing could be required to eliminate this condition, but most importantly the adjustment must cause the player to swing STRAIGHT though the ball. Without seeing your swing, it is not possible to say exactly how to eliminate your troubles.\n\nThings to focus on are:\nthe angle of your backswing.\nAre you pulling back your left shoulder on follow through? \nthe width of your stance may too narrow or too wide.\n(even) a club which is too flexible for a strong player can cause fade.\n   \nWhat causes an unwanted fade in one players game is not necessarily the cause for another.\n\nIf your serious about improving your game, ask your club pro or some other to look your swing over and recommend to you some changes to your swing. (cost or no cost)
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It varies, usually in the mid-to-high 300s but can go anywhere from the low 300s to the mid 500s.  It is stamped onto the ball itself or appears on the package.\n\nTitleist Pro V1 (which is consistantly ranking as the best and most popular ball in the world) has 392 dimples, as do most high end Pinnacles.
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prove it was the fault of the company, packaging or the golf ball itself as they will prove you either punctured it, put it in the sun or on a heater or hot surface.\n\nis a 1 buck ball worth the hassle?  this attitude everyone has of sue sue sue is just sick.\n\nguess that means if you sneeze in my direction I can sue you for the attempted effort of giving me germs or a virus.  come on.
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A golf ball and a club I dont know I Dont Play golf.
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Well it all depends on how badly they're worn. Basically there are two major areas of concern.\n\n1) Grooves - If the grooves are worn away in the hitting area you'll start hitting flyers (knuckleballs) out of the fairway. I'm assuming since you've worn your clubs out that you're a decent golfer and can control your ball. You DO NOT want to start hitting flyers from the fairway.\n\n2) Concave face - This is when the face starts to get like a "bowl" effect. This effectively limits the sweetspot of your club, because you have to hit it in the "bottom" of the bowl for it to go straight. If you hit the sides of the bowl, you'll hit it slightly offline and you won't be able to figure out why....this can lead to you making unecessary swing changes and adjustments....and you do not want that either. \n\nMy advice would be to show your clubs to your local pro or a reputable golf specialty shop, they'll be able to tell you if they're too worn out. \n\nI know there are a few places that "re-groove" irons. With GolfWorks probably being the best known, check out the link here:\n\nhttp://www.golfworks.com/product.asp?pn=REGROOVE
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There is a golf ball for each type of player.  Better players want more spin and control.  Most of the better and expensive balls have this, and they usually go about the same distance off of the driver.\n\nMediocre players(like me) usually want balls with a little less spin, which promotes hooks and slices.  Also price is a big factor since most mediocre players lose some balls during play.\n\nAnd there are also balls made for people with a slower swing speed. These tend to be softer balls.\n\nAccording to tests done by Consumer Reports, best balls for low handicappers include:\n-Nike One Black\n-Callaway HX Tour\n-Titliest Pro V1 and Pro V1x\n-Ben Hogan Tour Deep\n\nMid to high handicappers include:\n-Nike Power Distance Super Soft(Ranked very high and also affordable)\n-Callaway HX Hot\n-Pinnacle Gold Distance\n-Pinnacle Exception\n\nFor Lower Swing Speeds:\n-Titleist SoLo (Which I like cause I don't really lose distance off the tee, but it is soft around the green. Also I have a normal swing speed)\n-Precept Lady\n-Pinnacle Exception\n\nI say just try different balls that you feel suits your game. It will make a difference.
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very hard to diagnose without seeing your swing.  the slice movement of the golf ball is caused by striking the golf ball with an open clubface.  would be helpful to know the initial line of yuor ball flight after impact to further diagnose what's happening, i.e. straight, left, or right.\n\na couple of common causes of slicing include:\n\n1. picking the club straight up at takeaway and returning the club at impact via an outside inside swing path and/or \n\n2. doing what's known as a reverse pivot, i.e. shifting your weight forward at takeaway and then backward at inmpact.  \n\neasiest ways to rectify these problems are to ensure a proper shoulder turn away from the ball on your backswing and properly shifting your weight forward on the downswing, trying to ensure either an inside to outside swing (which will promote more of a draw movement) or a square to square swing. \n\nbest advice would be to contact a local golf pro and get lessons...even the pros like tiger do that. :)
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An X-Out ball is the result of a mistake in the manufacturing process.\n\nX-Outs are name-brand golf balls on which that brand has been stamped out, usually with a row of X's, because of imperfections in the ball. Those imperfections are often cosmetic in nature, and usually so small as not to be noticeable. The balls usually play the same as their counterparts, or at least close enough that most recreational players could never tell the difference.\n\nLet's use Titleist for the sake of illustration. If during the manufacturing process some tiny little error occurs and the resulting balls are not up to Titleist standards, the company will not package those balls and try to pass them off as Titleist golf balls.\n\nBut Titleist doesn't want to toss them out with the garbage either, because that would be a complete loss of money. So instead, Titleist stamps a row of X's across the "Titleist" name on the ball, packages such balls in generic packaging and puts a very cheap price on them. Titleist still makes money, and many golfers get practice balls - or play balls - on the cheap.
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The rotating ball will cause air to pass over its dimples depending on the direction it rotates it will cause aerodynamics to change and it will slow down one side of the ball and cause it to "slice" or "hook". Also the left and right and up and down angle of the club affects the way a ball handles in mid air.
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Loose impediments Impediments \n“Loose impediments’’ are natural objects including: \n\n• stones, leaves, twigs, branches and the like, \n• dung, and \n• worms and insects and casts or heaps made by them, \nprovided they are not: \n• fixed or growing, \n• solidly embedded, or \n• adhering to the ball.\n\nSand and loose soil are loose impediments on the putting green, but not elsewhere. \n\nSnow and natural ice, other than frost, are either casual water or loose impediments, at the option of the player. \n\nDew and frost are not loose impediments\nts no penalty for moving them
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A dent in the driver will affect a pros game to some degree but for an amature golfer I dont think it would make a hill of beans difference.\n\nThe only real difference it could make to an amature is a phycologicle difference if anything. Dont run out and spend hundreds of dollars on a new driver.\n\nLeon
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It hasn't always been hexagons.  The balls used to be made from curved four sided panels.  Using hexagons ensures that the ball is more spherical.
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It is because the round or circular shape is the most uniform shape of all (there are no edges or corners) - this means the amount of stress force exerted from the surrounding soil is uniformly distributed onto it; wheareas if it was some other shape with corners or edges, then stress concentration would be higher at those places, which would cause cracks/erosion that can destroy the pothole.
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No. For airfoil shapes, drag is minimized by keeping the surface as smooth as possible (and as a result the airflow over the wing smooth as well). \nThis is not necessarily true for other shapes. For a sphere, drag can be less when the airflow is turbulent instead of smooth. As a result, the dimples on a golf ball (a rough surface) reduce the drag on the ball.
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If your swing speed is really high, yes lower compression means less distance, otherwise no it's the other around for low club head speed and low compression, the ball actaully goes further. When the club head hits the ball, it actaully compress the ball to a point when it flatten out a little (that's why it leave a big around ball mark on the club face). The more you can compress the ball on the impact, the further the ball tend to go. \n\nThink of it that if the ball is really hard; i.e. high compression ball, it is harder to press it down, but it will bounce off stronger and therefore go further. Using high compression ball with low club head speed works the other way around, that is the ball won't go as far. Tiger Woods' Nike ball is made with a little higher compression (I think more than a 100). They used to make a 110 for Dunlop, it's  a piece of rock, and with say 80 mile per hour club head speed, you actually lose distance over hard ball.\nThe feel of the ball is a totally difference story.