The golf ball that made golfers too good
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- Опубликовано: 14 мар 2019
- Golf's distance debate, explained.
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These days, pro golfers are hitting the ball far. Really far. And it's creating a problem: because modern golfers can reach the hole with fewer shots than before, older courses -- like Augusta National Golf Club, Oakmont Country Club, and others -- are becoming obsolete. Now, professional organizations, like the United States Golf Association, are struggling to find a solution for big powerful golfers like Dustin Johnson, Bubba Watson, and Tiger Woods. While the jump in distance is due to lots of factors, conversation is centering on the controversial possibility of redesigning the golf ball to reduce distance. It'd be the latest turn in the ball's long history: Golf balls have evolved from "featheries," to gutties, to balata balls, and eventually dimpled modern balls. But the biggest, and most recent change? The almost-instantaneous switch from wound balls to solid core multilayer balls like the Titleist Pro V1.
A previous version of this video contained an audio glitch at 2:35. The error has been corrected.
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golf is a waste of space, can you not promote the sport?
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Golfer: performs insane shot
Other golfers: “we need to do something to stop this”
This is why golf is a boring sport
Golf is NOT boring....
@@pessimisticpianist582 every sport whose major league association insists on quashing any innovation within their sport is boring.
golf could be less boring, is the point
@@harrylane4 No steel bats are allowed in the MLB?
@@pessimisticpianist582 Golf is the most boring major sport.
Have they tried installing a windmill? or perhaps a small moat with castle?
Minigolf vs. normal golf. They're different.
@@NapaCat But what about a looping?
@@NapaCat much like a golf ball.. that one went right over year head.
@@NapaCat they don't have to be
@@NapaCat nahhhh really?!
Imagine getting kicked out of a championship for being too good
@Chicken Creator to be fair, i can see how anyone can be "too good" at something. it's all about technique and practise and sometimes equipment. if you invent your own technique for something then that can put you in the lead, in other things practise may be what puts you at the top, in other things it's equipment that makes a big difference. Sometimes it's all of them, sometimes only one or two. But I think that very often it's inventing a more efficient technique that has the biggest chance of putting you ahead of everyone else.
There are a lot of examples in the history of sports alone, nevermind all the current competitive "sports" such as gaming, speedsolving a rubiks cube, balisong knife tricks, ect. All it takes is one innovative mind.
That's what casinos do...
In my country (Ukraine) i have been discualified because i have played too good for my hcp. It was sad because could be on the first place in a big tournament.
@@TechSupportDave me when im trying to reach the minimum word count.
Cannot relate
This is only really a problem for elite golfers. Average golfers have more flaws and the obstacle have more of an effect
Well those are the *ONLY* golfers who actually matter. PGA Tour level. That's the big $
Who tf cares about amateur hour or some doctors playing golf on weekends? 😂
@@SpaghettiKillah Thats who most golfers are, so those golfers care. This just sounds like elitism. The average golfer paying for a round of golf isnt elite
I can see both sides of the argument. Why not just make a rule that a ball has to meet certain specifications in tournament play? Most (if not all) other sports have rules like this. Golf has all kinds of silly rules, but they don't have any specifications/requirements a ball must meet? Seems like they overlooked something in the rule book.
Trickle-down Balancing dictates that the sport should be balanced around the highest level of play no matter what, since top players are the most likely to break the game. The sport will automatically be balanced for all skill levels below that.
@@PassTheSnails Fewer will want to play courses that are super long and designed for the elite golfers though. It just wouldn’t be as fun. Regardless of if it is balanced.
That hole is also a bit easier for Bubba because he’s left handed
Cornwall1888 I would disagree because playing a slice usually makes the ball go a bit shorter
Jared Ponmakha yes but a slice is easier to control and bubba doesn’t lack distance
Disagree, a draw is easier to control. A slice tends to fly farther awry on a golf hole.
They make it longer now so it don't matter anymore.
@@Cornwall1888 yes, easier to control and promotes a high ball flight which would be needed to get it over the trees so quickly
100 years later...
Golfer: **taps ball**
Ball: **Flies 400 yards**
Golfer: Oh god dammit!
ILikeGamesToo - King of Discord I DIED WHEN I SAW THIS 😂
“Can you throw it back? It’s only like four hundred yards!”
**hits ball over Pacific ocean**
that's how it feels in some sports now. You've got athletes pumped up on creatine using their space age, nanofilament diamond edged clubs firing a carbon fiber, depleted uranium core golf ball at Mach 2 into the next zip code. I wish more sports would only allow basic equipment to keep it more interesting.
Golfer: **hits hard**
Ball: **Ceases to exist**
Golfer:
I was a caddy In Michigan when the prov1 was released. These balls were five dollars a ball in a sleeve. I thought it was absolutely crazy that people would spend five dollars on a golf ball. But when I saw the difference in flight and distance this golf ball could provide. I saw my golfers handicap drop a little
Worker at a PGA course here. We recently fixed an issue like this on one of the holes by moving the tees up about 40 yards and making it a par 4 instead of 5. Much harder hole now.
So it became a par 71 course and shortened total yardage?
@@jinsooked nope, another hole got bumped back (had the space) and got bumped up to 5.
@@Andrew-sv3ck i see. Thanks for replying after your two year old comment!
This sort of logic is why gymnastics went from walking to a whole circus act
The 13th hole at Augusta national golf club is just that wii sports golf course why has nobody noticed
I thought this was similar to something I had seen before, and I don’t watch golf on TV.
Runar Andersen Same!!
Pretty sure it was in Mario golf on the gamecube as well.
I live in Augusta and live close to that golf club, they already making preparations for the masters. Making temporary parking spots, home owners renting out their yards as parking space. I hate it. Washington Rd backs up. Takes forever to get down it. Cops park in the center lane every few yards to prevent people from riding in it. Will buy/selling golf ticket people everywhere. I hope the masters fly by.
Wii sports is the pinnacle of sporting
That Bubba shot was the shot everyone would try to hit on Wii Sports Golf.
5 times, even more.
This hurts.
@@TheKBrosTech ⁹⁹u⁸⁸88y6yy
Where do you think he got the idea
3rd hole
4:32
“Players are overpowering golf courses made in another era”
The par 5 is 615 yards
Bruh
But notice how the ball has flown over all the bunkers either side of that fairway. Probably wasn’t the best example to use but the drive has eliminated all the obstacles simply because it’s flown over them all.
@@DanTwigGolf Also notice how it was Dustin Johnson who hit the ball... There's a difference between "pro golfer" and world #1 known for hitting it miles. I get what you're saying, but I think this "debate" is a bit flawed when players who have dedicated themselves to gain an advantage by hitting it far are being portrayed as if all pros are like that
@@niggy730 exactly. 95% of all golfers cant hit it 300 yards.
My golf instructor said, "If you can hit a 250 yard drive, you can compete with the pros *_IF_* you never more than two-putt."
I spent more time on the practice green than on the driving range and my game improved a *_lot._*
David Buschhorn no shot you can compete with 250 yard drives. You’d encounter par 4s where you’d be left with another 230+ for an approach shot
@@nickcivetta2 Right. Two 250-ish yard drives and two putt for par. You should never more than 2-putt (ideally ;)).
First putt gets you within three feet, second putt sinks it.
If you can putt and drive you can scratch a lot of municipal courses. Chip and putt well and you can go whole rounds without doubles.
@@nickcivetta2 The lesson is correct, putting has more of an impact on scoring than drives, given you reach a certain skill floor. That being said, the only modern pro to rely solely on their putting was Jordan Speith and even he hit the ball 300 if he wanted to.
i can drive 250 yards right into the trees and 2 put though, takes me a couple to get out of trees
I've never picked up a golf club in my life, and yet, I'm here. idek.
Me too. Now I want to play golf
So you come onto RUclips with the sole purpose of watching things you already completely know about?
Give it a try! It's a lot of fun!
saaaame😂 how does this happen
AND i watched the whole thing..like
Graphic designer: what kind of thumbnail would you like?
Vox: Yes
Nice one
OH YEAH YEAH
Graphic Designer*
Web designers make websites
It's not even really a meme, it's the same type of people that think you use photoshop for anything everything
@@yes-gs2rd exactly, I hate people like these
“JuSt ChAnGe tHe CoUrsEs” everyone who says this doesn’t understand the amount of work or money needed for a golf course already
Exactly. Winged Foot is one of the only courses I know that is naturally unplayable for non-professionals. For a course to be tough for these guys, 99% of the courses would have to go through a massive rebuild for months.
Rush Rush that’s something that I haven’t seen a lot of people talk about. I work as a greens-keeper at a course that is 7,000 yards and a lot of golfers struggle, couldn’t imagine amateur/casual golfers on a pro length course, let alone even longer. If you don’t have any members to play there, the course won’t be able to stay at a pro-level very long.
Well.. it's rich people sport. Let them fix it with money.
Titleist have really successfully managed to whitewash history here, no doubt the pro v1 has been number one for the last 2 decades, but callaway certainly beat them to it with the rule 35, and if memory serves correct somebody else also brought out a soft solid core ball early in y2k (nike maybe). Titlesit were a good 6 months behind the times when the prov1 finally launched
@@BleachRush You're several decades behind on your analysis.
"a heavier ball would fall out of the air more quickly" guess we're back to the 1500s
With no air resistance that would be the case. But there is, making drag more pronounced if there is more mass
You mistake launching a projectile with letting it free fall.
It's just harder to hit far
@@macaddict1337 that isnt because its heavier though, thats because its going slower, and its going slower because its heavier, it isnt falling faster because it's heavier
Ever heard of air ressistance?
Man I sure do love Wii golf
Antler Coco so do Wii
Yo I shot par playing Wii Golf for the first time in years. Absolute professional here.
I hear the music
Speed run of Wii golf
Where's my Nintendo switch golf
Lmao bruh at 0:49 they use a sound clip of a driver hitting a ball, but the club that Bubba Watson is using is an iron
fukn exposed
I saw that and thought damn ping goes all out on their irons.
soy boys don't know anything about golf.
Absolutely unwatchable
Women watch these videos too u kno
"hairries made with hair, featheriess, made with feathers, gutties..."
**sweats**
“Made with sap provided by the gutta percha”
**phew**
It's made with your guts to see how hard you can hit the nut
then there were haires
me: ok
then there were featheries
me: ok
then there were gutteries
me: ok.... WAT WHAT
Fewdastrongone tbh me when I’ve read that the first time
I'd heard of em but I thought they were like wound cat gut or something not a solid bit of sap from like a rubber tree.
1:31 The real reason Woods was so heavily penalized in the pro circuit was because of his illegal use of telekinesis on the field
Hey Jop
How do you go about finding random news articles about golf from 1936?
Newspapers.com. The have every archived newspaper. The content in archived papers from the early 1900s are rather interesting. Go back to the 1800s and readers today would be amazed at what was printed.
just google it duh
Same as anyone who need news article from 1936.
Ancestry.com
Now it's newspaper.com before that there was a thing called a library
Man the editors at Vox are on point. I had to take a second look at the 0:49 iron swing audio that had a driver swing audio dubbed over. Noticeable to golfers, but not many others will realize.
I noticed IMMEDIATELY and couldn’t get over it the whole video
3:18 sounds like they hired the joker for the laugh
Idk how you make Golf more exciting, but making the ball slower and not hit as far, seems like the opposite.
No one is trying to make it more exciting. Golf is doing just fine as it is. Probably the best it's ever been.
Well it probably would be because it would force golfers to lay up and sometimes play high risk shots. Good shots from tough conditions are what’s fun to watch. Honestly not many care about how far they hit it
@@danielliao749 Yep. I'd much rather watch pros hit skilled shots rather than long drives.
5:29
"With the advent of even more efficient golf ball manufacturing techniques after 2020, Augusta eventually had to buy up the entire surrounding area for the 13th hole. This included a local hospital, a Denny's, a small wicker chair manufacturers, a military testing ground for nuclear weapons, 5 different branches of Starbucks, an independent clothing store known as 'The Only Fit', a park bench, a hot dog stand near by the bench who could not get out of the way fast enough for the course expansion, a millenial 'minamalist' condo, three square feet of sidewalk & half the front door step of one Mrs S Arnall, of 14 biggins street."
Sounds like some satire news show lol
Don't tell them about what had to happen to get that shed with all the lawn tractors to fit on the property.
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Wuut
Nobody gives Tiger credit for his ability to adapt to the huge change and still rack victories without a gap in that time. He was still that far ahead
Been seeing this kind of thing in lots of sports lately, with equipment innovations making people freak out. Like with swimmers using the synthetic shark skin suits, or with the new Nike running shoes. I get the concern about equipment inequality messing with competitiveness, so banning super duper expensive equipment makes sense, but if everyone has fair access to better equipment, then the sport needs to evolve to accommodate that, instead of arbitrarily restricting the players so they can’t actually achieve greater performance.
I wish I had the problem of hitting it too far.
I know right I havent noticed this distance increase
Ikr I average 250 off the tee
@DVN *sympathy laugh
Play a par 3 and use a driver and you'll hit well past the hole
Buff the courses instead of nerfing the balls. Slowly but surely thatll even it out.
Edit: Note to self... Don't comment until the end of the video
Is it easier to change every course on the planet, or just limit the technology available?
@@ajschroetlin2196 maybe just, do nothing, and just accept the fact people are hitting ball further?
Or change the scoring system
@@LG-xg8fw That just ruins the whole experience
Lol golf is so boring and they just want to keep it that way ig
"The club just bought the land behind the tee box to solve the problem."
Well that was a waste of time.
2:55 Thank you for finally teaching me how to say Titleist. I had no idea my pronunciation was so off
“tittle-east”
I often wonder ...
The only goal in Golf is to play less golf ... heh
That's the point of every sport? The point is to win and end the game? If it's too even then a game takes longer
@@edgaryh Mhhh ... Never thought about that thy ... Not every sport tho ... but it took me a while to find one ^^
@@edgaryh most sports have a set time, 90min for soccer, 40min basketball
@@icaroomdigital yeah, exta time and penalty shootouts are just a myth
@@edgaryh they are exceptions
Bubba Watson sounds like a new star wars villain
IVE GOT TO FIND BUUUUBBBBAAAA
Come on. Do you really think that?
I've heard that Bubba never took a golf lesson when he first got into the game. He just did things his own way.
Maybe because it sounds like Boba Fett
@@nick.4.yeah I know what i meant is that your subconscious would make you think that bubba sounds like the name boba Fett which is a star Wars villain
I have never played Gold neither have ever watched a Golf tournament. But this video narration and editing quality made me sit through it. Good job, Vox.
If the ball was the reason why professional golfers are driving it farther, then us recreational golfers would be seeing similar results. If fact, most recreational golfers are driving the ball about the same or maybe a little less than before the ProV1.
Do not underestimate the superior training and superior talent of today’s tour players. They drive it farther because they have access to the best trainers, the best coaches, the best launch monitors and the best club fitters.
2:35 ; The sound guy falls asleep on the board
Actually, he was hit with a Titleist Pro V1 golf ball.
I don;'t get it, what's wrong with the audio? The whoosh sound?
@@blahbleh5671 The audio on the right side spiked in volume for a second
@@freddiemercury6808 so weird I didn't hear that the first time I was on this video and I repeated the part like 5 times, all I heard was a whoosh sound but now when I return I can hear what you're talking about.
I dont hear it, maybe they have edited the video. You can edit after posting now btw of you didnt know.
My favourite part of this video is at 3:16 🤣🧔🏻
Agreed
Hahahahha rick in this video 🤣
After he finished cutting the golf ball, he did cut by half his own BALLS :)
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Never though I would see you here
#disapointment
2021: Now let me introduce you to Bryson DeChambeau
*Hits ball across lake at Bay Hill.*
Around 1998 callaway came out with big Bertha, the first titanium golf club that was bigger. I believe this also had a effect.
That was Great Big Bertha, the original Big Bertha was a steel head and came out before that.
For sure. The modern driver plays a much bigger part in this "problem" than the golf ball. Dumbing down the golf ball will do nothing but make the sport less appealing to casual viewers and give even more of an advantage to players that hit it far.
The golf ball that REALLY “made golfers to good” came out two years before the Pro V1. It was called the Lady Precept. It was a cult phenomenon and great players’ dirty little secret all around the country. Men would draw their putting line over the Lady script on the ball so people didn’t tease them but you could still recognize it by the maroon font. No pro shop in the country could keep them in stock. Titleist effectively rebranded the Lady Precept for men. FWIW.
@@CM-oe9ky If I remember, the popularity of the Lady, was more a of a club golfer thing. Personally, I think the jump in driving distance on tour had more to do with Titleist's market share, more than the ball itself. Solid core multilayer balls like the Strata and Nike Tour Accuracy(?) had been around and even won majors. However, most pros still played Titleist balls. The Pro V1 wasn't revolutionary, it was the new tech released by the biggest, most played, manufacturer.
Original Maxfli Revolution anyone?
If it within regulation. In the end, golf still tricky sport. One day you might play well the other you might be suck.
Caleb M IMHO the revolutionary change in golf balls led by the success of the Lady Precept, and culminating in the development of the Pro V1, was a reimagining of what made a golf ball perform. This is what I meant by my use of the term “copying”. I by no means meant to belittle Titleist and the staff who developed the Pro V line, it was an incredible achievement, or did I mean to suggest they ripped off Precept . But I believe Titleist’s success started with the ball industry throwing out the old rules of golf ball design because of the Lady Precept. If I remember correctly conventional wisdom back then was to play a ball with a compression that matched your swing speed to achieve maximum performance. The original Pro V through out that dated model because the Lady Precept proved it inaccurate. My memory isn’t what it use to be but I think that first ProV had a mid 70’s compression, that was unheard of at the time for a “tour ball”. The Lady Precept also had an incredible tough cover for its time because women’s focus groups wanted more durability. Back then the thinking was harder cover meant less feel but that wasn’t and isn’t the case, we now understand many other factors are at play. The credit I believe the Lady Precept deserves comes from the fact it broke the mold and sent the industry in a new direction. And the Laddie came out well after the success of the Lady in order to appease men to ashamed to play a women’s ball.
yoonit78 the balls you mentioned were incremental technological improvements in the make up of the golf ball. The revolutionary idea the Pro V1 capitalized on, that led the industry in a new direction, IMHO started with the Lady Precept. It forced a complete reimagining of how a golf ball reacted to the club and its subsequent performances. The old rules of golf ball manufacturing couldn’t explain the outstanding performance strong players were seeing with the Lady Precept. All the old rules of compression, “feel”, and top to bottom spin had to be recalibrated. The re-evaluation and discarding of previously conceived notions was the catalyst for change and I believe it started with the industry attempting to explain why the Lady Precept worked
2 things blow my mind
1. That titleist didn't sponsor this video
2. That Mike Austin hit the longest drive in tournament play at the 1974 U.S. National Seniors Tournament .The drive was done on level ground, using a persimmon wood driver with 10 degrees of loft and a 43.5" extra-stiff steel shaft, the ball was a soft balata and Mike Austin was 64 years old.
Chew on that Titleist
thanks for sharing
im spo glad i know all about all the golf balls since 1900s
Graphic designer: how would you like the thumbnail?
Vox: *yes.*
lame
lame, doesn't make sense, not how the joke works.
lame
Lame. Get a life.
Lame
this is really interesting as it shows an irl example of a sport having what games usually refer to as power creep
edit: ah of course nice nerf at the end of the video
It’s like Yu-Gi-Oh/Cardfight Vanguard/Overwatch but for middle aged men.
inb4 a temporary solution to a years old problem
gj
Football and basketball are having offensive power creep
They balanced the power creep by adjusting the map
At least the meta's less complicated, you just use the better ball. No real arguments about it, it's just what you use. Then it becomes more skill based. Can't say I'd mind that kind of thing in games more often, even though I know the different rules and variability is what makes the game more fun for people like me who don't sit around practicing League of Legends for 12 hours a day. I don't know, competitive gaming is rough.
The ball and club technology has improved so much. Also many years ago, it didn't seem like the best athletes chose golf. Now they have stud athletes like Koepka, Dustin Johnson and Woodland.
Golf ball innovation is not only distance. Feel and more importantly spin have been dramatically improved. Spin is especially important for short shots, allowing golfers to stop the ball on the green
what am i doing here i dont even play golf
None of us do 😂
It doesn't hurt to add some knowledge on something
its a fascinating video haha. i was big into golf when the pro v1 not only flew great but it felt softer off the club face. this doesn't seem like a big deal but the market loved that soft feel.
Mr. Rewind I do
Ayoo "I don't even play golf but this in my recommended" squad
Its because of the YoUtuBE aLGorITHm
Me
Not part of your squad. Sorry 😛
Squad meeting this Friday on that other recommended video.
Yes
3:10 Ahh, the classic Professional 90. I have one, and I can tell you this much. It's not a good distance ball, but it's very accurate. Never cut one open though (only if you want a mess)!
Me:Wait it was Kinda pay to win?
Them: Always have been
0:50 the sound of a driver but he’s using an iron?
look at the guy who actually plays this sport. I am too deep into different vox's videos to even go outside!
True
Saw it too, made me unreasonably mad lol
It’s what American shows like the pga tour do a lot
@@alexgandy2488 PGA Tour definitely doesn't do that, and I see no reason as to why they even would. I'm guessing Vox added it
This is cool but you guys also forgot stuff. The technique Also has changed over time. Another thing is that tour players don't got the farthest in terms of distance but the longest drive players do. For example Mike Austin holds the world record for the longest drive in professional play, driving 515 yards at the Winterwood Golf Course in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1974.
When a golf ad comes in before the actual golf video
OKAY RUclips, YOU WIN, YOU HAVE RECOMMENDED ME THIS VIDEO FOR LITERALLY 3 WHOLE YEARS NONSTOP ON 5 DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS, I WILL WATCH IT NOW JUST TO MAKE YOU HAPPY AND JUST TO GET IT OFF MY RECOMMENDED FOR THE LAST TIME
3:39 that chart is very misleading. It seemed as if the multi-layered ball is medium on both Distance and Accuracy.
You should have drawn it like a square, with axes being Distance and Accuracy.
What's with the audio? (2:35 etc.)
Glad I'm not going mad i thought i was the only one XD
Subtle signals for brainwashing.
I thought that was to tingle the brain so that you can catch something which is more important in the video??
Which song is it?
@@Wimbold almost forgot to wear my tinfoil hat, thanks for the reminder
This was so true at Medinah last week, once a course that was extremely tough was practically made obsolete with driver technology and ball tech. Instead of players having to work the ball they just cut all the corners
then make better courses that keep up with the tech
@0:49 that iron shot sounded like a driver shot. Nice audio editing !!!!
The further we hit the ball, the more expensive the game becomes
FORE!!!!!
Hahaha, you say that as though golf has ever been cheap
I'm not exactly supportive of tending to miles of greenery all for the purpose of being flown over by golf balls
Too true
Neat video, but it ended really abruptly. The whole video describes the problem and doesn't really explore solutions, other than "make the course longer". Some courses are extending tee blocks out, while others are just reducing par on some of the holes. It's a little sickening playing a 300 yard par 3.
The technology is improving but I'm finding that you don't need to spend top dollar to get some really high performing equipment. I would be really upset if most of the really advanced stuff was behind a pay wall that was outside the budget of the average golfer. Clubs are getting a lot more expensive these days, though, so hopefully things don't trend that way.
Because it's not actually a problem
That’s why you can choose between different tee boxes like
White -The longest
Yellow
Red
And sometimes even orange
Wich is for beginners
The easiest one in my opinion if all the pros just start playing wii golf instead or any VR golf if it ever come
I’ve seen testing done and there is only a couple yard difference between modern and old golf balls. I’d say the main reason is clubs being delofted to hit farther and golfers getting stronger
"that's 20 yards farther than what he was hitting when he was 30" is what really got me in this video
The only golf I've ever played is Wii sports golf
I've always been of the opinion that golf is a sport that's best played, not watched.
It's one man against himself, basically, and that doesn't make for exciting watching.
The only golf I have played is golf gti.
I'm a huge advocate for golden era golf course design (courses like Augusta National and Oakmont CC). The problem with solutions like Augusta's making holes longer is that it costs A LOT of money, not only when it comes to buying extra property, but also in watering and maintaining that land. Golf already has a sustainability problem that could easily be solved with better allocation of water and fertilizer resources and if the ball were rolled back to the technology of the 1990s, golf courses would be a lot better off. Sure, manufacturers would have to spend a lot of money, but the barrier of entry to playing great golf courses would be much more accessible and golf would have much lesser of a negative impact on the environment.
How would rolling back technology make extremely exclusive and expensive country clubs more accessible?
It doesn't necessarily but there are hundreds of public municipal and public courses around the country that have really good architectural bones and a roll back of technology lays the groundwork for restoration efforts on these courses.
Golf is one of the only sports that modifies the projectile . Why haven't they changed the puck , football , baseball , tennis ball . The equipment always changes but not the projectile .
That Stock News You’re comparing a truly individual sport, golf, to sports that require you to actually square off against an opponent, whereas golf is a game against the course.
Considering golfers don’t directly square off with one another as do hockey players, it’s pretty easy to understand why golf is unique in its love of new technologies.
@@mtb416 Well then the course owners are to blame they should just have to compete against the sport . Every year they should buy 5 yards of land for each hole and compete against engineering firms pumping 10's of millions a year into the golf ball technology alone ..
as a person that played golf once, i can assure you that 'gutties' were indeed made of stones from the red sea
0:49 Driver sound with an Iron...
Vox, did you actually use the Apple Notes app to make the thumbnail?
OK RUclips I CLICKED THE VIDEO NOW STOP PLS
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right. i hate when i get recommended old videos. I'm a programmer and if there's one thing I can do better than these so called "professionals" is STOPPING SOMETHING FROM HAPPENING IF IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN; no repeat recommendations please omg no annoying.
This
2:00 pro tip.......gutta percha is also used to fill root canals during root canal treatment.
@ .49 when Vox editors dub a diver sound over an iron swing xD
The end is the best: when you go to the newspaper library, the same thing always happens. You may not remember it, but almost always the debates are the same;)
I live in Augusta, and can concur that they buy everything around that damn course. Truly a fascinating company
Augusta will soon be one big golf course.
Have you heard the news about The National wanting to buy Washington Road all the way down to I-20?!
you guys ever worked for the Masters?
Supreme Polo yeah, way back when I was in high school. I worked there 2 years in a row. (junior and senior)
It takes skill to be able to hit that far accurately. I'm not sure why people look down on it.
Thank you Dean Snell and co.
I live in a small city of Russia. There's only mud and asphalt everywhere. Never even saw a proper lawn. But now i know what makes a golf ball fly farther.
Don't feel bad, lawns are a waste anyway.
FearMann I think I would kill myself if I lived in Russia
If you're in Russia simply drink moar...fear go away.
Even with a V1, I can’t hit a solid drive to save my life
It's all in the lag and the lower body torque. That's where the power comes from. Once I learned that I can now drive the ball further!
Robert Stone aye. Pretty cool advice
i capped out at 322 yards with pro V1 and an M1 driver. without that set-up im hitting 280
God forbid the sport should evolve...
Probably all these rich golf course owners not wanting to pay so much more in building new courses and the property tax on top of that
from your own data.. the average rose because golfers moved from wound ball (which favors accuracy) to an all-round ball(new tech)
Man, I love it when you guys avoid politics. This was a great video.
Good way to end your video by saying "in the end maybe it just doesn't even matter" lol
Spoiler alert
Good job with this video. I liked the style of your conveyance
I've been in the golf business now for over 25 years and I'd like to consider myself a semi qualified expert on the history of golf products. This video is simply incorrect. Callaway Golf changed the golf ball game in 2000 with the Rule 35 golf ball. It was the first golf ball to have a cast thermoset urethane cover. Every urethane ball produced after, owes a nod to Callaway Golf. There was a huge lawsuit between Callaway and Titleist back in the day for copyright infringement on the ball because the PROv nearly identical to the Rule 35 which came out a year earlier. Thank you to Callaway Golf for changing the golf ball game forever. I'm hitting the ball as far as I did in 2000 thanks to modern technology. Helps this aging golfer still feel 22...
So hes basically just chosen a brand that wasnt the first, but the concept and general idea is correct? Just interested thats all
@@matthewmcewen1 His statement was " The golf ball that changed the sport, The Prov1" The golf ball that changed the sport was the Callaway Rule 35, everything after that was a copy. Titleist was smart, they had the most popular golf ball brand in the world and someone produced a ball that smashed the performance of the Titleist Professional. So they came out with almost an identical product a year later and called it the PRO V1. To say the PRO V is responsible for changing the game, is a false statement.
@@colorspart ok. Thanks for clarifying. He has a knack for these incorrect statements. He made a video about how apple started switching interfaces from 3d to 2d but it was more microsoft's doing
This information goes along great with that joint I just smoked. Thanks.
No it doesn't.
@@localgames1 What? It was a subjective comment, not one with a yes or no answer.
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and I am giving my subjective answer.
@@localgames1 he wasn't asking for your opinion, he just wanted to say what he felt, leave him alone
@@1pumps And no one asked for his opinion. I'm also saying what I feel.
Stupid people everywhere.
You win, RUclips. I’ll watch this video.
Old golf courses: nooooooo! you can't just cut the corner with a hybrid golf ball!
Bubba: haha hybrid ball go piiiing
Edit: fixed misspelling
The distance argument (balls go too far) only relates to pros. The weekend hackers (99% of all golfers) still skunk it only around 180-220 yards, regardless of any new equipment. Also, there are already rules to limit the distance of both golf balls and clubs (compression/etc).
This is the type of thing I would’ve never been interested in but since it’s in my sub box I’m intrigued. Great video
Excellent video. Interesting an informative 👍
That course looks very interesting from an aerial view..
I think the balls and the new technology do help with distance, but as of recent there have been so many courses that just have longer holes. I like the idea of just lengthening courses/adding obstacles rather than trying to change part of the game.
This sounds like the dirty work of Shooter McGavin
FrogLungs see*!! I'm betting every golfer that watched happy Gilmore wanted to try hitting the ball further
The only golf I play is on video games. And I know ,long drives only really help on par 5 holes. They help to a lesser extent on par 4. Almost every hole has the potential for a birdie.
The thumbnail has to be the best ever!
I love that even the 1930s article made the "does it go too far?" pun.
Oakmont obsolete? It remains one of the hardest courses in golf. Dustin Johnson won the US Open at -4 and Paula Creamer at -3 and Angel Cabrera at +5 in 2007. 😂 come on man. Ever watched golf?
No one cares about golf
Spot on. Everybody with some knowledge about golf courses knows that Oakmont is a beast. Not even removing all their trees changed that.
@@grizzlixx I do
I like the production quality, thank you)
Before I Watched This Video A Golf Ad Came.. Is That A Coincidence?
I'm having audio issues and 2:36 made me think I was going crazy! haha
I thought my headphones were malfunctioning because of that.
Which song is it?
I'm so confused what are people talking about? Whats going on at 2:35
@@FaizanKhan-dj6pu they prob fixed it.
They did. It doesn't sound like that any more.