[quote]ORIGINAL: banktoturn
ORIGINAL: dick Hanson
ORIGINAL: banktoturn
Your guess as to the mechanism by which distance balls acquire lower spin rates doesn't happen to be the one that the ball manufacturers give, but it doesn't really matter. The salient observation is that balls intended to fly farther are designed to spin more slowly.
Salient:
Does the ball actually spin more slowly by design intent?
or
does the ball spin more slowly because the energy imparted by the club , is better transferred into forward motion
Sorta like a super ball.
Energy is a tricky thing
you have to account for all of it
the energy could either be used for
A- rotation
or
B- forward motion
You can't have yer Kate n Edith too.
Perhaps someone has wind tunnel documentation which prooves otherwise.
Anyone?
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That's a viable guess, but legal golf balls are restricted in terms of their initial velocity when leaving the club head. With that limitation, the spin can be chosen independent of the linear velocity to optimize the distance.
Either way, I don't think a wind tunnel would proooove anything about the energy.
Not being a golpher (?) I am surprised that velocity is restricted.
I suspeck that limit exceeds the practical ability of human golfers .
The wind tunnel inquiry was in jest.
Just pokin at the nest.