Below you will find a link to a video shot at 70,000 frames per second showing a golf ball hitting a steel wall at 150mph.
Just to put this into perspective, the average PGA Tour players generates ball speed of 165mph.
Our average member generates ball speed in the 100mph range.
A little golf ball history for you:
1- The Pro V-1 golf ball by Titleist is a three piece ball, but you have to have a club head speed of at least 100 mph (which generates a ball speed of 140mph) or more to be able to compress all three stages…If you don’t the ball never fully compresses and you wont' get the distance out of it that the pro’s do.
2- The average golfer will get more distance out of a ball that only has two stages of
compression… like the Titleist NXT Tour. It is more suited to our swing speed and we can
compress it upon impact and can hit it further than the Pro V-1 ball.
3- So the secret for the average players is not to buy the most expensive balls out there because we
are actually decreasing the distance we can hit the ball, unless your club head speed is over 100 mph! You are better off using a two piece ball which will give you more distance off the tee and make those approach shots easier!
Watch this video, this shows what a golf ball goes through when hit at 150
mph…it’s amazing to me how long these balls last. Maybe that’s why the
Pro’s use new balls every time they play...