I am doing my science fair project on “What golf ball travels the furthest”. I decided to do my project on this because there are so many brands of golf balls out there and i was curious to see if all the balls were the same or different. I will be testing some of the top brand golf balls to see which golf ball bounces and travels the furthest.
Golf is a game of the Scottish origin, and is one of the most popular sports in the world. Golf has been played by over 24 million people. Golf has become so popular that it has caught the eye of many people and has received world wide television coverage. When the Roman Emperors played a game called “paganica”, which was a bent stick that hit a soft, feathered-stuffed ball called a “feathery”. The “feathery” was a leather sack stuffed with boiled goose feathers. The feathery golf ball was expensive to make and was easily damaged. The soft feather-stuffed ball was about 7 inches in diameter. However by the …show more content…
It is not unusual to see golfers spend several hundreds of dollars on a new driver, even though they often can’t hit it as its performance level. The physics of a golf shot is about materials absorbing energy and elastically returning it, involving both the club and the golf ball. The game of golf has become a money making game. Golf balls are usually white in color; however you can get them in about any color that you want. It has been determined that before making your own choice on which golf ball you want to know that distance doesn’t have to be hard, performance doesn’t have to be expensive. Tour golf balls are not always the choice of every player and that accomplished players should select their golf balls with the type of weather and golfing conditions that are
Golf is a game of the Scottish origin, and is one of the most popular sports in the world. Golf has been played by over 24 million people. Golf has become so popular that it has caught the eye of many people and has received world wide television coverage. When the Roman Emperors played a game called “paganica”, which was a bent stick that hit a soft, feathered-stuffed ball called a “feathery”. The “feathery” was a leather sack stuffed with boiled goose feathers. The feathery golf ball was expensive to make and was easily damaged. The soft feather-stuffed ball was about 7 inches in diameter. However by the …show more content…
It is not unusual to see golfers spend several hundreds of dollars on a new driver, even though they often can’t hit it as its performance level. The physics of a golf shot is about materials absorbing energy and elastically returning it, involving both the club and the golf ball. The game of golf has become a money making game. Golf balls are usually white in color; however you can get them in about any color that you want. It has been determined that before making your own choice on which golf ball you want to know that distance doesn’t have to be hard, performance doesn’t have to be expensive. Tour golf balls are not always the choice of every player and that accomplished players should select their golf balls with the type of weather and golfing conditions that are