Are GOLF BALL manufacturers HOLDING back your distance (SALTY BALL TEST)

[@HowGoodGolf]

*So who’s going to be salting their balls? 🤣*

[@BobbersInWisconsin]

I'll continue to do so as I have for more than 20 years.

[@uglygolf]

I will....if she likes tequila 😮😂

[@loknaz97]

Salty chocolate balls.

[@danthemaninfierno]

​@@loknaz97put 'em in your mouth and suck 'em!

[@hypeNT500]

@@HowGoodGolf my balls do not need to be salted. My balls already feel great to the touch

[@bb-fe9ur]

It's funny that because Bryson uses every little trick to make things as standard, balanced and reapeatable as possible. Therefore its somehow cheating. It blows my mind, he's just trying to use everything to be the best he can. None of what he us doing is new , the difference is he seems t be doing all of them. In order to possible gain a competitive edge. In my opinion that is the true test of a competitor.

[@recoilrob324]

I've been floating balls in concentrated Epsom salt solution for close to 30 years and the biggest effect is on putting where an unbalanced ball will drift off line toward the heavy side. Some people made a flat surface with laser aligned ramp so they could roll balls consistently to the hole. After testing a whole bunch of balls only a handful made it into the cup....so they did it again after marking the balls and sure enough...the ones that had come out of the cup hit it again while the others went wide. Some that missed left now missed right...and they were confused until they checked the static balance by floating them and found the issue. Once the light spot was marked the balls would consistently miss left or right depending on how they were placed as they were released. Out on the course when they're being spun 2000-10,000 rpm depending on the club the imbalance makes a lot less of an impact...but for sure on the green if your ball has a heavy spot and it ends up on one side or the other...the ball is going to drift in that direction.

[@BobbersInWisconsin]

I've done this with my golf balls for well over 20 years, Bryson didn't "invent" the concept. Golf balls, made by the millions, have manufacturing tolerances and the vast majority are not going to be "perfect" in terms of concentricity, weight distribution, etc. I "spin" the ball as it enters the epsom solution and let it come to rest. Like you, I pinch it and raise it straight up so I can mark the "high point", i.e. the lightest spot on the ball with a dot from a marker. When driving off the tee or putting I put the dot facing up and centered so I now have the lightest point up and the heaviest point touching the ground. I've been scoffed at, which doesn't bother me. Gave one of my playing buddies a couple of what I always think of as "balanced" golf balls and asked him to do one thing for me. For simplicity sake let's say a golf ball has 300 dimples. Meaning a perfect ball, based on probability, would have the same dimple pointing up as the ball comes to rest perhaps 1 time every 150-300 shots. The statisticians can argue the probability formula, all I'm trying to do is keep the answer simple. I asked my friend to keep track of how often the ball, once struck with any club, came to rest with the marked dimple pointing straight up. Long story short it was about 8-10% of the time; waaaaay more than probability or random chance would indicate. My conclusion? Something other than random chance is at work. I know Maxfli golf balls, the current models, are rare in the UK and very common here in the US. Their "Tour" line actually comes with the "CG", center of gravity, marked on the ball in the middle of the alignment aid printed on the ball. It's an extra step in the manufacturing process and while I understand the hype in the marketing of golf products (longer, more/less spin, pro tour use, etc., etc.) one has to ask why a manufacturer would add cost to a product if there was absolutely no benefit to the user? And, if the lack of benefit could be demonstrated, the "hit" the brand identity could well suffer in terms of backlash. Ok, probably typed too much and don't want anyone's eyes to glass over. Long story short, the concept works on a scientific/physics/engineering basis.

[@k9feces]

The maxfli balls are awesome, plus no one plays maxfli so it’s easy to ID your ball.

[@HowGoodGolf]

Great point

[@Evan_Rodgers]

All that work won’t stop you from 40 putts. Go practice your game instead of looking for fake gimmicks.

[@BobbersInWisconsin]

@@Evan_Rodgers A combination of practice AND eliminating variables that can be controlled as part of preparing to play, in my opinion, trumps using only one avenue. We can agree to disagree. Happy new year to you and yours.

[@zanefoster9352]

Ralph Maltby of the Golfworks and Maltby Golf Clubs has been doing this for over 30 years. He says that if you use the one with the dot and it comes back to the dot that you can still use that, but you have to place the dot looking up at you from the tee. When hit and you find it down the fairway that dot should be facing up at you again. In theory the unbalanced ball has been balanced. I used to do this back 20+ years ago, but time consuming. When I owned my own custom shop I did this for local golfers. I cannot remember the exact mixture that Maltby Golf uses, but they do offer a kit with instructions.

[@jeremywood2129]

been doing this for years with normal table salt plus a drop of detergent to break surface tension. makes putting a lot more accurate

[@egrfx6562]

What I would really like to see if the salted balanced ball remains balanced after it’s been hit with driver and irons or will the strikes deform the ball enough to lose balance? Assuming how meticulous Bryson is, he would’ve thought of this too?

[@Groovethumper69]

@@egrfx6562 modern golf balls don’t deform like third balatas and wound ones used to. I can remember putting a knot on a few wound balls back in the day due to the bands inside breaking after being hit.

[@johncoyne6823]

I tried this last year when I saw it on Lets Play thru, I totally agree with your conclusion.

[@richardburger4859]

I'd say to really get an answer you'd have to do a blind test with the Drives, you not knowing which is which. Then any "bias" you unconsciously might be putting in will be eliminated. Of course the balls will either have to be marked exactly the same if you are using one with an off center balance point. So use a #1 and #2, you dont know which has been in the salt, if then you get the same result there might be something. As for the putting, I think there may be something there, as hitting a ball with the center off to one side or the other would likely be effected by gravity a bit more.

[@f1remandg]

It was a fair experiment and i thought you summed it up correctly! having a Steinway doesn’t make you a pianist, it might make a top pianist sound better. you have to know what your doing wrong! superstition? Borg never shaved, but i do know that in my youth, i had a very good snooker Cue and if i picked up the wrong one, i knew straight away, proved it in a blind testing of six cues and i used to borrow a very good scratch players, and I picked mine and then said the fourth one was the one i used to borrow, remember, you use that club the most, every round, you use it probably 5 times more each round that’s 4.5 to 32 for putter.

[@gudjonsimonarson8575]

Can you please inform me what analysis device are you using and what is the price of it

[@jimbaldwin2155]

Don't you have to have just enough Epsom Salts to float the ball just under the surface of the water? That would eliminate the surface tension of the water. Letting the ball free float.

[@markroper1956]

My wife will kill me for using her wooden spoon..... So who's holding the camera?

[@HowGoodGolf]

not my wife 😂😂😂

[@jessehudson3377]

The distance can be explained one you did have half a mile an hour difference in the swing speeds that doesn’t seem a lot but when you get approximately 2.7 yards per mile an hour. You swung the club half a mile an hour faster which means you should get about a yard and a half more well rounded up that’s 2 yards. That was your difference. You swung the club half a mile an hour faster you’re gonna get a little bit more ball speed also you didn’t show us the Daen loft of each. There could be a difference there lastly, with the speed you showed us assault on the driver so if you didn’t clean the golf balls after your test, you’ve ruined your test because the salt could be affecting the spin on the driver, which couldn’t create more yardage

[@LH-my4th]

Bryson did not just come up with this idea, it's been around for 50 years plus, the Media and the haters must have their say, The test carried out in this video is too simple and not taking spin attack and other elements into consideration, Therefore, Nothing to see here,😡😡😡😡

[@Groovethumper69]

I first saw this done by Dave Pelz on his Golf Channel Show back in the 90’s. So it’s definitely not a Bryson invention. Not sure who was the first though, and in those days the balance point was a bigger issue due to the ball being wound.

[@seanbaines]

Epsom salts is an old trick. I first heard of it from a Ralph Maltby video he did back around 2000 or so. Kinda funny. He splashed himself with the solution when dropping the ball in. :) Had to go change his shirt.

[@shawnlewis9656]

Hey Alex. Of the balls that you found to be balanced, did you check any of them again after they've been played from tee to green? If so, were they still in balanced OR did a couple of strikes from an iron and driver put them out of balance? If they're out of balance by the time they get to the green, the only benefit is if they went straighter playing up the fairway. For us mere mortals, I don't think we are consistent enough with our swing for it to make a real difference, UNLESS they are still balanced when they get to the green, in which case they could possibly be better for putting.

[@HowGoodGolf]

Yeah i checked it twice… strange! Good point though

[@shawnlewis9656]

@@HowGoodGolf were they still in balance after a few hits from iron or driver?

[@alastairhoffmann9079]

The mechanics of this are relatively simple - all other things being equal, a balanced ball will fly straighter than an unbalanced ball. I would expect that the longer the shot, the more the physical difference between where a balanced and unbalanced ball end up.

[@LuckyTheSaint]

It isn’t Bryson it’s his caddy. An the salt on the ball may help the flight. The grains of salt on the ball may add to the dimple effect of the ball. Also it adds slight bits of mass

[@thehairygolfer]

There are only 3 manufacturers who DO NOT have a product line just for their Pros. You cannot buy Brysons balls in any shop, he has his own production line just like Tiger had and still does. The rest of us buy the lower quality ball and some of them are dire when tested by robot.

[@MrShank12u]

Probably only makes a noticeable difference on the Fastest of Greens

[@andybarton234]

Did ordinary salt work?

[@winterpatriot4574]

When you hit a drive as hard as Bryson, an off center ball seems like it would impact him more than someone hitting their drive 230- 280.. It is just angles extended over longer distances.. If he feels he gets one more putt a round, or hits fairway more often, that makes sense. I think hitting shorter putts or drives has less of a difference than hitting bombs, so I don't think a guy hitting 10ft putts and 280 yard drives is a good test subject.. Sorry, you are no Bryson DeChambeau, none of us is..

[@Norstein49370]

What’s the big deal? This is nothing new, I did this in early 90’s, not a new idea from Bryson.

[@DA22YLM]

Chef from South Park knew when he was talking about with his Chocolate salted balls!!

[@franks4973]

In order to be faor O rhink you have to mark 10 unsaled balls before you hit. Line them up hit them. Retrieve the balls, salt them and mark with diff color. Hit them again. Retrieve and then hit them again not on rhe marks. Then compare the data.

[@HeathSz]

Hogan did it in the hotel bathtub before every tournament. So the process is nearly 80 years old.

[@Abdullah_Chill]

I would feel like such a prat doing all that, then when I finally make it to the course, first tee shot straight into the bush. Would ruin the whole round!

[@Dartanian1959]

Its not about salting the ball as it is about balancing it.. the salt should've been washed off

[@craigmcdermott1529]

Are we guessing what balls are being used or do we all know as it’s obvious? Interesting video though with the way Bryson is and promotes himself

[@stevepeary5322]

Do you mean balanced vs unbalanced rather than salted vs unsalted.

[@nxrifty824]

Why didn't u test the unbalanced salty ball to see how it affects shot shape, eg heavy side on the right at tee does it fly right or left similar to the effects of a mud ball

[@HowGoodGolf]

good point

[@berylwright3301]

its so interesting😊

[@guyr7351]

The balls are not balanced, all you are doing is identifying the heavy/light spot. To balance the ball you would need to be adding weight as per car wheels getting balanced. Let’s play through did a similar experiment last year seeing if the ball behaves consistently with the same heavy / light spot being identified. If a ball comes to rest and a different point is at the top each time that ball is evenly balanced as it’s showing no bias

[@primed1398]

I've tried a different condiment... And now I'm peppering the pin 😅

[@HowGoodGolf]

😂😂😂😂

[@Dartanian1959]

Bryson has proven it does bias the shot even if only .01% its bias none the less!

[@petemajor4454]

That trick has been known for years😂

[@richardallen6219]

This isnt what i wanted to see. Honestly, i thought you were gonna show us what happens when you hit the salted balls with the unbalance and show us how much it could affect our shots when we as the average golfer feel that we hit it good. We want to be able to blame something...if this is something we can blame, show us how much it hurts us.

[@jimmyjackson5605]

surely golf ball manufacterers should not be selling duff golf balls or unbalanced golf balls.....if this is to be proved....what next another court case😮😮😮😮

[@hypeNT500]

salty balls are great

[@Pud56]

Bryson is a student of the game, he uses lots of Hogan’s tricks, also Moe Norman, I’m suspect he found this idea that way

[@ericfletcher2887]

Appreciate all the time and effort you put into this test but come on man there are SO MANY VARIABLES with each driver swing from 1. was swing path in to our or out to in and at what percentage of angle 2. Where did you hit the ball on the club face 3. What was the dynamic loft at impact to see if you were swinging more up or more flat or even perhaps a descending strike AND I could go on with more variables because if you hit the exact same ball 20 times you would get 20 different results for all the club swing angles of in to out or out to in or swinging more up or where you hit it on the club face etc. You would have to do this test with a swing robot that has the EXACT SAME CLUB PATH AND STRIKE LOCATION to get accurate results. You also said swing speed was exactly the same but it was .5 MPH faster and the guy that commented about 1 MPH equals about 2.7 yards difference is correct.

[@igolffff]

This isn't a scientific discovery being nominated for a Nobel Prize. It's a golf ball vid on youtube. Is there a chance you're taking the GAME of golf too seriously?

[@HowGoodGolf]

great point

[@edrobinson998]

All the pros do this mostly for putting.

[@shadyzz9549]

There’s no way a human being could ever accurately test this… as not one human can possibly recreate the literal thousands of factors during a golf swing, not on,y of the swing itself but also outside conditions per each swing. Sorry folks, far too many of you took shop class or home economics as an elective in high school as opposed to science. FFS the ridiculous gimmicks that golfers fall for, over and over and over. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Not to mention that even if it did matter at all, you’d have to spin each ball much faster and unstable than that each time, at least 10 times each in tightly controlled conditions, to even come out with an actual proper result for each ball during that test.