Re: Adapting to a New Board

Golf balls have dimples to help them spin faster, not fly futher. The
number and pattern of the dimples do effect the spin and distance, I
believe. However, this is yet another overly engineeric aspect of
sport. The average golfer can't draw or fade his golf shots with any
kind of control. The same goes for stopping the ball on greens with
backspin. It's like the difference between you and Pedro Martinez
throwing a baseball. It does amaze me how closely nit you Bay area
WSing Beach Bums are, though. Is that why they used the term, gaylord?
Jerry McEwen wrote:
On 23 Aug 2006 06:32:40 -0700, "Jrobb" <robbinskuma@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


Golf balls have dimples. That makes them fly far. :?

J
I remember those. Seatrend, right?

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