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

I was SHOCKED at these results, what the heck!! For me, are golf ball manufacturers actually holding back our distance?! Well.. i think you need to watch this. Bryson Salt ball test results in more distance? Today we use Epsom Salts to see if golf balls are actually round and. if this makes a difference in dispersion, distance and EXTRA control when putting! Are GOLF BALL manufacturers HOLDING back your distance (SALTY BALL TEST)

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[HowGoodGolf]

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

[bb-feur]

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.

[recoilrob]

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; 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 basis.

[egrfx]

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?

[richardburger]

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.

[zanefoster]

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.

[shawnlewis]

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.

[jimbaldwin]

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.

[jessehudson]

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

[Groovethumper]

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.

[jeremywood]

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

[markroper]

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

[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.

[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.

[Pud]

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

[DAYLM]

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

[alastairhoffmann]

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

[Norstein]

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