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Splat! 70000 fps Video of a "golf ball" hitting a steel plate at 150 mph [1]

['Rob Beschizza']

Date: 2024-11-29

In this footage posted by Sports News, said to be recorded at 70,000 frames per second but played back at about 5 fps, a ball splats against a steel plate at 150 mph. That's quite a drive!

I'm going to go out on a limb, though, and suggest that something is not quite what it seems: either the ball is not a normal, modern golf ball, or it's hitting the plate a lot faster than 150mph. Here's another recording of less obscure provenance (150 mph, 40,000 fps, at the USGA Research and Test Center in Far Hills, NJ) and higher quality, which shows a less cartoonish (though I think more interesting) outcome:

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