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The Ball Variable: Why Your Launch Monitor Is Only as Honest as What You Hit

New testing and ball-structure research reveal that the biggest discrepancy on the launch monitor isn't the camera or radar—it is the compression core of the ball you feed it.

Every golfer who has ever parked themselves in an indoor bay or set up behind a turf mat has experienced the sudden phantom drop in numbers.

Yet as recent head-to-head tracking and academic research into commercial golf ball structural differences reveal, golfers are often diagnosing the wrong culprit.

A newly published structural study in the National High School Journal of Science highlights how internal layer composition and core resilience in off-the-shelf golf balls alter…

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New testing and ball-structure research reveal that the biggest discrepancy on the launch monitor isn't the camera or radar—it is the compression core of the ball you feed it.

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