Why It’s Almost Impossible to Drive a Golf Ball 450 Yards (ft. Dustin Johnson) | WIRED
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- WIRED's Robbie Gonzalez looks at carry vs. total distance, breaks down the biomechanics of the tee shot, and gets tips from Dustin Johnson, one of the top drivers on the tour, to find out why it's Almost Impossible to drive a golf ball 450 yards through the air.
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Why It’s Almost Impossible to Drive a Golf Ball 450 Yards (ft. Dustin Johnson) | WIRED - Sport
I once drove a golf ball 2341 miles. I remember that the whole trip I was like, "What is that noise coming from the trunk?
Mark Johnson lmao this made me laugh too hard
I hope others understand
Lol
Lies lies lies
haha. funny.
"I beg to differ. Happy Gilmore achieved that feat no more than an hour ago.
Well moron...good for happy gil...OH MY GODDD
You have to go for swiftly have to hit really low. Have to hit straight
And you can count... on me waiting for YOU in the parking lot
@@reapersmind7162 hey shooter haven't you forgot your nine iron
No he forgot his putter
Why it’s almost impossible to score over 300 in bowling
OMG yes plz
Had me rolling. Thanks!
With Canadian five-pin bowling, the max is 450.
They arnt trying hard enough
That video would be 10 minutes and 1 second long
June 2019: Impossible for a consistent 450 yard drive.
June 2020: Bryson Dechambeau - hold my bag...
*also Kyle Berkshire*
Thats exactly what I was waiting for in the comments 😂🤣
Bubba Watson too
I don’t think Bryson averages carry at 450 though. As impressive as it is. Good to see him transition it into some wins! See how it does long term for him.
Bryson hits is 345 carry no wind. 360-400 with roll
I'll be looking forward to the next video in 20 years titled "Why it is almost impossible to drive a golf ball over 520 yards"
Agreed, this entire serious is a joke. It's entertaining, but a joke nonetheless.
Totally disagree. It was really interesting. I loved it.
I think the series is interesting. In some cases gear does limit performance, such as in golf. So this exact episode is perhaps not "impossible enough", but rather limited to 450 yards. Others have serious physiological barriers that can be hard or impossible to breach.
Think they should look up world long drive tour before making videos like this
Lol no, that won’t happen. Average tour driving distance has only increased around 13 yards in the past 20 years, and because of the COR limits, it will likely remain stagnant. Then there’s the long drive champions (who rarely play any tour events, as they just don’t have the overall skills). They would have to shorten their drivers to 48” or under, as that’s the max allowed on tour, which would bring their distances down even more. Long story short, averages will stay around ~ 300-310 unless the rules change.
Really great video 👍
Love ur channel dude
Hey rick
I am not sure if he answered the question why it is almost impossible to drive more than 450 yards. In the beginning of this video, it seemed like he was gonna prove it mathematically using physics (laws and equations of motion, friction, swing speed, launch angle, v-notch impact test, physical strength etc etc in addition to just the COR .)
Nice video Ricky boy
You only said that cause they cut the corn syrup ball. I know you Shielsy. Hahahahaha top shelf good man
Besides the mechanical limits, there is also an exponential increase in drag on a golf ball the faster it travels
BROOKSY!!!!
until it breaks the sound barrier
@@edge21str that is not the limit to drag. It is quadratic not exponential and it does not care about the sound barrier
@@Julian79.. I was just trying to make a joke and I'm not too versed on the subject, but doesn't drag coefficient decrease as speed increases past mach 1?
@@edge21str yes you are totally right, there is a sharp increase in the drag coefficiwnt at mach 1 and it decreases with higher speeds again. I did not know that, apperently the compressibility of air is the reason. Thanks and sorry for then false information
Kyle berkshire: "Hold my beer"
Anyone can drive over 450 yards in the right conditions, on flat level ground with normal roll out kyle does not hit 450
@@anyexpat Kyle gets 150+ club head speed and 225+ ball speed so the ball should go farther than others
@@neonwhite7445 I am pretty aware of this but the fact remains that in the RIGHT conditions anyone can drive that far and in the wrong conditions Kyle might struggle to hit 300 YARDS, conditions are everything and on a regular day no one hits 450.. without elevation / wind or roll out.
@@anyexpat bro you have clearly not seen his CZcams channel he hits an 8 iron 298 on the course, he can drive it over four yards on a course when he wants too
@@blueberryslayer7795 Cannot be arsed to break it down for you, but that sim number is pure fantasy.
“Why’s it almost impossible to hit a golf ball over 450 yds”
I’d be happy to reach 250
Not Me Not Me I’d be happy to reach 50
I would be happy to hit 150
nobody cares
Ivan Kontra no one cares about you but we don’t go around saying that
@@gangstamyg6115 If you're a kid like your name suggests, you'll get there soon, being smaller will make it harder to just get the physics of hitting a ball far.
"why its almost impossible to drive a golf ball 450 yards"
Scene1 :
host: "The PGA says you're not allowed"
End scene
roll credits
Lololol. Nice.
This. Wish at the end they broke every rule with club/ball to get maximum distance.
If you asked Mark Rober if it was possible to drive a golf ball 450 yards, he would say, "Hold my engineering degree."
The weird thing is his rocket powered golf club was slower than some long drive pros. lol
@@ryzikx proof?
bwakel310 Look up Kyle Berkshire’s swing speeds in the last tournament. He swung up to 153 mph iirc.
AsianGameBox no it was more than twice as fast
Golf ball: How far can I go?
Dustin Johnson: Yes
meme: how many likes can i ask
vAqeii: yes
Mark Rober: Yes. 3 seconds later: screams in joy
How far would he go for a Klondike Bar?
Excellent !! well done, informative, comprehensive treatment. Thank you!!
Netflix: are you still watching?
10:28: someone’s daughter
I just looked in the comments to find a comment like that
went to like your comment but why ruin perfection
Carry distance is surely a better metric than total distance, but you still have to account for wind speed and height difference between start and land positions. That's why carry can vary quite a lot.
When I used to play golf, bouncing off the cart path was a major part of my game.
Cheater
Vice Richter r U just joking? Cause you are allowed to bounce it off a cart path
@@sensationalseb7576 its cheating
@@vicerichter1163 don’t hate the player hate the game
@@vicerichter1163 it’s not cheating
Mike Hoke Austin in the 1974 U.S. National Senior Open hit a 515-yard drive.
The tee shot is listed in the Guinness Book of Sports Records as the longest hit in competition. More amazing, he used a 41" Steel shafted club with a Persimmon Head, and a Titleist Balata Ball.
Oh, and one other thing, Mike Austin was 64 when he crushed his record drive.
He was actually 59, Steve Pratt has the census records that prove this. Remove the altitude and the tailwind and the drive was 480 yards.
@@WeaverJ576 even so, still an incredibly long drive
Do a swimming one next! Sprinting a certain yardage or finishing a race in a certain time!!
This is becoming one of my favourite series
This was an awesome overview! Great video!
You guys should do a video on why it's almost impossible to serve over 160 mph in tennis
80" long club and swing it around like a hammer throw - yeeeet
Nice I love these videos. You should do another one about basketball, like dunking or 3 point shooting
Quality video. Very clear and understandable explanation.
This series is amazing! You should also do one on badminton - "Why It's Almost Impossible to Smash Shuttlecock 400 kmph?"
There's no way they even go 100
This is the most I've seen Dustin talk
Great video, very informative. A lot of useful facts.
first class video. Thank you!
"its corn syrup.." i died
13:48 "There's almost no incentive to ever completely sacrifice control entirely in the name of distance." - John Daly
a statement which inherently makes no sense, as you don't get distance without control.
If the shot is completely uncontrolled then it will be shorter than if it is even marginally under control.
John used to tell his caddy that when he was going to swing shout out, CRUSH it John.
Love this series !
The best way to look at the golfers swing, is to liken it to a watch spring. Drawing to club back is tightening the spring and hitting the ball is the release of the spring or unwinding the spring.
I saw Gonzalez try to throw a baseball. He's no better swinging a club.
Wired: Releases this video.
Happy Gilmore: Am I a joke to you?
Wired: Yes
Thank you for actually using the word "Farther" properly. Sooooo many people would have been saying "further" the whole time.
I’ve been waiting for this episode forever
"Happy Gilmore accomplished that feat no more than an hour ago."
Dammit....came here to make this comment.
Well moron, good for Happy GilMOH MY GOD!
"Hey Shooter, haven't you forgotten your 9 iron?"
feat*
"Why it's almost impossible to drive a golf ball 450 yards"
Bryson DeChambeau - Almost? Hold my protein shake!
Bryson averages like 327
@@jhaz89 he can still hit it farther moron
@@rylandcarroll3767 True. The dude should have used Kyle Berkshire as his example though. He's actually driven the ball over 450 yards before
@@jhaz89 yea i agree but bryson has hit it that far before
@@jhaz89 also sorry for calling you a moron my apologies
Awesome video Dude. Thank you
I hit a golf ball 450 yards once... two lucky bounces off a cart path and a third bounce to kick it back into the fairway. One in a million shot.
Don Johnson in Tin Cup hit it about 700 yards with a 7 iron.
He hit it down the fuckin' road....😂
Mike Austin set the record for a tour event of 515 yards at the age of 64--look him up
It's all about swing arc,and timing of hands,arms,hips,legs and shoulders at impact to generate club head speed.the longer the arms,the longer the shaft combined with swing timing that produce swing speed.
and you have to hit the ball with a club head traveling 120mph such that the sweet spot on the face of the club (about the size of a pin point) makes contact with the ball with the face of the club closing relative to its arc such that when the ball leaves the club face it is going to an area 320 yards away that is only 30 yards wide - good luck everybody
I needed this
Swing easy, happy golfing.
Asking dj how to hit a drive is like asking the same question to one of those toy magic 8 balls
"ask again later"
Please do a similar video on Cricket ball mechanics!
Tell that to Mike Austin lol. He hit 513 on the senior tour in the 70s with a Persimmon wood and a balata ball. He also drove 450 odd in the 50s in a tournament without the wind he had in the 70s.
"Remember the ultimate goal is to get to the hole"... Don't worry. This objective is in my head every day.
Deja vu.
Ive feel like ive been in this place before
G.A.M.E SMASHERS wii sports lmao
I just wanted to give you some advice for future video’s. It’s hard to pay attention to the fantastic writing/dialogue/narration with calves like that in my face. Food for thought.
I hit one 450 yards once... during a drought in southern Cali when they stopped watering the fairways. It was downhill, with none of that silly grass stuff to stop it.
Hole 4 on the US Open is par 4 but only 320 or 330 yards. I'm surprised that not many golfers use a driver to try and reach the green in one
V1ct0r Han it’s uphill and the green is protected by bunkers and fescue. Not worth it at all.
@@ryzikx How wide is the front of the green?
V1ct0r Han I don’t know exactly, but the only person to hit the green that I know of this tournament was Xander Schauffle
How it is almost impossible to generate 10 000 rotations per minute with a tennis racket
I’d like for you guys to do a segment on disc golf!!!
It would be great, if you added the numbers in metric system
golf distances are generally measured in yards
you will not see the USGA lift restrictions because that would antiquate countless historic golf courses
“Don’t expect to see that on the PGA tour anytime soon”
Bryson Dechambeau - “and I took that personally”
Best wired series!
Why it's Almost Impossible to cure a case of the "yips" in golf, featuring Charles Barkley.
He is already cured
Lol
Fox D we need him to make the rest of us feel better
Players have been finding ways to hit the ball farther? Yeah, by finding Pro V1s in their bags.
Matt Brown sell out😂
Well that's just false
Great video! More...please...
What the dimples do is make the ball fly and be able to be controlled by the player. If you hit a ball without dimples you will mostly hit knuckle balls with crazy movement.
Who's here to see Dustin Johnson's amazing swing?
Nicholas Johnson is a great player but with his talent and only have 1 major is ridiculous. He folds everytime hes in contention on sunday in majors. He usually is right there makes a run gets close or leads at some point then collapses. Im sure he dosent care because these guys make sooo much money but he should of had at least 5 or 6 by now with his talent.
@@jeffreyval9665 trust me
He cares. A lot. 50 million net worth is a lot. 200 million is a lot more. Lol
Why is it almost impossible to bowl faster then 161.3 km/h in cricket
Nobody cares about cricket that's why
@@mikebarnes7441 Cricket is the second most viewed sport in the world
STFU It's more popular than either American football or Baseball
Because Jeff Thompson retired
@10:52 Anyone remember Superballs? I miss those.
Let's see an episode on the Tennis serve. The evolution of rackets,strings,and balls over the years would be interesting.
8:28 He's nodding his head pretending like he understands
Not gonna lie, the golf ball expert looks exactly like his profession.
The game was better back in the woods and forged iron days. Much harder. Par was a good score on all the holes. A 400 yard hole wasn't a driver wedge; reaching a par 5 in two wasn't automatic. When I got the new equipment I gained 50 yards on my drives. It was fun at first, but then as I started playing all the old courses I'd enjoyed, I was practically driving all the shorter par 4s. It felt cheap. It cheapened the game. But the genie's out of the bottle now....but everyone's who's so wowed by these distances probably never touched those old clubs. They were a real challenge, but learning the nuances was an art. It was a better game. And it was especially better when people walked and carried their bags. Old school guy here.....
what about the happy gilmore swing where you walk up and swing
I would like for golf to play more accurately and not so long
"Why it's almost impossible to drive a golf ball 450 yards"
Mark Rober: Am I a joke to you?
Mike Austin a mountain of a man holds the record for the longest drive in professional competition. Mike 's record is 515 yards and was done at the National Seniors Open, what is now the Senior Open and Mike was 64 years old at the time, he struck the shot with a 35 MPH tail wind and was at about 2,000 feet above sea level and he was using a Persimmon Driver with a steel shaft . Mike as I said was a very big man with massive hands and he was naturally strong as an ox, an ex WWII fighter pilot and a bare fisted brawler in his early days Mike was a true student of the game and is most likely the father of what is now the Long Drive Championships which are gaining in popularity on ESPN. Mike taught some of the game longest hitters back when Persimmon drivers were still used and 350 yards back then was a massive hit. Mike's record setting drive in a professional event still stands to this day as the mark the games current biggest hitters all chase, I am sure one will find the conditions right some day as Mike did, but having met this very special man personally I hope the record stands for a long time to come, Mike is no longer with us but his record stands as a testament to his teaching style that used the hips in a bell like motion coupled with the leverage of the ground to just pound the ball.
Nice shot!
You didn’t answer the title question 😂
I feel good when I drive one straight out to 240.
That's strange, over 30 years ago. There was a man in Macomb County, Michigan. That was regularly. Shooting world record drives of almost 500 yards.
do rowing next please
It has been hit over 450 many times by some world long drive champions.
It's also impossible to break a score of 18 on a golf course.
Dang Dustin's eyes scoffed at the host when he said he wanted to try driving around the 3:06 to 3:07 mark
The longest drive was done by Michael Hoke Austin on 25-9-1974 (471 m).
*someone drives a golf ball 450 yards
Weird: why it’s almost impossible to drive a golf ball 451 yards
Abrahim Eisa this is unappreciated,I love it😂
8:02 "inverted cone technology." so a funnel?
Actually, it looks like a crater aka the caldera of a volcano. The rim of the caldera works like the sides of a trampoline. The caldera is made larger to have not only a sweet(est) spot but also a sweet area where a non-perfect hit still gets a lot of distance.
I thought it was due mainly with my poor driving, but glad to know there are other reasons.
Great video
They won't allow changes that will make players hit longer. There have been studies showing that pros hitting the ball longer is ruining the game. Because of that they will be looking at ways to make the players hit shorter, or the same length (with longer courses).
Can you please share a link or source to any study that says that pros hitting the ball longer is ruining the game. I'll wait.
Long Drive - the only sports where compressed balls is a good thing to have
Wired: It's impossible to drive a golf ball 450 yards
Kyle Berkshire: Hold my driver
I have drivin a ball over 450 yards easy. And I did that before I was 20 years old lol
My Father was a PGA Pro and I had been playing golf since 5 years old spending 12 hours a day being taught by him and other PGA Professionals.
Why it’s almost impossible to get a 17 in a round of golf
That is impossible
Wow, I think this is the first one where the answer wasn't something related to human biology/physics. It's the rules!
The longest hitters aren't really any longer other than technological changes.
Jack Nicklaus never had clubhead speed measured until he was 58. At 58, he still had 118 miles an hour of clubhead speed. Dustin averages something like 121 or so, and once in a great while gets above 125. I doubt Jack would've had any trouble matching him.
the rest of the guys out there generally work with the same basic swing, which is definitely different than Jack's era.
Before Jack, I'd bet Sam Snead had the ability (if he'd have had lighter clubs that could tolerate it) to generate similar swing speeds. The balls and the clubs couldn't really take advantage of it.
I bought Jack Nicklaus's "Golf my way" when it first came out in the 70's. He said the average tour player drive was 248 yards. Technology changed that. It's not the golfer.
Can someone upgrade the USA to the metric system please?
As an American I hate the imperial system. Really sad we still use it
No thanks America ftw
10:26 when she says she plays golf too 🤤
I absolutely love this series!
Back in the day people said it was almost impossible to get 300 but look now as the clubs advance we will hit further and people will start to make longer holes
Jamie Sadlowski nearly had the ability given his mechanics.