# Golf ball deforming, true or false?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/golf-ball-deforming-true-or-false/540489>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 23, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/golf-ball-deforming-true-or-false/540489 "2010-05-23T19:13:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![Chief\_Pedant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@Chief\_Pedant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chief_Pedant)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/golf-ball-deforming-true-or-false/540489/21 "2010-05-25T12:36:48Z")

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See [here](http://www.springerlink.com/content/936p5m7481450164/fulltext.html) for an article with some photos showing a golf ball striking a steel plate in the laboratory at a speed of 61 m/s, which the Pedant’s feeble math skills calculates to be about 136 MPH.

I remain unconvinced the OP video is a real golf ball at room temperature…

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