# trick golf balls

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-golf-balls/249719>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 10, 2004, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-golf-balls/249719 "2004-06-10T21:59:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-golf-balls/249719/1 "2004-06-10T21:59:10Z")

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My son just purchased a trick gold ball.  
It seems to go in a circle when you hit it.  
How is this accomplished?  
Whats inside?

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-golf-balls/249719/2 "2004-06-10T23:07:05Z")

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It’s easy to trick golf balls.

They’re very dense.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-golf-balls/249719/3 "2004-06-10T23:07:08Z")

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Are we talking about putting or driving; if the former, it probably contains an off-centre weight, or maybe it isn’t actually perfectly spherical. If the latter, I don’t know, unless it could be something clever to do with the pattern of dimples, which affect the trajectory.