https://pinhighpress.com/tags/aerodynamics/ Recent content in Aerodynamics on Pin High Press Hugo en-us Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/golf-ball-dimples-what-the-pattern-actually-does/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/golf-ball-dimples-what-the-pattern-actually-does/ <p>Pick up any golf ball and the dimples are the first thing your thumb finds, a few hundred small dents pressed into a surface that would otherwise be perfectly smooth. It looks like the kind of detail a manufacturer adds for grip or for branding, something closer to tread on a tyre than anything that changes how the ball behaves in the air. It is actually the opposite. Strip the dimples off a golf ball and you would not have a slightly worse golf ball. You would have one that travels roughly half as far, because a smooth sphere struck the way a golf ball is struck simply cannot fly.</p>