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Originally Posted by EarlyPorsche View Post
Was that photoshopped? A water balloon? The material of a golf ball doesn't yield more than a couple percent before cracking. If the ball was heated before firing it would still crack just later.
It really doesn't seem possible that a regulation ball would do that.

From the captioning below the video window...

Editor's note: The footage comes from the BBC and was shown during golf coverage. We were unable to establish whether a regulation golf ball or a 'practice ball' (with higher elasticity) was used for this experiment.
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