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Originally Posted by tzwien
I still have no ****ing idea how humidity can help your distance like people say. It's been like 90% humidity the last couple days and I've lost 30 yards on my drives. Plus it feels like I'm walking through a lake. Just doesn't make sense to me.
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Originally Posted by tzwien
I swear to christ I'm bombing drives that feel like they are going to carry 290 and I walk up 270 yards to find my ball in its own ball mark. And all my irons are probably 1.5 clubs less than normal. Unless I aged 20 years in the last week, I'm very suspicious about those scientific findings.
It sounds crazy, but its right. The reason that humid air feels "wet" and "heavy" is just due to our own human perception since that same water is the way that we cool down (sweat). More humidity means our sweat doesn't work as well so we get hot and sticky. But water vapor is only 18g/mol and air is 29 g/mol (1 mol of any gas takes up the same volume as any other gas at the same temp/pressure). Point it, the air is less dense and therefore the ball should travel farther.
From my experiences this summer, the humidity really wears on me and after several holes, I'm just hot and tired and lose a little bit of distance. And the few articles and such I could find about this say that there is really just a negligible distance gain anyways, maybe like 1 or 2 yards per drive.
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Originally Posted by tzwien
There's got to be a max number where it just becomes too saturated and you can literally be walking through water though, right? Like when I stick my hand out the car window it accumulates water immediately. That would have to cause major drag on a golf ball.
Rain or fog is quite a bit different than humidity (liquid compared to gas) and in that case could probably slow down the golf ball.