- They are 50 years old.
- [Dan] 50 year old golf balls!
(scream)
- Welcome back to What's Inside?
I am Dan and this is Lincoln.
- Hi.
- Driving the car and it's beeping at him.
Today we are going to see what's inside of an illegal
golf ball and we're gonna find out like, what makes
a golf ball illegal.
We're all the way in England at Formby Hall
in Southport, England and we're doing this video
with our friend Rick Shiels Golf, is that what
you call your channel, Rick Shiels Golf?
Or just Rick Shiels? - The one and only
Rick Shiels.
- [Dan] Rick Shiels, okay.
- Good to see ya, look at the weather!
- It is beautiful!
If you're somebody who enjoys golf and you're looking
for golf tips on what club to use, on how to fix
your swing, your hook, your slice, whatever it might
be, there's a fair chance that you've watched
some of Rick's videos.
He's always testing really really weird stuff.
Let's see this thing, let's see this illegal golf ball.
- Allow me to show you, Lincoln, come in here.
So this golf ball, this box, you're not gonna get
arrested for it.
- It's an entire box?
- Yeah, yeah - [Lincoln] All of them?
- Illegal golf ball, it says on the box it exceeds
the USGA allowance for distance, this is apparently
a ball that goes too far, you ready for this?
I'll allow you to open them.
- The box isn't that attractive I must admit.
- [Dan] It's illegal because their marketing is so bad.
- Ha ha ha.
- [Dan] Let's see this golf ball, let's see if it looks
any different than a regular golf ball.
- [Lincoln] Come on, oh, oh.
- [Dan] Okay first of all it's white, so
hey it looks pretty cool, Nitro.
- The one thing that you can, it might be able to audio,
they're like, they are quite plasticy sounding.
- Yeah!
- This should have me a chance of getting on the green,
this is Happy Gilmore style.
The USGA tests it where they hit it with a club
at speed of 120 miles per hour and if that ball travels
too far, it's deemed illegal.
- This illegal golf ball, the Nitro, we're going to hit
it as far as we can, we're gonna have Rick hit it because
he hits really consistently and really far.
But we need to test this in the real world against
regular golf balls so what kinda golf balls do you
have for us to hit today?
- The first ball, possibly the most famous golfer
on the planet and history will always have this guy
as the number one golfer potentially, certainly
if he wins Mount Haemus.
- [Dan] Adam Sandler Happy Gilmore.
(laughing)
- Tiger Woods golf ball.
- [Dan] Ooo it even says Tiger on it right there.
- So this is a Bridgestone golf ball.
- [Dan] Did you steal that from him?
- He doesn't lose that many so I had to go into his bag.
(beep)
This is a very, very good golf ball, it's brand new
and it's the one that Tiger won the Masters
with this year.
- [Dan] Nice, love how you're much better than that.
- A super rare ball.
This is possibly older than Lincoln.
- Oh, wow.
- Yep, this is a Titleist Tour Balata, one of the most
iconic golf balls in golf.
It's the one with the elastic bands in and potentially
with a liquid center.
- They're like, the rubber, right?
- Yeah.
- Rubber bands, we cut one of these open in one of our
golf ball videos and what was cool, Destin
from Smarter Every Day just shot one out of a cannon
at 500 miles an hour and exploded the Balata.
(record scratch)
So this is a really interesting golf ball.
- That is, that is a soft golf ball.
- [Dan] Do you bite all your golf balls before
you putt them?
And then, this, look at this box.
- [Lincoln] 65.
- Right, now I'm gonna let Lincoln open this
because this is a box of golf balls that I picked up
at Carnoustie, which hosted the Open last year.
I picked 'em up from the second oldest golf
shop in the world.
- Whoa.
- [Dan] What.
- These are rare, they are 50 years old.
- [Dan] 50 year old golf ball, guys!
- That belongs in a museum!
- [Lincoln] What in the world?
- [Dan] Ohhhh, look at that packaging, they're so weird.
- This is the packaging that golf balls used to come in.
- No way!
- You don't understand how rare that still is.
- Should we be really opening this up?
Like, you're okay with this?
- Dan.
I've saved this just for us,
is there any other channel in the world that we should be
doing it on than yours?
- Guys, are you serious?
Yes, welcome to today's video, this is gonna be a blast!
Let the testing begin.
A lot of videos are really scientific where it's like,
this was swung at this speed and went this far.
Today's goal is just to hit it as far as you can
there's different elements, there's the wind.
But yes, we will have a little bit of help from our
launch monitor to see how consistent his swing is.
We've got this really cool Garmin, look at this
Garmin GPS thing that you just set it on a ball
and then you just putt your ball within a foot of it,
it tells you how your speed was and everything.
That's pretty rad.
Oooo, that Tiger Woods ball, you crushed that.
Oh man, the wind's pushing it a little left.
- But we were on about speed.
- [Lincoln] Aw, I was so close!
- [Rick] Not far off.
- [Dan] Carry 275, estimated Roll 305.
- That's good, I'm happy with that one.
Now we're going to key illegal.
- [Dan] Illegal golf balls, this is the moment of truth.
Oh that sounded money.
That sounded so good.
- Hit on the green.
(laughing)
- [Dan] Illegal golf ball.
- [Lincoln] What? - [Dan] But what?
The results are in, same 113 Club Head speed,
Smash factor was higher.
- The ball felt harder, it definitely has like a, Lincoln
said like a plasticy like.
- Yeah.
- [Dan] It was loud, right?
- Yeah.
- So, I don't know if you can catch this on the vid.
- There's a bunch of debris on there, it's like,
it's like it exploded.
- Look, look, Lincoln's literally just wiping off,
wipe it off, Lincoln, you can see that.
I've absolutely middled it.
- [Dan] You don't need a 500 mile an hour cannon
to destroy a golf ball.
- Who needs that.
(laughing)
My prediction is it can't go further just 'cause
it's too squashy and it's 20 years old.
Whoa!
Oh, come back.
- [Dan] He's leaning.
Rick's leaning to the left there.
- Distance-wise, wow.
- [Lincoln] Wait, it's the exact same.
- [Rick] Well it's, that's a different shot though
'cause if you remember my Club Head Speed with
Illegal was 113.
- [Dan] Yeah, you hit it.
- I've hit that 1 mile per hour less Club Head Speed
but it's actually on the same distance as Illegal.
- [Dan] Okay, last one.
(record scratch) Ohhh we gotta open it up.
You need to be the one opening this.
- [Rick] No, no, no, no.
- [Dan] No, no, no, you--
- [Rick] As, as my guest, as my guest to England, Lincoln,
come and open this.
Look at that.
- [Dan] First time this ball's ever been opened
in over 50 years.
- [Rick] Aw, hell.
Fresh air.
- [Lincoln] That's satisfying.
- [Rick] You wanna take it out?
- [Lincoln] Do dooo!
- [Rick] Look at that!
- [Dan] Oh wow!
Have you ever hit one of these in your life?
- Not in this perfect condition.
You might every now and again find one that's, you know,
been around for a while but that is absolutely perfect.
- [Dan] This is the Dunlop 65, this is a more modern
day golf ball, this ball is smaller than that one,
this ball would not even work, USGA would not let this
be allowed because it is smaller.
- There's two advantages of it being smaller, it has
the potential to cut through the air slightly better.
Two, not for this test, but it's actually slightly
easier to get in the hole.
- [Dan] Ohh, that makes sense.
- Yeah.
- I can not, for one minute, predict this is gonna go
over 300 yards.
Ahh, it's the straightest one!
- [Lincoln] Yeah, that's money shot.
- God, wow!
- [Lincoln] It hit further!
- [Dan] Awww look at that, according to the monitor.
267, okay.
- Wow, I am shocked.
Off the taste it felt like a bouncy ball.
The flight was impressive.
- We're gonna take the golf cart and go down and find
these balls out in the wild and see which ones actually
went furthest, let's all three get on this cart.
- Fun fact, they call these buggies.
It's like a buggy, but they pronounce it boogy,
like boogers in your nose.
Say it, say buggy, how do you say it?
- Um, boo-gee.
(laughter)
- See, I told you.
The first one that we find is going to be the one that was
hit the least amount of distance.
- [Dan] Wait, is there water?
- [Rick] Yeah.
- [Dan] No, oh what if they're landed here.
- [Lincoln] Uh oh
- Oh I see one by the bunker, right there!
There she is, okay leave her there.
Oh wait, wait, look at this, 237 marker right here.
Fourth place as of now is the Dunlap, 50 year old white.
Here we go, Illegal golf ball was inches from the water.
Okay so we know that this one went further than
the 50 year old ball.
- Slightly worried about this water.
- Yeah this water.
I found the Balata and I think this one's actually
the shortest distance one, but we're missing Tiger Woods,
we're missing the very first ball.
The Tiger Woods ball might have gone a little bit further
left into the water.
- I've got another one, shall I nip back to the tee
and hit another one?
- He only has one more, we didn't know there was water here,
you need to know your golf course, there's
the lesson for today.
- I didn't even know!
- He didn't know there was water.
Rick is going to go back to the tee, we're gonna stand
out here in the fairway and we're gonna watch him hit it.
If he hits it in the water, at least we'll film
where it goes into the water.
- Okay.
- [Dan] All right, hit that Tiger ball, we'll be watching.
- Okay so I'm back on the tee with another Tiger ball,
let's hope this time we go find the water.
- [Dan] Here we go, he's swinging.
Keep your eye out for it, Lincoln.
Oh, it's coming.
It's coming right at us.
There it is!
Nice work!
It's right there!
It's bouncing, there's Tiger.
Yes, we did it!
What was your, oh there he goes the cart!
What was your Club Head Speed?
What was it?
- 113.
- [Dan] Okay, which one do you think went further?
- This is close.
(laughing)
- [Dan] It does look close, right?
Okay, stand there.
I'm gonna walk over.
To the ball.
Right here.
- [Rick] No way!
- [Dan] This is where it is, not even a yard further.
- Not very good in the water, is it, for the first shot.
See this is good, this is a good task, those two.
Illegal ball, I didn't give it enough credit, Dan.
It's got, it's better than I expected.
- [Dan] Yup.
- [Lincoln] That's a, that's such a weird bird.
What in the world?
- What's inside an illegal golf ball?
Nitro ball, this is like a PVC pipe cutter and it's
perfect for cutting golf balls open as I've learned
from Rick.
So here we go, set it in here.
This is, oh!
This is my first time using it, don't make fun of me!
I can do this!
I'm not used to using such nice tools,
oh look at that,
I need one of these in my life!
Hopefully they make these in America.
Dust.
Nitro dust.
- That's genius!
- Oh!
Isn't that amazing?
- [Lincoln] Yeah!
- Okay, that's the first question, is there anything
inside that makes it appear to be illegal?
What you're gonna see from modern day golf balls
is just urethane inside but the difference is
how hard is the urethane, how many different layers
some of the balls like Callaway or Titleist, they'll have
multiple layers to them, like maybe a softer core
and then a harder outside, it just varies.
They try to base it off of your swing speed and the type
of golfer you are, how much spin you put on the ball,
it's a lot of science.
There's the inside of the illegal golf ball, cheers.
- Next one's Tiger.
- Tiger Woods, is it okay if we cut open you golf ball?
- [Screaming Man] Nooooooo!
- I think he said yeah.
- Ey, ohhh that is cool.
Wow!
- What, this one's one layer too, well,
no it looks two. - This is different than any
golf ball we've cut open.
That's a layer of clear, see through, I don't even know
what it is, is it plastic?
Is it rubber?
- So from what I understand, Tiger had a lot of input
into this golf ball and he didn't like the fact that
golf balls feel a bit hard, he wants maximum spin,
total feel.
- Okay, now I've cut open two I think it's fair that this
tool, it feels very safe I think that Lincoln should
be able to cut one open.
- It's so easy.
It's like scissors.
(screams)
- [Dan] Did you see now?
- That's why you let me do it!
- [Dan] Keep going, you're not finished!
Dripping.
In 25 year old nastiness.
- This is hard.
Aghh!
Ha ha ha ha ha
It looked like meat!
I do not like the sliced up meat, it's alive!
What is that?
First it explodes in like, a bunch of liquid.
- [Dan] And now time for the mysterious one, Rick?
You get to do the honors, this is the Dunlop 65.
- [Rick] Iconic.
Dunlop.
65.
- [Lincoln] If it explodes on your jacket
I'm just warning you.
- [Dan] No, he's got it turned.
- [Lincoln] Oh yeah.
- [Rick] I'm a pro at this.
- [Lincoln] It sounds like rubber, like when I
was cutting it.
- [Dan] Oh, where's the liquid?
- [Rick] Oh my goodness.
That is elastic.
Here we go.
Look at that.
- [Dan] Look at that.
65 year, 50 year old ball right here.
- [Rick] Oh my goodness, that's crazy.
- [Dan] Aaaagh!
It exploded everywhere!
- Look at that!
- [Dan] It's like, it's a ball of, of uh--
- It's a ball inside a ball.
- This is iconic, as a golf fan it, it's magical
certainly the Dunlop 65, thanks so much for letting
me cut that one open 'cause that was like, I don't know
it's just got so much history.
- That was a lot of fun, make sure that you check
out Rick Shiels channel on YouTube, subscribe to his
channel, tell him that you came from us.
- There's probably links up there.
- And then check out our video on our family channel
from Formby Hall, we are going to be playing golf with
a seven foot seven tall golfer, no joke.
We're gonna do some challenges, we're gonna have a lot
of fun, big thanks to Rick Shiels for coming out here
today, we learned a lot about golf balls and hopefully
you guys learned something that'll help you become
a better golfer.
- Thanks guys, that sums it.
(screams)
- That's why you let me do it!
- When they did change it to the bigger size there was,
there was uproar!
They was like, how do I get it in the hole?
This thing's too big.