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Process

Before starting my experiment, I had to choose the order I was going to hit my golf balls in which for me was Titleist, Taylormade, Maxfli, Callaway, and Bridgestone. Once I had the order I chose the hole number 2 at American Classic Golf Course, which is the straightest, most enclosed, least hazardous and long enough to do my experiment. I started the experiment at 3:49pm on February 21, 2026 at American Classic on hole 2. The temperature was 45 degrees with winds at approximately nine miles per hour, which did not affect the shot due to the trees and a storage shed. I set up my golf balls in the order and got ready to hit them. A launch monitor would be ideal for this but since I didn’t have one that was accurate, I was assisted by my sponsor to place flags with numbers indicating which golf ball was hit which was easy to find because balls left divots due to the grass being saturated. This step allowed me to measure the carry distance for each shot to avoid impacts on distance due to the fairway being uneven. I repeated this pattern until every brand had ten drives hit. After hitting all 50 total golf balls, I went to each ball and measured the distance by measuring from the flag to the tee box using tour-compliant range finder. While measuring the distance I also measured the distance from the center of the fairway as some golf balls curved either left or right. When I had all the measurements I added the distances from the 10 balls that I hit for each brand and divided them by 10 to get the average distance which was the result of the experiment and the result of me testing these golf balls for the longest distance. I also had assistance with calculating standard deviation for each brand to see which brand had the lowest standard deviation which would suggest the most consistency. My experience during the hour and thirteen minutes that I had was great because I got to hit golf balls that I had only heard about, and at the end it was cool to see the result of my experiment.

Results

The result of testing these golf balls was very interesting and close. After hitting 10 balls of each brand, measuring them, and adding them, I got the averages from each brand. First place is Maxfli with an average distance of 233.4 yards. Second place was Taylormade with an average 232.1 yards. Third place was Callaway with an average distance of 231 yards. Fourth place goes to Bridgestone at an average distance of 230 yards. Fifth place was Titleist at an average distance of 224.9 yards.  When measuring consistency, Callaway had the lowest standard deviation at 6.51 yards, making it the most consistent ball. Bridgestone was second most consistent with a standard deviation of 7.39 yards, third place was Maxfli at 7.72 yards. Fourth place was Taylormade with a standard deviation of 9.49 yards and lastly, Titleist had the highest standard deviation of 11.57 yards. Interestingly, while my hypothesis was predicting Taylormade to be the winner of the battle between the three most expensive brands, Maxfli showed to have the longest average distance and Callaway to be the most consistent, suggesting that performance does not follow popularity or price.

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Conclusion

This project was a great success because I learned a lot about the brands and it was a great experience. My experiment was to test the distance and consistency of the golf brands Titleist, Taylormade, Maxfli, Callaway, and Bridgestone. With all my research and testing I figured out which brands do what and if the claims are true. From the research on websites to physically testing the balls to making my own website  for supplemental materials such as videos of my experiment I learned a lot. Doing this project was to test and do research but I really had fun doing it and I was excited to see which brand really was the best in distance and consistency. During my experiment I was thinking to myself how cool it was to test the brands and try new golf balls for once. I am always playing with the same golf balls for my tournaments and don’t try new brands because I don’t know what they would feel like for me and if I would like them. Here I got a fun opportunity to hit different golf balls, to learn about them and to get results that are surprisingly different from my hypothesis. I would never thought that the less costly brand like Maxfli would win the distance and place third in consistency and that Callaway beat Taylormade in consistency by almost three yards. All these findings suggest that price doesn’t matter when it comes to a golf ball, I could agree with the brands that claim that more layers make a difference since the top three longest distance balls had four and five layers but at the end it’s all about how it feels for the golfer.