palle Posted February 3, 2005 Report Share Posted February 3, 2005 Don´t know if I posted this when I took it, but what do you think. Doesn´t Els Pro V1 have Hexagon dimples, or am I blind? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junior_golfer Posted February 3, 2005 Report Share Posted February 3, 2005 that looks like hex dimples to me! :surprize: I wonder if it's a proto that will be released? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sflaspprentice Posted February 3, 2005 Report Share Posted February 3, 2005 Pro V1 HeX??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpcw Posted February 4, 2005 Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 I am not certain those are hex patterns. :-D The deep shadows and fuzzy pixels make it appear as such but not really. :o Call Scully and Mulder. What I can make out is his iron face, maybe a lob wedge is wearing out in the slight outer portion of the face, more towards the toe. A good depiction of what your irons should look like if you hit in, to out, to sqaure, to in....draws, :money: Like Ernie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phillypete Posted February 4, 2005 Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 Its hard to tell... Maybe they are waiting till the lawyers figure out a way to get around some patents for them to release it... or it could be the pixelation of our monitors and the photo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmclarenf1 Posted February 4, 2005 Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 There definitely is something positive in the hex dimple technolgy. If only they wouldn;t cut so easily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breal Posted February 4, 2005 Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 HMMMM? It looks like a hex but i got a sleeve of the V1 and V1X and they had regular dimples just less of them. Havent heard a thing about them, I will have to check on that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmclarenf1 Posted February 4, 2005 Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 Breal, Now you avatars are getting a tad worrysome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indacup Posted February 4, 2005 Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 YOU took this picture??? Someone else is taking credit for it also...been circulating for a couple months now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shabuwu801 Posted February 4, 2005 Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 Looks hex to me... maybe HX tour in titleist prints?? hmm.. :whistle: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palle Posted February 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 YOU took this picture??? Someone else is taking credit for it also...been circulating for a couple months now. Yes it was me. Who took the cred? I have to sue(maybe wrong spelling, if so sorry) his ass :smile2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PM1965 Posted February 5, 2005 Report Share Posted February 5, 2005 I was watching the Royal Melbourne yesterday, and they did a real close image of his ball in a bunker It was still a number 0 and the pattern did look a bit hexagonal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev Posted February 5, 2005 Report Share Posted February 5, 2005 It looks like a hex - It also looks like it is on carpet...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palle Posted February 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2005 It looks like a hex - It also looks like it is on carpet...... It´s on the green. You´re maybe not used playing from there :spit: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Links2131 Posted February 5, 2005 Report Share Posted February 5, 2005 there was some on ebay about a week ago. def a hex pattern Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+TourSpecGolfer Posted February 5, 2005 Report Share Posted February 5, 2005 Yeah I saw a close up of the ball on TGC and it did have a bit of Hex in the dimples for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palle Posted February 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2005 I was watching the Royal Melbourne yesterday, and they did a real close image of his ball in a bunkerIt was still a number 0 and the pattern did look a bit hexagonal Maybe it was this occasion? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemolitionMan Posted February 5, 2005 Report Share Posted February 5, 2005 I doubt there is any hex pattern in the Titlesit ProV. It is more like bad television resolution is the explanation for a slight hex look. Cally does license ball technology from Acushnet that goes into the HX Tour ball, but not vice-versa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboy Posted February 7, 2005 Report Share Posted February 7, 2005 That photo is Callaways tubular lattice network (or HEX dimples for you guys) no doubt about it. Titleist prob are using it on tour but can't market or sell these balls (unless they want to cough up the cash to Cally) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onthelinks Posted February 7, 2005 Report Share Posted February 7, 2005 I saw the ball in the bunker at Royal Melbourne and thought it did NOT look hexagonal. Looks like I am in the minority on that but thats what I saw. :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nunee Posted February 8, 2005 Report Share Posted February 8, 2005 There were pics on another forum. This is NOT a hex pattern, but it is a 100% coverage with circular dimples. The tighest way they fit together produces the illusion of a hex pattern, though it is not. It very much looks like it, but they are circular dimples, not the Hexagonal dimples a la Callaway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboy Posted February 8, 2005 Report Share Posted February 8, 2005 As said before, the Callaway technology is termed tubular lattice network... the little 'pipe' that forms the dimple ridge is Callaway technology... it can form a hex, a circle , square or triangle... if you've ever bought a box of HX blue or reds, it's on the box! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpcw Posted February 8, 2005 Report Share Posted February 8, 2005 R. Buckminster Fuller, the great thinker, philosopher, architect...invented Callaway's Ball nearly fifty years ago!!! See the following and look at the 'Catentary' icon: http://www.bfi.org/patentlist.htm Also see: http://www.bfi.org/domes/index.htm His usage of the triangle, the strongest structure (circles have 360 angles of weakness, squares and rectangles have 4, triangles have 3....) was used when he created Geodesic structures. He was scoffed at by the public, later his structures were used at the World's Fair and...how about that big golf-ball-of-a-strucutre at Disney World/Epcot Center? That is Buckminster's 'Geodesic Structure'. The NASA Space program also used his ideas as did the military. Seems Callaway did too! A Hexagon is simply six equilateral triangles wedged together. Look at Buckminster's Catentary and Domes...they are Callaways! So end of debate. Now you know the true inventor! I am of the majority in that I cannot believe the ball that Els is about to hit is of a hex compositon. Don't you think a patent would dissallow this, Callaway would sue Titleist with a 150 mph swing speed. Impossible. The Els ball is a shadow, poor lighting, nothing more. Until I am holding a Titleist hex-pattern ball in my hand, I will not believe it. I am waiting for a ball manufacturer to make a more Buckminster-looking ball, triangles, not circles, not hexes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpcw Posted February 8, 2005 Report Share Posted February 8, 2005 Also, forgot to include from Buckminster Fuller 1965 (read above post too): http://www.bfi.org/MONOHEX.htm The Cally Ball is nothing new, no big deal..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboy Posted February 8, 2005 Report Share Posted February 8, 2005 If the photos are to be believed (and it's not some optical illusion) it does look like the cally design... in theory by reducing the upper surafce area, (flat area between the dimples) you increase the voulme of the dimples making it more aerodynamic. Given it might not be a hex but it would not be a perfectly round dimple as they can't interlock into a seamless 3D pattern in a lattice network design i.e the ridge that makes the wall of the dimple wouldn't be uniform. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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