How Do Temperature, Wind, Altitude, and Humidity Alter Ball Flight?

The Sweet Spot - Golf Podcast

Adam Young/Jon Sherman

Golf, Sports

4.8 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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This week, we're rewinding to our episode on how the elements affect ball flight! Chris Broadie and Marty Jertson from PING/Ballnamic join us to discuss the big 4. How do wind, temperature, humidity, and altitude alter ball flight? You are definitely going to learn something new and will likely change your mind on what you've been told all these years. Thank you to our show sponsors DeleteMe and Pestie DeleteMe makes it easy, quick, and safe to remove your personal data online at a time when surveillance and data breaches are common enough to make everyone vulnerable. Take control of your data and keep your private life private by signing up for DeleteMe. Now at a special discount for our listeners. Get 20% your DeleteMe plan by texting SWEET to 64000. Message and data rates apply. • Tired of bugs invading your home? Pestie is a simple, DIY pest control kit customized to your location and climate—no expensive service needed. For just $35 per treatment, you get everything you need to keep your home bug-free, with a 100% money-back guarantee. It’s pet and kid-friendly and even used in schools and hospitals. Sweet Spot listeners get 10% off at ⁠⁠⁠pestie.com/sweetspots Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:57.1	questions that Adam and I always get is how wind, temperature, and humidity affect the golf ball.
1:03.0	A lot of players still don't know how this works. They either overestimate it or underestimate it
1:08.4	greatly. And when you get it wrong, you can lose a ton of strokes
1:11.6	on the course due to poor decision making. So with that, we're going to go back to an episode
1:16.3	with Marty Jertsen and Chris Brody from Ping, who've done some incredible research on this.
1:22.1	Just to refresh all of your memories, if you forgot this information or have never heard it
1:26.8	because it is super important.
1:29.1	And with that, we will get into the episode.
1:31.8	Welcome back to another episode of The Sweet Spot.
1:34.7	This is John Sherman from Practical Golf.
1:36.9	And as always, I'm joined by.
1:38.8	Adam from Adam Young Golf.
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