- [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