cross golf? is that like off road and in the mud or lots of jumps

[quote]Could someone with access to these oblong balls do a head to head test against a round ball to see how much, if any distance is gained.
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depends who you are lol
If you get a good straight throw with a normal golf ball it will go further as the aerodynamics supply extra lift.
But a golf cross ball will go straight !
So in a straight line I can throw a cross ball further than I can throw a normal ball - cos my power shot with a normal ball always curves.
So in essence if I get a seriously good throw in I can do 250yards plus with anormal golf ball - but with a golf cross ball I can consistently throw 200 yards in a styraight line. That's the difference.

The only decent comparison we have is larrys two throws.
His straight line throw with a normal ball went 350 yards plus.
His throw the next day with a golf crfoss ball went 300 metres (pretty sure the driving range was in yards and the field was laid out in matres lol - though it might have been yards - it was last year ;-)

I have cast a few football shaped fishing weights and they do seem to stabilize in flight. Against a clear sky, you can see them holding the same position rather than tumbling end over end like a kicked rugby ball. My guess is that some spin is imparted to them as they roll out of the pouch upon release. This spin stabilizes them like a spinning top although they don't hit point first like an American style football pass.

Yeah, that would account for the increased wear on the first few inches of release cord - I figured it had something to do with that.

[quote]My guess is that for distance,the round shape;for accuracy,the oblong. [/quote]

Yep already said that - tested it even and explained why. But it does need to be a golf ball a spherical stone won't travel as far as an oblong stone (higher air resistance). You need the aerodynamism and lift that the dimples add.

Is it just me or does a couple of thousand years of knowlege that ovoid shaped objects self orient and fly straight and far, just simply keep passing forum members by ?
By all means do some research, but just constantly repeating the bleeding obvious doesn't seem to be terribly useful. Probably just me I know.
I assume that people actually read through threads before posting and even go and look at pages other than the front page of the forum.

And the golf cross ball was made that shape for several reasons. 1) if hit correctly it will fly straighter than a standard golf ball. BUT, if you orient it different ways on the custom stand you can deliberately curve it left or right and even (so it says in the manual) make it perform an S shaped curve as well. 

I really do need to get a life - anyone know the whereabouts of a get-a-life shop ???

nope - they definitely orient point forwards. It's actually using the same principle as a gyroscope. Because you have  athe main mass spinning central to the main body it uses gyroscopic forces to self orient. You can see this with bi conical shaped rocks as well - they fly point forwards and very straight.

Right just for aussieslinger - here are a couple of better pics of a crossgolf ball a normal golf ball and an egg :-)
You can see here that the cross golf ball is actually more like a normal golf ball squashed into a biconical shape - and both have a much smaller volume than an egg :-)

It's funny that the golf balls were compared to an egg.  When I was a teenager, it finally dawned on me and my brothers that we could use our hard-boiled easter eggs we had colored, as ammo in our slings.  We had a blast that first time.  We soon incorporated golf clubs and baseball bats, but ultimately we just stuck with slings.  Their shape is perfect for distance, and if you're in a clear field, there's a very satisfying explosion of yolk and egg white when it hits the ground.  We've done it every Easter since.

That would be relatively cheap ammunition.  Make sure they're hard-boiled, though.