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Golf Channel's Win McMurry gets the scoop on Polara's self-correcting golf balls during Demo Day at Orange County National in Winter Garden, Fla.

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-Hi, I'm here with Rob Stone and Chris Holiday. And as I walk a...

-Hi, I'm here with Rob Stone and Chris Holiday. And as I walk around the Demo Day here at Orange County National, this definitely caught my eye. It's a Self-Correcting Golf Ball. I'm always looking for ways to-- to improve my game and things that are going to help my game. -Yeah. -I'm not a pro golfer. I don't play in many competitive events. But, this sounds like this could really help me. Tell me, how does it work? -Well, really it's-- it's the designed-- the design is in the dimple of the golf ball where as you can see they have different size of dimples. -Right. -There's a little arrow on there. -Uh-huh. -The golf ball is designed to-- that the dimples themselves correct-- self-correct the golf ball. This is the center axis. The-- the expert over there can explain it very well as well. And, the ball is always trying to get back to the center axis. So, when you strike the ball and you place it down there, it starts to spin right or it starts to spin left and it comes back to the center -So, it just comes back to the center. -by 50%. -So, it helps it go straighter. -It does. Yeah, what-- what we have with it is we have a, you know, a wider seam and a shallow dimple down in the middle that generally is lower left. -Uh-huh. -And we've got deeper dimples on the poles and that's what manipulates the weight distribution just a bit. So, it actually get that just a bit of a gyro- scopic effect. And, now it's like-- actually, it has a preferred spin axis like Chris was saying, it doesn't want to roll off axis the way regular golf ball do and-- -How do you figure out exactly which dimple the putt where? And, how it works? -It's pretty easy. -You have the testing? -Yeah, you just spend a couple of million dollars on top of your assessing. -Right, a very easy process. -And-- and it helps the work through Dr. Dave Felker who is the-- the genius behind the design. -Right. -Well, these are not conforming, non-conforming for the USGA-- -Right, non-conforming. -but it definitely have a place in the game because we're all about growing the game of golf and making it easier. -Yup. Yup. -Yeah, I-- I actually was a retailer for 20 years. You know, I was a head of sale for Callaway for about 12 years. And, I found that golfers continue-- continue this struggle to enjoy the game. The game right now, the rounds are down and it's not really growing. It's not very healthy. People are consumed about it. And the reason is-- the main reason people quit golf is because it's too hard. They can't get in the fairway. So, what this is, is this is an opportunity to keep those people in the game because once they're able to hit the fairway, it changes their outlook on golf. It's much more fun and they enjoy the game. That's the same thing as the PGA 2.0 Program that right in the line with that. -Right. -We believe that we need to grow the game and encourage people to enjoy in this game. -Just like the larger cups and-- -Yeah, exactly. Exactly. -12 hole rounds and things like that. -Yes, exactly. So, it's an exciting product. -It is. -It has a lot of interest. -It is. Well, thanks for explaining how the Self-Correcting Golf Ball works. -Thank you very much. -I'm excited to test them out. -Good. -Okay, thanks. -I appreciate it.
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