This is going to get a little technical so if statistics are not your strong suit just sit back and let the facts flow over you, absorbing what you can.
First, the facts. There are 336 dimples in an average golf balls. 441 million rounds of golf are played each year in the USA and the average par of a course is 72.
So the number of dimples sent flying in a year is as follows:
336 x 72 = 24,192 24,192 x 441,ooo,ooo = 10,668,672,000,000
If we could reduce the number of dimples on a golf ball by only 15% or 5o dimples see what happens:
286 x 72 = 20,592 x 441,000,000 = 9,081,072,000,000
10,668,672,000,000 – 9,081,072,000,000 = 1,587,600,000,000
A simple reduction in the number of dimples on a golf ball would result in over a quadrillion and a half less dimples flying through the air each year. Can you wrap your ahead around how that might positively affect global climate change?
And to all my friends and relatives that said I would be bored and non-productive in retirement, what do you say now?