Weather Affects Golf

Are you like me?  Does your golf game need a little (or a lot) of work?  Well, if you go out to the course at the right time, you can get a little help from Mother Nature.

So, what are the best conditions to help your drive?

First off, you need the wind in your favor.  That is probably the best influence.  The only problem is that because of the way the course is put together, you’ll have the wind with you and the wind against you at different points of your round.

The wind aside, the most important part of your game, weather-wise, is the density of the air.  The denser the air, the less your ball will travel.  To get conditions like this, the following needs to come together…

Hot temperatures
High Humidity
Low Pressure

Why does high humidity make the air less dense?  That seems counter-intuitive.  Believe it or not, water vapor is less dense.  This is going to get science-y so just skip ahead past the green text if you don’t care to know why.

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I just found a great weather blog while surfing around the internet looking for interesting weather stories to share. They had a story about the ideal conditions for driving a golf ball.

I should preface this by saying that the better you are at golf, the more the weather will affect your shot. For [...]