Guiding your balls for a perfect game
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Golf Ball History Originated from Holland, the Dutch have been playing this game since 1500. The game was called colf initially and was played with wooden balls. These balls, made from elm or beech which could hardly move well in air. The Scotts, who loved the game, developed a ball made of white leather and filled with cow's hair to improve the aerodynamics. This concept came from kaatsen, which is a scottish game of hand tennis, and the scotts took this to improve their flow and their play of it. The "feathery" ball was made of leather , goose feather and soaked in alum. Due to the pre process of boiling the goose feather, the ball was more soft than the wooden ball. It was knocked into shape and dried to make it firmer and tighter. The shape was similar as the modern golf ball and on average, they could use up to 4 balls per day. The ball was much better in 2 aspects: 1. The distance and the flight aspects was further much improved. 2. The price of the balls was making it much a rich man's game. It can be further noted that the stitching of the leathery ball further assisted in the flight of the ball. The introduction of gutta percha ball (or often called the "gutty") caused an increase in popularity of the game. Gutta percha is a gum which is tapped from a tree in Malaya and is mouldable in boiling condition and harded when cooled. Hence, it became much cheaper to produce the balls with less improvement on the dynamics. As the ball had a tendency to break up in mid air, the rules of the game had to change to implement that a fresh new ball can be replaced at the place of largest fragment retrieved. The ball was intensely modified when it was found that it flew better when it was cut or indented. Hence the markings of the ball. When Sandy Herd used the rubber ball to win the 1902 British Open, it suddenly rocketed in popularity. Invented by the Americans, the rubber ball is known as the Haskell ball. Haskell ball had elastic thread wound around a rubber core under extreme tension and encased in a pattern outer cover of gutta petrha. The Haskell ball created such an impact that R & A and USGA, the dual arbiters of the integrity of the sport came into debate. In 1920, they agreed the ball should weigh no more than 1.62 ounces and have a diameter of not less than 1.62 inches. From January 1931 however, the USGA turned its back on the collective agreement and introduced the "big ball", a ball having a minimum size of 1.68 inches and a maximum weight of 1.55 ounces. A year later, they raised the weight stipulation to 1.62 ounces. Finally, with the adoption of the standards elsewhere, PGA (Great Britain) decided to adopt the big ball in it's tournaments. In 1974, the R & A made the big ball compulsory for the Open Championship and finally the big ball won it's dominance over the small ball. Now, the ball of today have been refined to greater heights. Research on the ball surface and interior structure for professionals, amateurs and novices have been intensed. Balata replaced the gutta percha for professionals and amateurs while surlyn have replaced the novices. The modern ball now consists of a water core wrapped in rubber yarn. Millions spent on the refined compounds used for the wrapping and the dimples structure created new dimensions for optimal performance but till now, most have been rejected for tournament usage. Golf balls is indeed a big business today! Bookmarking links 
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