Finding The Best Golf Balls

Posted on | July 28, 2010 | No Comments

Finding The Best Golf Balls

When it comes to trying to select the best golf balls, there are literally hundreds of different types, brands and sizes that you can to choose from. Theres no question that using the right golf ball will definitely improve your game but the question is whether the golf balls the pros are using are the best golf balls for you. You should play the best golf balls for your particular game otherwise you may be sacrificing accuracy and consistency for a few extra yards. Some swear that the Titleis Pro V1x or the Bridgestone Tour B330 are the best golf balls, but just as many swear by the cheap ball they bought in their local discount store that gives them both length and short game control.

Cheap golf balls with a high quality rating perform just as well as the same balls purchased brand new. Don't be embarrassed to shop around for cheap golf balls either. When you're ready to buy cheap golf balls, you have your pick of cheap Nike balls, Titleist balls, Callaway balls or no brand balls. Some cheap golf balls are sold specifically for driving ranges, and if you use your cheap balls for this you should ignore your length.

A logoed golf ball is a golf ball that you order with your own specific logo printed on the ball. Logoed golf balls are becoming extremely popular, and it's amazing to see what you can put on a golf ball. Logoed golf balls travel further than you might think. Either way, custom logo golf balls are fast becoming the hot item in the golf bag, and a hit with companies looking for a new and effective way to get their corporate logo and name in front of the right people, on the course.

Titleist says, "The Titleist DT SoLo golf ball applies a high-lift design to maximize distance for golfers with average and moderate swing speeds seeking the ultimate combination of distance with soft feel and guaranteed cut-proof durability. These golf balls are optimized for golfers with higher swing speeds and will reward them with longer, consistent distances of the tee.

Balls with a higher rate of compression, around 110, are much harder and take a lot more energy and power in your swing to flatten on impact. As a general rule of thumb, if you have a fast swing speed you should use compression 110; golfers with an average swing speed should use compression 100, and a slow swing speed golfer a compression of 80.

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Six Steps To Choosing The Right Golf Ball And Immediately Playing Better Golf

Posted on | July 26, 2010 | No Comments

Six Steps To Choosing The Right Golf Ball And Immediately Playing Better Golf

Choosing the right golf ball can be a daunting task. Especially if you understand that the ball you choose can significantly impact your play. Follow these five tips to golf ball selection and see an immediate impact in your level of play.

Realistically Identify Your Skill Level

Choosing the right golf ball begins with evaluating both your style of play and skill level. This must be accurate and honest. If you can only drive 175 yards, say so. If you have a wicked slice, that is okay.

Remember to be honest so that you can find the correct golf ball to improve these parts of your game. Otherwise you may end up playing worse with the wrong golf ball choice.

Choose Between A Two or Three Piece Ball

For the sake of simplicity you should choose a 2 piece golf ball if you want to hit the ball further, have a bad slice or hook, have a slower swing speed, or want to spend less money. Two piece golf balls are generally cheaper and are much better for higher handicap players.

There is a stigma about two piece golf balls; they are thought to be low quality. However, today's two piece golf balls are much higher quality than the three piece golf balls of as little as 8-10 years ago.

Three piece golf balls tend to have softer feel, produce more spin, do not fly as far, and generally cost more than their two piece counter parts. These balls are better for lower handicap players who have extremely consistent swings.

A better ball striker who loves to work the ball with a draw or fade will benefit from the extra spin of a three piece golf ball. Chances are this player hits the ball far enough to negate the lack of distance of these balls.

Purchase Golf Balls That Match Your Swing Characteristics

Choosing the right golf ball is now easier than ever thanks to better marketing. It is now uncommon to find golf balls without helpful information right on the packaging. Look for information on the back of the package and find a match to your swing characteristics.

Start With Your Swing Speed

The most important characteristic of your swing to keep in mind when choosing the right golf ball is your swing speed. The wrong type of ball for your swing speed can actually reduce your yardage. On the other side, you can get tremendous distance with much less effort when properly matched.

Unfortunately, most golfers have no clue about their correct swing speed. Most golfers, especially males, tend to highly overestimate their swing speed.

To get your proper swing speed you can go to a pro shop. Otherwise purchase or borrow a swing speed monitor. Do not guess. Chances are you will be wrong.

Fine Tune Your Selection With Personal Preferences

Now you can fine tune your selection by choosing the level of feel (softness) and spin you prefer. Most ball packaging will include the amount of spin with a driver, and the amount of spin with a 9-iron. Most players will benefit from less spin from a driver, and perhaps a little more from the iron.

Finally, Test A Few Different Balls

Once you find a few brands of balls that produce balls with your desired characteristics make sure to give a handful of them a try. Test them out in all aspects of your game. Putting, chipping, 100 yards and in, long irons, and driving are all important. You will use all of these shots, so remember to evaluate all types of shots with the different balls.

You may be surprised to find that a ball that feels sweet off of the tee may sound terrible with your putter. In the end, that is the joy of having so many choices. Not only are there tremendous golf balls available for your exact playing level, you can also choose a ball the meets all of your personal preferences.

Choosing the right golf ball is really a simple process. Just remember to be honest with yourself and drop your ego. The ball with the fancier packaging, more recognized name brand, or higher cost is not necessarily any better for your golf game. And that is what matters most.

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What Are Golf Balls Made Of That Make Them Go So Far?

Posted on | July 22, 2010 | No Comments

What Are Golf Balls Made Of That Make Them Go So Far?

In the chemistry of air pressure, turbulence, and aerodynamics, surface structures are vital physical element. History has it that there are things that seem to be peculiar on their make-up hundreds of years ago which eventually came up with a better composition based on scientific research. And a golf ball is the best paradigm of this theoretical stand in history.

During the earliest days of golf on the eastern coast of Scotland, most players used ancient apparatus in order to play the game in a more disorganized and informal way. Here, the first clubs and golf balls are made up of wood.

It was on 1618 that the feather golf ball was finally introduced. This was commonly known as the "Featherie". This feather golf ball was a handcrafted ball made with goose feathers securely pressed into a horse or cowhide sphere. This is being done while the ball is still wet. After drying, the leather shrank and the feathers expanded creating a hardened ball.

But because these kinds of golf balls are specially handcrafted, they usually cost higher than the clubs. In doing so, only a few privileged people could afford to play golf during those times.

Next, came the Guttie golf ball. This prehistoric kind of golf ball was made from the rubber like sap of the Gutta tree that can be found in the tropics. Normally, these Guttie balls can be easily shaped into a sphere when hot and eventually used as a golf ball. With its rubber nature, guttie balls can be cheaply reproduced and can be easily repaired by reheating and reshaping.

However, between the two earliest forms of golf balls, the feather golf ball was said to travel farther than the gutties. This is due to the smooth surface of the gutties that limits the capacity of the golf ball to cover more distance.

With this new scientific analysis, the developers of golf ball finally came up with balls with the "dimples" that are predominant in modern golf balls nowadays.

Dimples are crafted into golf balls so as to reduce the aerodynamic drag, which will be acting on the ball if it were totally smooth. This is because smooth balls, when sailing through the air, leave a huge pocket of low-pressure air in its stir therefore creating a drag. With the application of drag, the ball slows down.

Hence, by having dimples on golf balls, the pressure differential goes down and the drag force is reduced. These dimples create turbulence in the air surrounding the golf ball. This, in turn, forces the air to clasp the golf ball more closely. By doing so, the air trails the warp created by the ball towards the back instead of flowing past it. This results to a smaller wake and lesser drag.

Dimples also help players to put backspin on a shot making the golf ball break off on the putting green.

The idea of putting dimples on golf balls can be traced back during the gutta percha phase. Coburn Haskell introduced the one-piece rubber cored ball encased in a gutta percha sphere. It was during this time when the players observed how their shots become more and more predictable as their balls turned rough from play.

When William Taylor applied the dimple pattern to a Haskell ball in 1905, golf balls finally took their modern form.

From then on, dimpled golf balls were officially used in every golf tournament. In 1921, the golf balls took its form with standard size and weight.

Today, there is an abundant selection of golf balls to fit different golf game and condition. There are golf balls that offer control, while some offer distance. In whatever ways golf balls vary, only one thing is common and known. Golf balls are not just elements of the sports arena; they are more than ever paradigm of a concept in physics.

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The Evolution of the Golf Ball

Posted on | July 20, 2010 | No Comments

The Evolution of the Golf Ball

The Wooden Ball

When golf first came about, the balls used were made from hardwoods such as beech and crudely rounded with tools. This period lasted from the 14th Century to the 17th Century.

In the late 16th Century it is recorded that one William Mayne was producing clubs for the nobility in Scotland. In 1603 Mayne, a bowmaker by trade was appointed, among other things, clubmaker to King James VI of Scotland, shortly before his accession to the throne of England.

Record books also show that in 1447 King James II issued his now famous edict in Parliament that golf was to be outlawed. His concern was that his subjects were more interested in golf than training how to use the warfare weapons of their time! Worried this would leave his country defenceless; he banned golf (although it was still played, just not by the masses.)

The Feather Ball

The feather ball period was the longest period of stability in the history of the golf ball. The feathery ball period lasted from as early as the 14th Century to as late as the 16th Century and was produced until the early 1850's. In its beginnings the leather golf balls were likely to have been filled with wool or hair.

These balls quickly lost their resilience and ultimately it was discovered that the use of feathers produced a livelier and longer lasting ball.

Producing a feathery was a time consuming process that required considerable expertise. The craftsmen themselves vied with each other for the contracts from the richest patrons of the game and were often scathing about the results their competitors achieved.

Enough feathers went into each ball to fill a Top Hat and contrary to the name of this ball it was as hard as a stone and could travel in excess of 250yds.

Feather golf balls were not round and were more often than not oblong in shape. There were a variety of sizes and weights and the ball would be marked with its weight in drams clearly visible along with the maker's name. Despite not being round feathery golf balls did fly and roll with remarkable trueness and were perfectly suited to the crude greens of the day.

The Gutty Ball

This is where the modern era started, with the feathery being replaced by the gutty.

The industrial revolution was booming in the UK and factories started to manufacture many more products using rubber...it was only a matter of time before someone would substitute the feathery with a more durable material.

In the end Reverend James Patterson, a keen golfer discovered the gutty-percha whilst on missionary work in Malaysia. Gutty-percha is a similar material to rubber that is made from the dried sap of a tree and James discovered almost by mistake that this material could be used to make golf balls with.

Two-piece metal mouldings were made to produce perfectly round spheres. At first only smooth balls were manufactured but golfers soon began to realise that the more the ball nicked and marked, the easier it was to predict their shots. This eventually led to manufacturers producing gutty balls with surface markings to enhance their aerodynamic qualities.

Quickly these balls were being made at a fraction of the cost of the feathery and eventually the game of golf became affordable to the general public.

The Bramble

The balls were known as brambles as the balls resembled the fruit found on brambles with a raised dimple pattern on the golf ball. Originally bramble balls were entirely made of gutty-percha and covered with a bramble pattern cover. This ball soon overtook the gutty as the preferred choice of the then pro golfers and heralded the beginning of the dimpled ball as we know it today.

The Mesh

During the beginning of the twentieth century, there was a boom in golf ball manufacturers around the country, each experimenting with rubber core mesh balls. It was this period that the modern day golf ball as we now it know came about. Early dimple balls created during the early 1900's were proving to offer players greater spin and feel and an Englishman called William Taylor patented the dimple method in 1905.

Spalding USA immediately purchased the rights for this patent and began to manufacturer dimple balls as early as 1909.

Until the patent expired in the 1920's every company attempted to obtain an advantage over their competitors by designing unique mesh type patterns on golf balls. There was the Rifled Ball - designed like the barrel of a gun - which according to adverts would fly like a bullet. It did, but only if you hit it 100% straight - otherwise it was off - spinning everywhere.

There were raised banana shapes, donut dimples, Stars, Circles, and Hexagons you name it they tried it!

One by one these balls eventually were superseded by another new pattern, and so on, until eventually the square mesh ball became standard. More and more of the small golf ball manufacturers were squeezed out of the market by the larger corporations such as Spalding, Dunlop, Slazenger, Wilson etc, and by the end of the 40's the market was dominated by the same leading golf manufacturers as today's market, with the exception of a Scottish firm called St Mungo who in 1935 dominated the UK market, along with Spalding.

With the development of golf balls progressing at an alarming rate the U.S.G.A, fearful of the skill level required to play golf being continually compromised by the golf ball manufacturers, decided to standardize the weight and size of golf balls. In 1931 the U.S.G.A ruled that no ball played in their championships could weigh more than 1.55 oz, or was smaller than 1.68" in diameter. These new sizes were not popular with the British golfers, as the windswept links of yesteryear required different flight characteristics from a ball.

In January 1932 the Royal & Ancient Golf Association and the U.S.G.A reached a partial compromise on weight and size with the maximum weight being 1.62 oz and a minimum of 1.62" in diameter. The U.S.G.A accepted the new weight but maintained 1.68" as the diameter.

With technology constantly improving the driving distance of new balls, the U.S.G.A developed a machine to test the velocity of golf balls in 1941 and in 1942 set the velocity limit at 250 feet. Eventually by 1940 more or less all balls manufactured were the dimple style and the manufacturers turned their research to improving the golf ball within the rules of the game.

With the exception of the one-piece rubber balls, which were introduced in the 1960's -this was the last major period of change in golf balls until today's multi-layer golf balls were introduced.

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Nike Golf Balls Help You Go The Distance

Posted on | July 18, 2010 | No Comments

Nike Golf Balls Help You Go The Distance

Nike golf balls are just as popular as any other Nike products. That's why so many novices and professionals choose these golf balls. According to Nike, their golf balls utilize the latest technology to provide a ball for every golfer's playing style.

Nike golf balls are a popular ball brand for many experienced golfers. There are a variety of Nike golf balls to choose from. Each ball is designed to enhance your game. For instance, there are different varieties of Nike Golf's Power Distance line are known for:

- Quick-spin response off clubface

- Dimple pattern designed to cut fast through wind.

- Soft cover for long distance

Nike golf balls for new golfers

Inexperienced golfers and those with a low handicap may shy away from using Nike golf balls because of the price. If you tend to lose lots of balls around the golf course, buying a pack of brand new Nike One Platinum golf balls may be too much of an expense. Luckily, there are many used golf ball dealers online who provide used and recycled Nike golf balls. These dealers sell high quality, highly rated used golf balls that are comparable to brand new balls.

A golf ball that has been hit just one time is considered used. These balls look and perform exactly the same as any brand new Nike golf ball. Dealers will give golf balls like these their highest rating.

Bulk golf balls provide more for the money

Buying Nike golf balls in bulk can really save you money. You can get a large number of high quality golf balls at a discounted rate. You can get low rated golf balls for practice, and buy mint, high quality Nike golf balls that perform just as well as brand new.

Before you buy bulk Nike golf balls or any other brand, you should make sure that you are familiar with the company's grading system first to make sure you get what you pay for.

Pick a ball that matches your skill level

The golf balls you choose can have a direct effect on your performance. Just like the other equipment you so carefully select, you should give equal consideration to the golf balls you choose. There are a variety of golf balls to help enhance your game, whether you are a beginner or a pro. Believe it or not, every aspect of a golf ball - from the core design to the dimples on the surface - affects the way it plays. Nike balls are designed to help you gain more distance or more control around the greens if you need it.

No matter what your skill level or golfing style is when you are out on the course, high performing golf ball manufacturers like Nike are sure to have a ball that is just right for you. If you are not sure about which ball to choose, visit your local sporting goods store to get advice and guidance to find the right Nike golf balls for you.

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Nine Good Reasons Why You Should Get Personalized Golf Balls!

Posted on | July 16, 2010 | No Comments

Nine Good Reasons Why You Should Get Personalized Golf Balls!

If i can find you nine good reasons why you should get personalized golf balls, you can buy me a cup of tea! Sometimes, getting something is nothing more than having a reason to get. The reasons are plenty when you dig hard enough and yes, here they are!

1. Easier identification of which ball is yours

2. Personal pride

3. Golf buddies ball exchange personal bonding

4. Leaving an impression

5. Pleasant memories

6. Lucky Charm

7. Wedding favors/ gifts

8. Personal Decoration

9. Show off/attention

Personalized with an impact and with a flavor, that is what personalized golf balls do. For those who do not know what exactly is personalized golf balls, let me explain the difference. They are often mixed up with the terms custom golf balls, logo golf balls, custom logo golf balls. They are similar but very much different at the same time.

Personalized golf balls are golf balls that are imprinted with your own name, signature, slang, slogan, picture, phrase or even decorations that remind you of something. It is very much for a personal use and has a tinge of closeness identified with it.

Many people have done adding that to their own personal collection of golf balls for many reasons i am going to show you nine useful reasons that you would love to have to get your golf balls personalized.

First - It makes ball identification much easier. In golf, we seldom play alone and much more often in pairs or a group. Some of your golf mates might use the same ball as you and with the same identification number too. Well it happens and do not be surprised. Personalized golf balls help you mark your golf ball with its own personal mark without hassle of identifying. Tools and accessories might get lost but not when you personalize them.

Second - It provides you with a sense of personal pride. If you achieved a hole in one with your golf ball and personalized it ( it could be the other way round ) , it gives you a sense of achievement and pride when you golf with your buddies.

Third - You can exchange with golf buddies. Why would you want to do that? Seems weird? Not at all! In fact, many golfers meet up with new found golfing friends to network around the world and even at golf vacations. As part of social interaction, some would exchange personalized golf balls to those they want to remain in contact with or personally like.

Fourth - Leave an impression with others. Give your personal caddie an impression never to forget. You can give the personalized golf ball as a gift to someone of the opposite sex or set a tone of authority when you use them when you play with others.

Fifth - Have a fond memory you want to keep and treasure? Mark your lowest score ever or your first birdie with a personalized golf ball. How about a personal first experience? Met the girl of your dreams at the golf course? Or maybe the name of your spouse on your golf ball will drive your scores lower and determination stronger!

Sixth - Talk about luck! Numbers come in handy when they are your lucky number. Add in your lucky number that might strike you big or save you from blushes! If you believe in luck and are superstitious, that is something you might do!

Seventh - How about wedding favors? Getting married is a personal once in a lifetime experience with a special someone. Ladies love it, and with your white golf ball, that is a real complimentary reason that you should love your wife as much as golf!

Eight - Some golf fanatics go crazy over different golf collections and golf sets by decorating their cupboards or collection room with them! They are a way to motivate and inspire someone if there is a special meaning behind it! That is why personalized golf balls are such a big hit.

Ninth - Love attraction? That is the best way to show off your personalized golf balls and your decorations of achievements! If you have won a tournament, a definite gift would be something to remind you and to show people what you have achieved! If you will beam from ear to ear from that, custom make your golf ball today!

That is all at the moment but i still have much more up my sleeve. Wait, what about my cup of tea? Keep it for yourself the next time we golf!

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A Modern Look Into Golf Ball Compression That Improves Your Game

Posted on | July 14, 2010 | No Comments

A Modern Look Into Golf Ball Compression That Improves Your Game

Since the beginning of golf, golf ball compression have been widely debated and discussed among golfers. As technology have advanced into the modern age, golf balls have become better than before. Just through technology alone, the evolution of golf ball has wiped out most of the hard core and old Balata wound golf ball out of the market. Today, majority of the golf balls are soft core low compression golf balls. Till then, golf ball compression really mattered but now, it is no longer the case.

Back then, if a 70 was put onto a golf ball, it would be termed as a women's golf ball. Now, low compression golf balls take up majority of the market. You can have 4 piece compression golf balls like Pro V1x in the mid 90s and TP Red in the mid 80s. Compression numbers cannot be used to determine your golf ball selection anymore.

Golf ball compression can now be generally differentiated into two types. They are the core compression and the overall compression. In general, core compression is normally the main reason for the feel when you hit a driver on the golf ball. The reason is because the club face fully compress the core upon impact and that is what causes the feel on a full swing.

For overall compression, it refers to the amount of deformation undergone to the whole golf ball when it is being subjected to a compressive force. This is typically important in generating the feel, spin and also the energy transfered from club face to golf ball.

Taking a deeper look, golf ball compression cannot be used to determine the feel of the golf ball. Take the Wilson Staff Zip golf ball for example, with a zero compression core, the golf ball feels completely different from that of a Srixon Soft Feel. Both golf balls have a golf ball compression of 55. Hence compression does affect feel but it cannot be used to determine feel today.

In fact, it is used more in the lab to design the golf ball such as C.O.R, sound, spin rates and velocity. It is more of the interaction of the layers that produce and determine your feel than normal golf ball compression.

Let us not look just on the numbers but beyond them to determine which golf ball suits you best. Every single material that makes up the golf ball have it's own property that will contribute to the energy transfer, spin, feel, velocity, launch angle etc. With the technology nowadays, multi-layered golf balls are used to control the deformation to push the feel, velocity, spin, launch angle and other distance factors into another level. It is indeed quite a revelation in today's golf.

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Golf Balls — The Science Behind The Dimples

Posted on | July 12, 2010 | No Comments

Golf Balls -- The Science Behind The Dimples

The dynamics behind the flight of the golf ball offers a fascinating insight into the physical interworkings of air pressure, turbulence, and aerodynamics.

When golf was first played in Scotland, most players played using clumsy golf apparatus, with the first golf clubs and golf balls made of wood.

In 1618 the "Featherie" was introduced. It was a golf ball made of feather. This feather golf ball was handcrafted from goose feathers tightly pressed into a horse or cowhide sphere while still wet. After drying, the leather shrank and the feathers expanded, creating a hardened golf ball.

As this type of golf ball was specially handcrafted, it was usually more expensive than golf clubs, so that only a few privileged people could afford to play golf back then.

After the Featherie golf ball came the Guttie golf ball. This type of golf ball was made from the rubber-like sap of the Gutta tree found in the tropics, and was shaped into a sphere when hot and eventually into a golf ball. As it was made of rubber, the Guttie golf ball could be cheaply produced and easily repaired by reheating and reshaping.

Comparing the two types of golf balls, the Featherie golf ball was said to travel farther than the Guttie golf ball because the Guttie golf ball's smooth surface prevented it from covering more distance.

With this discovery, the developers of golf balls came up with the "dimpled" golf balls that are so predominant in modern golf nowadays.

The dimples on the golf balls help reduce the aerodynamic drag. Aerodynamic drag normally affects smooth golf balls and slows them down, because when they sail through the air, they leave a pocket of low-pressure air in its stir thus creating a drag.

By applying dimples to the golf ball surface, the pressure differential goes down and the drag force is reduced. These dimples create turbulence in the air surrounding the golf ball, which, in turn, forces the air to clasp the golf ball more closely. By doing so, the air trails the warp created by the golf ball towards the back instead of flowing past it. This results in a smaller wake and lesser drag.

Dimples were first added onto golf ball surfaces back during the gutta percha phase. Coburn Haskell introduced the one-piece rubber cored golf ball encased in a gutta percha sphere. Then in 1905 William Taylor applied the dimple pattern to a Haskell golf ball, thus giving rise to the modern golf ball as we know it today.

After its beginning, dimpled golf balls were officially used in every golf tournament. In 1921, the golf ball took its current form with standard size and weight. Nowadays there is a wide range of golf balls to fit every style, game and condition, with some golf balls offering control, and other golf balls offering distance.

Though a common sight nowadays, the dimpled golf ball is not just a mere element of the sports arena; it is a showcase of physics at work.

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The Golf Ball

Posted on | July 10, 2010 | No Comments

The Golf Ball

Current info about Golf Balls is not always the easiest thing to locate. Fortunately, this report includes the latest Golf Ball info available.

It seems like new information is discovered about something every day. And the topic of Golf Balls is no exception. Keep reading to get more fresh news about Golf Balls.

In the chemistry of air pressure, turbulence, and aerodynamics, surface structures are vital physical element. History has it that there are things that seem to be peculiar on their make-up hundreds of years ago which eventually came up with a better composition based on scientific research. And a golf ball is the best paradigm of this theoretical stand in history.

During the earliest days of golf on the eastern coast of Scotland, most players used ancient apparatus in order to play the game in a more disorganized and informal way. Here, the first clubs and golf balls are made up of wood.

It was on 1618 that the feather golf ball was finally introduced. This was commonly known as the "Featherie". This feather golf ball was a handcrafted ball made with goose feathers securely pressed into a horse or cowhide sphere. This is being done while the ball is still wet. After drying, the leather shrank and the feathers expanded creating a hardened ball.

But because these kinds of golf balls are specially handcrafted, they usually cost higher than the clubs. In doing so, only a few privileged people could afford to play golf during those times.

Next came the Guttie golf ball. This prehistoric kind of golf ball was made from the rubber like sap of the Gutta tree that can be found in the tropics. Normally, these Guttie balls can be easily shaped into a sphere when hot and eventually used as a golf ball. With its rubber nature, guttie balls can be cheaply reproduced and can be easily repaired by reheating and reshaping.

However, between the two earliest forms of golf balls, the feather golf ball was said to travel farther than the gutties. This is due to the smooth surface of the gutties that limits the capacity of the golf ball to cover more distance.

With this new scientific analysis, the developers of golf ball finally came up with balls with the "dimples" that are predominant in modern golf balls nowadays.

Dimples are crafted into golf balls so as to reduce the aerodynamic drag, which will be acting on the ball if it were totally smooth. This is because smooth balls, when sailing through the air, leave a huge pocket of low-pressure air in its stir therefore creating a drag. With the application of drag, the ball slows down.

Hence, by having dimples on golf balls, the pressure differential goes down and the drag force is reduced. These dimples create turbulence in the air surrounding the golf ball. This, in turn, forces the air to clasp the golf ball more closely. By doing so, the air trails the warp created by the ball towards the back instead of flowing past it. This results to a smaller wake and lesser drag.

Dimples also help players to put backspin on a shot making the golf ball break off on the putting green.

The idea of putting dimples on golf balls can be traced back during the gutta percha phase. Coburn Haskell introduced the one-piece rubber cored ball encased in a gutta percha sphere. It was during this time when the players observed how their shots become more and more predictable as their balls turned rough from play.

When William Taylor applied the dimple pattern to a Haskell ball in 1905, golf balls finally took their modern form.

From then on, dimpled golf balls were officially used in every golf tournament. In 1921, the golf balls took its form with standard size and weight.

Today, there is an abundant selection of golf balls to fit different golf game and condition. There are golf balls that offer control, while some offer distance. In whatever ways golf balls vary, only one thing is common and known. Golf balls are not just elements of the sports arena; they are more than ever paradigm of a concept in physics.

Take time to consider the points presented above. What you learn may help you overcome your hesitation to take action.

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