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The evolution of golf ball

The wooden ball

When he first arrived on Golf Balls were made of hardwoods such as beech and crudely rounded with tools. This period lasted from the 14th century to the 17th century.

In the late sixteenth century, it is recorded that one William Mayne was producing clubs for the nobility of Scotland. In 1603 Mayne, a bowmaker by trade, he was appointed, inter alia, clubmaker King James VI of Scotland, shortly before his ascension the throne of England.

Log books also show that in 1447 King James II issued his famous edict in Parliament that golf would be outlawed. His concern was that their subjects were more interested in golf than training on how to use weapons of war time! Concerned that his country would leave helpless banned golf (though still played, but not for the masses.)

The feather ball

The feather ball period was the longest period of stability in the history of the golf ball. The feather ball period lasted from as early as the 14th century to as late as the 16th century and was produced until the early 1850s. In his early golf balls leather was likely to have been covered with wool or hair.

These balls quickly lost their ability to recover and, finally, it was discovered that the use of feathers produced a lively and lasting ball.

Produce a pen was a long process requiring considerable experience. The craftsmen themselves competing with each other for customer contracts of the game richer and were often scathing about the results of its competitors.

Just went into every ball pens to fill a top hat and against the name of this ball was as hard as stone and could travel in excess of 250yds.

ball pen courses were not round and were most often oblong in shape. There were a variety of sizes and weights and the ball would be marked with its weight in drachmas clearly visible, along with the name of the manufacturer. Although not golf balls fly around and shoot feathers with remarkable accuracy and adapts perfectly to the raw green of the day.

The Ball Gutty

This is where the modern era began with the feathers being replaced by the gutty.

The industrial revolution was in full swing in the UK and factories began to produce many more products using rubber … was only a matter of time before someone replace the pen with a more durable material.

In the end, the Rev. James Patterson, an avid golfer, while gutty-percha found in missionary work in Malaysia. Gutty-percha is a rubberlike material that makes dried sap of a tree and James discovered almost by mistake that this material could be used to make golf balls.

Two pieces of metal moldings were made to produce perfectly round spheres. At first they were only manufactured but smooth balls golfers soon began to realize that the more jagged the ball and scored, was easier to predict their shots. This led manufacturers gutty balls with surface markings to improve their aerodynamic qualities.

Quickly these balls are being made in a fraction of the cost of the pen and finally, the game of golf became affordable to the general public.

La Zarza

The balls were known as bushes looked like the fruit balls are in the bushes with a pattern of raised dimples on the golf ball. Originally ball completely brambles fact gutty-percha and covered with a pattern of blackberry cover. This hit the ball before gutty as the preferred option of the golfers then, for and announced the principle of the ball with dimples as we know it today.

Grid

During the early twentieth century, there was a boom in golf ball manufacturers throughout the country, each experimenting with rubber bullets central mesh. It was this period that the golf ball today as I know now become reality. The first balls dimple created during the 1900s are proving to offer players more feel and spin and an Englishman named William Taylor patented the dimple method in 1905.

Spalding United immediately bought the rights to the patent and began to dimple ball manufacturer since 1909.

Until the patent expired in 1920 all companies tried to get an edge on their competitors by designing unique patterns of type mesh golf balls. There was the striatum Ball – designed as the barrel of a gun – according to the ads that flies like a bullet. He did, but only if you hit 100% straight – otherwise it was off – turning everywhere.

No plant is banana, the dimples of rings, stars, circles, hexagons and whose name they tried!

One by one of these balls were eventually replaced by another new model, and so on, until finally the ball became standard square mesh. Increasingly manufacturers are small golf ball out of the market by larger companies such as Spalding, Dunlop, Slazenger, Wilson etc., and at the end of the 40 market was dominated by manufacturers of golf with the same leadership as the current market, with the exception of a Scottish company called St. Mungo, which in 1935 dominated the market in the United Kingdom, together with Spalding.

With the development of golf balls progressing at an alarming rate the USGA, fearful of the skill level required to play golf, continuously endangered by the manufacturers of golf balls, decided to standardize the weight and size of golf balls. In 1931, the USGA ruled that no ball played in their championships could weigh more than 1.55 ounces, or was less than 1.68 "in diameter. These new sizes were not popular with British golfers, as the windswept links of the past requires different flight characteristics of a ball.

In January 1932 the Association of Royal & Ancient Golf USGA and reached a partial agreement on the weight and size with weight of 1.62 oz and a minimum of 1.62 "diameter. The USGA accepted the new weight, but 1.68 maintained, as the diameter.

With technology constantly improving the driving distance of the balls again, the USGA developed a machine to test the speed of the golf balls in 1941 and in 1942 set the speed limit of 250 feet. Finally, in about 1940 all the balls are made dimple style and manufacturers turned their research to the improvement of the golf ball in the game.

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

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