| Current info about Golf Balls is not always the easiest | | | | With this new scientific analysis, the developers of |
| thing to locate. Fortunately, this report includes the | | | | golf ball finally came up with balls with the "dimples" |
| latest Golf Ball info available. | | | | that are predominant in modern golf balls nowadays. |
| It seems like new information is discovered about | | | | Dimples are crafted into golf balls so as to reduce |
| something every day. And the topic of Golf Balls is | | | | the aerodynamic drag, which will be acting on the ball |
| no exception. Keep reading to get more fresh news | | | | if it were totally smooth. This is because smooth |
| about Golf Balls. | | | | balls, when sailing through the air, leave a huge |
| In the chemistry of air pressure, turbulence, and | | | | pocket of low-pressure air in its stir therefore |
| aerodynamics, surface structures are vital physical | | | | creating a drag. With the application of drag, the ball |
| element. History has it that there are things that | | | | slows down. |
| seem to be peculiar on their make-up hundreds of | | | | Hence, by having dimples on golf balls, the pressure |
| years ago which eventually came up with a better | | | | differential goes down and the drag force is reduced. |
| composition based on scientific research. And a golf | | | | These dimples create turbulence in the air surrounding |
| ball is the best paradigm of this theoretical stand in | | | | the golf ball. This, in turn, forces the air to clasp the |
| history. | | | | golf ball more closely. By doing so, the air trails the |
| During the earliest days of golf on the eastern coast | | | | warp created by the ball towards the back instead |
| of Scotland, most players used ancient apparatus in | | | | of flowing past it. This results to a smaller wake and |
| order to play the game in a more disorganized and | | | | lesser drag. |
| informal way. Here, the first clubs and golf balls are | | | | Dimples also help players to put backspin on a shot |
| made up of wood. | | | | making the golf ball break off on the putting green. |
| It was on 1618 that the feather golf ball was finally | | | | The idea of putting dimples on golf balls can be |
| introduced. This was commonly known as the | | | | traced back during the gutta percha phase. Coburn |
| "Featherie". This feather golf ball was a handcrafted | | | | Haskell introduced the one-piece rubber cored ball |
| ball made with goose feathers securely pressed into | | | | encased in a gutta percha sphere. It was during this |
| a horse or cowhide sphere. This is being done while | | | | time when the players observed how their shots |
| the ball is still wet. After drying, the leather shrank | | | | become more and more predictable as their balls |
| and the feathers expanded creating a hardened ball. | | | | turned rough from play. |
| But because these kinds of golf balls are specially | | | | When William Taylor applied the dimple pattern to a |
| handcrafted, they usually cost higher than the clubs. | | | | Haskell ball in 1905, golf balls finally took their modern |
| In doing so, only a few privileged people could afford | | | | form. |
| to play golf during those times. | | | | From then on, dimpled golf balls were officially used in |
| Next came the Guttie golf ball. This prehistoric kind of | | | | every golf tournament. In 1921, the golf balls took its |
| golf ball was made from the rubber like sap of the | | | | form with standard size and weight. |
| Gutta tree that can be found in the tropics. Normally, | | | | Today, there is an abundant selection of golf balls to |
| these Guttie balls can be easily shaped into a sphere | | | | fit different golf game and condition. There are golf |
| when hot and eventually used as a golf ball. With its | | | | balls that offer control, while some offer distance. In |
| rubber nature, guttie balls can be cheaply reproduced | | | | whatever ways golf balls vary, only one thing is |
| and can be easily repaired by reheating and reshaping. | | | | common and known. Golf balls are not just elements |
| However, between the two earliest forms of golf | | | | of the sports arena; they are more than ever |
| balls, the feather golf ball was said to travel farther | | | | paradigm of a concept in physics. |
| than the gutties. This is due to the smooth surface | | | | Take time to consider the points presented above. |
| of the gutties that limits the capacity of the golf ball | | | | What you learn may help you overcome your |
| to cover more distance. | | | | hesitation to take action. |