you rest a golf ball on the putting green.
you rest a golf ball on the putting green.
what do you rest a golf ball on?
putting green
"this problem primarily concerns the flight of the golf ball, of course, which is why i thought you as golf course architects would be interested in it essentially. it is something the usga has been working on for a good many years. mr. fownes, who is president here (pinehurst), was very active as chairman of this committee when he held that position prior to his service as president of the usga, and he did a great deal of work on this whole problem of the golf ball. i've been very much interested in it since i've been chairman of the committee. we feel that a golf course is designed for a certain type of shot to the green, and that as you increase the length of the tee shot, you throw the golf course all out of scale. therefore, it spoils the pleasure of the play to have this continual increase in the flight of the ball. we feel that the question involves not only the ball but also the equipment of the game; that possibly the shaft had something to do with the increased length of the ball. we've done a lot of work in chicago with our machine there in testing the ball. since our tests first started back in 1942 we haven't observed much increase in the flight of the ball, it's been pretty constant. the manufacturers say pretty much the same thing: that they haven't changed the ball very much, and in their opinions it hasn't increased.
american society of golf course architects
the next major breakthrough in golf ball development came in 1898. coburn haskell of cleveland, ohio had driven to nearby akron, ohio for a golf date with bertram work, the superintendent of the b.f. goodrich company. while he waited in the plant for work, haskell picked up some rubber thread and wound it into a ball. when he bounced the ball, it flew almost to the ceiling. work suggested haskell put a cover on the creation, and that was the birth of the 20th century wound golf ball that would soon replace the guttie bramble ball. the new design became known as the rubber haskell golf ball. for decades, the wound rubber ball consisted of a liquid-filled or solid round core that was wound with a layer of rubber thread into a larger round inner core and then covered with a thin outer shell made of balata sap. the balata is a tree native to central and south america and the caribbean. the tree is tapped and the soft, viscous fluid released is a rubber-like material similar to gutta-percha, which was found to make an ideal cover for a golf ball. balata, however, is relatively soft. if the leading edge of a highly lofted short iron contacts a balata-covered ball in a location other than the bottom of the ball a cut or "smile" will often be the result, rendering the ball unfit for play in most instances.
golf ball