Experiment To See If Soaking A Golf Ball Affects Its Distance

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The material was heated to soften it and then
hand-formed into a solid, one piece ball.Gutta percha was black, so the
early balls were painted white. Easier to make, less expensive, and more
durable, the gutta revolutionized golf. When golfers discovered that balls
and nicks flew longer and straighter then new ones, manufactures began to
give them a textured, even pattern surface. The most popular early pattern
was the bramble, which featured raised round bumps in concentric circles.
the first wound rubber ball was introduced in 1898. the three-piece
Haskell was the first ball to mix distance and control. Cleveland
entrepreneur Coburn Haskell, with Akron BFGoodrich engineer Bertram Work,
wound continuous rubber thread under extreme tension around a small, solid
rubber core, and wrapped the result in a gutta percha cover. Balata rubber
soon replaced gutta percha, and dimples first appeared in 1909. The first
two piece golf ball was introduced in 1968 by Robert Molitor a ...

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to 80% of the golf ball
is covered in dimples. The majority of dimple designs today are based on
the icosahedralpattern which Titleist introduced in 1973. This pattern
divided the cover into 20 identical triangular faces. Titleist experiments
with some 50 to 100 dimple patterns a year and has eight in current
production. In 1909 spalding invented the first ball with dimples and now
make three basic dimple patterns. Even the shape of dimples have changed
over the years. No longer are they all round. Wilson's truncated cone
dimple design features a flat bottom and sidewalls, for reduced drag.
Bullet and Aero which I used in my project have new dimple designs. On
Bullets new ball one ...

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