Monday, January 19, 2009

Recreational versus the advanced balls.

The golf balls which are used by the serious professional players are the advanced balls and they one used by the amateur players are the recreational balls.

The recreational balls have low sing speeds of up to 80 miles per hour and they have the tough outer cover and the soft inner core and which helps with achieving lower spring speeds. even if they lose these balls it is absolutely fine and that way these balls will be able to achieve the desired purpose of recreation

The advance golf balls have three layers and that has helped in higher swing speeds and it helps that the professional players have brute forces to induce compression in the golf balls.

The design of the golf ball and aerodynamics

The design of the ball determines the spin angle , ball’s velocity as well as the spin arte.
And all this is commonly known as the trajectory of the ball.
The flies’ due to the aerodynamic action of the tow things and those two things are lift and the drag.

There are dimples in the ball which have an aerodynamic effect on the ball and these two combine to give that special flight which what each golfer desires. The number of dimples range between 300 – 400 and the dimples has to be always even numbered. The design of the ball was patented in the year 1908.

Royal and Ancient of St Andrews

This club is the one which approves the golf balls and is very much the oldest known club of the golf. It is based in Scotland. It was founded in 1754 and has been instrumental in popularizing the game all over the Europe.

The new name for the authority is the R& A and it is believed to be working with the USGA to implement the golf rules and the regulations in the entire golf playing nation of the world.

The USGA is responsible for the rules and regulations of the game in US and Mexico.

History of the golf ball

The golf ball as is known today was not there and in the earlier era the golf ball which was used was the wooden golf ball. Then came the feathery and the name is there because the feathery was actually a feather ball and was used in the game for a quite a number of years. The cost of the featherie ball was about 5 schillings at that time.

Then came the gutta parcha ball and this was invented by Robert Adams and he was instrumental in the indentations in the ball because of the fact that the ball had some of the defects the ball went very further than the pure sphere. That is why you will see in the modern ball there are so many indentations.

Golf ball basics

The golf ball is the one which is used for playing the golf and the name that is commonly used is the regulation golf ball and it is well known that the golf ball weighs 1.620 oz.

The shape of the golf ball is symmetrical spherical in shape and this shape is the one which is very important for the proper flight of the ball.
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If you have observed the great golfers playing then these golfers always will have a look at the golf ball and then make sure that whether the golf ball is good to play or not. If the ball is out of shape the player can be very frustrated.