Let's Talk About GOLF BALLS?
This article was written to answer many of the
most frequently asked questions on this topic. Ihope you find all of this information helpful.
I remember when I was a boy and my dad had some golf balls in the garage and I was bored and was wondering
what the heck is in these things?
So like a young foolish boy that I was I got a very sharp knife and began to try and open it inside. Well about
after hour and half of cutting it I finally broke through first hitting many rubber bands wrap together.
I thought to myself that's why they bounce, so I kept at I wanted to get to the middle of the golf ball.
Well I wish I wasn't so persistent because when I did hit the middle I will never forget
it the rest of my life. Without warning a white sticky substance exploded in the air all over me and the garage. Well
I can tell you I never did that again.
To begin with the chemistry of air pressure, turbulence, and aerodynamics, surface structures are imperative physical
element. History has it that there are things that appear to be unusual on their make-up hundreds of
years ago which finally came up with a better composition based on scientific research. And a golf ball is
the best paradigm of this theoretical stand in history.
During the earliest days of golf on the eastern seashore of Scotland, most players worn old apparatus in order
to play the game in a more disorganized and casual way. Here, the first clubs and golf balls are made
up of wood.
It was on 1618 that the feather golf ball was at last introduced. This was commonly known as the "Featherie".
This feather golf ball was a handcrafted ball made with goose feathers securely pressed into a horse
or cowhide sphere. This is being done while the ball is still wet. After drying, the leather shrank
and the feathers expanded creating a hardened ball.
But because these kinds of golf balls are custom handcrafted, they generally cost higher than the clubs.
In doing so, just a few special individuals could afford to play golf during those times.
Next came the Guttie golf ball. This earliest kind of golf ball was made from the rubber like sap
of the Gutta tree that can be found in the tropics. Normally, these Guttie balls can be easily shaped into
a sphere when hot and eventually used as a golf ball. With its rubber quality, guttie balls can be
cheaply reproduced and can be easily repaired by reheating and reshaping.
However, between the two earliest forms of golf balls, the feather golf ball was said to travel farther
than the gutties. This is due to the smooth exterior of the gutties that limits the capacity of the golf
ball to cover more distance.
With this new scientific examination, the developers of golf ball at last came up with balls with the
"dimples" that are predominant in modern golf balls nowadays.
Dimples are crafted into golf balls so as to cut down the aerodynamic drag, which will be acting
on the ball if it were completely smooth. This is because smooth balls, when sailing through the air,
leave a large pocket of low-pressure air in its stir therefore creating a drag. With the application of
drag, the ball slows down. therefore, by having dimples on golf balls, the pressure
differential goes down and the drag force is reduced.
These dimples create turbulence in the air surrounding the golf ball. This, in turn, forces the air to
clasp the golf ball more closely. By doing so, the air trails the warp created by the ball towards
the back instead of flowing past it. This results to a smaller wake and lesser drag.
Dimples also help players to put backspin on a shot making the golf ball break off on the putting green.
The idea of putting dimples on golf balls can be traced back during the gutta percha stage. Coburn Haskell introduced
the one-piece rubber cored ball encased in a gutta percha sphere.
It was during this period when the playersobserved how their shots become more and more predictable
as their balls turned irregular from play. When William Taylor applied the dimple model to
Haskell ball in 1905, golf balls at last took their modern shape.
From then on, dimpled golf balls were officially used in every golf tournament. In 1921, the golf balls
took its form with standard size and weight.
Today, there is an plentiful selection of golf balls
to fit different golf game and circumstance. There are golf balls that offer control, while some
offer distance. In whatever ways golf balls vary,
only one thing is common and known. Golf balls are not just elements of the sports arena; they are more
than ever paradigm of a concept in physics.
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By Tim B. Miller DiscoverArticles.com
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Tim B. Miller
Grinnell, Iowa 50112
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