| Golf ball – it has dimples! | | Posted Monday, May 01, 2006 1:08:55 PM by Kate Grant | An average golf ball has 336 dimples.  There is a wide assortment of golf balls from manufacturers like Callaway, to suit any individual game and circumstance. Some of the balls offer control, some offer distance, others are suitable for practice. You can find golf balls reviews, comparisons and ratings, and even get discounts or your personal logos on them.
The antique golf balls market is blooming, and avid fans collect the increasingly valuable balls. In the earliest days of golf on the eastern coast of Scotland, players used primitive equipment to play the game in a rather haphazard and casual manner. The first clubs and balls specifically made for golf were fashioned from wood. One documented reference is that of a John Daly playing with a wooden ball in 1550. Golf balls have numbers on them.
A single-digit number on the golf ball is there for identification; a double-digit number most likely represents compression; a triple-digit number most likely represents the number of dimples. How many numbers and which numbers vary from brand to brand, but they all have at least one number.
That one number is most likely to be a 1, 2, 3 or 4, but can also be anything from a zero to a 9. The single-digit numbers are simply there for identification purposes. If the members of a foursome are all playing a Titleist ball, for example, one player might play a ball with the number "1," another a "2," etc.
This allows the members to keep track of which ball belongs to each player. A golf ball might also have a three-digit number on it, usually something in the 300s or 400s. This number is letting you know how many dimples the ball has.
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| | | Police to charge 12 in golf-ball incident | | Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 2:57:47 PM by Blog57 Team | | NEWBURYPORT - Hampered by a lack of cooperation from students, Newburyport police today will charge 12 Amesbury teens from the estimated 80 to 90 spectators involved in hurling golf balls, fruit, hats, trash and a squid at players and spectators at a high school hockey game at Graf Rink last month. Through investigation, tips and dozens of interviews, police believe a small group of Amesbury High School students brought four dozen golf balls to the Jan. 13 game against rival Newburyport and systematically handed them out with the preconceived intention of throwing them toward the ice.Read this article in full with a Plus Edition account.Click here to learn more .... | |
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| | | It's OK to admit golf is just an excuse to drink beer | | Posted Tuesday, January 09, 2007 1:12:12 PM by Blog57 Team | | GENOA, Nev. - "There are two truisms in Nevada," the Chamber of Commerce guy says, signaling for everyone to quiet down and listen. "I own my own pickup and I was just helping that sheep over the fence." Tom Metcalf doesn't wait for a rim shot. He already has the laugh track. It comes from a small van-bus crammed with 13 media members. Metcalf is one of the Carson Valley-area hosts entrusted with making sure the writers, radio hosts and TV types get a good picture of golf in northern Nevada. And he's doing it, sheep jokes and all (most of the "all" being unsuitable for a general-audience Web site). That's because Metcalf is acting like a regular golfer, letting the off-color humor fly. He sounds just like that loud cutup in your regular foursome.... | |
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| | | 'Goose eggs and golf balls' leave Tara in agony | | Posted Sunday, November 19, 2006 12:57:45 PM by Blog57 Team | | The American Pie actress - who is infamous for accidentally flashing her chest at VIP events - has also revealed that liposuction left her in agony. Tara explained to the Today Show: "It looked like I got completely butchered up. The areolas. they looked like goose-shaped eggs." She added: "After I got liposuction I got these bumps. like little golf balls all over my stomach, and it hurt." It's not the first time 30-year-old Tara has talked about how her breasts were ruined by surgery. She told Us Weekly magazine: "My first operation was horrible. The plastic surgery left me very scarred. My breasts were uneven and my skin was kind of saggy. .... | |
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| | | Green paint popular at golf courses | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:17:33 AM by Blog57 Team | | As temperatures cool and grasses grow dormant each fall, South Carolina golf courses face a daunting challenge: how to keep their grasses green. Perhaps nowhere is that more important than in Beaufort County, where the tourism-based economy is reliant on its status as a golf travel destination. Green greens translate to greenbacks. Brown greens? Forget it. Traditionally, golf courses in the South overseed fragile Bermuda-grass putting surfaces with more hardy winter annual grasses to maintain their lush, green color. But in a growing trend, some are turning to a new, simpler and more cost-effective method: painting. With a few swipes of a power painter a couple of times during winter months, course managers can restore a putting surface's color without the hassles or headaches that come with replanting.... | |
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| | | Callaway Golf appoints vice president of public relations | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 10:59:55 AM by Blog57 Team | | Callaway Golf Co. appointed Michele Szynal as vice president, public relations, the company said Friday. In the role, Syznal will oversee the company's strategic communications and brand publicity efforts. Previously, Syznal was the director of brand communications for The Gillette Co. and Proctor & Gamble. Carlsbad-based Callaway Golf (NYSE: ELY - News) manufactures and sells golf clubs and golf balls, and sells golf accessories under the Callaway Golf, Top-Flite, Odyssey and Ben Hogan brands. Published November 10, 2006 by Los Angeles Business from bizjournals .... | |
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| | | THE CHIEL Your right to par 72 | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 3:05:33 PM by Blog57 Team | | HERE begins the sad tale of Alexander Simonis, a home owner who could obtain no relief from the courts against the golf balls flying out of his view into his garden and living area. Within a brief two years, Simonis said in papers before the Cape High Court, his garden had been pelted by 384 golf balls, no less. All had been deliberately smacked in his direction by golfers aiming for the sixth hole at Milnerton Golf Course and missing, presumably. Chiel VII stumbled upon this woeful incident while seeking an answer to the second big question of the week do your neighbours have a right to a view of you? The magnificent view Alexander Simonis bought three years ago included the sweep of the golf course and lagoon against the distant backdrop of Table Mountain, with abundant and desired water birds, passing golfers and periodic, undesired, golf balls.... | |
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| | | Hailstorm damages homes, police station | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 11:03:37 AM by Blog57 Team | | HAIL the size of golf balls has damaged several homes and a police station during a thunderstorm which swept through south-east Queensland. State Emergency Service (SES) volunteers were called out to put tarpaulins on the roofs and skylights of five homes and the local police station at Esk, west of Brisbane, after the storm swept though at about 3pm (AEST) today. "They really had quite a heavy hailstorm with hail stones as big as golf balls,'' an SES spokeswoman said. The storm was heading north-east for the Sunshine Coast by mid-afternoon, while another storm cell was concentrated near the border ranges. The weather bureau has warned people to take shelter, remove debris from around their homes and put cars under cover. Share this article (What is this?) .... | |
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| | | USGA Releases Ball Standard Proposal | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 3:07:48 PM by Blog57 Team | | FAR HILLS, N.J. -- The United States Golf Association, which tests golf balls to determine whether or not they conform to the Rules of Golf, on Thursday issued the second phase of its proposal to update its golf ball test methods. Phase I, implemented late last year, brought all ball testing indoors. Phase II of the proposal addresses current swing speeds and equipment to improve the speed and accuracy of the testing process. The Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews has made a similar proposal in its jurisdiction outside of the United States and Mexico. All golf balls that currently appear on the USGA's List of Conforming Golf Balls will continue to comply with the Rules under the Phase II proposal. According to a press release issued by the USGA Thursday, a notice outlining details of the Phase II proposal were sent to manufacturers for comment.... | |
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| | | Counterfeit golf clubs, golf balls and accessories seized in Calif ... | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 12:54:48 PM by Blog57 Team | | HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. -- Cleveland Golf confirmed that raids conducted on four separate locations by the Orange County Sheriffs Department on October 31, 2006 in south Orange County, California, resulted in two arrests and the confiscation of counterfeit golf clubs, golf balls and accessories with an estimated value of approximately $1,000,000.00. .... | |
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| | | Golf Orlando Announces Extreme Golf Makeover Contest Winner | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 3:12:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | Golf Orlando, a golf marketing co-op comprised of 14 courses in Central Florida, has announced the winner of its "Extreme Golf Makeover" contest. The winning entry belongs to Andrew Gattens from Murrysville, Pa. Over 20,000 entries were received on the Golf Orlando website between June 1 and September 30, 2006. .... | |
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