Publisher's Synopsis
This book tells the story that every golfer who has ever teed up a golf ball on the first tee of any golf course at any time will appreciate and find informative. It is a book tracing the evolution of the golf ball back to the feather ball and theories on what came before. The reader will learn about the gutta percha period, the rubber core balls, how and by whom materials were discovered, quirky offerings such as the Radio ball, the different cover materials of the modern ball and the latest innovations for the 21st century. To help to establish the time of these events, the book includes pertinent anecdotes about the people who invented the balls and the competitors that used them, play a timeline of golf ball milestones, and the rules of golf Chr(45) those rules that concern the golf ball directly. Along with the text there are approximately 165 photographs of some very rare golf balls from the private collections of David Berkowitz, Dr Gary Wiren and Udo Machat.
