Haskell Golf Ball.” Photograph. Source: The British Golf Museum. http://www.britishgolfmuseum.co.uk/. In September 3, 1991 Spalding obtained another patent 6 for a golf ball with 422 dimples. The dimples were all one size with dimple diameter of 0.140 inches. 73% of the surface was covered with dimples. There was one dimple at each pole (labeled P), and six identical dimple sections of 35 dimples (labeled 1 or 2) on each side of the equator (E) of the golf ball. The main purpose of this invention was to design a new dimple pattern that was not a modified icosahedron and gave good symmetrical flight performance. This ball, hit with a driver at 160 ft/sec, drove a golf ball a carry distance of 254.0 yards, a roll distance of 22.7 yards for a total of 276.7 yards. This was within the USGA standard of 280 total yards. This patent was filed June 12, 1990 which establishes that the earliest date for introduction of this golf ball is July 1989.

Colin White, Projectile Dynamics in Sport: Principles and Applications (Abingdon: Routledge, 2011), 187. The Royal and Ancient Game.” British Golf Museum. Accessed August 3, 2016. http://www.britishgolfmuseum.co.uk/the-collections/the-royal-and-ancient-game. Hotchkiss, John F. 500 Years of Golf Balls: History & Collector’s Guide. Iowa: Antique Trader Books, 1997. I record the golf balls in my collection in a bound notebook. Tools that I use are: a magnifying glass to help read the markings on the golf ball, a compass to draw a picture of the golf ball in my notebook, a caliper to measure the diameter of a golf ball, a pencil and pen, and a water soluble marker to help count the number of dimples on the golf ball.The Strata, however, proved to be a gold mine for Spalding. Its high point came in 1998 when Mark O’Meara won the Masters and the Open Championship for Spalding. The real prize for Callaway was the Chicopee ball plant. At the time of the sale, it was considered the lowest cost and most efficient operation in the industry. Callaway had been making balls but never turned a profit. Its factory could only make about six million dozen a year, and it was paying patent royalties. Wright was the driving force behind Boston’s Franklin Park golf course, the first municipal course in the U.S. Boston’s other muni is named after Wright, who donated the land for the Donald Ross design. Growing the Game

This advertisement was interesting for several reasons. First, not only did it contain information about TOP-FLITE XL II golf balls but also about TOP-FLITE II and TOP-FLITE PLUS II golf balls.GB 1,381,897, Golf Ball Dimple Spatial Relationship, Oct 12 1972 priority date Mar 20, 1972, published Jan 29, 1975. century, they were preoccupied with finding the perfect material/substance for “a solid although mobile core” 59; although some also experimented with solid materials. 60 Almost nothing was off limits as the list of materials they experimented with also included things such as castor oil, mercury, honey and even wine. In 1910, Haskell’s friend and golfing companion George Worthington created and patented what he called the Radio ball. Its name was inspired by its “magic” ingredient which was believe it or not, radium. 61 coverage is equal to the total area of all the dimples divided by the surface area of the golf ball.

On 11th April 1899, the American businessman and inventor Coburn Haskell (1868-1922) got a (joint) patent from the United States Patent Office for the rubber-wound ball 47 which would soon lead to another revolution in golf. Widely regarded as the first modern golf ball, Haskell’s ball was made of a solid rubber-wound core that was covered by guttapercha. But the thing that ensured it made it to become the next ball of choice was its performance; bringing control and feel to a whole new level. In addition, it was exceptionally forgiving to mishits 48 and flew over 20 yards further than the 100% gutta percha ball. When ballmakers adopted the dimple pattern (golf ball pattern featuring indentations or depressions on the surface), which was patented by the Englishman William Taylor in 1908 49, the rubberwound ball achieved even greater distances. 50

Spalding also started the Spalding Athletic Library; a series of sports and exercise books published from 1892 through 1941. Promoting both sports and sports equipment, the lineup featured titles such as How To Play Second Base by Hall of Famer Johnny Evers, Boxing: A Guide to the Manly Art of Self Defense, and How to Play Golf by Harry Vardon and James Braid.