balata

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• Its core was wrapped in tightly wound elastic threads, and its cover was made of a soft rubber called balata, which gave the pros the feel, high spin and control they needed to work their magic around the greens. The Battle Over a Golf Ball
• As an experiment, I played a round of golf this week with old-fashioned wooden woods and a sleeve of virgin balata balls. Testing the Technological Edge
• The ball went in on the fly, causing untold damage to its balata cover and the cup.
• A few years later, he noticed that the new brand of two-piece balls becoming popular went farther than balata balls off irons, but not off wooden woods.
• Some use synthetic balata as a cover material; others use urethane or elastomer.
• A nonelastic rubber much in demand before the advent of plastics, balata had been used primarily for covering underwater cables. One River
• The Big Bertha produced a greater average carry, whether the clubhead speed was 85, 95 or 108 miles per hour, on center hits, high toe hits or low heel hits, with a two-piece ball or a three-piece wound balata.
• They consisted of a core wound round with rubber bands and encased in a rubber-like shell (the balata), which provided great feel around the greens but cut and scuffed easily. Testing the Technological Edge
• At Fort-de-France, drive a few minutes north to the Balata Garden , set on seven ultra-lush acres km 10, route de Balata; 0596-64-48-73; jardindebalata.fr, is a petal-head's dream, with hundreds of varieties of orchid, hibiscus and other tropical plants from across the globe, plus a system of catwalks suspended more than 45 feet up in mahogany trees. Take Monday Off: Martinique
• I discovered the balata balls last year in my basement, miraculously preserved in their unopened package from the mid-1990s. Testing the Technological Edge