How To Use Balata In A Sentence
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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
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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
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The ball went in on the fly, causing untold damage to its balata cover and the cup.
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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.
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Some use synthetic balata as a cover material; others use urethane or elastomer.
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A nonelastic rubber much in demand before the advent of plastics, balata had been used primarily for covering underwater cables.
One River
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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.
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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
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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
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I discovered the balata balls last year in my basement, miraculously preserved in their unopened package from the mid-1990s.
Testing the Technological Edge
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To gain more distance, Pavin in 1996 switched from the high-spinning, wound balata ball he'd always used to a solid-core ball that went farther.
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In addition, since balata balls spin more than modern balls, they slice and hook more, too.
Testing the Technological Edge
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These were such an expensive indulgence for me at the time (balata balls had great feel but cut easily) that I never actually used them.
Balls in the Basement
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Modern premium balls, typified by Titleist Pro V1s, have nearly the feel and short-game control of balata balls, plus distance and durability.
Testing the Technological Edge
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The modern era of golf ball covers was dominated by balata, a natural rubber that provided high spin rates and soft feel but lacked durability.
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The locals, he explains, have just played the team from the Balata refugee camp near Nablus.
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I also discovered an unopened sleeve of balata Maxfli XF balls from the mid-1990s.
Balls in the Basement
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By far the biggest adjustment I had to make in playing with wood and balata involved sound.
Testing the Technological Edge
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Urethane is just as soft as balata but is more durable and consistent.
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These youngsters - all under 22-are the first generation to play without any first-hand experience or memory of the days when woods were persimmon and balls were balata.
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The voracious demand for labor to gather latex and heat it into balls of balata fell on the indigenous peoples of the region, providing the central theme of this book.
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Elle se souvient de “la crainte dans les yeux des enfants”, du silence régnant dans les rues du camp de Balata, à Naplouse.
Matthew Yglesias » Helen Suzman
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The click of a persimmon driver striking one of those soft balata balls and the sound of steel spikes clattering across the parking lot were heavenly.
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Expert advice: ‘These balls behave like balata on the green and still have the distance of a hard two-piece ball.’
