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anyone who's ever sliced into a sand
trap knows Golf is not an exact science
but what goes into the modern golf ball
is now back in the old days the
ancestors of today's Titleist sand
tailor-mades
were simply compressed goose feathers
wrapped in leather but then 19th century
manufacturers switch to gutta-percha aka
trans polyisoprene
a polymer of natural rubber leading to
cheaper more durable balls known as
Cuddy's early golfers also discovered
that dimpled balls had less drag than
smooth ones thus increasing their lift
and accuracy so today you will find up
to four hundred and eighty two
indentations on the average balls
surface a sleek aerodynamic shell of
polyurethane elastomer combining
flexibility with a tremendous resistance
to abrasion and that cratered casing is
wrapped around a masters tournament of
ingredients like zinc oxide used as a
filler and poly butadiene a polymer
that's basically rubber with memory
allowing the material to revert to its
original shape in a thousandth of a
second say after getting whacked by a
club then when you go looking for your
ball it may be easier to find thanks to
master batch red a polymer used for
coloring just one more way modern
technology Seuss's ancient sport to a
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