Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Custom Logo Golf Balls And Your Golf Ball History

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

So you want to customize your golf balls and have your company's insignia printed on it. All you need to do is to go to the custom logo golf balls store and tell the clerk "Hey, print this on 200 golf balls. When can I get it?"

Cool. So while you are waiting-while you and I are waiting-let me share to you how your golf ball of today came into being. The earliest recording of golf can be traced back in the 1100s. But the details are obscure so let us jump three centuries later to Scotland. The golf ball used in this year, in about 1400s, was made of goose feathers and leather and it was called a featherie. Talk about creativity in naming convention. Prior to that, the golf ball is no more than rounded wood.

A featherie is no more than wet goose feathers wrapped tightly in leather. The ball is boiled and allowed to cool-of course, it is too hot to handle-so the feathers would expand and the leather would shrink. This process made the ball ideal for flight. The challenge here is the expense and the amount of time needed to produce these golf balls. An expert golf ball maker can only produce two featheries in one day. According to history, a featherie cost the equivalent of $00 USD of today per ball!

Add to that the fact that a featherie is totally useless once it got wet. It simply burst when hit or when it hit solid surfaces because the stitches on the leather get loose easily. Since the genius of mankind was not yet fully explored and cultivated at that time-precisely because I wasn't born yet-the poor people of the planet had to make do wit the featherie as the official golf ball for two hundred years. Of course, I need not say that custom logo golf balls were not yet a fad at that time.

Then, in 1848, a man of great intellect, Robert Paterson-not related to me-introduced the gutta percha. Also called a guttie, the gutta percha was a golf ball made of a rubbery substance or material found in a Malaysian Sapodilla tree. How Robert Paterson got to Malaysia I do not know. What I know of is that his golf ball was used until the 1800s.

A man who got bored, the name of whom I have forgotten, wound rubber into a ball while waiting for his friend to play-guess what-golf! And that is the beginning of the modern golf ball. People found out, though, that smooth golf balls are not ideal for flight because it cannot fight the pressure in the air while moving at a certain speed. So people added dimples to the golf not to make it look cute but to use aerodynamics to get the perfect lift and drag of the golf ball in flight.

No. Your custom logo golf balls are not yet ready. What I advise is that you go home because it takes an average of three to five days for companies to customize the imprints on your golf balls-what with all the plates and colors and all. See ya after....

So you want to customize your golf balls and have your company's insignia printed on it. All you need to do is to go to the custom logo golf balls store and tell the clerk "Hey, print this on 200 golf balls. When can I get it?"

Cool. So while you are waiting-while you and I are waiting-let me share to you how your golf ball of today came into being. The earliest recording of golf can be traced back in the 1100s. But the details are obscure so let us jump three centuries later to Scotland. The golf ball used in this year, in about 1400s, was made of goose feathers and leather and it was called a featherie. Talk about creativity in naming convention. Prior to that, the golf ball is no more than rounded wood.

A featherie is no more than wet goose feathers wrapped tightly in leather. The ball is boiled and allowed to cool-of course, it is too hot to handle-so the feathers would expand and the leather would shrink. This process made the ball ideal for flight. The challenge here is the expense and the amount of time needed to produce these golf balls. An expert golf ball maker can only produce two featheries in one day. According to history, a featherie cost the equivalent of $00 USD of today per ball!

Add to that the fact that a featherie is totally useless once it got wet. It simply burst when hit or when it hit solid surfaces because the stitches on the leather get loose easily. Since the genius of mankind was not yet fully explored and cultivated at that time-precisely because I wasn't born yet-the poor people of the planet had to make do wit the featherie as the official golf ball for two hundred years. Of course, I need not say that custom logo golf balls were not yet a fad at that time.

Then, in 1848, a man of great intellect, Robert Paterson-not related to me-introduced the gutta percha. Also called a guttie, the gutta percha was a golf ball made of a rubbery substance or material found in a Malaysian Sapodilla tree. How Robert Paterson got to Malaysia I do not know. What I know of is that his golf ball was used until the 1800s.

A man who got bored, the name of whom I have forgotten, wound rubber into a ball while waiting for his friend to play-guess what-golf! And that is the beginning of the modern golf ball. People found out, though, that smooth golf balls are not ideal for flight because it cannot fight the pressure in the air while moving at a certain speed. So people added dimples to the golf not to make it look cute but to use aerodynamics to get the perfect lift and drag of the golf ball in flight.

No. Your custom logo golf balls are not yet ready. What I advise is that you go home because it takes an average of three to five days for companies to customize the imprints on your golf balls-what with all the plates and colors and all. See ya after....


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