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From: Peter James on 26 Aug 2009 06:21
A year ago, I purchased on the internet a ball marker. It's nothing
more than a small plastic circle of plastic, with a hole in the middle
where the ball fits. In use you jam the ball in the hole and then,
using a waterproof pen draw a hole around the circumference of the ball.
Simple and job done. Except...... a lot of balls fall through the hole.
Some will jam there, but a lot won't.

I would have thought, in my innocence, that all balls had to have the
same size and circumference. Obviously I'm wrong. It seems wrong
though, as surely different sized balls will provide different flight
and impact aspects? Or am I a bit simplistic over this?

--
He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I
could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far
from being gruntled.
P.G. Wodehouse 1881 -1975
From: M L Wadsworth on 26 Aug 2009 06:49

"Peter James" <pfjames2000(a)googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:1j51z7r.1c7qix61jmjtxtN%pfjames2000(a)googlemail.com...
>A year ago, I purchased on the internet a ball marker. It's nothing
> more than a small plastic circle of plastic, with a hole in the middle
> where the ball fits. In use you jam the ball in the hole and then,
> using a waterproof pen draw a hole around the circumference of the ball.
> Simple and job done. Except...... a lot of balls fall through the hole.
> Some will jam there, but a lot won't.
>
> I would have thought, in my innocence, that all balls had to have the
> same size and circumference. Obviously I'm wrong. It seems wrong
> though, as surely different sized balls will provide different flight
> and impact aspects? Or am I a bit simplistic over this?
>
> --
> He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I
> could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far
> from being gruntled.
> P.G. Wodehouse 1881 -1975

Peter, the answer to the Rules part will be found in Appendix III of the
Rules of Golf (page 163 in the current Rules book) where it says, the
diameter of the ball must not be LESS THAN 1.680 inches (42.67mm).

I would have thought the hole in your ball marking tool should be less,
rather than greater, than the size of a ball so that the line could be drawn
along the exact diameter, but an engineer would be more able to comment than
I.

I think most balls are much of the standard size (1.680 ins diameter) except
Top Flite Magnums which are larger.

If you are still playing in the time of P G Woodhouse, the Rules then were
that the ball had to be not less than 1.620 ins in diameter ;-)
The smaller ball was not final made illegal until as late at 1990.

See Johnty's website: http://www.ruleshistory.com/clubs.html

Probably its time you bought a sleeve of balls and stopped relying on those
your father found!!

Malcolm


From: Peter James on 27 Aug 2009 02:14
M L Wadsworth <malCUTcolTHEmwadsworth(a)btCACKLEinternet.com> wrote:

> p://www.ruleshistory.com/clubs.html
> snipped
> Probably its time you bought a sleeve of balls and stopped relying on those
> your father found!!
>
> Malcolm
Buy? Balls? I've never purchased a ball in 30 years of golf. Other
than a bulk buy from the 2nd greenskeeper at something like a fiver for
a hundred. I make do with balls I find on the course. If I had to buy
balls, at the rate I lose them, I would be bankrupt.

Peter

--
He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I
could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far
from being gruntled.
P.G. Wodehouse 1881 -1975
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