Golf Trivia
It’s all a matter of distance!
The earliest golf balls were a thin
leather bag stuffed with feathers (feathery); it was not a distance ball,
falling short of 200 yards. The gutta-percha ball (whitish rubber derived
from the coagulated milky latex of the gutta-percha tree) was adopted in 1848,
reached an upper limit distance of 225 yards. The rubber ball of 1899 helped
golfers achieve greater distance. A 430 yard drive was made by Craig Wood
in the British Open at
But, in 1836 Samuel Messieux whacked a feathery
361 yards at