The Story of the Golf Ball

From the Feather Ball to...

Kevin McGimpsey (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2004
Sotheby's Publications (Verlag)
978-0-85667-588-1 (ISBN)

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How has the golf ball affected the game, club development and the rule of golf? Ball makers have long sought to make the ball travel further, fly straighter and to provide protection to the ball from poorly executed shots. This book shows how manufacturing techniques have evolved from stuffing feathers into a leather sack in the seventeenth century to hydraulic presses and spraying booths in the early twentieth century. The balls cover patterns were designed to improve their flight characteristics and these ranged from stars, diamonds and pimples to the round dimple (today's standard) that was patented in the early twentieth century. In this highly original book the author has made extensive use of the data recorded at the many golf memorabilia sales since the early 1980s. He also records many of the prices paid at auction for golf balls.

Kevin McGimpsey has caddied at the Masters and the Open and collected golfing memorabilia since the early 1990s. He writes regular articles on golf antiques in Golf International magazine.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.1.2004
Zusatzinfo	500ill.32col.ill.
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	297 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Antiquitäten
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Golf
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
ISBN-10	0-85667-588-1 / 0856675881
ISBN-13	978-0-85667-588-1 / 9780856675881
Zustand	Neuware