SO....Who would like to try
The original golf ball, the
English size, golf ball?
If you didn’t know, all golf balls in Europe used to be English size.
Smaller than the American size that is now the standard.
We still have production tooling and want to know if people would
like to try the original size balls which at 1.62” (41mm) in diameter, with less air resistance, went further.
Years ago it was pushed out of golf by the larger American size
ball,which at 1.68”(42.6mm) diameter was said to stand up
higher in the grass. Do you believe that?.
The tiny difference of 0.020 (0.5mm) of an inch in radius is enough to make any difference in supporting it higher on the grass?
It sounds like pure marketing nonsense.
The truth of the matter is, market forces ruled the day.
America is a vast market and their top players did not like coming
over here and playing with the English ball, because subconsciously they thought the slightly smaller ball put them at a disadvantage.
We developed and made golf balls for a good number of years
but lost all our distribution over a period of time to Far East producers
so stopped production over 20 years ago.
However,
Just finished building a new factory and thought