I took 50 year old golf balls out on course to see how they stack up to modern golf balls. The results were shocking!
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I wonder how many people have actually played with wound or balata balls. I remember when the Strata came out and it was revolutionary. Those shavings are the remnants of the rubber windings. Its disintegrated because of age. A newer rubber wound ball would look more like rubber bands wrapped around the core. Old distance balls had a solid core. You cut into a "tour" ball since it had a liquid core.
I could have warned you before cutting open the Dunlop! LOL. What you are seeing are the remnants of the liquid center and the rubber windings around the center. Definitely old school.
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Old golf balls are degraded. Take a golf ball today and age it 50 years. It will perform worse. The best test that nobody has done is to take a reproduction golf ball and test it against a golf ball from today.
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The old Titleist balata balls had the same construction of the Dunlop, Liquid cure, rubber windings, and balata or surlyn cover. I cut a few back in the day and the liquid (oil?) in tore was a little messy. I do think the secret is that the Dunlop is the old british size which was smaller. I used to use some in the wind to reduce slice or hook. And it was an advantage at the time. Enjoyed to video.
What's the problem with your mouth, it's not a good look
When I was a kid I used to cut old split balls to get the centre rubber ball out of the middle. If you cut it with a knife into just the outer you could get the cover off and then just nick the rubber windings and sit back and watch the madness. I played for 2 decades with Dunlop 65's. So no surprises for me.
I also know it is the small UK ball. They flew lower and rolled further especially on Links courses. Hence the famous Jack Nicklaus Drive on the last hole at St Andrews when he drove through the green. I have a box of 12 Penfold balls from that era that must be the same age ? Never used.
I am commenting here before watching. I lost dad to COVID in 2020. I returned to golf in 2021 after a 12 year break, inspired by memories of playing with dad. After dusting off my clubs I looked through dad’s garage for balls and found a box of Dunlop balata golf balls. I was stunned by the control around the greens. Now let’s see what you found.
If you peel the 65 you will find elastic band wound around the central core, the core was liquid rubber to aid compression. We use to peel them as kids after the shell split. Another interesting fact is that dimples are on a ball to aid air flow over the ball. If you sand off the dimples the ball will only fly about a third of the distance. This is because a smooth ball has high surface tension. In fluid mechanics you are affecting the Reynolds number for optimum air flow. Dimples design is about getting optimum air flow for a desired performance.
Interesting. The smaller ball was the English ball. Better in wind and cold ex. in the Open. American was tad bigger. I have brand new mid 1950s balls. Ram Dart. Wonder how they would compare. A ball outside for years can't be good for it.
The nearly indestructible Ram 3-D and then Top Flite XL II Distance were my favorites back then.
Some golf balls had mercury in the hollow center ball that was wrapped with rubber band, A buddy and me got in trouble in the 5th grade for cutting a couple golf balls apart in class and was playing with the mercury on our desks and the teacher went ballistic when she seen the Mercury ……..LOL
Never seen anyone cut a 50 year old ball open before. That was nuts!