The golf ball story continued.....

"It's pathetic what they are doing, trying to put their woodies in those little holes by beating them with a club". (He'd love golf in 21st century America)

Do you think wooden balls with knots in them were the first X-Outs ? "Can ya imagine tryin to play golf with a knot in yer woodie? "

It's difficult to believe that the game survived even though the picture actually did get uglier. Along came metal headed golf clubs and these pathetic little wooden golf balls stood no chance. "Ya cheap piece o' crap, one sound whack with me niblick and nothing but a pile of sawdust !" Perhaps this is the reason for rule 5-3

The making of featheries was a profitable business that employed a lot of people. But feather golf balls were expensive to produce. Can you imagine stuffing a little leather pouch with feathers through a little hole, soaking it, and compressing it for hours on end until it was a golf ball hard enough to hit with a club. It also brought about the advent of the golf ball hawk.

Also with the feathery, it probably was the first time the game was questioned as a man’s sport. How many real men do you know who would go running around a field, wearing  kilts playing with their feather balls?

One of the advantages of the feathery was that it would almost always hold it’s shape, (although the shape was not always round), it was durable, and livelier than other golf balls of the past. It  introduced distance .....Next page

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