Early golf balls stuffed with feathers.
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featherie/feathery-- An old type of golf ball used prior to about 1850 made with compressed feathers inside of a leather cover.
fescue-- A type of grass used mainly as rough on a golf course.
Featherie: An old leather ball stuffed with compressed feathers. Replaced by the gutta percha after 1848. Also spelled feathery.
Featherie: Early golf balls with a core of compressed feathers inside a leather outer.
Field: The players in a tournament.
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Feather: To put a delicate fade on a shot.
First Cut: Strip of rough at the edge of a fairway.
First Off: Golfers beginning their round before everyone else.
feathery
An early golf ball made by filling a leather pouch with boiled feathers. It was highly susceptible to damage and began to go out of use in the mid-1880's after the introduction of the cheaper guttie ball.
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The Feathery ball
A featherie is a hand sewn leather-covered ball stuffed with boiled and compressed goose feathers and coated with paint.
Feathery
A 19th century ball constructed by filling a leather pouch with boiled feathers. Featheries were easily damaged and gave way to gutta-percha balls prior to the turn of the 20th century.
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The feathery was replaced when a much cheaper ball made out of gutta-percha, a natural gum from Southeast Asia, was developed around 1850 in Italy.
feather = light soft things that cover a bird’s body
few - fewer - fewest = little; a small number of
flat = even, smooth
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This results in high or low shots with a loss of distance Featherie An old leather ball stuffed with compressed feathers. Replaced by the gutta percha after 1848. Also spelled feathery.
feathery early type of golf ball made with a leather cover and stuffed with goose feathers
Example: A feathery was about the same general weight as modern balls.
1618 - Invention of the feathery ball. King James VI of Scotland and I of England confirms the right of the populace to play golf on Sundays.
Featherie - An old leather ball stuffed with feathers. Replaced the wooden ball. Later replaced by the gutta percha.
Fellow-Competitor - See "Competitor."
Fescue - A type of grass used widely for the rough on golf courses.
After the 17th century feathers were boiled and compressed, then sewn in a leather cover.
feather: Term used to describe a soft landing lob shot.
first cut : As semi rough, strip of rough at the edge of a fairway - cut longer than fairway but shorter than rough itself.
The replacement of the featherie by the gutta percha ball and that by the Haskell was the start of a process that has never stopped and will not stop.
The round object which we attempt to hit into the hole Prior to the th century it was made of wood or wool in a leather cover After the th century feathers were boiled and compressed then sewn in a leather cover It continued to evolve to a solid ...
It dates all the way back to Julius Caesar when Romans played a similar game with club-shaped branches and a feather-stuffed ball.
The first mention of the feathery ball, was in 1620. This was a leather casing stuffed with birds feathers. Prior to this date wooden spheres were played.
A golf ball made of gutta percha which rendered its predecessor, featheries, obsolete.
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It's the same as holding a bowling ball in your hands inside an elevator, right after someone cuts the cables and the elevator starts free-falling -- the bowling ball is weightless, as light as a feather in your hands.
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