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.
Fescue: A type of grass commonly used in heavy rough areas which can grow to more than a yard high.
Featherie balls were a great improvement as compared to the wooden ball, but they were quite expensive and not perfectly spherical, which gave often gave them an irregular and unpredictable trajectory.
Finished featheries were made in different diameters and weights and were graded according to weight (measured in drams). Ballmakers determined the size and weight of each ball by adjusting the lengths and thickness of the leather used for the cover.
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.
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.
Wooden balls were used until the early 17th century, when the featherie ball was invented. A featherie is a handsewn cowhide bag stuffed with goose feathers and coated with paint.
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.
A golf ball made of gutta percha which rendered its predecessor, featheries, obsolete.
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 See also: Golf, Feather, Hole, Shot, Rough
  
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