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.
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.
Also spelled feathery. Fescue Grass of the genus Festuca, widely used on for rough on golf courses. Field The players in a tournament. Five-Iron An iron club used for distances between 145-180 yards for men's clubs.
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.
Golf balls have come a long way from the initial feathery ball, but are they, the key to distance and accuracy?
To determine this point, we have to travel back in time and see how the original golf balls were formed.
An old leather ball stuffed with compressed feathers Replaced by the gutta percha after Also spelled feathery
Fescue
Grass of the genus Festuca widely used on for rough on golf courses ...
 See also: Golf, Feather, Swing, Putting, Shot
  
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