gutta percha-- A hard, molded substance used to make early golf balls. Gutta percha balls were used from approximately 1850 until the early 1900's.
Gutta Percha
A rubber-like material used in the manufacture of early golf balls. It was a hard, molded substance made from the sap of several types of Malaysian trees. These balls were in use from 1848 until the early 1900s.
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Gutta Percha: Rubbery material used to make golf balls after 1848.
Guttie: A golf ball made of gutta percha which rendered Featheries obsolete.
Hacker: A poor golfer.
Gutta Percha: Material used to manufacture golf balls in the 19th century.
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Hacker: Poor player.
The Gutta Percha Ball
For these reasons the featherie was replaced by the gutta percha ball from 1848.
A ball made from gutta percha. It lost popularity when the wound ball was introduced at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Replaced by the gutta percha after 1848. Also spelled feathery. Fescue Grass of the genus Festuca, widely used on for rough on golf courses. Field The players in a tournament.
It continued to evolve to a solid gutta percha (or a mixture with gutta percha other substances) in the 1850's and strip rubber wound around a core in the 1900's.
Later replaced by the gutta percha.
Fellow-Competitor - See "Competitor."
Fescue - A type of grass used widely for the rough on golf courses.
Field - The players in a tournament.
Five-iron - An iron club. Also known as a Mashie.
The invention of the gutta percha ball (or "guttie"), was in 1848. Prior to this, golf ball construction was a laborious and costly art practiced by a handful of manufacturers in the vicinity of Edinburgh - and if a ball was expensive, ...
Robert Adams invented the gutta percha ball (or guttie). Because gutties were cheaper to produce and could be manufactured with textured surface to improve their aerodynamic qualities, they replaced feather balls completely within a few years.
To make a gutta percha ball or gutty, a slice of resin rope that had been pre-mixed with a stabilizer was heated to make it pliable and then shaped into a sphere.
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.
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 gutta percha ...
Balls had originally been made from wood but, by 1848, a much harder material known as gutta percha was being used.
Example: Free relief without penalty is allowed from ground under repair within one club length of the nearest point of complete relief that is no nearer the hole. gutta percha (also "gutty") type of golf ball made from sap of a tree, ...
Guttie - Ball introduced in 1848, made of gutta percha, a rubber like substance obtained from the latex of a species of Malaysian tree.
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Handicap - A system that theoretically enables players of all abilities to play on equal terms with each other.
First incarnation of the modern golf balls with rubber straps wound around core encased in gutta percha - rendered Gutties obsolete
Hazard
Permanent features on the golf course designed to obstruct play.
Featherie: An old leather ball stuffed with compressed feathers. Replaced by the gutta percha after 1848. Also spelled feathery.
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