There are several types of golf ball used, such as two piece balls, multi-layer balls such as three piece and four piece balls and high performance balls.
Two piece balls, just like the name, consists of a single solid core, usually hard plastic, and a hard cover to …show more content…
• Club-head speed – The material used to manufacture the golf balls must be able to transfer most of the momentum in the club to itself to provide the maximum speed so a material with high restitution must be selected. And this material must also have high elastic characteristics, because an experienced golfer’s strike will be about 200km/h, so the ball must have high yield strength to take the hit and return to the original shape after impact. This can be measured by Compression, scale from 0-200, where 200 means minimum or no compression and 0 means there is a compression of a 2/10th of an inch or more. ( StricklyGolf, 2008) Theses numbers measures how much the shape changes when subjected to a constant compressive load.
• Durability – Even though durability doesn’t affect the performance of the golf ball it is one of the main concerns when selecting a material in the manufacturing process. Since the wearing of the ball and daily cuts from the impact of the golf club is the main concern, the considered material must be a strong material and have puncture resistant outer layer. It must have a long fatigue life with high toughness and tensile strength. But increasing durability by these properties might affect the performance with a reduction of the range and the control over the ball, so