Haskell ball
The golf ball of wound rubber thread that replaced the hard gutta-percha ball.
Coburn Haskell, a golfer from Cleveland, had the idea of winding rubber thread around a core. Together with Bertram Work at Goodrich he made a ball that travelled further than the old gutta-percha ball.
The ball broke through in the early 1900s and changed the game. Courses grew longer and clubs changed, and the core of today’s golf ball goes back to his invention.
Materials: Rubber thread wound around a core, gutta-percha cover
Manufacture: Patented by Coburn Haskell in the USA in 1898 and made by Goodrich from 1900.
The wound rubber under the cover.
The dimpled pattern on the surface.
The livelier bounce compared with the old ball.