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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 695, 21 June 1929, Page 15

THAT NEW GOLF BALL A FTER five years of experimentation a new golf ball, lighter and larger and described by the United States Golf Association as being much easier to hit, will go into countrywide use on January 1, 1931. The new ball will be 1.68 in in diameter and 1.350 z in weight, as against the present standard ball of 1.62 in in diameter and 1.620 zin weight. As the association sees it, the new ball will provide for the average golfer an easier ball for play in all departments of the game. Experiments have proved the new ball to be superior to that now in use in approaching and putting. Difficulties arise in the question of international play, however, and inasmuch as the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, which is the ruling power of British golf, has declined to tamper with the ball as it is now made, it will be necessary for the two golf ruling bodies to decide which ball is to be used in international matches. The United States organisation has had the backing of leading players and manufacturers in reaching its decision for a change and the consensus of opinion in the States is that the new ball will be easier to hit, will ride higher out of the rough, is better controlled, “sticks’' to the greens and is a “beautiful" puttrn ball, all of which reads extremely well for us poor duffers.