Association, which regulated that the ball should weigh no more than 1.62 ounces and should have a diameter no less than 1.62 inches. Soon many new big balls were made and in 1968 the Professional Golfers Association in Great Britain made it standard for a ball to 1.68 inches in tournaments.The golf ball, as we know it today is a different variation of the gutta percha shell ball. (Hist. Coarse, 9) Balata replaced the gutta percha in balls that are typically used by better golfers while surlyn is used to make harder balls for the novice players. Since the usage of regulated balls in the USGA and many other organizations around the world, the struggle is getting the most out of a ball and still stay inside the regulated borders.Through the years golf has seen it share of technological advances to its equipment, but there is a entire different side of the game that has to do with the great golfers that shaped and molded the way that people play golf today. In the 1750s when golf as we know it today came to be and all the great old golf clubs were being started a man by the name of Allan Robertson was noted to be the very first professional golfer. He is the first man to break eighty on what is now the old coarse at St. Andrews. Robertson and a man by the name of Willie Dunn had an epic tournament that was twenty rounds over ten days. In the end Robertson won- two rounds up with one to play. This family of the Robertson’s was truly the first golfing family that made its home at the most famous golf coarse in the world.On July first 1851 a man by the name of Old Tom Morris left his house to create the first purpose built golf course on Monkton parish in Prestwick. (Hist. Of Golf, 3) It was nine years later that the first Open Championship was held at the golf coarse. The winner was Willie Park and for winning he received a red Morocco leather belt with silver clasps as the first prize. The Open Championship was held at Pres...
