At the 1945 Los Angeles Open, Bing Crosby gave Sam Snead a brand-new Spalding Dot. At the time, rubber wasn’t publicly available; “pre-war” golf balls were going for over $100/dozen.

The ball with open holes, launched at the same speed, gives an acceleration of 12.2+/-0.2 m/s 2, which is significantly larger (in both the colloquial and statistical senses of "significant").

Rory McIlroy hit a ball out of the rough, and as he swung into the ground he somehow unearthed another golf ball during the ...

Greg Earnhardt, 46, of Greensboro, N.C., and partner Sherrill Britt, 49, of West End, N.C., continued their run at the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship by ...