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- The featherie and the guttie ball had low to modest coefficients of restitution.
- "Early recognition of Penfold's ability came when the solid guttie ball was standard.
- The " guttie " golf ball ( which had a solid gutta-percha core ) revolutionized the game.
- The guttie ball was a solid one-piece golf ball made of the dried gum of the Malaysian sapodilla tree.
- Golfers had long noticed that the guttie worked in the air much better after it had been hit several times and scuffed up.
- Around 1870, a natural gum discovered in Malaysia was fashioned into the first Guttie, a smooth ball that sank like a rock compared with the old Featherie.
- The guttie ball was later replaced by balls made of natural rubber and, then, synthetic rubber, both of which led to the modern balls in use today.
- Work suggested Haskell put a cover on the creation, and that was the birth of the 20th century wound golf ball that would soon replace the guttie bramble ball.
- Not until the 19th century, when more contemporary Italians dreamed up the gutta-percha, or " guttie " ball, did golf make its next strides forward.
- This was a perfectly fine material for a golf ball with the exception that when the temperature drops too low, sapodilla gum grows a bit brittle _ a lesson the cold-weather golfer learned the hard way when he hit a shot on the 10th hole and found his guttie ball flying off in the direction of the 11th, 12th and 13th.