What do you do if you hit your ball OB off the tee, but discover the ball in-bounds on a different hole? Rules Guy has the ...

Gutta-percha, a natural plastic extracted from trees in Southeast Asia, sparked a craze in Victorian England, leading to its use in everything from golf balls to ear trumpets. But its greatest ...

Already at the end of the 19th century there was discussion about the excessive length of the new gutta-percha balls, while in the 1960s and 1970s the rules on balls differed between the United ...

But it was the arrival of a new type of ball that saw the game explode in popularity. The gutta percha ball was cheaper, sturdier and easier to repair than the old feather ones which meant more people ...

Golf has experienced various technological milestones in its history, from the feathery to the gutta-percha ball, steel shafts, graphite shafts, the Gene Sarazen sand wedge and metal-head woods.