Golf balls for cannon use--demensions

[thelionspaw]

Thank you Victor3; you are a scholar and a gentleman.

FYI: US golf balls are 1.68" as you already know. Did you know that UK golf balls are 1.62"?  They are advertized as "super" and that they will add distance to your drive but the ads don't usually mention that they are the UK smaller size and illegal in competition.

I went to the transfer station the other day with the weekly collection of household refuse and saw golf balls all over the place. A dump truck was in the day before and missed the hopper with a load of, as they told me, "about a million golf balls".  I'll never run out of golf balls.

Richard
a.k.a. "The Scavenger"

[Victor3]

 Some golf ball size history...

 "In 1920, they agreed the ball should weigh no more than 1.62 ounces and have a diameter of not less than 1.62 inches. From January 1931 however, the USGA turned its back on the collective agreement and introduced the "big ball", a ball having a minimum size of 1.68 inches and a maximum weight of 1.55 ounces. A year later, they raised the weight stipulation to 1.62 ounces. Subsequent attempts to settle for a uniform ball of 1.66 inches failed but finally, the USGA standard was also adopted elsewhere. The Professional Golfer's Association (PGA) in Great Britian was swayed by people who attributed the American dominance of golf to their usage of the big ball. It announced in 1968 that it was to experiment with the bigger ball of 1.68 inches in its tournaments. Soon it became mandatory. In 1974, the R & A made the big ball compulsory for the Open Championship. Under the rule revisions that came into effect in 1988, the R & A outlawed the small ball altogether."

http://library.thinkquest.org/10556/english/high/history/hist05.htm

 So today, 1.68" minimum diameter and 1.62 oz maximum weight is the standard both here and in the UK.

[dan610324]

1,68 is minimum , ok .
but what is the maximum today ??

if the balls are 1,68 it mean 43,7388 mm would be the perfect golf ball bore .

I read somewhere that the balls was 44 mm and bore should be 45 , what is correct ??

[Victor3]

 Uhhh... I think we may have gone too far off-topic and hijacked this thread.

 Probably best to start a new one unless the original poster wants to continue on with it.

[dan610324]

YEAH you are probably right 

sorry   

[Double D]

Don't forget windage.

[dan610324]

43,7388 includes 1/40 th windage