Adventures of a Little Golf Ball
Clare Briggs
Clare Briggs is a famous cartoonist who lived from 1875 to 1930. Poems by Wilbur Nesbitt.
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10 cents in the 1920s is about $1.75 today and the internet says a typical price for a new but not fancy golf ball these days is around a dollar. fancier golf balls can be close to 5 dollars apiece at current pricesReport
It’s a used ball, so even then figure there’s a third knocked off from the price of a new ball. So 15 cents for a new ball then, about $2.60 today. Balls of the same sort of level that I used when I quit playing are about $2/ball today. Of course, a 1920s golfer would be amazed by the durability, feel, distance, and ball-to-ball consistency of modern balls. Distance would be even more amazing if the USGA and R&A were to relax their initial velocity limits.Report
On the subject of golf ball technology improvements, I played competitive golf in high school, which was somewhat closer to the 1920s than to today (how did that happen?). My match ball back then was a Maxfli medium-compression wound-rubber ball with a balata cover. The ball-makers from the 1920s would have recognized the technology. They felt wonderful when you hit them, were painfully expensive for a high-school student, and lasted 18 holes before you beat them out-of-round. No one at any level of golf would consider using a ball that crappy today.Report
Heh. I played I think one year in high school before I gave it up (I had neither the skill nor the temperament for the sport, despite my Dad’s best efforts). I played with a lot of seconds, as giving me a good ball was a waste!Report