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David_Tepper

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Re: Small ball, big ball
« Reply #25 on: May 30, 2012, 01:00:53 PM »
I have been reading John Jacobs' book 50 Years of Golfing Wisdom recently. In the last chapter, he devotes six pages to a discussion of the 1.62" & 1.68" balls. He is a big believer that the adoption of the 1.68" ball by the R&A led directly to an improvement in the quality of play among the top players in GB&I and the rest of Europe.

He also relates how Roger Wethered wanted the R&A to adopt the larger ball in the 1940's, right after WWII. But Wethered did not want to make any waves and dropped the subject, much to his regret 20 years later.