- (sometimes
spelled Patterson)
invented the gutta-percha ball (or
guttie, gutty). The
guttie was made from
dried sap of the
Malaysian sapodilla tree. The sap...
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Course at St Andrews,
which he did the year
before his death,
playing a
guttie ball.
Robertson was
considered a
premier feather ball maker, and exported...
- golf ball ("
guttie");
Robertson had a
profitable business making the
featherie golf ball,
which was
threatened by the
emergence of the
guttie.
Morris was...
-
Exhibition in Hyde Park, London. The
company also made a
range of utensils. The "
guttie" golf ball (which had a
solid gutta-percha core)
revolutionized the game...
-
scoring a 3 on the
first hole of 578 yards,
using hickory shafts and a
guttie ball,
holing a long
fairway shot of
about 200 yards;
given the distances...
- the
trend toward a
standard eighteen had begun. 1848 –
Invention of the "
guttie," the gutta-percha ball. It
flies further than the
feathery and is much...
- used to mean
anything made of rubber. Note also the
phrase "Give her the
guttie"
meaning "Step on it (accelerate)". hai, hey an
exclamation to call attention...
- and wallets. "Early
recognition of Penfold's
ability came when the
solid guttie ball was standard. The
gutta then used for
balls was
often dirty gray, full...
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instituted to
dimple the gutta-percha ball.
Golfers had long
noticed that the
guttie worked in the air much
better after it had been hit
several times and scuffed...
- Scottish-American
clergyman who
invented the gutta-percha golf ball —
known as the
guttie — in 1848.
Paterson was born in Scotland,
where he
attended the University...
