Antique Wood Golf Ball???

[jtw1313]

Found this down by the river while out detecting for a little......pretty sure it’s a old wood golf ball.......seems a bit bouncy though any thoughts to the age or if it is at all

 

[Mackaydon]

Looks like a Spaulding Kro-Flight ball; as here:
https://www.golf-antiques.com/antique-golf-ball-no-35-Spalding-Kro-Flite
Don.......

 

[djackson7348]

New one on me. I have never heard of wooden golf balls before. Proves you are never too old to learn something new.

 

[jtw1313]

There are leather ones packed with geese feathers as well

 

[A2coins]

Thats funny maybe George Washington used it cause it matched his teeth lol

 

[A2coins]

You could do like George did with his teeth and get em stained . Sorry booooooooring day at work I know there are wooden golf clubs I find every now and then at yard sales people pay well for them by the way. Never heard of a golf ball but good to know

 

[Fourman110]

Good ID, but unlikely to be wood. If it really is wood, it’s probably a repro.

https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/m...ro-flite-mesh-pattern-golf-ball/id-f_7065133/

 

[Red-Coat]

Good ID, but unlikely to be wood. If it really is wood, it’s probably a repro.

https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/m...ro-flite-mesh-pattern-golf-ball/id-f_7065133/

Agree. The first golf balls were hand-tooled out of beech wood, but that was in the 1400s, and they didn't have that mesh design. Wood was progressively replaced by leather stuffed with feathers during the 17th Century. Gutta Percha (a self-hardening latex from Sapodilla trees) first appeared in the mid-1800s and then came the innovation of putting patterns into the ball to stabilise the flight. Spaulding certainly weren't the only company to use the mesh patten.