He could easily have found employment as a golf-ball namer in the 1910s and '20s.
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That name, RocketBladez, and the related golf-ball name, RocketBallz, is an another example of TaylorMade's aggressive style.
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That wasn't just the golden age of golf-course design, it was also the golden age of golf-ball names.
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She was petrified when doctors found a golf-ball-size tumor near the base of her skull in June 2007.
Collins, an avid golfer, graciously agreed to come up with a list of golf-ball names for manufacturers to consider.
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It is displayed on the 60th floor of a five-star hotel nicknamed the Farmer's Apartments that is topped with a golf-ball-shaped room.
"Let's say you make a drive go 25 yards shorter by aerodynamics, " said Dean Snell, TaylorMade's vice president for golf-ball research and development.
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Bruce McBride, a librarian at the U.S. Golf Association, turned up a list of some 700 golf-ball trade names used prior to the 1940s.
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British police say the device -- the ADE standing for "Advanced Detection Equipment" -- is really a novelty golf-ball finder with the label removed.
"Golf balls used to be a lot more about the brand than the technology, " said Michael Mahoney, the director of golf-ball product management at Titleist.
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The NWS is reporting golf-ball sized hail stones in some areas.
Fewer than 300 people in the study had gastric bypass surgery, a more dramatic technique in which the surgeon creates a golf-ball-shaped pouch to curb food intake.
If all current shackles on golf-ball distance were removed, I learned, balls could probably be made to go 40 to 70 yards farther than they do today.
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According to Gilford's Alexander, the company also wasted too much management time and millions of dollars on expanding into noncore businesses and on a fruitless golf-ball patent-infringement lawsuit against Titleist.
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Bridgestone has risen to second in U.S. golf-ball sales by exploiting a niche in low-compression balls, but any new short-ball designs will require a bundle of new techniques and processes, the best or most efficient of which could fall under a competitor's patents.
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"I'm excited, because I'm hitting the golf ball real well -- and at Olympic the people who have done well there have hit the ball well, " Woods said.
Augusta's rules committee deemed Woods had violated one of golf's ball-drop rules during the second round and handed him a two-stroke penalty.
The raw material for one lobster golf ball costs about 19-cents since, besides some home composting, most lobster shells end up in landfills.
Its leafy green head is usually 1-2 inches in diameter, roughly the size of a golf ball, but each sprout packs a potent punch of contrasting flavors.
The result is that Gilmore is able to whack a golf ball over 400 yards, and now Irishman Harrington has copied Gilmore's breathtaking run-and-smash technique - and amazingly has added an extra 30 yards to his drive!
Another house, which Mr. Ferraro calls the "golf-and-tennis suite, " has sage-green beadboard in the hallways and golf artifacts, including a display case tracing the history of the golf ball.
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He was the first president to golf while in office, but despite the energy of a 350-pound build and potential to hit the long ball, William Howard Taft was one of the worst presidential golfers.
There will be more money on Rory to make it three in a row for Northern Ireland since golf's poster-boy took Jack's advice and practiced at Olympic last week, and his high ball flight should help with those approaches to tricky greens.
There's the Doggy Doo golf ball, presented in its gift box nestled on a turd, and the perennially hilarious roll of 19th-hole bathroom tissue.
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