Patent ID: 7244193
Filing Date: 2007-07-17
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
1. A method of playing golf, said method comprising the steps of: obtaining a golf ball having a first state wherein the golf ball has a first performance characteristic and a second state, resulting from immersion of the golf ball in water for a time period greater than two days and less than one hundred eighty days, in which the golf ball has a second performance characteristic that is different than the first performance characteristic to an extent that it is impractical to use the golf ball with the second performance characteristic to play golf, the golf ball maintaining the first state while immersed in water up to the time period that is greater than two days but less than one hundred eighty days; striking the golf ball into an accumulation of water using a golf club; and allowing the golf ball to remain immersed in the accumlation of water for the time period of more than two days and less than one hundred eighty days so that the golf ball is caused by the water to be changed from the first state into the second state only after immersion for the time period of at least two days and less than one hundred eighty days, wherein the golf ball in changing from the first state into the second state is caused to crack.