Patent ID: 7229363
Filing Date: 2007-06-12
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
1. A golf ball having a plurality of dimples arranged on the surface thereof and an equator which is in substantial alignment with a parting plane between a pair of mold sections in which the ball has been molded, wherein the ball surface does not have any great circle that does not intersect with dimples, and at least 7% of the total number of dimples are non-circular dimples which are configured by a combination of at least one arcuate curve and at least one of a non-arcuate curve and a straight line, at least one of which lies across the equator such that a major portion of the at least one of non-circular dimples which is configured by at least one of the non-arcuate curve and the straight line is on one hemisphere and an off portion of the at least one of non-circular dimples which is configured by the arcuate curve is on another hemisphere and the size of the off portion is 0.1 to 2.0 mm from the equator.