Patent ID: 9199133
Filing Date: 2015-12-01
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: providing a golf ball body having a core and a cover encasing the core; applying a coating encasing the cover to form a golf ball having an exterior surface, wherein the coating includes a resin; wherein the exterior surface has a predetermined area and a remaining area, wherein the predetermined area is smaller than a surface area of the entire exterior surface; wherein surface roughening particles having an average size of 400 nm to 160 microns are present in the coating in a sufficient amount such that the predetermined area exhibits a micro surface roughness that is between about 1.2 μm and about 3.0 μm and the remaining area having micro surface roughness of less than or equal to about 1.0 μm, wherein micro surface roughness includes deviations from an ideal surface of 0.25 mm or less.