Patent ID: 8058331

Claim:
A golf ball comprising a core and a cover layer surrounding the core, wherein at least one of the core or the cover layer comprises a polymer composition of a highly neutralized acid polymer and a sugar ester HLB modifier such that the sugar ester HLB modifier is present from about 15 wt % to about 40 wt % of the polymer composition; wherein the sugar ester is an ester of a fatty acid or salt thereof and a C 5 or C 6 sugar selected from the group consisting of arabinose, ribose, ribulose, xylose, xylulose, lyxose, allose, altrose, fructose, galactose, glucose, gulose, idose, mannitose, talose, tagatose and sedoheptulose, sucrose esters of fatty acids, polyoxyethylene derivatives thereof, and combinations thereof.