Patent ID: 8460125

Claim:
A golf ball comprising a core, a cover of at least one layer encasing the core, and a layer of paint applied to a surface of an outermost layer of the cover, wherein at least one layer from among the outermost cover layer and the paint layer is a colored layer containing a base polymer, a pigment and a lubricant, and the ball has a color tone, at a measurement area diameter of 5 mm in a method of measuring the color of a reflecting object according to JIS Z-8722, which, expressed in the Lab color system, satisfies the conditions 30≦L, −40≦a≦60, and −20≦b≦60, wherein the pigment is an organic fluorescent pigment, the lubricant includes up to 50 parts by weight of a fatty acid amide and up to 50 parts by weight of a composition of one or more fatty acid compound having 24 to 34 carbons and selected from the group consisting of esters of montanic acid, partially saponified esters of montanic acid and metal salts of montanic acid per 100 parts by weight of the pigment, and the colored layer contains from about 0.05 to about 2.5 parts by weight of the organic fluorescent pigment per 100 parts by weight of the base polymer.