Patent ID: 8138298

Claim:
A golf ball comprising: a core; and a cover covering the core, wherein the cover contains a polyurethane as a resin component, and the polyurethane is obtained by employing a multimodal polyol having multimodality in molecular weight distribution, as a high-molecular-weight polyol component constituting the polyurethane; wherein the multimodal polyol is a mixture of the poly(tetramethylene ether) glycol (PTMG 1000) having a number average molecular weight of 900 to 1100 and a poly(tetramethylene ether) glycol (PTMG 2000) having a number average molecular weight of 1800 to 2200 at a molar ratio of from 3/7 to 6/4 (PTMG 1000/PTMG 2000); and wherein the polyurethane contains 4,4′-dicyclohexylmethane diisocyanate as a polyisocyanate component constituting the polyurethane.