Patent ID: 8740727

Claim:
A colored 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 the outermost cover layer or the paint layer, or both, is colored with a fluorescent dye and titanium oxide and the golf ball itself 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 35≦L, −40≦a≦70, and −60≦b≦60, wherein the golf ball itself has a color tone at a measurement area diameter of 5 mm and a color tone at a measurement area diameter of 15 mm, such that the color difference ΔE therebetween is larger than 5.