Patent ID: 7838584

Claim:
A golf ball comprising a core and a cover of one or more layers, wherein at least one layer of the cover is made of a material obtained by molding a mixture comprising (a) 100 parts by weight of a base resin and (b) 1 to 40 parts by weight of a saturated branched-chain fatty acid, wherein the base resin (a) is one or more selected from among (a1) to (a4) below: (a1) an olefin-unsaturated carboxylic acid random copolymer, (a2) an olefin-unsaturated carboxylic acid-unsaturated carboxylic acid ester random copolymer, (a3) a metal ion neutralization product of an olefin unsaturated carboxylic acid random copolymer, and (a4) a metal ion neutralization product of an olefin unsaturated carboxylic acid-unsaturated carboxylic acid ester random copolymer; and the saturated branched-chain fatty acid is at least one selected from the group consisting of isostearic acid, isoarachidic acid, isopalmitic acid, isomyristic acid and isoheptanoic acid, wherein the isostearic acid has the below structure: