Patent ID: 8748536

Claim:
A multi-piece solid golf ball, comprising an inner core, an intermediate layer surrounding the core, and an outer cover, wherein the intermediate layer comprises a blend composition of epoxy, polybutadiene, metallic (meth)acrylate curing agent, and zinc pentachlorothiophenol, the epoxy being present in an amount of 10% to 90% and the polybutadiene being present in an amount of 90% to 10% based on weight of polymer, wherein the epoxy is produced by curing an epoxy prepolymer with the metallic (meth)acrylate curing agent and the polybutadiene is cured with the same metallic (meth)acrylate curing agent, the curing agent being present in the amount of 0.1 to 10 percent by weight based on total weight of composition, the golf ball having a COR value of about 0.60 to about 0.90 and a compression of about 70 to about 110.