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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2020
Filed:
May. 20, 2019
Acushnet Company, Fairhaven, MA (US);
Michael R. Madson, Easton, MA (US);
Nicholas M. Nardacci, Barrington, RI (US);
David P. Hunt, Taunton, MA (US);
Acushnet Company, Fairhaven, MA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a golf ball having a non-planar parting line on its spherical surface. The plurality of dimples located adjacent to the parting line consists of a first portion of dimples, each dimple of the first portion having a wave relief distance of from 0.001 inches and 0.005 inches, and a second portion of dimples, each dimple of the second portion having a wave relief distance of greater than 0.008 inches, where wave relief distance is measured as the shortest distance from the average dimple diameter of the dimple to the parting line.