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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2009
Hyun J. Kim, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Hong G. Jeon, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Hyun J. Kim, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Hong G. Jeon, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US);
Abstract
A golf ball is disclosed which includes a Single Component Region which includes greater than 75% by weight of an injection moldable rubber and one or more Discrete Hardness Regions within the Single Component Region. The golf ball may optionally also include a core, an outer cover layer and one or more intermediate layers. Also disclosed are methods of preparing a golf ball including a Single Component Region which includes greater than 75% by weight of an injection moldable rubber and one or more Discrete Hardness Regions within the Single Component Region, whereby the Single Component Region is formed either by sequentially injection molding layers of a polyalkenamer rubber followed by co-curing the resulting structure, or by injection molding one or more pairs of half shells of a polyalkenamer rubber composition, followed by stacking the half shells to form a golf ball precursor structure followed by co-curing the resulting structure.