| The ball went in on the fly, causing untold damage to its balata cover and the cup. |
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| Soon after, covers were made of balata, a sap-like substance from the South American balata tree. |
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| The modern era of golf ball covers was dominated by balata, a natural rubber that provided high spin rates and soft feel but lacked durability. |
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| To gain more distance, Pavin in 1996 switched from the high-spinning, wound balata ball he'd always used to a solid-core ball that went farther. |
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| The click of a persimmon driver striking one of those soft balata balls and the sound of steel spikes clattering across the parking lot were heavenly. |
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| A few years later, he noticed that the new brand of two-piece balls becoming popular went farther than balata balls off irons, but not off wooden woods. |
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| Like gutta-percha, balata is inelastic, tough, leathery, and water-resistant, and it softens when heated. |
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| The voracious demand for labor to gather latex and heat it into balls of balata fell on the indigenous peoples of the region, providing the central theme of this book. |
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| Urethane is just as soft as balata but is more durable and consistent. |
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| I'm hitting some nice balata balls and I've got a perfect green to practice putting on. |
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| A golf ball comprising a core and a cover characterised in that the cover is formed from a composition comprising about 70 to about 92 phr of balata and 8 to 30 phr of cis 1,4 polybutadiene. |
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| Most of the balata bleeding in Guyana took place in the foothills of the Kanuku Mountains in the Rupununi. |
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| No person shall extract gum from, or cut for the purpose of extracting gum, any Balata tree growing on private land. |
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| They had been earlier been allowed through the checkpoints to take food and medical supplies into Balata. |
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