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Golf Refugees - the ORIGINAL black golf ball

Golf Refugees initially launched the original black golf ball in the USA, with features in leading style and fashion magazines including GQ USA. It was also used in pro-am events in California filmed by ESPN and played with by Alice Cooper and NFL football stars.

Nike launched their black golf ball some two years after Golf Refugees.

The idea behind the black golf ball created by Golf Refugees, came from a conversation with a leading golf ball engineer at Titleist. If you can increase the temperature of a golf ball’s core materials extra performance can be obtained. Is it also true that when golf balls are tested in laboratories they are usually heated in ovens to a least 23 degrees Celsius.

The warmer a golf ball gets the more efficiently it will transfer energy. Golf balls materials behave in a visco-elastic manner, when contracted during impact they are designed to return to their original shape through rapid expansion. This process becomes more efficient at higher temperatures. The original black golf ball is of 2-piece construction. Where it’s ultra-thin black cover absorbs as much heat energy as possible from the sun in combination with the higher conducting metal-mix core increases the operating temperature
and hence energy transfer efficiency to gain extra distance in hot, sunny conditions.

The original black golf ball is designed to perform in hot, sunny conditions, It is more visible in the air, but less visible on the ground. Larger than normal Golf Refugees ‘ white’ graphics are printed onto the black ball during manufacture to increase visibility on the ground.