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A hard substance produced by drying the milky juice of a bully tree (Manilkara bidentata) and that possess properties similar to those of gutta percha and is used chiefly in the manufacture of belting and golf balls

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  • Its core was wrapped in tightly wound elastic threads, and its cover was made of a soft rubber called balata, which gave the pros the feel, high spin and control they...
  • "You hesitate at twenty balata, then you point out that?"
  • I also discovered an unopened sleeve of balata Maxfli XF balls from the mid-1990s.
  • By far the biggest adjustment I had to make in playing with wood and balata involved sound.
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