Scientists may soon give avid golfers another way to improve their game -- better balls that fly farther. Up to now, dimple design has been more of an art than a science. For many years, sporting ...

Underwater or aerial vehicles with dimples like golf balls could be more efficient and maneuverable, a new prototype developed at the University of Michigan has demonstrated. Golf ball dimples cut ...

Researchers have created a way to create reversible golf ball-like dimples on any surface on the fly, there by reducing drag and improving the efficiency of vehicles. Researchers have created a way to ...

Researchers are using supercomputers to create new balls that will improve the game of avid golfers by flying farther. They've used the supercomputers at Arizona State University to simulate the ...

Over the past year, 2,700 clubs and 800 balls have trickled in to the USGA's headquarters in Far Hills. As the senior technical director of the USGA, Dick Rugge has seen more innovations in the name ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass-- There is a story about how the modern golf ball, with its dimpled surface, came to be: In the mid-1800s, it is said, new golf balls were smooth, but became dimpled over time as ...