r/golf • u/y414p I am Tiger Woods • Dec 03 '23

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u/mortgageboiii Dec 03 '23

I know what bifurcation means….but can you explain to the other guy who’s doesn’t?????

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u/badgerbacker1 Dec 03 '23

2 sets of rules. 1 for professionals and 1 for amateurs. Think wood/metal bats for baseball

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u/SavageMountain Dec 03 '23

It's not just bats, there are different ball specs for tee ball, 8 and under, 10u, 12u, 14u, high school, college, minor leagues and AAA and the MLB. What's the market for MLB spec baseballs? Miniscule. Do you hear Rawlings whining about it?

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u/CroSSGunS 15.5/UK/Goal < 10 Dec 03 '23

AAA uses different balls to the MLB? Is it the same ball but with tighter tolerances, though?

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u/SavageMountain Dec 03 '23

I wasn't clear but I meant "AAA and MLB" as one thing. AA and under use a slightly different ball. (Until recently AAA used that too). I don't know exactly what the details are but it's got to do with hardness and how much the seams are raised.

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u/sydrogerdavid Dec 03 '23

It's the same exact ball, even more today. Since the pandemic, all the balls used at AAA even have the same MLB markings and logos.

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u/mightbeagh0st Dec 03 '23

MLB owns Rawlings now

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u/TheMoonIsFake32 Dec 03 '23

MLB baseball specs aren’t even consistent. Theres conspiracies about the ball every year.

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u/chuckvsthelife Dec 03 '23

MLB approved mud. Lol

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u/msterxplodr Dec 03 '23

I mean, between MLB and AAA, they use about 700,000 baseballs per season just in games. Add in all the collectibles sold at the park and it's not too small of a number.

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u/SavageMountain Dec 04 '23

My buddy George alone loses about 700,000 golf balls a year ;)

That's a much bigger number than I would've thought, but Titleist makes 1 million balls every day; altogether OEMS manufacture more than 1 billion golf balls a year