xtrain wrote:
Interesting. My recollection, which is far from perfect, is that the four choices were 5xx, 3xx, 2xx, and 1xx. One of our players called out, "There are a lot of them," which I think prompted others to choose the 5xx option. Since my practice is to pick neither the highest nor the lowest number when I am blindly guessing, I chose 3xx, and came up a winner.
XT
Well, for one who has played professionally for 25 years now, from those choices it's an easy answer. The reason they gave a specific brand is because a very few off brand balls these days have wildly different numbers of dimples, but 3xx is and has been standard for probably 50+ years.
The question also could have been asked, a typical golf ball has approximately how many dimples.
Many balls over the years have included the number of dimples in their name, such as the Titleist 392.
Now, if the choices were all between 300-400, it would have been a bad question because people can't be expected to know exact figures on stuff like that.
I'm kind of comparing it to the number of stitches on a baseball, a question I've seen many times over the years. Nobody is going to complain about that because it's standard. So if you can read this question as "a standard golf ball", it's not unfair. The question itself is difficult, the choices make it standard.