| abstract |
The invention provides a golf ball having a core and a cover of at least one layer. The core has a cross-sectional hardness which, letting (H −14 ) be a JIS-C hardness at a position 14 mm in from a surface toward a center of the core, (H −8 ) be a JIS-C hardness at a position 8 mm in from the surface toward the center of the core, (H −6 ) be a JIS-C hardness at a position 6 mm in from the surface toward the center of the core, and (H −4 ) be a JIS-C hardness at a position 4 mm in from the surface toward the center of the core, satisfies the formulas (1) H −14 <70, (2) H −8 <72, (3) H −6 <75, and (3) H −4 −H −8 >8. |