Ted Ball | |
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Personal information | |
Full name | Edward A. Ball |
Born | Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia | 4 November 1939
Died | 17 April 1995[1] | (aged 55)
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) |
Weight | 73 kg (161 lb; 11.5 st) |
Sporting nationality | Australia |
Career | |
Status | Professional |
Former tour(s) | PGA Tour PGA Tour of Australasia |
Professional wins | 20 |
Number of wins by tour | |
PGA Tour of Australasia | 4 |
Other | 16 |
Best results in major championships | |
Masters Tournament | DNP |
PGA Championship | DNP |
U.S. Open | DNP |
The Open Championship | CUT: 1964, 1975 |
Edward A. Ball (4 November 1939 – 17 April 1995) was an Australian professional golfer. He won several dozen significant tournaments in his career.
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Football physics: The "impossible" free kick - Erez Garty
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In 1997, in a game between France and Brazil, a young Brazilian player named Roberto Carlos set up for a 35 meter free kick. With no direct line to the goal, Carlos decided to attempt the seemingly impossible. His kick sent the ball flying wide of the players, but just before going out of bounds, it hooked to the left and soared into the goal. According to Newton's first law of motion, an object will move in the same direction and velocity until a force is applied on it. When Carlos kicked the ball, he gave it direction and velocity, but what force made the ball swerve and score one of the most magnificent goals in the history of the sport? The trick was in the spin. Carlos placed his kick at the lower right corner of the ball, sending it high and to the right, but also rotating around its axis. The ball started its flight in an apparently direct route, with air flowing on both sides and slowing it down. On one side, the air moved in the opposite direction to the ball's spin, causing increased pressure, while on the other side, the air moved in the same direction as the spin, creating an area of lower pressure. That difference made the ball curve towards the lower pressure zone. This phenomenon is called the Magnus effect. This type of kick, often referred to as a banana kick, is attempted regularly, and it is one of the elements that makes the beautiful game beautiful. But curving the ball with the precision needed to both bend around the wall and back into the goal is difficult. Too high and it soars over the goal. Too low and it hits the ground before curving. Too wide and it never reaches the goal. Not wide enough and the defenders intercept it. Too slow and it hooks too early, or not at all. Too fast and it hooks too late. The same physics make it possible to score another apparently impossible goal, an unassisted corner kick. The Magnus effect was first documented by Sir Isaac Newton after he noticed it while playing a game of tennis back in 1670. It also applies to golf balls, frisbees and baseballs. In every case, the same thing happens. The ball's spin creates a pressure differential in the surrounding air flow that curves it in the direction of the spin. And here's a question. Could you theoretically kick a ball hard enough to make it boomerang all the way around back to you? Sadly, no. Even if the ball didn't disintegrate on impact, or hit any obstacles, as the air slowed it, the angle of its deflection would increase, causing it to spiral into smaller and smaller circles until finally stopping. And just to get that spiral, you'd have to make the ball spin over 15 times faster than Carlos's immortal kick. So good luck with that.
Golf career
Ball was born in Hornsby, New South Wales. He had a decorated amateur career, including a win at the Australian Amateur in 1960, along with several other amateur victories. He turned professional in the early 1960s and found immediate success. He won his first title in 1962 at the Queensland Open. He added numerous wins after that internationally. He staged one of Australian golf's greatest comebacks to win the Wills Masters in 1973. In 1974, he became the first player to successfully defend the Wills title. He shot rounds of 70, 69, 72 and 70 at The Australian Golf Club in Sydney to win by two strokes; this is said to be the greatest achievement in his career.
Amateur wins
- 1960 Australian Amateur, New South Wales Champion of Champions, New South Wales Amateur
Professional wins (20)
Asia Golf Circuit wins (2)
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up |
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1 | 8 Mar 1964 | Singapore Open | −1 (70-77-72-72=291) | 1 stroke | Eric Cremin, Tadashi Kitta |
2 | 30 Mar 1975 | Indian Open | −10 (75-70-67-70=282) | Playoff | Kuo Chie-Hsiung |
Asia Golf Circuit playoff record (1–0)
No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent | Result |
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1 | 1975 | Indian Open | Kuo Chie-Hsiung | Won with birdie on first extra hole |
PGA Tour of Australia wins (4)
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up |
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1 | 21 Oct 1973 | Wills Masters | −6 (71-71-72-68=282) | 2 strokes | Jerry Heard |
2 | 20 Oct 1974 | New South Wales Open | −8 (70-71-70-69=280) | 7 strokes | Kel Nagle |
3 | 27 Oct 1974 | Wills Masters (2) | −6 (70-69-72-70=281) | 2 strokes | Gary Player, Ian Stanley |
4 | 28 Sep 1980 | National Panasonic New South Wales PGA Championship | −3 (67-70-76-72=285) | 1 stroke | Wayne Grady, Lyndsay Stephen |
PGA Tour of Australia playoff record (0–3)
No. | Year | Tournament | Opponent(s) | Result |
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1 | 1974 | Coca-Cola Lakes Open | Paul Murray, Bob Shearer | Shearer won with birdie on first extra hole |
2 | 1974 | Tasmanian Open | Bob Shearer | |
3 | 1978 | Joe Jansen New South Wales PGA Championship | Mike Cahill, John Clifford | Clifford won with birdie on first extra hole |
New Zealand Golf Circuit wins (2)
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up |
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1 | 3 Sep 1963 | Metalcraft Tournament | −5 (72-69-74-72=287) | Shared title with Peter Thomson | |
2 | 12 Dec 1964 | Wills Classic | −14 (63-71-64-68=266) | 5 strokes | Barry Coxon, Bob Tuohy |
Other Australian wins (11)
- 1962 Queensland Open
- 1964 Wagga City Open,[2] City of Sydney Open, Tasmanian Open, New South Wales Open
- 1965 Lakes Open
- 1968 Queensland PGA Championship
- 1970 City of Sydney Open
- 1972 South Australian Open
- 1973 South Australian Open
- 1977 New South Wales PGA Championship
Other wins (1)
this list is incomplete
Team appearances
Amateur
- Eisenhower Trophy (representing Australia): 1960
- Australian Men's Interstate Teams Matches (representing New South Wales): 1960 (winners)
Professional
References
- ^ Stone, Peter (19 April 1995). "Obituary: Ted Ball, 1939–1995; Always a master to the golf fraternity". The Sydney Morning Herald.
- ^ "Ball wins Wagga golf". The Canberra Times. 6 October 1964.