How a golf ball is made | Callaway Ball Plant 

I worked for Callaway from1994 to 2000 and I was the only designated plumber that the company has ever employed. I installed all of the pneumatic systems for the Initial golf ball research facility in Carlsbad, California. I was there when Eli Callaway was still running the company. It was a great place to work!

I feel ashamed to know that all the men and women at Callaway went through all this work and effort to produce such a great product and I deposit them into the forest and various bodies of water throughout the GC! Just kidding. I love my Callaways Chrome Soft.

i am committed to whatever golf ball the driving range uses.

That was great!

It's nice to see them upgrade quality control

Cool Balls I love golf and try all kind of golf balls thank you Callaway great products.

Callaway invested a lot of money in their golf ball plant because they got in trouble with the core being out of round and uneven a few years ago.

A ball is not just a ball, whoa, mind blown

Those are brave men, takes a lot of balls to do what they do

I’m always amazed at the design and manufacture of the machines that make the balls too, but I then go out on a Sunday and abuse them both physically and verbally, my favourite ball too. I like the soccer ball patterns, stops my golf mates from hitting mine by mistake 😃

The highlight of my golfing career was when I had back to back hole in ones. The first one was on the flowery bridge dogleg left hole and the second was the windmill.

Very cool video.

Single core construction and good attention to product uniformity fixed the off-center issues.

Great video. I love the Callaway Chrome Soft X balls. Chrome Soft are great balls too but dont fare as well with my swing in the wind. The Chrome Soft X hold their line perfectly

great video. I would love to see a video on how Callaway makes clubs.

I worked for Spalding in golf ball marketing and was involved in the launch of the first multi-layer ball on the market, the Top Flite Strata. This technology developed by Spalding R&D then became the industry norm.

When this was Spaulding they used to have a factory outlet store here in Chicopee. Got lots of great stuff there in the day. Sadly no more outlet store.

Someone tell Norm to put his saftey glasses on. Literally everyone but the VP.

Didn't think that many robots would be needed.. definitely impressive

Float them in salt water and you will find that Callaway chrome soft Truvis is the most spherical, precision, true balanced golf ball you will find.

Titleist and Calloway both have ball plants in Mass.

I remember when this was the Spalding plant for like 100 years

good to see Dave is still there . Makes a real impact. ED ?

All good for the Chrome Soft line... What about the lower priced balls? Are they imported from off-shore or where are they made?

Title list is also made in Massachusetts

All this just to loose it on the first tee. Love it.

Why no mention that this plant in Chicopee was the original Spalding manufacturing site, since the late 1800's, for lots of sports equipment including golf clubs and balls. For fun read the Wikipedia page.

WestRock, the company I work for makes a lot of the Callaway packaging.

Chrome soft is a great ball, but still hard to beat pro-v

Great Golf Ball, I have been playing Callaway for many years, I find it superior to other manufacturers

I love playing this ball. I now feel bad about loosing as many as I have but then feel good because I have to replace them. I'm so confused right now.

Interesting. Are there wound core manufacturers? That would be an interesting process, in my opinion.

good process.. But Im gona use prov1 or tp5..😀

They’re coming for Titleist 👀

I have a hard time finding Callaway Chrome Soft triple track yellow golf balls. I tried many stores and said they are having a hard time to get this type yellow balls. What’s going on? I love triple track yellow balls.

90% are using titlelist though on tour

I see my Chrome Soft guts. Traumatized!😶

It would be nice to know how many balls are produced every year

According to the dozen of SuperSoft I just bought made in Taiwan

How does it feel to know most of your products end up lost in bushes, long grass or under water?

I got my hole in 1 , with that calawaysoft ball. 👍

This was very interesting, my only issue is that recently I've been busting the ball covers, they've only been lasting me 4 holes then I have a crack and they become useless, same with the taylormade balls to.. back to my cheapo top flights from dicks sporting goods, I've also used bridgestones but they feel weird coming off my putter.

mygolfspy found QC issues with uncentered cores. yikes.

All that work only for me to put them into a watery grave. From now on I will have a proper burial and ceremony for each ball I put into the drink. Now let us pray 🙏.

Tell Norm Smith his safety glasses don't afford any protection worn above his forehead.

Mixing rubber looks exactly the same as for a tire. Just different recipe.

And people wonder why these balls go for 70-80 dollars canadian a dozen. So much goes into these balls, it's incredible!

4 layers with one inner core...just like my Kirkland 4-piece balls that I got 4-5 years ago when still available. Bought 8 dozen back then, still have some left. Two-dozen for $29.95 versus $50+ for a tier-1 ball from Callaway, Titleist, Srixon, etc. I'm a single digit handicap and play the cheap ball. I laugh out loud when I watch high score hacks playing ProV1's.

I still prefer Titleist pro v1

So what does your dad do? Works at the golf ball factory Life goals

Supersofts are the way

Things have come a long way from pounding boiled goose feathers into a stitched leather pouch. 😂

Good to see they have improved quality after selling such inferior product for a long time?

So, after that, I've reached the conclusion that a golf ball is a GOLF BALL, never mind the bollox!

Norm Smith isn't wearing Safety Glasses as a V.P. he should know better

All this work only for me to shank a chrome soft into a lake

Skip to 6:12 to see “how a golf ball is made” ……. :/

great ball but im still slicing

PRO-V 1 > Chrome soft

You said twice you were speaking to the workers on the floor, you never spoke to one person on the floor.

how to make something that pollutes more water ways and grounds etc than anyt other thing on this earth

Kind of a bs story. Callaway is in Chicopee because they bought Spalding in 2003. So people saying they have work for Callaway for 29 years. Ah, I don't think so. And the video is not very good at showing how the entire process of how golf balls are made.

Have done the salt water float thing. Doesn’t make a hoot of a difference for amateur golfers. Don’t waste your time doing this.

Rubber covered by plastic no wonder can hit it so far

I don`t play their golfball because there not centered.

Too much RU-vid fluff.

Who produced and edited this? It’s realllly bad. Looks like something made in 2006.

On earth we are constantly living with gravity, how can you make a perfect ball when weight is involved? Take a golf club and balance the shaft horizontal in the palm of one hand. With your other hand turn the shaft then let go, the club head will always point down to the floor because it has weight. But if you drop the golf club with the shaft horizontal, the club head will stay in any position that it is in when you let go. This happens because when the club is in free fall it has no weight. As long as there is weight involved you cannot make a perfect golf ball.

So weird watching you talk around the 5 minute mark. Feel like i’m looking at myself! Strange feeling

Everything I own for golf is Callaway from my clubs to my glove . Fuck the rest of that junk if it isn’t Callaway it’s not for me !

Lots of future lost balls there.

Ill tell you this, f titleist!!!! After checking out @letsplaythru video on out of balanced balls , prov1 better be ashamed!!!! Im a chromesoft Callaway player now exclusively!!!!!

dont see many people working there, lots of robots

No great gold balls , sorry.

You balls on the triple stripe are not even center properly we put 12 of those balls on a center finder basically the sweepstake on the ball ,thsts where the triple stripe is ,every ball we put on center finder was completely wrong lmao so if your buying 12 for £40 I wouldn't touch them with a bargepole.

You would think they are making parts for a rocket or a race car , for fucks sake they're just making golf ball give me a break

I hope they can make good balls because they can't make a set of clubs for shit.

Just shows you what a clown they all are. Not about serving us, but enriching themselves at our expense.

Callaway is far from the best ball in my opinion

One of the worst balls I've used.

Callaway gear is shit. Always has been.