An object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball having an excellent properties like flight distance and low temperature durability. The present invention provides a golf ball comprising: a core consisting of a center and one or more intermediate layers covering the center; and a cover covering the core, wherein at least one piece or one layer of said intermediate layers is formed from a highly elastic intermediate layer composition that contains (A) a highly elastic polyamide resin having a flexural modulus in a range from 700 MPa to 5,000 MPa; (B) a metal-neutralized product of ethylene-(meth)acrylic acid copolymer and (C) a resin having a polar functional group in a specific way.
1. A golf ball comprising:
a core consisting of a center and one or more intermediate layers covering the center; and
a cover covering the core,
wherein at least one of said intermediate layers or a portion thereof is formed from a highly elastic intermediate layer composition that contains:
(A) a highly elastic polyamide resin having a flexural modulus in a range from 700 MPa to 5,000 MPa;
(B) a metal-neutralized product of ethylene-(meth)acrylic acid copolymer in an amount ratio ((A)/(B)) of (A) the highly elastic polyamide resin to (B) the metal-neutralized product of ethylene-(meth)acrylic acid copolymer of (20 mass % to 80 mass %)/(80 mass % to 20 mass %), the total being 100 mass %; and
(C) a resin having a polar functional group that is at least one selected from the group consisting of an ethylene-acrylic acid-glycidyl methacrylate copolymer and a methyl methacrylate-glycidyl methacrylate copolymer in an amount of 0.1 part by mass to 30 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the sum of (A) the highly elastic polyamide resin and (B) the metal-neutralized product of ethylene-(meth)acrylic acid copolymer, and
wherein the cover is formed from a cover composition that contains a polyurethane resin as a main resin component.
2. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein regarding slab properties, the highly elastic intermediate layer composition has a hardness in a range from 65 to 75 in Shore D hardness, a flexural modulus in a range from 300 MPa to 1,000 MPa, and a tensile modulus in a range from 400 MPa to 1,500 MPa.
3. The golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein (A) the highly elastic polyamide resin is at least one selected from the group consisting of polyamide 6, polyamide 11, polyamide 12, polyamide 66, polyamide 610, polyamide 6T, polyamide 61, polyamide 9T, polyamide M5T, polyamide 612 and a polyetherblock amide copolymer.
4. The new golf ball according to claim 1 , wherein the cover composition contains a thermoplastic polyurethane as the main resin component.