The invention provides a
golf ball mold that is composed of a plurality of mold parts which removably mate to form a cavity having an inner wall with a plurality of
dimple-forming protrusions thereon, wherein a non-circular resin
injection port for injecting into the cavity a resin material is formed between a plurality of mutually adjoining
dimple-forming protrusions which include a plurality of
dimple-forming protrusions that lie across a parting line of the mold. Also provided is a
golf ball molded using such a mold, and a
golf ball manufacturing method which uses such a mold.By using the golf ball mold of the invention, even when manufacturing golf balls with a high dimple surface coverage on which the dimples are tightly arranged, particularly up to the vicinity of the resin
injection port, imbalances in the resin
injection pressure and flow rate during injection molding are suppressed, enabling golf balls to be manufactured without giving rise to production problems such as molding defects, scorching, or deformation and eccentricity of the core.Moreover, in the mold of the invention, when equally spaced lines are drawn at 0.05 mm intervals from an inner
peripheral wall toward a center axis of a gate having the non-circular resin
injection port, by adjusting the cross-sectional size of the gate so that the distance between the center of a region enclosed by the innermost equally spaced line and the inner
peripheral wall of the gate is less than 0.5 mm, the molten resin material within the gate area can be efficiently and thoroughly cooled after injection molding, thus giving the finished ball a good appearance and enabling productivity to be enhanced.