Balls, Balls, Balls!!!

[Kick]

I recently brought some snooker balls sized 2 1/16 and thought they were full sized. However when i went to my club recently i realised the ball sizes there were smaller, so what is the actual size used? needless to say my game sucked as i'd been practicing at home on a full size pool table with these balls.

[reverse_side]

kickadoodle.... http://www.worldsnooker.com/about_the_rules.htm

"The balls shall be of an approved composition and shall each have a diameter of 52.5mm with a tolerance of +/- 0.05mm"

[Kick]

cheers er reverse-a-a-side-a-doodle!

always notice you post on here just after midnight, is this when you return home from an evening at the pub! lol, i usually check this place out too in such circumstances!

but are my balls the right size? (snooker balls i mean!) as in are mine the 52mm size?

[reverse_side]

good to hear from you kick-a-licious.....

looking at my Rule Book from '95, the balls should be, "52.5mm with a tolerance of +/- 0.05mm", so that's equivalent to your 2 1/16 inches.

the ball sizes there were smaller

were you saying here that their balls were smaller, so it made your's bigger? From the Rules, your's are just right. (Also available from the WSA's site... http://www.worldsnooker.com/about_the_rules.htm)

[reverse_side]

... oh yeaah, pub..... it can happen like that can't it... Sonny used to do it too; I guess our western members, USA/Canada etc take a while to come online too. Hic!

[Kick]

cheers mate, all problems cleared. yea just noticed that at the club i go to in Derby the balls are noticably smaller than the regulation size, on all tables. this is annoying as i practice all week with normal size balls and play at the club with smaller balls so my game is thrown way off.

i only worry so much as my ambition is to play league snooker at the club and adjusting to smaller balls is awkward and drastically affects my game.

cheers reverse-a-licious