Penfold Heart golf balls turn up twice in Fleming’s Goldfinger, and again when the film puts Sean Connery’s Bond on the course against Goldfinger. Penfold still sells a Heart ball, and it is the easiest piece of Bond’s world to put in a golf bag.

In the books

In the Goldfinger novel, Bond plays a Penfold Heart. Catalogue notes record that Sean Connery’s Bond uses one in the film as well, in the match against Goldfinger. Penfold’s own page says Bond identified the ball in the scene.

Using it now

Penfold’s current Heart is a three-piece urethane ball with a 350-dimple design and 85 compression, which it describes as giving a softer feel, a high launch and good short-game spin. That is a different ball from the older Heart that MyGolfSpy described as an ionomer-covered distance ball at US$27 a dozen. Penfold lists it at US$40 and, at the time of writing, as sold out, so stock comes and goes. We would watch the page rather than pay a reseller’s mark-up.

Specifications

Maker	Penfold
Construction	Three-piece urethane, 350 dimples, 85 compression
Colour	Red (Heart)
Price	US$40 listed on Penfold’s site (October 2026); sold out at the time of writing

More in our books and media collection, with the films and the Bond actors alongside.

golf balls

Penfold Heart Golf Balls (Goldfinger)