Wade started his ball back in 1975, when he worked at a downtown bank. He noticed a security guard's rubber-band ball and asked how it was made. Figure it out yourself, the guard replied rudely.

The ball now stands 5 feet tall, with a 14-foot waist, and weighs an estimated 2,700 pounds. The record was set last year, at 2,524 pounds, by Tony Evans of Swansea, Wales.

Golf's top pros are in the final rounds of the 2012 PGA Championship this weekend in South Carolina, so let's take a look at the fascinating history of one fundamental piece of equipment.

Steve Milton of Eugene, Ore., stands next to his 4,594-pound rubber band ball that was certified as the world's largest by Guinness World Records officials during a weigh-in Tuesday in Chicago.

EUGENE, Ore. -- It's a stretch to break the record, but Steve Milton wants to make the world's largest ball of rubber bands. Milton, 26, an estimator for a local insulation company, was showing ...

The world's largest rubber band ball stands six feet seven inches tall and has a circumference of 25 feet. It took five years for Joel Waul of Lauderhill to create, weighs more than 9,400 pounds ...