Guinness folks report that the current record-holder for largest rubber-band ball is John Bain of Delaware, whose ball weighs 3,120 pounds.

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.

A Florida man hopes to make it into the record books with his massive rubber band ball. Joel Waul has been twisting, wrapping and stretching rubber bands for years in the hope of building a record ...

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 ...

Joel Waul earned the Guinness World Record for having made the world’s largest rubber band ball. In March, a 23-year-old Louisiana man named Will Love became determined to break Waul’s record and ...

Milton, 26, an estimator for a local insulation company, was showing his 6-year-old son how to wrap rubber bands into a sphere last year, and the project snowballed from there.

The Bankses always discussed if the rubber band ball was ever to go away, it had to be done in some epic fashion.

Steve Milton’s 4,594-pound rubber band ball was certified Tuesday as the world's largest by Guinness World Records officials.

How do you even start making a 700-pound rubber band ball? We set out to build one of the biggest ever, and the results are insane! From the first few bands to hundreds of layers, this massive ...

Banks’s dilemma is well documented on Facebook, under a post titled, ‘Giant rubber band ball – FREE TO THE RIGHT NERDS!’ We won’t go further into its age.