Golf ball having non-planar parting line

A golf ball having a non-planar parting line and comprising a plurality of dimples located adjacent to the non-planar parting line, wherein the non-planar parting line comprises a plurality of arcuate segments including at least one elliptical arc segment, the elliptical arc segment being defined by a portion of an ellipse and concentric with an adjacent dimple, wherein the ellipse has a major axis, a minor axis, and two vertex points defined as the two points where the ellipse and the major axis intersect, and wherein the ellipse has a constant eccentricity, e, defined as:

• e
• =
• 1
• -
• b
• 2
• a
• 2
• where a is the length of the major axis of the ellipse and b is the length of the minor axis of the ellipse.