#Golf ball
The problem with trying to wrap a square image onto a round ball is that
it will NEVER turn out right. Imagine all of the dimples are the same size
and there are 15 across per line. You do a spherical wrap onto the ball.
There are 15 dimples around the equator but near the poles the edges of
the image will overlap OR the dimples will have to change size.
Whichever happens it won't look right.
I once saw an brush that was designed to be mapped onto a sphere to create
a basketball for Imagine. The brush was NOT square. it had a really odd
shape so that all of the edges would meet but not overlap when it was
wrapped onto the sphere. I'm not sure how LightWave would react to a
non-square brush though.
Sit down and have a REALLY close look at the pattern on a golf ball and
see if you can figure out an easy way to duplicate that pattern on a flat
image so that you will be able to wrap it and have the pattern look right.
Even the method that I suggested won't have QUITE the right look but it
should look closer if it works.