Golf ball? Tennis ball? Basketball?

Nah. Tangerine is good. I'm putting the egg back in the refrigerator.

As far as chord fingerings are concerned, there are alternative fingerings for a number of chords, and it's not a bad idea to know and get used to using more than one fingering. Which fingering would be best to use at any given point depends on what went before and what's coming after.

Experiment.

Don Firth