haha, it's not so simple.
How do you get the conclusions of 2 degrees open before hitting or on hitting the ball for straight shot?
It's very compiclate for analyzing the golf swing. You need avdanced Math and Physics to prooof it!!
Let me give one simple example, the swing speed is 100miles/hour. how much time will it cost to travel the distance like half an inch? The length from your hands to the driver's head is about 45". Go ahead, how long for the circle with 45"" radius and 2 degree angle?
I doubt there are few guys to answer this question correctly! It's just one simple model to proof what you said is true or not.
There are no math model to simulate the golf swing for the people. The simulator can only caculate the data based the force impact on the ball. It's one dimensional data. Form my understanding of the golf swing, at least consider three dimensional data for simulating the golf swing for man.
One word, the golf swing is art, not the science.
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Originally Posted by mberube
I have tested my swing on a simulator pad that has dozens of lasers reading the club from 12 inches before to 1 foot past the ball. It tells you your angle of attack coming in the ball, the degrees open or closed at impact and after impact. It’s amazing how 1 or 2 degrees changes ball flight.
2 degrees seemed to be the perfect trajectory depending on angle of attack. Most of the time I was In-to-out too much. I was 11 degrees inside path with a 2 degree open face. The trick is to get a in-to-out 4 degree angle of attack and an 2 degree open club face.
Mike
Yeah, sometimes science couldn't model the things in reality at all.
If science is so powerful that robot could act like human being exactly. There are
many issues the science couldn't deal with.
It doesn't matter if you set up your club open or close. You will response to hit
the ball with square face for sure. Because we are human being. The god laugh when human being think.
The golfers will lost if focus on the details too much. The only thing the golfer can do is to focus to hit the ball on the sweet spot of the club. More you can hit, better you score. Human's body is flexible. No science could model how energy transfer within our body. Even the example you gave like 14-degree launch angle, it's not a problem for the touring pros at all. It doesn't matter the launch ange is 14 degree, or 11 degree, etc if your swing speed is over 110 miles/hour. Your distance still goes the long way and your ball is still in the middle of the fairway. That's the goal when you hit your driver.
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Originally Posted by mberube
Everything in golf is tested through science. Golf balls, equipment… are all tested on a robot that swings the club. All the major companies like TM, Callaway, Ping all test their touring pros with computers. If someone would have told Bobby Jones that a 14-degree launch angle it the optimum launch for maximum distants he would have told them that they were crazy. Most if not all touring pros launch it at that angle today. Science proves that.
Everything in sports is science today. Nobody can deny that.
I have seen that data and tried it for my self. I have also read data on the net stating that 2-degrees open clubface is where you need to be at impact. It was a while back and I have not saved the links but look it up if you don’t believe me. The ball reacts on how the club arrives to it. That means that there is an optimal angle.
I’m not here to convince you. I just stated my experience.
Mike