How Golf Clubs Really Work and How to Optimize Their Designs,9780967762500

How Golf Clubs Really Work and How to Optimize Their Designs

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ISBN13: 9780967762500
ISBN10: 0967762502
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-06-01
Publisher(s): Origin Inc
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Summary

The book entitled How Golf Clubs Really Work and How to Optimize Their Design ($29.95), is the first book published that focuses on the golf club and the way that golfers can utilize their specific clubs to achieve better shot control, leading to lower scores for all golfers. The book is the end result of a 10-year, full-time dedicated research effort for co-authors Frank D. Werner and Richard C. Grieg. Both have advanced degrees in aerospace engineering and together have over 90 patents.

The authors have discussed many issues relevant to the game of golf and analyzed the way that different factors play a part in shot making. Chapters are included on optimal face curvature (bulge and roll may be extinct), shaft length and head weight to maximize distance, and the effects of wind drag on club head speed (less than you would expect). In addition, the authors have developed new aiming and shot control techniques that could allow golfers to have better control, hit more fairways and greens, and lower their scores.

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Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
vi
Preface vii
Part One Our Model of a Golf Hit
Why Should You Read this Book?
3(2)
Our Technical Model
5(6)
Some Examples of Driver Shots with Our Model
11(6)
Golfer Errors
17(6)
Scatter of Stop Points
23(8)
Part Two Drivers, Fairway Woods, and Irons
The Need for a Performance Rating
31(4)
Variables Which Affect Shot Distance
35(2)
Effects of LA and cg Location on Drives
37(6)
Ball Speed, Launch Angle, and Backspin
43(4)
Full Shots with Irons
47(4)
Partial Shots with Irons
51(4)
Iron Shots When the Ball Position Is Moved Back
55(4)
Greens Above or Below the Golfer
59(4)
The Effects of Wind on Golf Shots
63(4)
Estimating Wind Speed and Correcting for It
67(6)
Part Three Some Special Effects
Loss of Distance Caused by Air Drag on Head and Shaft
73(4)
Hits Partly Off the Face (POF Hits)
77(4)
Optimum Face Curvature for Golf Clubs
81(4)
Behavior of Golf Club Shafts
85(10)
Selection of a Club Shaft and Grip
95(4)
Performance and CHD Rating for Drivers
99(6)
Fairway Woods and Irons
105(2)
Pitch and Chip Shots
107(2)
Span, the Up-down Range for Good Hits
109(4)
Aiming, Hooks, and Slices
113(6)
Effects of Ball Design Variables
119(6)
Part Four Putters
The Model and Our Research on Putters
125(4)
Hit Pattern Errors in Putting
129(2)
Head Speed, Alignment, the Green, and Other Putting Errors
131(4)
Effective Hole Diameter and the Hole Zone
135(4)
Travel of the Ball and the Stop Zone
139(4)
Putter Aiming and the Aim Distance
143(4)
Sweet Spot, Inertia, and Center of Gravity of the Head
147(4)
Unnecessary Putting Errors
151(4)
Effects of Scuffing the Grass
155(6)
Performance Rating of Putters
161(8)
Part Five A Summary
New and Useful Research Results of Our Research
169(6)
Appendix: Definitions 175(4)
References 179(2)
Index 181

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