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How Golf Clubs Really Work and How to Optimize Their Designs

A unique book! Much new and basic information is presented in a novel and useful format - each chapter has a general section for golfers and most have Technical Notes for club designers.

The book confirms much of what golfers know, adds much previously unknown information, helps one to understand what goes on in a golf shot, and backs it all up with good science. The back-up work includes numerous measurements with golfers and analysis of all that happens from impact until the ball stops.

The 37 chapters are short and are illustrated by 76 figures and 28 tables. The Technical Notes will interest not only scientists, but also technically inclined golfers who ma want to see what supports the general section.

Thw book is well backed by the authors 10 years of intensive research, both being aerospace engineers with advanced degrees. Many new fundamentals and some secrets of club design are laid out clearly. Causes and effects are made clear in nearly all cases.

Here's a short llist of what's in the book

  1. Optimum face curvature, size, and shape for drivers
  2. Some new ideas about best aiming
  3. Understanding exactly how to control hooks and slices
  4. Characteristics of the scatter of hits on the faces of clubs and partly off the face hits
  5. Errors which are neglible and errors which aren't
  6. Factors that affect distance
  7. Full and partial shots with iron
  8. Effects of moving tha ball back in the stance
  9. Greens that are above or elow the golfer
  10. Estimating wind velocity and its effects
  11. Undetected scuffing with the putter
  12. How far past the hole one should putt
  13. A discussion of unneccessary putting errors
  14. A surprising conclusion about putters
  15. Elimination of some myths of golf
  16. Span, the up-down range for good hits


Check out the Tech Line Golf website to find out more about the book and also information on some of their clubs.
How Golf Clubs Really Work and How to Optimize Their Design


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