Recent content by Richie3Jack

Wondering if this has ever happened to those Trackman owners and users. I was on Trackman last Saturday. I take my normal driver swing and it is registering 108 mph. I then move the ball position up by about 1 inch and the swing speed consistently registers at 110. On average, probably 2...

Let's say you have a pretty good wind (3 clubs or so) and it is blowing directly from left to right. Let's say you have a perfectly square to the target face (0.0*), and path (0.0*) and you hit this dead flush. Would the ball start to curve because of the wind before the ball flight reaches...

Trackman says that if you miss the sweetspot by 1 dimple with a driver that is hit 250 yards, that will move the ball off line by 10 yards. Since we really cannot move around the lie angles, how would a golfer who is taking a rather good swing, adjust if they are missing the sweetspot by a...

I was thinking about this today. Let's say there is no wind and the golf ball is in tact and round. Is there *any* way for the golf ball to curve two different ways in a shot. Meaning, is there any way....sans wind or sans bad golf ball...that a ball could fade and then draw or vice versa...

A few weeks ago I saw that the PGA Tour started keeping more ‘radar stats’ when it comes to golfers. I’m guessing they got this from Trackman, but they measure things like clubhead speed, carry, etc. With that, I came up with a stat called ‘Total Driver Swing Efficiency.’ What I did was take...

I think Tiger is good for the game, until the PGA Tour, Nike and The Golf Channel market the game all wrong when he's there. The NFL does a great job of marketing its product. In a time when the Patriots went 16-0 in the regular season, Peyton Manning playing as well as arguably any QB of all...

I'm kind of curious if I have the right line of thinking here. If a shaft is too stiff, my guess is that the golfer will not be able to square up the face and will have an open clubface and that will cause shots to be missed out to the right. If a shaft is too flexible, the golfer will likely...

The makers and writer of the greatest show I've ever seen, 'The Wire', are now coming out with a series called 'Treme', which is based on the months after Katrina. Just curious as to what the initial thoughts are and who will b watching it (I'm in). Here's a video previewing it. 3JACK

Is there any machines that can measure the clubhead speed before impact, at impact and after impact? 3JACK

I determined these 'ballstriking rankings' by taking into account total driving, GIR, and proximity to the cup. Look at who is in the top 5: 1. Jason Bohn 2. Heath Slocum 3. David Toms 4. Jay Williamson 5. Robert Allenby 6. Greg Owen 7...

We were talking about this briefly on Brian's last webcam chat, but we didn't really get around to it. I also think this is where most people get confused and skeptical about 'swinging left', they think it's promoting an OTT move. So, I was thinking about a way to come up with a definition of...

Since we have some 'old school' golfers here and it's the holidays, I was curious to know what the board's favorite irons of all time are. Here's a list of mine: Macgregor Custom - I didn't know Macgregor provided customized irons back in the day until a few days ago. Had a friend that had a...

Just curious to get some thoughts on the role/importance of eye dominance in the golf swing. I'm right handed, but left eye dominant. From what I've been told, the same was the case for Hogan and Nicklaus. Both have their dominant eye behind the ball at address (Nicklaus definitely, Hogan...

I was watching a video of a golfer getting fit for some irons with Trackman and in the video it says that the Tour average for a 6-iron, being PGA or LPGA the average Angle of Attack is in the -6* to -7* range. That seems pretty steep. Was wondering what the Trackman guys here think. 3JACK

I was just thinking about this today. Does swinging out to the right *help* the golfer get an upward Angle of Attack with the driver? Conversely, if a golfer wants to hit slightly down with the driver (say -1 to -2*), should they swing a little left so they can accomplish this downward hit...