Michael Finney
New
who has been very gracious to us over the last couple of years is quoted in this week's Golf World:
"There's an increasing standardization among tour players of what works well. The pros are somewhat converging on one set of swing mechanics that seem to be biomechanically the most consistent. There just seems to be fewer quirky swings around, and as a result, there are fewer quirky path angles and attack angles coming into the ball than maybe there were 10, or even five years ago."
"One of the key things that's changed is what kind of ball flight they are willing to look at. Pros were willing to look at a trajectory that was optimal in terms of higher launch and lower spin. I think the evidence has finally persuaded them that they need to see the ball a little higher in the sky with a higher distance potential wihtout loss of workability. So in that sense they've adapted to the technology."
It was more that 40 years ago in Search For The Perfect Swing, the epic golf technology research volume, where Alastair Cochran and John Stobbs suggested the perfect launch angle and spin for a shot to get maximum distance might come froma driver shot launched at 12-13 degrees.
Those theories are common knowledge among today's best players, and golf's brightest thinkers are finding ways to further optimize those possibilities. Hocknell estimates that the practical best a human golfer might achieve is a 17 degree launch angle and around 2000 rpms of spin.
"Humans don't get there at the moment, but they are marching down that path," he says. As a average on tour they're a lot closer to that condition these days than they were a few years ago."
Pages 41-43 Golf World March 5, 2012
"There's an increasing standardization among tour players of what works well. The pros are somewhat converging on one set of swing mechanics that seem to be biomechanically the most consistent. There just seems to be fewer quirky swings around, and as a result, there are fewer quirky path angles and attack angles coming into the ball than maybe there were 10, or even five years ago."
"One of the key things that's changed is what kind of ball flight they are willing to look at. Pros were willing to look at a trajectory that was optimal in terms of higher launch and lower spin. I think the evidence has finally persuaded them that they need to see the ball a little higher in the sky with a higher distance potential wihtout loss of workability. So in that sense they've adapted to the technology."
It was more that 40 years ago in Search For The Perfect Swing, the epic golf technology research volume, where Alastair Cochran and John Stobbs suggested the perfect launch angle and spin for a shot to get maximum distance might come froma driver shot launched at 12-13 degrees.
Those theories are common knowledge among today's best players, and golf's brightest thinkers are finding ways to further optimize those possibilities. Hocknell estimates that the practical best a human golfer might achieve is a 17 degree launch angle and around 2000 rpms of spin.
"Humans don't get there at the moment, but they are marching down that path," he says. As a average on tour they're a lot closer to that condition these days than they were a few years ago."
Pages 41-43 Golf World March 5, 2012
