Summary: The Physics Of Golf

Golf as we know it in today’s generation originated from a game played on the eastern coast of Scotland in the Kingdom of Fife during the 15th century. Players would hit a pebble around a natural course of sand dunes, rabbit runs and tracks using a stick or primitive club. It’s believed that Kolven from Holland and Chole from Belgium influenced the game. The latter was introduced into Scotland in 1421. There can be no dispute that Scotland gave birth to golf. The most important ingredient to such game has been the physical logic of it all. Golf involves forced and aerodynamics it occurres during the hitting of the ball, during the flight of the air, during the run of the ball even (after landing), and during the putt. Source: http//www.clumsrker-online.com/bj003.gif

The loft angle is the angle between the club head face and the vertical plane, and the driving distance is the distance the ball travels through the air plus the distance it travels after it lands. The ball launch angle, the launch speed, and the rate of backspin of the ball is affected by the loft angel. This affects both the distance the ball travels through the air and the distance the ball travels after the land. The author of The Physics of golf: The optimum loft of a driver, found that the greater the club head speed the lower lower the optimal dynamic loft angel. The reason why she believes such hypotenuse is because from my understanding the dynamic loft angel is not equal to the club face loft angle when the club is at rest on the ground. The difference between the two angels is due to the flexing of the golf club shaft during impact. Initially, at the top of the swing the shaft bends back causing the club head to lag behind. A shaft is a long narrow part or section forming the handle of a tool or club. Back to the whole bending and lagging behind well since this happens is due to the inertia of the club

The dependence of the optimal loft angle on club head speed agrees, with current practice golf. According to the simulation result, these initial club head speed correspond to a (maximum) driving distance of 155 meters, 210 meters, and 225 meters. Now that we have the understanding and the hypothesis of his initial speed, degrees, and meters we can now move on to the aerodynamics of ball flight. Have you ever wondered why the golf has little spots that look like dimples well there’s a good explanation for the way they stricted the ball and why they added the small spots. So the dimples on a golf ball create a think turbulent boundary layer of air over the ball’s surface. Because of that if reduces air resistance which results in the ball traveling a farther distance than a smooth ball would. For making a shot as long as possible the distance improvement due to the small dimples is desirable. The air flow over the ball fallows smooth streamlines until some point beyond the halfway distance, at which the turbulent boundary layer “separates” and turbulent eddies (a circular movement) from inside a resulting wake