Today’s Golfer
Tour coach who adopts a scientific approach to the putting stroke
“I first got interested in putting at university, using high-speed cinematography (no fancy cameras back then!) looking at impact with drivers and ball. I also looked at wedges and putters… it amazed me how little time the golf ball is in contact with the putter – 0.000125 seconds (filmed at 20,000 frames per second). Believe it or not, this is much less than a driver, which is more like 0.001s…”
“For what seems to the outside world like a very simple task, it is vastly underestimated the amount of science that is involved within putting; how the club face and ball interact is amazing to see and analyse.”
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