The Automatic Golf Club

1) For all single line questions the answer is to study the projectile motion (this is if I am not wrong class 10 dynamics)

After the ball falls on ground though all the equations will change and from there on it will be in-elastic collission at an angle (and hence will depend on the coeff of elasticity of both)

In the end it rolls and then it will be the coeff of friction.

2) For the larger question- this is a higher level one (officially beyond school level, though a lot of school children have studied this subject) - If even though she has never played before in her life , the experienced man has to necessarily be gentle slow for a couple of holes after that he can speed up, in-fact he may speed up perforce.

Hello,

There is a video on Utube of an automatic golf club. I saw it a year or so ago. It is probably still available. What I remember of it is that the player addressed the ball and pressed a trigger which operated a sliding face in the head of the club. This hit the ball as the player held the club steady behind the ball. Loft of the ball was achieved by the attack angle of the club and overall was a 'blast' to watch.

Question is, is it really golf as we know and LOVE/HATE it, or a 'hybrid' of golf to become skilled at that you really need.

Your fundamental question begs to be answered in a manner used by any good Irishman, by asking you a question.

Why have an automatic golf club if you have to swing the club yourself. What part of automatic golf club is automatic, the power? the swing speed?. the swing plane? the loft of the face at impact? the adjustment for local conditions?, the adjustment for size of ball, distance, wind, rain, sun, fog, haze and I hope you get the picture.

Forget golf and have some fun shooting "spuds", at your local 19th hole, using a home made potato gun. See how the patrons like it and whether they will come next week with their own guns!

Good Luck

AMAZING!! I was just thinking about a spud gun resized to shoot golf balls. How might one putt with a spud gun?

Bill

Taking this concept to it's ultimate extreme, if a club was able to provide the proper force & direction, guided by GPS + optical, such that a hole in one occurred on all 18 holes - no one would "play"!

Hi Roy,

I admire your inquisitive mind. however, there are some limits to where ingenuity stops, and among those limits are in sports.

as expressed by the players of the sport itself, those "wise crack answers" have some basis. to satisfy your curiosity, I'd invite you to visit the Untied States Golf Association website, and check out the rules of the game, specifcally the section about the form and make of clubs (sect. 4.1).

your idea, while it is indeed creative, just won't be acceptable in the game & will be considered *cheating*.

HTH!

I already hit the balll 250+ yards. (My longest is 312)

And the PSI (Personal Swing Inclination) I use is 1 pint per 2 holes. By the time I get to 18 I don't care what my score is.

A fellow came in from his Saturday golfing, threw his clubs in the corner and plopped down in his chair. His wife came in and said "Hi honey! How did your golf game go?"

"Horrible!!" he replied... "On the third green, my partner George had a heart attack."

"That is horrible!" she responded...

"You bet. After that, it was Hit the ball and drag George... Hit the ball and drag George... Hit the ball and drag George...

Hi Roy H,

HS!! How did I miss the previous discussion on automatic clubs? Must have slept through that one.

Without going into deep details, to make a golf ball travel 250 yards (all carry, no bounce/roll), you must strike the ball with a clubhead speed of approximately 95 - 100 mph at impact with a starting trajectory of about 12 degrees and a backspin rate of about 1800+ rpm. Optimum trajectory is of course 45 degrees but the backspin will increase the initial 12 degree trajectory as it travels down range.

The perfect trajectory would have its apex at the exact midway point between golfer and final destination of the ball. This, however is almost impossible to achieve but can be enhanced with the proper fitting of the club parameters to the golfer.

As to whether an automatic club would be advantageous in helping a rank amateur keep up with a mid to low handicap player, well, the club would have to have adjustable loft angles and speed changeability AND it would have to be able to teach you how to chip and putt.

All said, the club would only be usable for amateur daily play as the rules of golf would not allow it in any other venue.

Very good answers, to what seemed to be reasonable questions, that were originally ask.