VoyForums
[ Show ]
Support VoyForums
[ Shrink ]
VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, [2], 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 01:13:40 05/17/02 Fri
Author: Cecil
Subject: Re: Better clubs for Natural Golf?
In reply to: Matt 's message, "Re: Better clubs for Natural Golf?" on 15:05:11 05/16/02 Thu

Some very coarse calculations would indicate a 6%-12% loss in clubhead speed from a 3 iron to a 7 iron based upon length alone. That assumes a constant "swing speed", i.e. angular velocity. However, since a 7 iron head is considerably heavier than a 3 iron head, I suspect that the "swing speed" of the shortened 3 iron would be greater than that of a 7 iron of the same length, due to the lower weight, yielding a much greater clubhead speed which may well compensate for the shorter length.

On the other hand it may be that any success achieved by using single length clubs is probably due to more solid contact and increased comfort/confidence w/ the "hard to hit" longer irons.

That being said, I'm going to cobble together an old set of heads I have w/ some cheap True Temper shafts and try it out anyway!

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Replies:

[ Contact Forum Admin ]

Forum timezone: GMT-5
VF Version: 3.00b, ConfDB:
Before posting please read our privacy policy.
VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
Copyright © 1998-2019 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.