This weekend I spent a fairly decent amount of time watching golf. The Ryder Cup is a three day competition that turns Golf, an individual sport, into a team sport. The tournament pits the European team against the Americans. Each team is made up of the 12 best golfers they have to offer. The Americans entered this week without Tiger Woods and as a result were considered heavy underdogs. But they managed to win and do so convincingly. Throughout the tournament i noticed that the golf ball when put into motion by the club head travels a parabolic
path like any other projectile.Another thing i not
iced is that each club has a different loft, allowing the player to hit it a different distance while swinging at the same tempo. I have found that this works because the higher the loft the shorter the club goes because its vertical velocity is different from a club with less loft. The club with higher loft sends the ball in the air with a higher trajectory while the one with a
lower loft has a lower trajectory. I recognized that in order to hit the ball the correct distances a golfer must analyze the physics correctly and pick the club with the correct loft.
