New research focusing on golf swing technique has suggested that the arms are the key to a good golf swing, not the wrists. Engineer Robin Sharp of the University of Surrey has conducted a report ‘on the mechanics of the golf swing’ on behalf of the Proceedings of the Royal Society A, analysing the findings of previous studies to identify the key to a good driving technique. The study differs to the majority of research in that it focuses on the action of the golfer, rather than golf club design or even golf ball dimpling.
The majority of research on golf swing technique has used arm-club simulation, which presumes that the arms are locked in a triangle with the shoulders as its base. Sharp’s study differs from this, as his shoulder-arm-club simulation allows for the bending of the golfer’s trailing arm during the backswing, which Sharp claims allows him to identify the key point at which torque is generated.
Sharp translated the 1968 swings of pro golfers Bernard Hunt, Geoffrey Hunt and Guy Wolstenholme into the shoulder-arm-club format, and discovered that by tweaking the rate of arm-torque buildup and the point at which the action of the wrists provides added torque, the speed of the club head at impact could be improved by up to 6.5 per cent.
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