The Complexity of the Golf Swing

December 17, 2007

I was watching a show on National Geographic Channel about some Dinosaur mummy they found that was preserved for millions of years. Pretty cool, but I do have a point coming up.

To analyze the way the ancient dinosaur walked, they input what they knew about the dinosaur’s weight, skeletal design, and muscle mass, and let a super computer run millions of tests to find the most efficient way for it to move.

They knew the computer was accurate because they had tested it before on other species of today that they could actually compare the computer results to, one of which was humans. Now here’s what I’m getting at. The motion of a person running is so complex, it took the supercomputer about one hundred and fifty million tries just to get it right. Does that mean that running is complicated? Well, yes, but at the same time, of course not.

Everyone could improve by getting lessons, even tour players. It never hurts to be a little more balanced, to create a little more stability in the lower body, and to have a little more control over distance and ball flight. But these are not the “technical” aspects that many people think of. They are, however, many of the “technical” things that tour players work at improving on a consistent basis.

Written by John at 2:23 pm. Theory