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09-07-2004, 05:32 PM
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| Measuring Tape Hi, I was watching Living Golf on CNN last night and they had an article about custom fitted clubs, in this case from Callaway. The presenter was given a standard club with a piece of tape on it and told to hit a ball toward the net. The ball had a cross shape cut out of it. From the imprint that the ball left on the club, one could see that he had hit the ball a little high on the club and to near the toe. The sales rep then showed a fast camera measurement of the resulting ball path to demonstrate the effect. Finally, they made him a special set of clubs to correct his small fault. As a complete beginner, I can't see the point in me buying the expenensive clubs but the tape did interest me. Is it possible to use such a tape to correct the swing rather than the club? If so how do you go about analysing the mark on the tape and what is the significance of cutting the cross in the ball? With every slowed down practice swing I hit the ball square and properly so it always comes as a suprise when it flys off somewhere else when hit in real time! Many thanks Richard By the way, where can you buy the tape?  |
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09-07-2004, 06:53 PM
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| Re: Measuring Tape I'm pretty sure it's just club marking tape - available from any custom club shop, I'm sure. I think it's called 'impact tape', IIRC. |
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09-09-2004, 09:59 PM
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 Re: Measuring Tape Hi Rich, The tape is a big help in analysing exactly where on the clubface the ball was struck. It can provide us with some useful information. However from this information alone we cannot tell a particualr swing fault. For example, a strike off the toe of the club could be due to several things. 1. We could be standing too far from the ball at address and stretching to meet the ball. 2. It could be that due to some swing fault we are coming down across the ball at impact. 3. It could be that the clubface was toed in (hooded at impact). ...and the list goes on. Without a watchfull eye it is hard to pick up on which it could be. Knowing the ball flight would in addition to the strike on the clubface would give us much more information. The ball flight vary rarley lies. here are some links I found for impact tape/paint: innovagolf.com golfcow.com shotsavers.com
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