| | Category | PH | P29 | Determining the Effects of Club Head Speed and Drivers on Golf Ball |
| | Flight |
| | Abstract | The main objective of this experiment is to determine which specifications |
| | of different brand drivers will create the most distance off a tee shot. |
| | Also, to determine how different club head speeds along with a |
| | combination of the different specifications affect the distance of the ball. |
| | The three drivers tested were the Taylormade burner, Ping G5, and the |
| | Cobra s2. Each driver was equipped with a regular and stiff flex shaft, |
| | along with a 9.5 and a 10.5 face angle club head. The hypothesis of this |
| | experiment is that the Cobra s2 equipped with the regular shaft and the 9.5 |
| | degree face angle would create the most distance on the shot. The |
| | drivers were swung by two golfers with different club speed in front of |
| | the vector shot analyzer to record the distance and the launch angle of the |
| | shot. There were fifteen trials done for each driver. |
| | Upon analyzing the data, some unexpected trends were noticed. The |
| | Ping G5 drove the ball the farthest for both golfers under all conditions. |
| | The data also suggest that the Ping G5 also has the largest sweet spot. |
| | The Taylormade burner produced the second-farthest distance, and the |
| | Cobra s2 produced the least distance from the tee. |
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