Impact Sound
 

My ball striking has improved dramatically after only a few range sessions. I know I'm striking the ball on the sweetspot with excellent Horz. Hinge Action. However, the impact sound is mushy. Is that because the balls I'm hitting have been hit for two years and thousands of times? Or, is it because I'm hitting off a Matt? Or Both?

Check to see if you are hitting the sweetspot. Use tape or powder and check. The sound should be loud and crisp. People will turn and look over at you. Matts are a problem if you hit fat and slide into the ball. Go hit balls in a bunker.

I'm puring it. It's got to be the balls. I'm horizontal Hinging tightly over a 4 foot length, 2 feet before and 2 feet after. If you can't crack the ball with that, then it's gotta be the ball.

Did you take the headcover off your irons?

:laughing9 I don't like those nerdy things. :laughing9

Now THAT was funny!!!!!!!!!!

Not liking and not using are 2 different things. PLEASE tell us you don't use them!!! :naughty:

I don't. And when I play, I don't put the headcovers back on my metal woods until after the round. I think of them as bedtime pillows for clubs. And it ain't bedtime. :eyes:

Thin to win
 

Ok.... you're back in the good graces of LBG. Now I'll pull my driver headcover and leave it off if I happen to be riding (which isn't often), but not the 3-wood or hybrid. I'm pretty anal about not having any nicks or dings on my putter and woods.

Back on topic.... I would like to "hear" more about this sound thing. I've noticed at the tour events I've attended, the iron shots of professionals often sound "thin" to me.

Hmm? I'm keenly aware of the Sound of Impact. It provides feedback on the line of compression that ball flight alone doesn't provide. I find myself searching it out. I find myself sometimes taking a stronger grip and High #3 Accumulator and a Snap release to compress the Horizontal Hinge over as small a distance as possible.

I think that the Old Range Balls don't deform like new balls and the line of compression becomes vague.

It has surprised me that there have not been more attempts to analyse the sound of impact scientifically...

I have seen published research into putters and balls and impact sounds....because sound is a key factor for players impression of feel... i think the ball manufacturers do this research etc...

There have always been some golfers who just made better sounds...Hogan etc...

Obviously variables such as clubhead speed, head materials and design, ball material and design etc...

But even when irons were solid and irons, balls were balata ...Hogan still had a sound... many used his brand of balls and clubs and did not produce that sound...surely speed is not the only variable that impact... impact geometry also seems critical.

I am not musically inclined but I can imagine that it must be possible to electronicaly record a signature of a real compression impact... which would have signature qualities irrespective of swing speed...maybe speed just increases amplitude of signal rather than pattern...

Any thoughts from musical types?:salut:

Go in a bunker, ala Ben Doyle and double check impact. The Bunker will tell you rather cruely if you are making solid impact through the ball or striking sand first. Can't hurt. Then go bring your ball brand on a golf course he hit some. And don't think an angled hinge can't produce a loud and solid impact. Its the circle not the hinge motion. Practice "Yoda's Secret", this small angled hinge motion will attract a crowd. Even old wound balls will bark

I hear ya. You must be right. There's no other explanation. Ball flight doesn't paint the whole picture.

I don't have sand available. 23 degrees today. My only choice has been an indoor range. I must not be perfectly striking the ball first. Today, I'll drive it into the Matt.

No never "must'- just covering the bases and lending a hand. Wait for the weather. Hope to meet you this yr in GA.

6bmike, whats yodas secret? have i missed a thread? thanks

You don't play no golf on mats you WRASSLE on mats!!!!

wwwwhhhhoooooooooooooooooo!!!!

A drill Lynn had us do around the putting green at Pine Needles. A play on Norman's secret (and costs nothing- just your soul in the long run) training aid.

Here is the link- a very posts down and you will see some pictures and text

http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/s...oda%27s+secret

teaches impact via PP3 and the bent LEVEL right wrist down thru low point. Ball has no chance but comply.

6b

awesome, thank you!