Comments on: The most amazing week, part 2

By: Constantine

Constantine — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 18:10:06 +0000

I think this experience alone justifies the entire plan. Great stuff. I hope you’re still working on your game and playing somewhere, Dan.

By: Christopher M Hansen

Christopher M Hansen — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 01:30:12 +0000

What a fabulous experience – and very well recounted as always. Thanks Dan.

By: doug

doug — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 00:33:22 +0000

Hah, Mr. CHEN, thanks for blessing us with yet another lesson, i would love to spin a few laps with you on a course somewhere!!!!

Dan, ” cool story, bro!” Pffft, no, that truly sounds amazing. Oh and last yr bro-am they mentioned on the teevee that Kenny G had been a zero handicap at one point. At any rate hes a kickass golfer and just having fun.

By: Gary Bennett

Gary Bennett — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 21:19:27 +0000

Glad that you were invited to this event. My wife and I were volunteers at the 2010 US OPEN. Just walking the course was such a trip.

Good luck with your project!

By: Bill patterson

Bill patterson — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 16:39:38 +0000

Really neat dan. These are the memories that you will cherish for a life time….kinda like buying me a beer at Riverside!!

By: Richard Chen

Richard Chen — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:32:36 +0000

All of the nice photos, and photos of gadgets above got me imagining while reading the above, and eating breakfast of imagining attaching a digital camera at the end of the club shaft replacing the clubhead, or drilling a tiny hole in the middle of the sweet spot of an old driver clubface to install a small digital camera inside the driver clubhead. This would get a clubface-view of swinging down into the back of the ball. The camera preferably will be capable of high frame rates.

It is probably until the release phase of the downswing before the ball comes into the view of the camera. Initially, the ball will appear at the edge of the frame. As the clubface/camera swing closer to the ball, the image of the ball will shift to the center of the frame. If the clubface is opened or closed as it comes into the ball, the image of the center line on the ball will be shifted slightly left or right from the center of the camera frame.

The assumes that the camera embedded in the clubhead can take the impact force. Some 3D graphics software can be set up to simulate what the camera sees depending the type of downswing, for example, of using Hogan’s bowing of the leading wrist versus a flat wrist.

By: pete

pete — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 05:36:52 +0000

What an experience, certainly seems like you got the most out of it

The robot sounds facinating and the fact there’s one just down the road from you is awesome. Guessing using it could save a whole heap of ‘trial and error’ in getting your swing exactly where you want it. Best of luck with it.