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The Physics of a golf swing

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 06, 2007 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (22) | comments 0

Ever wondered about the science behind your golf swing? Or what the perfect swing 'sounds' like? Last week an expert in the physics of golf has visited the home of golf to talk about technology aimed at developing 'the perfect ...


Fujitsu Develops Golf-Swing Analyzer Featuring Latest Sensing Technology

Fujitsu Develops Golf-Swing Analyzer Featuring Latest Sensing Technology

Technology / Hi Tech

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fujitsu today announced that it has codeveloped a sensing technology that accurately measures the body movements of a person carrying a sensor-equipped mobile phone. The technology was developed in collaboration ...


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Physicist's gadget lets you hear the sound of a perfect golf swing

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 02, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 1

Golf is a game of intense concentration. Golfers receive advice on the precise stance, grip, wrist angle, shoulder angle, head angle, and other details to improve their swings. But a new golf gadget developed ...


Physics Reveals the Key to a Great Golf Swing

Physics Reveals the Key to a Great Golf Swing

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 18, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (84) | comments 0

What happens when a golf-loving researcher injures a shoulder and can't play for three months? Rod White, a metrologist (measurement scientist), used the spare time off the course to undertake an analysis that ...


Golf course: Playing fields, wildlife sanctuaries or both

Biology /

created Dec 03, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

"FORE"...Though they may not help improve a person's golf game, stream salamanders might change the way golfers think about the local country club in the near future, following a new University of Missouri study.


Physicist Developed Sonic Golf Training Tool

Other Sciences /

created Mar 23, 2005 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Robert D. Grober, Yale professor of Applied Physics and Physics, has combined his passion for golf and his professional expertise to produce a unique and effective real–time audio biofeedback device for teaching and training ...


Inside a cafe for computer-simulated golf, known as screen golf

Screens replace greens for South Korean golfers

Technology / Hi Tech

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Park Joong-Soon raised his putter triumphantly after sinking a five-metre birdie on the final hole and pocketed his winnings from friends -- all without leaving the comfort of his local cafe.


Golf prolongs life

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 30, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (29) | comments 6

Golf can be a good investment for the health, according to a new study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet. The death rate for golfers is 40 per cent lower than for other people of the same sex, age ...


Hi-tech golfwear to jump in sales

Technology /

created Feb 16, 2006 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Hi-tech golfwear will drive golf equipment sales to $6.7 billion by 2010, according to a new market research report.


Fore! ISS crew to shag a golf ball

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 17, 2006 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

A Russian cosmonaut and his U.S counterpart won't worry about someone playing through when they tee up a golf ball at the International Space Station.


This grass is still greener

Biology /

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In areas of the U.S. where golfers can enjoy the game year-round, winter temperatures, foot and equipment traffic, and frost can wreak havoc on healthy greens and present challenges for course managers and owners.


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Golf in space event is postponed

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 31, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The golf shot to be heard around the world has been indefinitely postponed by Russian space agency officials.


Thinner, stronger and more flexible research

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 10, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 0

You wouldn't normally associate golf balls with condoms but for University of Queensland researcher Dr Darren Martin, it is all about covering things.


Sleep apnea therapy improves golf game

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Golfers who undergo treatment for sleep apnea may improve their golf game as well as their overall health, shows new research. A new study presented at CHEST 2009, the 75th annual international scientific assembly of the ...


Physicists aim to help golfers by producing better balls that fly farther

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 24, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (21) | comments 0

At the 61st Meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics this week, a team of researchers from Arizona State University and the University of Maryland is reporting research that may soon give avid ...