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Originally Posted by mb6606
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Does body mass directly transfer to clubhead mass?
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i vote no...
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Originally Posted by mb6606
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In other words two golfers swing the same club exactly the same speed.
Will the 250lb golfer potentially impart more mass to the ball than the 150lb golfer?
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potentially, yes...but not definitely...my personal feeling is that the equation F=ma (Force=massXacceleration) essentially describes how much force is put on a ball (assuming equal ball contact on the sweet spot)...i think the "m" is the mass of the clubhead, no more, no less...now how you accelerate that mass is what makes the difference and this is really what folks are describing when they talk about "effective mass" , "transfering mass", etc as the "m" and "a" terms in F=ma carry equal weight (no pun intended)...in general bigger golfers have bigger muscles and can accelerate the club better...but that doesn't mean always...so i think whoever has the highest acceleration at impact (which i believe comes mostly from maintaining the lag, but the pivot helps out too) will hit the ball farther...whether it be the 150 lb. golfer swinging easy, but holding the lag or the 250 lb. one swinging for the fences but experiencing some throwaway.
-hcw
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