
GEAR INSIDER: Surprising impact of blade length and accuracy w/ Dr Paul Wood
Golf Science Lab
Perceptions of Performance Versus Reality of Performance
Golf science lab is a weekly podcast hosted by Corey Walker. This week we talk with Paul Wood about some of the latest research on golf drivers, wedges and potters. We'll also look at how to use water bottles as an effective club-side deceleration tool.
00:00
Transcript
Play full episode
Transcript
Episode notes
Speaker 2
So I think last time you're on the podcast your little interesting research you shared was just talking about
Speaker 3
drivers and
Speaker 2
moisture and the impact of that the research you guys have done on that any new research like that or any
Speaker 3
interesting little tips and tricks from from paying these days. Yeah that's a good one I don't know I mean I
Speaker 1
think the biggest thing we've been working on is that same kind of idea but applied on wedges like I just said with the with the water bottle of having a quick and easy way to. I mean you can see like thousands of RPM difference club to club with that test that you wouldn't have seen if you were just doing in the dry. So that was kind of that was a really fun one I'm trying to think what else we've been doing. I want one we've been working on on potters which is kind of interesting is perceptions of performance versus reality of performance and we did this really interesting test that I'll talk about this week with just different face materials of potters or different face treatments or grooves versus no grooves or insert was no insert and just the sound of the potter can completely change a player's perception on how they believe the distance controls working for so we did one great test with with faces with no grooves on them and found the players really felt like they were getting much better distance control out of the pot and therefore putting more confidently but actually our data was saying the opposite they were getting a little more variation and speed off the face and therefore role. But the fact that they perceived it as being better like really helped play into confidence and so it was this interesting so what does this mean a player is going to really pop better with the one that they perceived to better or they get a really pop better with the one that we sort of showed to be mechanically better and the results ended up being almost identical so now our planet you know the next logical question is can we combine both if we can get something that has the mechanical advantage but has the perception alongside it we should be at a really more performance but it was interesting that just the psychology of it was enough to affect performance it was just an interesting potting
Speaker 3
testing is hard. This has been fun man I always enjoy your studies and insights they're always interesting because it's relevant and like actually real stuff that we can understand and apply so thank you for sharing. We'll have you back again and we'll see what new research you come up with here in a little while. All right my pleasure. If you want to follow you on Twitter that's probably the best place for the best place I do a little bit of stuff on Facebook too so either of those. Perfect folks
Speaker 2
can follow you on Twitter what's your hand is it. Paul Wood 79. Perfect follow you there.
Speaker 3
Thanks again. Hey thank you so
Speaker 4
much
Speaker 2
for listening to this episode is really fun to sit down with Paul Wood on this. Make sure to go check out the video check out the images that we have on the website called science lab.com along with this. I think you'll enjoy that is kind of a companion to this episode YouTube channel golf science lab is where you can find that as well. Thank you so much for listening make sure to subscribe to the podcast we have more coming every week here on the golf science lab. Thank you for listening just really enjoy the support and the feedbacks if you have any thoughts feel free to follow on Twitter send a message Instagram our email support at golf science lab.com Thanks so much for listening my name is Corey Walker I was the host for today you can follow me
Speaker 4
on Twitter at Corey Walker and this is edited mix and produced by just hit publish productions.
While fitting someone for a driver has become fairly streamlined, fitting good players for irons and wedges is different process. It’s not all about watching them hit stock shots on the range and analyzing Track Man data. Today we're talking with PING's VP of Engineering, Dr Paul Wood to share what they're doing to help players make smarter decisions about irons and wedges.
https://youtu.be/DODtZtT46cU