Study on Simulation of Golf Swing

Abstract

Golf is the sports that have been enjoyed by the many people in Japan. The golf competition population in Japan is the second largest in the world. The many golfers aim to get the high score and are looking for the golf club which matched oneself from many commercially available golf clubs. Also, many golfers hope to getting the longer distance and raising the ball speed by the golf club (Driver) and various Drivers are being developed by manufacturers. Therefore, the study of the golf club shaft comes to attract more attention. In the previous study, the golf swing simulation using the finite element approach has already been proposed by the authors. In this simulation, considering the motion and torsion of the grip of the golfer, the golf swing was simulated. And, the proposed simulation requires the grip movements obtained from the swing video. In this study, a supporting index tool was made to measure the quantity of torsion of the wrist accurately. And the accuracy of the deflection of the golf club shaft and clubface orientation obtained by the proposed swing simulation is discussed.