Driver Swing and Golf Skill

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Golfers always want to improve their score. Here we investigated what are the most important factors to increase skill in swinging the driver and finally improving average score. Under the assumption that good golfers hit well with a driver, we tried to find the relation between a golfer's average score and the various factors in driver swing by conducting experiments with golfers who earn varying scores. The swing speed, ball speed and club face angle at impact have been considered important factors. In this study, we add body twist factors. The average score of a golfer is accurately estimated by a linear function of the conventional factors and the body twist factors. From the sensitivity analysis of the linear function, we found that the most important factors in improving score are: (1) faster driver head speed, (2) greater driver angle, (3) lower standard deviation of ball speed, (4) faster body twist angular acceleration, (5) later time of maximum body twist acceleration than impact time.