Pro Athletes Adopt Sports Analytics like Trackman for Golf to Advance Competitive Insights,

[mvmac]

Interesting article, good portion about golf and how Trackman is changing instruction.

Quote:

“Every athlete, what you want to be able to do is make informed decisions in how you go about how you train and go about the performance side of competition. The collection of data with the technology available today allows the athlete to make those informed choices.  In the case of TrackMan what it’s showing us by spitting out these numbers is giving us in reality what’s happening rather than intuitive guesses,” he said.

What’s happening is that TrackMan software, used in conjunction with high-speed cameras, is demonstrating that the direction of the ball flight – which way it curves after contact – is mostly determined by the direction of the face of the club at impact. Before this data was available, the prevailing thought was that the path of the clubhead prior to impact determined how the ball would travel.

[Clambake]

If anyone hasn't done so already, I'd highly recommend checking out the Trackman newsletters available on their site: http://trackman.dk/Media/Newsletter.aspx

They have a number of articles with great information on ball flight, pro's results and comparisons, etc.      Good stuff!