wlecat

What do you need to know? I was hitting a 7 iron and the phenomenom caused the ball to drop at about 100 yards, not much roll, the trajectory was medium height at full swing with a regular shaft and forged head at about 85mph. The knuckle-ball seems to make the most sense, what would cause the dynamics that would result in that flight.

This physics application is all well and good, however I feel the discussion has gotten hijacked by it. The real question is what's causing the problem. Coming in to steep, too shallow, blade pitch, what?

Too bad he gave you half the answer. Were you able to correct the problem? Any idea what you did differently?

I used to be about a 3 handicap at one time, so I know what a "good impact" and "good trajectory" is. Im 61 and coming off a 4 year layoff from a bad injury. Right now my swing speed is running about 85 mph. The knuckle-ball theory makes sense. What's causing this however is my question. My left knee is a little unstable so I'm not sure how to get the coil and shift back properly with that issue in play. When I do get those in sync I seem to pull the shot.

With my irons, seem to be making good impact, good trajectory, then the ball just stalls like its being pushed down, this happens on the course too with quality balls. I used to hit a 7 iron about 150-155. it's infected all my shots, have no idea what to hit now, they all seem to go about the same distance. What the hell? Anybody with the same issue or heard of it?