References 1 through 4 discuss mathematical modeling of some of the important relations of golf clubs, their design, and their use. In all cases, the research reported in the references deals in depth with only one aspect of the golfer, swing, impact, flight, and bounce and roll which describes a golf shot. To date, we have found no attention to connecting all these aspects together to provide a general model for a golf shot.
Many of these references are valuable to anyone working with this problem. It happened that we started our research before most of the references were published and pursued a model, really a combination of many sub-models to describe a golf shot. Our model is described in our first book on golf.
With our complete model of a golf shot, we have been able to draw conclusions about golf club design and procedures golfers should follow to improve their game. These conclusions would be impossible or very impractical to reach by experiments based solely on observation of golf shots.
The articles will present what we have learned from our defining experiments and our model of golf shots. They should be of interest to serious golfers and help in their understanding and enjoyment of the game.
In our continual search for the truth, we hope they will generate feedback which we will post on each paper's feedback page and suggestions for topics of future papers.