Abstract
The purposes of this research were to analyze body and club kinematics during golf putting and to simulate key features of that motion. The force differences between right foot and left foot at impact were analyzed between skilled and unskilled subjects, and these had significant differences (p<0.001): skilled subject had more evenly shared weight and smaller variability across putts. Before impact, skilled subjects had significantly different kinematics in the vertical trajectory from a simple pendulum, which was simulated in Simulink based on experimental data for club-head trajectory. We will investigate face angle stability to small kinematic perturbations when the dynamic putter model follows the experimentally measured trajectories of novice and experienced golfers.
