ShopTalk: Club Researcher Tom Mase

[jhm]

I contacted Tom Mase (see Dave T's note from earlier this week) and 
invited him to join Shoptalk and he's agreed to join the list and 
hang out for a while. Spoke to him today and he's a nice guy...said 
he'd be happy to answer questions you may have on his article in MEM.

Welcome to the group, Tom!

John Muir
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I picked up this tidbit following some web references that David 
Dugally sent >me. This one was particularly interesting:
http://www.memagazine.org/backissues/july03/departments/input_output/input_out.>html

It's an article in Mechanical Engineering magazine on a golf club 
researcher >(Tom Mase of Michigan State Univ, but he used to work 
for Callaway and >Titleist) using CAD/CAE programs. The article is 
very readable, and not at all >technical; check it out if you're 
interested. The most interesting tidbit there >was...

Mase let the program maximize the COR for a 200g clubhead. It came 
out at >0.917, which is a lot higher than the rules allow.

Cheers!
DaveT
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