Feature Walkthrough # 2 – Dynamic Swing Analysis Part 2

Swing Tempo (in seconds)

Everyone has a natural rhythm when they swing. Swinging hard may not necessarily mean you are developing maximum club head speed. The amount of time it takes you to draw your club back to ball impact is measured every time you swing.

You can vary your back swing and find the optimum time it takes you to develop your highest and best controlled club head speed. You learn quickly that club head speed can be increased by adding power continuously as you swing, and how to accelerate the club as you swing. Golf is dramatically effected by swing tempo.

The P3ProSwing™ golf swing analysis software gives you the information you need to get the greatest distance and the most accurate shots with your swing.

Toe and Heel Height (in inches)

The P3ProSwing™ golf swing analysis software determines whether your stance is too close or too far away from the ball. It measures the toe height and the heel height of the club. For a perfect stance you want the club to be parallel to the ground at impact. If the toe height is too high you are too far away. If the toe height is too low you are too close.

Your teaching pro can also use this information to fit your clubs and help fine tune your stance when you address the ball.

Feature Walkthrough # 1 – Dynamic Swing Analysis Part 1

Welcome to the first of multiple P3ProSwing feature walk-through’s that will be posted over the coming weeks. Today, we will cover how Clubface Angle, Swing Path, and Angle of attack work inside of the P3ProSwing Software. Not only will we be talking about what these features are, and what they measure, but we will tell you what combination of these items produce what ball-flight-path. This will be from a right-hander’s perspective.

First up, the Clubface Angle.

Clubface Angle is the angle of the club’s face relative to the target (in this case, the golf ball). An Open degree club face angle means the club is facing to the right of the target. A Closed degree club face angle means the club is facing to the left of the target. Square is, of course, the club’s face facing the target.

All else being square, an open club face angle will have some degree of “Fade” on the ball, while a closed face angle will have some degree of “Draw” on the ball.

Swing Path

Swing Path is the direction of the club-head in relation to the target line. In other words, if your swing path starts on the inside of the ball, and travels to the outside, you have an inside-out swing path. If your swing path starts on the outside of the ball and travels inside, you have an outside-in swing path. Swing path determines the initial flight path of the ball, before spin is taken into account.

All else being square, an inside-out swing path will give you a certain degree of Push, and an outside-in swing path will give you a certain degree of pull. These values are dependent on how many degrees in or out you are.

Combine Swing Path and Clubface Angle, and you get various degrees of Hooks and Slices.

Angle of Attack

Angle of Attack is the angle of the Club-head path as it travels to and makes contact with the ball. This measurement directly relates to ball launch angle, and the backspin of the ball. More backspin, the further the ball will go, less backspin (or negative backspin) the shorter the flight distance.

Want the ball to go further, have a higher Angle of attack with the ball in the “Sweet Spot” (We will cover “Sweet Spot” in a later article.) Need to drop the ball closer to you? “Top” the ball.

These three measurements form the basis of all of our flight calculations for the ball within our software.

Note: Some measurements for ball flight are inferred through physics calculations, due to the fact we only measure the club, and take no measurements on the ball except for launch angle when a camera is attached and being used for it.

Hello All!

Over the next 7 weeks, we will be demoing the various features of the P3ProSwing Swing Analyzer software, to bring everyone up to speed on the new features included in Version 4.2. Today we will go over which weeks will cover which features, and open up the comments to allow for you to make suggestions for features to walk-through in the future. Do let us know what you think, and if you have a tutorial that you have written, or have found online, please send us a link so we can check them out ourselves.

Alright, onto the fun.

Starting next week, we will be walking through various features of the P3ProSwing software. This will be a 7 week series that will hopefully familiarize all of our readers with the software in use by our P3ProSwing Analyzer, and help you use the software to its full abilities.

Week 1

Dynamic Swing Analysis Pt.1

• Club Face Angle
• Swing Path
• Angle Of Attack

Week 2

Dynamic Swing Analysis Pt. 2

• Swing Tempo
• Toe and Heel height

Week 3

Dynamic Swing Analysis Pt.3

• Sweet Spot Deviation
• Club Head Speed

Week 4

Simulator Software Pt.1

• Desert Dunes
• Highland National

Week 5

Simulator Software Pt.2

• Practice Green
• Driving Range

Week 6

Simulator Software Pt.3

• Video Capture
• Golf Skill Package

Week 7

Simulator Software Pt.4

• 36 NEW Courses
• Practice Golf Course Simulator Mode

This sums up the next few weeks, if any of you have any suggestions for after the next 7 weeks, please let us know!

Justin R. Donnaruma

P3ProSwing Web Guru