Different club, different game - should you spend big money on your golf clubs?

A dynamic duo from Virginia College are striving to reduce pressure on golfers to purchase expensive clubs through a project they researched.

Presenting their project, ‘Different Club Different Game’ (Chemical, Physical & Mathematical Sciences) students Daniel Lynch and Sean King stated: “Our project is about the investigation on how the loft and angle of branded gold clubs affect the distance a golf ball travels.”

The two boys created a bespoke machine to demonstrate the effectiveness of clubs when hitting a ball at the same force.

Daniel further explained: “we used a swinging mechanism because, for most golfers, you can’t get the same force each time you swing. We did about four shots with each club and figured out all the distances by using gravity and the force of the swing.”

Sean continued: “We did it with my clubs and Daniel’s clubs and then compared the difference. My brand is Mizuno and his is Slazenger, mine would be more expensive and there’s not a very significant difference.”