A Yale physics professor has come up with a new golf club that can help teach you how to fix your swing. The way the club helps you is by giving off sounds into the headphones of the golfer, the higher and louder the pitch the faster the swing. The professor from Yale has found that hearing a sound is more beneficial to the change of your swing than just getting told it by someone else. Self correction is the best way to learn something because you know what you need to change and you are the only one who can actually change it. Golf is a mixture of physical skills and physics, from the swing speed to the flex of the shaft. Robert Grober's Sonic Golf tool uses motion-detecting sensors. When a player swings the club, sensors located in the shaft send wireless signals to a small base station receiver placed a few feet away. The receiver contains a microprocessor and a sound card that unravels the signal from the sensors and converts it into an audio "soundscape" representing the various speeds of the club during the backswing and downswing. A slow swing produces soft, low-pitched notes; a fast swing produces loud, high-pitched tones. These are transmitted back to the player through a set of wireless headphones. The golfer can then adjust his or her motion to generate the sound of a perfect swing. This could seriously revolutionize golf as we know it.
The frustrating part of this article is that I don’t know when the club would be available for purchase because something like this could seriously help my golf game. Also, you are never really told statistics on how hearing your swing is actually more beneficial for your learning then hearing someone critique it. This makes the article a little less fulfilling for me and I wish that the article contained these few bits left out.
I picked this article because I enjoy playing the game of golf in my spare time. Something like this could really boost my game and I like to get any edge that I can over my opponents. Even though this product isn’t totally proven yet, but it still sounds like it could be a great and useful product down the road.


“Sonic Golf Club.” Science Daily. July 5, 2010. http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2005/0701-sonic_golf_club.htm.