Tiger's Driver Launch Angle is REALLY HIGH ???

[veryold]

Don't know if this is the correct thread for this topic ?

Anyways, I was just amazed to see Tiger's drives absolutely "soar" up in the air, as shown in the attached pic. That LA had to be 30* or more, unless i am missing something. And that high LA was evident on ALL of his driver shots.

So, if this is NOT some sort of "optical illusion" HOW IS HE ACHIEVING THIS HIGH LA ? He couldn't be using more than a 10* lofted driver ?
Any one's comments will be really appreciated

Oh, i am NOT getting that high LA with my 16* SLDR Driver (last pic, below)


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[Jasonp]

I think you're confusing LA and Peak Height.

His LA is likely no more then 14 to 16* which is a lot on a driver. He achieves this by hitting up.

As for what looks like a super high ball flight thats coming from his ballspeed and spin.

[veryold]

I think you're confusing LA and Peak Height
His LA is likely no more then 14 to 16* which is a lot on a driver. He achieves this by hitting up.

As for what looks like a super high ball flight thats coming from his ballspeed and spin.

Who knows, as i am "marching" towards my 80s my confusion "marches" with it - not a pretty sight

OK, seeing many of your posts, you seem very knowledgeable in technical aspects of the game of golf. So maybe i can ask you a question re. LA: if the ball is NOT teed up very high, something like Jack Nicklaus suggests (half the ball over the driver crown), what is the max. LA that can be achieved with that tee height, in an ideally and perfectly struck drive ? To my thinking, not that much, no ? IOW, the LA is mostly dependent on the "physical loft" of the driver ???

[Jasonp]

Who knows, as i am "marching" towards my 80s my confusion "marches" with it - not a pretty sight

OK, seeing many of your posts, you seem very knowledgeable in technical aspects of the game of golf. So maybe i can ask you a question re. LA: if the ball is NOT teed up very high, something like Jack Nicklaus suggests (half the ball over the driver crown), what is the max. LA that can be achieved with that tee height, in an ideally and perfectly struck drive ? To my thinking, not that much, no ? IOW, the LA is mostly dependent on the "physical loft" of the driver ???

Tee height and LA are not automatically directly related if that makes sense. Yes typically the higher you tee it the higher your LA will or should be. The reason for the correlation is because as you tee it higher you should ideally be hitting more up on it. But you can in theory still hit down on it with it teed up high whether half a ball or a full ball above the crown.

https://0to300golf.blogspot.com/2013/05/understanding-ball-flight-why-did-ball_14.html?m=1

May help clarify better then I can.

There's a lot of variables and I'm not a physics expert.

If you go on track man's website it will explain all of the variables. Spin loft dynamic loft launch angle etc.


I can take a 12* driver and launch it lower then a 9* head due to how i present dynamic loft and my attack angle.

[veryold]

OK, hopefully, this is my last nonsense post on this topic.

Looks like the Super High LA that i alluded to in my OP is just an optical illusion ???

An easy "triangle math" calculator returns the LA = 12* which, IIANM, is much more "normal" and expected value.

Here are the inputs, some from the screens of tiger using Trackman, some of my assumptions (and you know the famous quote from the Under Siege 2, Assumption is the mother of all f*&^ups ) :

1) Tiger apex is about 110' = 37 yards
2) This apex is reached at distance of maybe 180 yards taking a 280 yards total carry.
3) The ball doesn't "balloon/rise" up, but goes up in a straight line.

Here is the "calculator"