Golf Phyiscs
(Sfx: golf playing )
     Rugge: "The game of golf has really been around since the 15th century probably
something in that area, it has been a sport where people have constantly fiddled with
the equipment for those 5 hundred years."

     DICK RUGGE IS CONTINUING THE TRADITION.  HE'S A PRODUCT DEVELOPER AT
TAYLOR MADE GOLF WHERE THEY'VE RECENTLY DESIGNED A GOLF CLUB WITH A NEW
LOOK.  THEIR BUBBLE SHAFT GOLF CLUB FLARES OUT INTO A BUBBLE JUST BELOW THE GRIP. 
AND THIS MOVES WEIGHT FROM THE END OF THE CLUB CLOSER TO THE MIDDLE.

     Rugge: "the bubble shaft theory was founded perfectly in physics"

     RUGGE SAYS THAT A GOLF CLUB HAS TO ROTATE QUICKLY AND EASILY AND THAT
EXTRA BUBBLE ON THE SHAFT HELPS.  

     Rugge: "if you want to make something rotate easier you reduce something
called the moment of inertia. . .the moment of inertia, is very simply the measurement of
a bodies resistance to twisting and the example I like to give is a figure skater when
they're doing their high speed spins . . . they bring their arms into their body their body
rotates much much much faster almost a blur on the ice.and that's because they're
suddenly reduced their moment of inertia allowing thei rbody to rotate much faster so
we looked at the same thing with a golf club."

     MOVING THE WEIGHT IN FROM THE END OF THE GOLF CLUB TO THE MIDDLE
REDUCES THE CLUB'S MOMENT OF INERTIA MUCH THE WAY A SKATER PULLING HER ARMS
INTO HER OWN CENTER DOES--AND THAT MEANS AN EASY SWINGING CLUB. (SFX, golf hit
here) RUGGE SAYS THAT THE CLUB HAS MET WITH RAVE REVIEWS BUT NOT JUST BECAUSE IT
FOLLOWS A NEAT EQUATION. 

     Rugge: "It depends on a lot of very subjective items, which are not easily put into
a formula and put into a test tube if we could do that it would be much easier but . . .
There is some art still inolved in our product. "