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1. My BigBertha Alpha driver’s balance is D8 🙁 Its too heavy so I replaced
   the movable weight from 7 grams to 3grams near for the one near the head
   and removed the 1 gram weight on the toe side. But that would totally
   change the vertical center of the gravity won’t it??

2. Dr Hocknell tells us that the vertical position of the center of mass
   affects backspin on the ball, but doesn’t explain why. I was hoping for a
   bit more involved an explanation — more of a dynamics lesson and less of a
   dumbed-down “it-does-this-because-that” pitch. I guess that most of the
   audience wouldn’t understand it, though…

3. Isn’t the line of impact technically an arc? So the height of a golfer
   would also have an impact on the swing because a short guy like has a swing
   that is a smaller circle than my 6’7″ friend, right? Probably negligible…
   but I don’t get to argue physics often.

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