On a ball’s trajectory model for putting’s evaluation

Abstract

The main goal of the present work is to draw conclusions about the influence of constraints such as different striking spots on the presence of a ramp, in the performance of golf putting while determining if the player’s performance is indeed unique and presents a signature for each of the 3 expert players in study. Each of them performed 30 trials at 2 distinct spots (in a total of 60 trials) and a standard curve for their performance was obtained with the Robust Linear Least Squares (LLSQ) method. The obtained results show that the putting performance is a “fingerprint”, unique to each player.