ABSTRACT
Presented here are preliminary results on the measurement and analysis of the sound that is produced by the sharp impact loading of a golf ball by a flat massive object (e.g. the face of a golf club). We describe a) the motivation for such a study; b) some necessary background information on how golf balls vibrate; c) the techniques used to acquire and analyze the data; and d) an analysis of the sound made by dropping balls on a smooth, massive concrete target surface. These results suggest a simple method for rapid and non-destructive measurement of the effective high-frequency elastic shear modula of balls (and ball cores.)
