Head research and design:
For the week of 2/6

So this week I've really dedicated myself to researching putter head design, and how to approach it, and all of that kind of stuff. I started off with the knowledge I got from my interview, which was that putter heads should be around 200g so that it has good balance when swinging it. I then factored in the density of the metal I would be working with, aluminum, and figured the ideal head would be about 4in wide on the face, .5 in back, and .7 in high. The rest of the cutting and edging would be done in the back to promote a head that, when striking the ball, would have a balanced MOI and would not want to swing with the toe or heel overturning each other, so the face stays square throughout the swing.  In order to do this, the toe has to have a bit more material on it than the heel, to balance out the weight of the shaft and the force of the hands. The putter head also should slowly transfer with the length towards the middle of the head, so that for instance .1 in away from the edge of the toe it would have slightly more mass in that area than the area from .1 in - .2 in. Also, right behind where the ball would be stricken, there should be as little mass as possible, to encourage a pure hit and so that the putter doesn't hit the ball with more force than necessary, since you want to have more influence on how hard you want to hit the ball with your hands than the head of the putter. I've started out on preliminary sketches, but am nowhere near done with all of the possible designs. The first page has more simplistic designs, while the second is a bit more advanced, and harder to do calculations for.