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Greis is no newcomer to the psychic struggles that play such a big part in men's golf. As a high school senior at Waschusett Regional H.S., she shuffled between the first and third slots on the boys' team and was voted co-MVP. That was in addition to garnering six letters while playing field hockey and basketball...
Leslie spent three years in high school working on different facets of a science project entitled "The Sand Wedge: Its Mechanics and Design." The sand wedge, otherwise known as the dynamite or blaster, is that concave instrument for delving in golf's farflung hinterlands. Ever since Gene Sarazen built the first one during the winter of 1932 in a Florida machine shop, the wedge has been a godsend for golfers extricating themselves from places previously untrodden by man (or woman...
While exploring the physics of golf, Leslie spent her freshman year "looking into exactly how sand between the golf ball and the club really affects trajectory." To carry out her inquiries she rigged a contraption of weighted pendulums to simulate a golf swing, like "Iron Byron," the machine modeled on the swing of Byron Nelson used by golf ball companies...
...next year, she entered the world of golfing polemics, refuting the iconoclastic thesis of two savants of the golf swing, Alister Cochran and John Stobbs. Leslie showed that the surface of the clubface does, in fact, impart more backspin on the ball depending on its roughness...
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