Unusual "Strobe" Photograph of Golf Swing
by Harold Edgerton

In 1938, Harold Edgerton of Edgerton, Germeshausen and Grier (or EG&G), which still exists today, worked with Bobby Jones as he swung his driver to hit a golf ball. Each photo taken by Edgerton represented 1/100,000th of a second. The resulting image combining each of these photos is a beautiful and artistic depiction of the greatest swing in the history of golf. While high-speed photography and video has become the norm in sports training today, no one had ever seen the golf swing broken down until that photographic study in 1938. Thanks to Edgerton's invention, the world was finally able to start dissecting the golf swing in ways never possible before. In many ways, all modern golf instructors and swing coaches can trace their origin to this very photograph.

Offered here is another "strobe" photograph of a golf swing that was previously unknown to us. Was this person an understudy for Edgerton to try out his technique before the great Bobby Jones came to visit? We don't know the answer, but we do know that the resulting image is exceptional. Measures 8x10". Has a Harold Edgerton Studio pencil notation on back.