Using advanced computer technology, Gideon Ariel has
proved what we've known all along:
The perfect swing is different for each of us

G ideon Ariel was on the phone telling someone that he could make Ken Norton the greatest fighter in the world, or at least able to beat Larry Holmes the next time they fought.

"Norton is stronger, but has slower reflexes by 20 milliseconds. So he should stand closer to Holmes to mitigate his speed, take it away from him.

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Simple. "

A few minutes later Ariel sat down at his computer keyboard. With the touch of Peter Nero doing an arpeggio, he tapped out a "tune," which appeared on a pitch-black screen to his left, an aqua stick-figure of a golfer going through a full swing. Amazingly, the erector-set-in-motion looked familiar; there was the big turn

of the shoulders, the right one dipping rather steeply, and especially a pronounced forward thrust of bent knees at impact that resembled Jack Nicklaus. Indeed, that is who it was.

Now Gideon Ariel began to doodle, improvising his image of the "greatest golfer in the world." By manipulating a control stick, Ariel sent a tiny dot racing around the

GOLF October 1978