OK why do people not "get it?" I think a lot of it has to do with bad information and concepts. And the way to take a giant step out of the lurch is to understand a subtle element of geometry . . . circle geometry in particular.
The concept I think that most don't understand is the Inclined Plane and its relationship to the flight path of the ball.
Here's what I think Mr. K gave us that could help a ton of people get better.
1. The Inclined Plane is basically like a roof . . . like this
\ and it extends in all directions up to the sky and down into the earth.
2. On that Inclined Plane lies a circle
0 . . . which is the orbit of the clubhead or sweetspot. Easy enough.
3. There are to primary points on the Inclined Plane and the Circle that are very relevant to our discussion . . . the IMPACT POINT and the LOW POINT.
4. The IMPACT POINT is ABOVE GROUND and the LOW POINT is typically BELOW GROUND for an iron shot with the ball back of LOW POINT of the swing arc.
So the ball is struck at IMPACT POINT and the Clubhead continues to travel DOWN-PLANE (Down, Out and Forward) and down the arc of the Circle until LOW POINT . . . its lowest point and the back up and in - on-plane.
OK Easy enough . . . but here is the critical element in my estimation . . .
5.
The BALL LEAVES ON A VERICAL PLANE . . . MEANING VERICAL TO THE GROUND.
BUT THE CLUB CONTINUES TO TRAVEL DOWNPLANE TO LOW POINT . . . thus VISUALLY CROSSING THE LINE OF FLIGHT TO THE BALL FROM THE PLAYERS PERSPECTIVE.
Why? Because Low Point is DOWNPLANE of the Impact Point and thus OUTSIDE the Line of Flight of the ball.
If the player does not understand this he will STEER . . . as Mr. K said "THE NUMBER ONE MALFUNCTION . . . THE BENT LEFT WRIST." Steering is defined in 3-F-7-A:
3-F-7-A STEERING is the Number One malfunction – The Bent Left Wrist and Clubhead Throwaway. Any or all of the following faults during Impact may need to be adjusted out – holding:
1. the Clubface square to the Target Line
2. the Clubhead on Target Line
3. the Clubhead on a level or upward path
A very successful anti-steering therapy is an exaggerated “inside-out” Cut Shot per 10-5-E. Study 2-J-3, 2-N and 12-3-39. You always Swing along the Plane Line but not always along the Flight Line. So learn to dismiss the Flight Line. Depend on Clubface alignment for direction control (2-J). In fact, learn to execute all Plane Line Variations (10-5) to remove all uncertainty from your Computer (14-0).
To see this for yourself . . . get a paper plate and a two pencils and head out into your yard . . . or padded room if your are Mike O. Stick one pencil in the ground and prop your plate up on an incline. Take the next pencil and stab it through the plate just above where the low end of the plate goes down into the grass.
Now position yourself down the line of the plate as if a little shrunken dude were going to hit a golf shot. Forget about the pencil proping up the plate. Your focus is on the pencil at the ground end of the plate. That there pencil represents the VERTICAL PLANE of flight of the ball. The ball flies vertical to the ground right?
So now you can see that the IMPACT POINT where the pencil has stabbed through the plate and the LOW POINT where the plate goes into the grass is
OUTSIDE OF THE VERTICAL LINE OF FLIGHT!!!
This is why DOWN is sooo vitally important . . .People don't have enough DOWN but that also don't have enough OUT . . . better yet their OUT is at the wrong time.
This is also why Mr. K said that the INSIDE OUT CUT SHOT is the pill for what ails you. You must
"LEARN TO DISMISS THE LINE OF FLIGHT!!!!" He wanted to exaggerate this principal with the inside out cut shut. Swing WAY out to right field and adjust the clubface and the ball will still fly straight.
YOU MUST VISUALLY SEE THE CLUBHEAD PASS TO THE OUTSIDE OF YOUR TARGET LINE
This is the principal of the Geometry of the Circle and the Physics of rotation. You are swinging on a circle and the resulting force MUST got DOWN OUT AND FORWARD INTO THE GROUND!!!
Mr. K says in 7-23 . . .
Delivery “THRUST” is “Cross Line” – Delivery “MOTION” is “On Line”. Even at Low Point, because Delivery Path Angle (direction) is ALWAYS the alternate Target Line (7-2-3) even with Circle Delivery Path (1-L-9, 1-L-10). Study 7-11 and 7-19.
AND in 6-C-A-2
The Orbiting Clubhead does not seek out the Ball – it seeks out the Delivery Line
The direction of an object on the end of a rotating string will exit at 90 degrees to its radius. And if that orbit is angled like the Inclined Plane that is OUT TO THE RIGHT!!!! This is why your clubhead has a HOOKED FACE!!! It is hooked to divert the force OUT TO RIGHT-FIELD back toward YOUR TARGET!!!
Your clubhead is just the weight at the end of the string . . . the string or the laws of physics don't care if the WEIGHT is hooked faced . . . you just have to TRUST the laws of physic and DON'T STEER the Clubhead to the TARGET LINE. Let the force go down and out into the ground outside of the flight path of the ball.
BUT YOU THE GOLFER MUST KEEP DRIVING DOWN AND OUT!!!! OUTSIDE THE LINE OF FLIGHT OF THE BALL!!!
Do what Mr. K told you
DISMISS THE LINE OF FLIGHT OF THE BALL . . . your HOOKED CLUBFACE WILL GET THE BALL TO THE TARGET. You just take the LAG DOWN AND OUT!!!
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