[ChrisNZ]

Following on from my discussion with Tongzilla on the Ted Fort Pitching Wedge thread (and really in response to realising that I just don’t know what I’m talking about!), I thought I might construct a miniature plane board, so I could inscribe some stuff on the plane, and then make a map of visual equivalents on the ground (thought an empty CD cover with a clear case might be good for this, although is probably too small to map much of the cluhead’s travel – still, as a prototype...). But when I got out my magic marker, I started thinking about the problem of the left shoulder moving, and hence not having a perfect circle inscribed by the hands. So to the point of my post:

Could the swing (let’s just say of the hands at the moment) be thought of as two circles (around the left shoulder. One of which is around the left shoulder in it’s address/impact location, the other of which is around the left shoulder in it’s top of backswing position. If so, the backswing would be a morph between these two circles (exact details would depend on when the left shoulder started and stopped moving, and at what speed). Then on the downswing, is the straight line delivery path of the hands the move from one circle to the other (in a straight line)? And then release...

Note: the period of the straight line delivery path of the hands would include (more or less) the return of the left shoulder to the address/impact position.

Also, failure to get the left shoulder back would mean you’d have to flip, or compromise your release somehow (more lateral motion). You have to get back to the first circle.

Chris