[Martee]

Originally Posted by Martee

Not to get off topic, in fact this may be where to start the primer.. Why other that at Impact Fix and Impact do I care or would want to observe my clubface? Why do I want to monitor something that is 70 to 90 inches away from me, moving at upward 100 mph plus? The Hands and On Plane alignment seems to provide the information that is more TGM'y than looking at the clubface. What is it that the clubface provides that the hands don't?

For a beginner, whether the ball is going to straight or not. I work inside with a mirror in slow motion. "Fanning?", which plane?, plane shift?, back up and in?, top?, arc oriented to plane? Hands and feel lie, the mirror doesn't.

I still don't follow the logic of clubface monitoring, it seems to me that this is position golf, not alignment.

Which Plane, well that is kind of something you get to select. BUT the club on Plane, simple, no matter which plane angle you select, the Plane Line will be the same for all of them. Checking that, even in slow motion seems lock in that you are going to return the club back to Impact correctly.

Monitoring the hands at the top, right and left wrist along with the right forearm/elbow alignment to the plane of motion indicates correctness of alignment and from here this should didicate your deliver path and deliver line.

At the top montioring the location of the hands to the right shoulder can be done with a mirror. Here you can ensure you are not turning the shoulders too much and getting too deep, etc.

The Look, Look, Look can be very powerful.

If the ball is not going straight, you may indeed have a position at the top with the clubface like you want, but it is the alignment at Impact/separation that defines if the ball is going to go straight. Again in slow motion you should be able to monitor the hands, their delivery path, the club being on plane to determine success. Of course their is ball position but that should be defined at Impact Fix, a time when the golfer does monitor the clubface per 3-F-5.

Keeping it simple, that is to the basics, what controls the clubface, clubhead and clubshaft seems to be an easier objective to accomplish since you can obtain for instance a clubface position at the top that is what you are looking for while getting there different ways. Being correct at the top doesn't ensure correctness at Impact. Being aligned correctly at the top allows for correctness at Impact without compensation, at Impact Fix correct, at the Top correct, at Impact correct. Kind of like connecting the dots. Just my thoughts.

Hands don't lie, feel doesn't lie either, it is rather a misunderstanding of what you have done. You think you are correct, but yet you havent checked or verify.

If anything, the clubface alignment can lie, like I said I can get clubface positioin, the same using various compensating moves that not only complicates the golf storke, but builds in inconsistencies and does not ensure Impact correctness.

It is not that I am opposed to clubface alignment, it is that at best it is secondary. JMHO.