The Most Important Illustration in the History of Golf

[12 piece bucket]

If we could tape these two together . . . golden . . .

[BerntR]

I find that drawing to be very misleading as far as swing center and the left shoulder participation is conserned. The swing center should be somewhere in the back of the spine where the inclined plane intersects. The left shoulder has a rotary motion around this center axis. If the left shoulder becomes the swing center prior to impact you have a major throwaway situation. (sorry Yoda)

A rotating left shoulder that doesn't quit rotating before impact is important for proper impact lag pressure and all good things in golf.

[Yoda]

I find that drawing to be very misleading as far as swing center and the left shoulder participation is conserned. The swing center should be somewhere in the back of the spine where the inclined plane intersects. The left shoulder has a rotary motion around this center axis. If the left shoulder becomes the swing center prior to impact you have a major throwaway situation. (sorry Yoda)

A rotating left shoulder that doesn't quit rotating before impact is important for proper impact lag pressure and all good things in golf.

The Left Shoulder is the Center of the Arm Swing (Left Arm-Club Radius). The Head -- or alternatively, the 'point between the shoulders' -- is the Pivot Center and thereby stabilizes the rotation of the Shoulder Turn about the spine as its axis.

It is not necessary that either Center intersect with the Inclined Plane of motion of the Sweetspot.

[Yoda]

Had I known this rough drawing would be broadcast to the world, I would have been a little neater! And, I would have arranged a more forward Ball Location (the Head, shoulders and right arm are added after the Radius and Plane Lines).



Alas, it was sketched hastily over breakfast at the local Cracker Barrel restaurant, and 'it is what it is'. The good news is that it helped communicate to my new student the essential Geometry of a Golf Stroke and so set the stage for a lifetime of better golf.

[innercityteacher]

+1 vote for this.

Would've been +2 if you'd had it on a Waffle House or Cracker Barrel napkin.

I love the Waffle House! I love Brian Piccolo! I love the smell of Napalm in the morning...

I love greens in regulation within 3 inches of the hole!

God bless America, the world, and LBG golf!


YBGF (this is not a thread-jacking simply effusive praise)

[KevCarter]

Had I known this rough drawing would be broadcast to the world, I would have been a little neater! And, I would have arranged a more forward Ball Location (the Head, shoulders and right arm are added after the Radius and Plane Lines).



Alas, it was sketched hastily over breakfast at the local Cracker Barrel restaurant, and 'it is what it is'. The good news is that it helped communicate to my new student the essential Geometry of a Golf Stroke and so set the stage for a lifetime of better golf.

Hastily sketched or not, I think its a treasure!

Kevin

[drewitgolf]

[BerntR]

I like that drawing!!

[Yoda]

I like that drawing!!

Thanks, BerntR. The drawing definitely has merits. Again, the goal was 'instant communication' in an informal setting.

It is, however, somewhat of a simplification. As illustrated, it depicts a Turned Shoulder Plane with Zero Shift. In practice, the Right Forearm is normally set on the Elbow Plane (really what I've depicted here) and there is a Single Shift (in the Backstroke) to the somewhat steeper Plane of the Turned Right Shoulder. I do think the illustration of the On Plane Impact and Low Points is helpful to those beginning the journey that is Alignment Golf.

From the Top, the player can then remain on the TSP through Impact (the Stroke is then deemed Single Shift) or he can return to the Elbow Plane (Double Shift) on which the Right Forearm was positioned at Address.

[Burner]

"The Rein of Fame stay mainly on the Plane"

Love it - tag line of the decade!