When the ball is struck before low point the club head and face is pointed down out and forward if not built with hookface. ie. the club head crosses the plane line on the way to low point. This will hit the ball to right field, a little. at the intended point of impact the club head, with hookface, is designed to sit square to the plane line. Therefore, at impact the ball will have a clubface pointed along the plane line/target line not out to right field.
Right field is a tangent at impact.
That is just this bears understanding. But U should pick the understanding U like.
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I get you. So to talk geometry for a moment (cause Im too lazy to draw it) the club without hook face for balls played back of low point (given no grip rotation) will hit straight shots but pushed to the right . No divergence between face and path.
However a similarly positioned ball with a hooked face club hits a ball that has an initial line of flight which is a cord to the circle . Along the Impact Plane Line if the face is so aligned.
But the clubhead does not travel along this plane line it travels the circular orbit and continues down and out to low point. Which to me implies a divergence between and path .... albeit lessened by steeper plane angles...
ah crap I guess I should draw this.... The steepness of the plane angle and the added loft of the most hooked face clubs could negate draw spin. But there's more to the story if Homer thought that balls played forward of the Straight Away position had a fade tendency.
And therein lies the point I wish Lynn or Ted or the ghost of Homer would clarify Or perhaps I have things all askew.. ? It wouldnt be the first time , nor the last.
Maybe I should research the audio tapes. We need to define the Straight Away Position .
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