Geometry of the circle and how it applies to shot shaping .

[HungryBear]

Great question.

In the mean time, before we try try to draw the club face lets nail a few more things in the basic drawing.

-add a stick man golfer guy, with the centre of the radius at his left shoulder and a head.

-have him address a ball back of low point and draw the Impact Plane Line .

-note the increased Angle of Attack.

I don't want to complicate this. BUT, will U need to add shoulders and place the center of rotation af the shoulders?

Then later an extension of the radious because of the uncocklin of the left wrist?

Am I getting way ahead of the basics U want to start at?
If so Ignor this for awhils.

hb

[O.B.Left]

I don't want to complicate this. BUT, will U need to add shoulders and place the center of rotation af the shoulders?

Then later an extension of the radious because of the uncocklin of the left wrist?

Am I getting way ahead of the basics U want to start at?
If so Ignor this for awhils.

hb

Dont need the shoulders I suppose but the eyes and their location above the plane are critical to where we're going. We can get to the centres , the levers etc later that'd be cool. Much can be gleaned before things get that complicated IMO.

The basic drawings are a model only . They're two dimensional , dont have any levers etc. Very un human like . No wrist cock , no #3 angle . Very flat . BUT IT REVEALS A GEOMETRY A WAY OF PERCEIVING THE CORRECT ATTITUDE THE CLUBHEAD SHOULD TAKE THROUGH THE BALL . Something that just doesnt seem to be apparent even to the best of golfers . The best merely operate in a manner inconsistent with they might perceive or write about. Weird but not uncommon or new by any means.

Yoda once relayed that Byron Nelson who was conceptually operating under a false logic of straight back and straight through (Im leaving face considerations out but he also had that wrong) intentionally left photos of his own action out of his book. His own swing was contradicting his logic.... Nothing against Lord Byron , I deeply admire the guy and his swing. My gosh his swing! My point is only that the geometry , the circular nature of the club head orbit , especially when its leaned onto an inclined plane is difficult to find . Its not difficult geometry to understand , but its not our first consideration when trying to figure out why that ball doesnt want to behave. We tend to look for a more linear explanation of things . "Square to Square" and the golf magazines of the 70s were a high water mark for this sort of thing. But the false logic of it , if you will, has been around for probably as long as the game has been played. Kids dont seem to be subject to it , they just do without much thought to things .

You cant go by what a lot of pro's say they are doing. (Especially Moe IMO, never trust a Canadian especially one from Ontario). Look at the pictures . This very thing cost Homer the better part of his first decade or so of research.