[ChrisNZ]

Chris,
I'm not sure you really can trace the forearm- I mean you can, and/or you feel like you can but I'm not really sure in a "good" golf stroke that the right forearm does or needs to stay on plane for any extended period going back or coming down. The hands and clubshaft - yes! Just my take.

Mike O.

You mean my right forearm isn’t really magic – it was all smoke and mirrors???

Your point about the right elbow (and its implications for the right forearm) seems massive to me. I had thought that the right forearm was to trace the baseline of the plane back and through, but if the right elbow is only on plane at impact, this is impossible! Instead the right forearm must trace an outside path (outside going back, out to in coming through the ball). At least with a zero shift...

Is the ‘magic’ of the right forearm then, only that it shows from impact fix the exact up and down motion the hands/clubhead need to take – that is, is it merely a good visual analogue of the plane and the delivery path of the hands?

Chris