Ive been Hitting now for about 2 yrs on and off,my BIG fault has been hooking from time to time,mainly when under pressure.
Watching Stricker has confirmed what i thought i was doing wrong,i have been keeping my clubface far too square to plane angle on t/away and down into impact.........how did i think this was correct at the time,i just dont know?,could it be i misunderstood the book,or misread some instruction somewhere.....could be hitting stickman,maybe i just didnt understand the hitters pattern,obviously,mind you,when i was doing something right from time to time the flight of golf ball was like a dart
Now,if I was to describe the hitters pattern to a mate,how would i tell a mate to take away and get to impact IN LAYMANS TERMS
Ive been Hitting now for about 2 yrs on and off,my BIG fault has been hooking from time to time,mainly when under pressure.
Watching Stricker has confirmed what i thought i was doing wrong,i have been keeping my clubface far too square to plane angle on t/away and down into impact.........how did i think this was correct at the time,i just dont know?,could it be i misunderstood the book,or misread some instruction somewhere.....
Hooking is caused by a Divergence between face angle and clubhead path. Your path sounds like it might be pointing too far right assuming the ball starts off on line and then hooks left.
Hitters using Angled Hinging will tend to have the back of their left hand or clubface (if you prefer) square to the Arc not the Plane Line, if I understand you correctly. Keeping the face "looking at the ball" so to speak, would be akin to Vertical Hinging ........something I did for years after reading the golf magazines of the 70's and absorbing their "square to square" advice. Straight back from the ball and keep the face looking at the ball. Aka "Steering". How I wish I could get those years back.
I cant remember the Hitting Stick man but perhaps it showed the closed club face compensation associated with Angled which would give it that Vertical Look?
Remember also Hinge Action is really a left hand alignment to one of the three Basic Planes not a face angle thing although at times they can be very similar .......but not when one employs Grip Rotation for balls played back of Low Point , an iron shot say. The guys who describe Hinge Action as a club face alignment might might be trying to simplify the complex but it can lead one down the wrong road and quickly. Which might be the case here, Brownman not sure.
Similarly, the commonly held belief that the " face should be in line with the left arm at Top to be square" , is not necessarily correct. Perhaps for balls played at Low Point with a specific grip type but its really Grip type and Grip Rotation dependent also. See 7-2, 6-H-0 for more on Grip Rotation.
Anyway it seems like his clubhead is on a pretty flat plane after transition. (Not flat as in horizontal; Flat as opposed to curved). Something that is probably very good for consistency.
I have a feeling that Stricker would appear to be swinging left if the camera was located in the plane of his clubhead path. There are traces of it even in the current perspective and he seem to hold his wedges pretty well past impact.
I think it is equally interesting to look at the hand path. And perhaps even more interesting - to look at the relationship between the handpath and the clubhead path.
I just watched a sequence of Garcia. That would also be an interesting case. From what I can see his clushaft plane angle changes several times during the down stroke. Garcia's hands are clearly over and then under the plane of the clubhead. Since he is arguebly one of the better ball strikers on tour I have a feeling that his swing can teach us something about the physics and mechanics involved.
I just watched a sequence of Garcia. That would also be an interesting case. From what I can see his clushaft plane angle changes several times during the down stroke. Garcia's hands are clearly over and then under the plane of the clubhead. Since he is arguebly one of the better ball strikers on tour I have a feeling that his swing can teach us something about the physics and mechanics involved.
This passage seems familiar, BerntR. Didn't you write this a while back? Just wanted to let you know I'm paying attention!
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