[golfbulldog]

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If you setup at impact fix, no matter where you're aiming the face and bring them back to mid-body the face will close progressively. Why? Because as you bend the left wrist it closes the face.

Same reason why you can 'flip at the ball' and still hit a draw

Thanks Jim, this is exactly what i have found - actually gets quite closed when hands come to mid-body. I suppose that it depends abit on shoulder width , and hence stance width, in that the distance moved by the hands will be greater if the player has broad shoulders / wide stance rather than narrow shoulders / narrow stance. The more the hands move back the more closed the clubface.

Despite scaring a few onlookers with a closed-looking clubface I have been hitting the ball very straight!! I guess it shows how all the alignments are different between address and impact ( except clubshaft plane see 7-8 )

Did Homer actually write about this in the book or is it somewhere in those infamous "notes for 7th edition"?

In 7-9, Homer describes the "classic" address as "left wrist is bent, right wrist is flat, the clubface and clubshaft square (putting hands at a mid-body location)...)"

This seems to contradict the teaching of allow the clubface to be square at impact fix but then close as much as is natural as the hands move back to mid-body. Any ideas ?