[Jeff]

You wrote-: "With the ball in front of low point which way is his club head going: Down , out and forward, or up, in and forward? "

Is has to be going up and not down. However that is significantly due to the club's independent kick-point action where the peripheral end of the clubshaft is not traveling in perfect straight-line-unison with the central part of the clubshaft. If you look at the central part of his clubshaft you will note that it has forward shaft lean - due to the fact that he is actually trying to get his hands ahead of the ball by impact. If he didn't have that much forward central shaft lean at impact, then he would be hitting more up at the ball at the exact moment of impact and he would lose considerable distance to a high ball flight trajectory.

In other words, although his clubhead is going up at impact, his thrust action is down-and-out-and-forward, and not up-and-in.

Jeff.