[Jeff]

Yodas Luke

You asked for credible evidence that the clubhead arc is more rounded than the hand arc.

I posted a strobe photograph of Bobby Jones which demonstrated that the hand arc is less circular than the clubhead arc.

I also posted this composite photograph that shows the clubhead arc (in red) and also shows the hand position at different time points. An imaginary line joining the hand position points would be less circular and more U-shaped.



Of course, there is the problem of camera perspective distortion due to the fact that the camera is face-on, while the clubhead/hand arcs are on an inclined plane.

I therefore produced the following down-the-line views of the clubhead arc and hand arc.

Clubhead arc



Hand arc



Note that the hand arc is more vertical than the clubhead arc. Therefore there will be there less camera perspective distortion with respect to the hand arc, and there is every reason to believe that the hand arc is U-shaped rather than circular.

Do you have any problem with the quality of the "evidence" that I am presenting?

Jeff.