[BerntR]

Hmm...

There seems to be an increasing degree of layback here. So I guess we're talking about an angled hinge here. If I believed someone could drive a ball with vertical I would have perhaps suggested that one, because ball compression looks good and I can't see any closing.

Since we don't see the hinge pin it is impossible to see whether the swing arch throught the ball is pure. It looks like the club is already laid back. But the head doesn't seem to go up, does it. It looks a bit slicin' under the ball to me, but that could be due to the COG of the clubhead being so far behind the shaft that the layback in the first picture is just a shaft layback and not a COG layback.