Clubshaft orbit through the impact zone

[Jeff]

Ob Left

I have produced the following short video of a club traveling on the surface of an inclined plane board.

I am using a short (child's) club and I have placed the club along the surface of the board. The club is running continuously along the surface of the board and it remains in contact with the board before and after the low point of the clubhead swingarc. Note the movement of the hosel - it remains along the surface of the board and there is no rotation of the hosel off-the-board or around the sweetspot.

I believe that this visual demonstration shows exactly what is happening to a golfer's clubshaft, hosel and clubface when it travels through impact when the golfer employs angled hinging.

Do you disagree?

Jeff.

[O.B.Left]

Ob Left

I believe that this visual demonstration shows exactly what is happening to a golfer's clubshaft, hosel and clubface when it travels through impact when the golfer employs angled hinging.

Do you disagree?

Jeff.

Exactly?

Amongst other things this looks more like vertical hinging to me. In this procedure the sweetspot plane and the shaft plane are different for a prolonged distance. A reverse roll feel in the hands. The club face laying back only.

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I believe that this visual demonstration shows exactly what is happening to a golfer's clubshaft, hosel and clubface when it travels through impact when the golfer employs angled hinging.

Do you disagree?

Jeff.

I appreciate your effort in the visual demonstration. But I think it misses a crucial ingredient: under centrifugal acceleration, the clubshaft bends from the drooping of the clubhead. You can now keep the grip-end of the bent clubshaft on your plane board with the clubhead swinging below the plane board. For a well matched club, the sweetspot should now be on plane too. I have no difficulty envision the rotation of the clubhead around the sweetspot under this scenario.