If you need help with your geometry, I setup a blog with two articles you might find interesting.
These are reminders of the geometry of the stroke: you already know the concepts but seing pictures sometimes helps lighting some bulbs in the brain.
The drawings are a bit dramatic but exageration helps in seeing normaly unseen things! Geometry of the stroke face-on: this one helps seing low point and will tell you a lot about what to do to achieve correct ball/turf contact. Geometry of the stroke top-view: this one is my favorite - rarely seen - the best way to understand the requirement to hit out on the ball!
This drawing will tell you a lot about ball position relative to clubhead travel:
Say you play a wedge with a ball back in the stance. This drawing shows that your clubhead must still do a lot of travel out after impact in order to execute a perfect stroke.
On the contrary, with a driver and a ball positionned at low point, the ball is also at the outmost point of the clubhead travel. The clubhead will travel immediately in after impact.
Intuitively, we think about those two cats as two different strokes but it's really the same and unique geometric principle!
Isn't TGM cool?
Thank you Yodeli
I like your blog, the graphics are very very good.
The "Hitter vs Swinger" Blakebuster free video you directed to me is great to see again. I also took another look at "Dowels and Wedges" and I finally have it figured out!
Two world class golf instruction videos that are available here for the cost of admission. Which is free. I had watched these videos many times before but now after some time the return to them helped to fill in so many blank spots in my knowledge. This stuff is precise but the ball demands precision doesnt it.
I had confused/mixed the direction of thrust and the on plan motion of the pressure points or clubhead!!! No longer. I had not understood tracing to be the visual equivalent of the on plane path of the hands.
Cant wait to hit some balls tomorrow with the thrust going all the way down to both arms straight, full extension of the right arm. I know from experience there is magic to be had by getting to both arm straight but the direction of the thrust was confusing for me. Thank you.
Here are some jpegs from the "Dowels and Wedges" video
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Edit; to get this back on track. So there is a lot of downward thrust required post low point, post impact, indeed all the way to both arms straight. For the person attempting the high launch low spin driver with the ball tee'd in front of low point..........the clubhead will be coming up and in (better take this in into account when addressing the ball) but the thrust is very much down and so there is no feeling of hitting up.
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