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Brian, could you clarify what "swinging left" means? I see that term a lot here, and it seems relative to me.
Everything is "relative" to something.
But the term "Swing Left" means exactly what the words imply—
if you are swinging too far to the right.
In a world where...
• Goofy people stand up at seminars and FUTILELY try to argue with me that the D-Plane doesn't exists by swinging putters in-to-out 45° with a square face and crying out: "See!"
• "Dinosaurs" are taking TrackMan out to the range and trying to prove TrackMan and the D-Plane wrong because they sell the BACKWARD-ARSE idea that an 11° in-to-out path could make the ball go straight.
• In this world, where folks are NOT TRYING TO LEARN WHAT IS ACTUALLY CORRECT, but hanging on to goofy ideas because THAT is what they are selling.
Someone—and that someone would be me—needs to show people the TRUTH.
Here is the STONE COLD TRUTH!!!!
The club doesn't go out to the right past impact more than a FRACTION on a small draw (say 3° inside-out path and 0° "plane line" and 1.5° open face).
The club DOES NOT GO OUT TO THE RIGHT at all, post impact on a straight ball.
Now the question may arise to thinking folks, who in the heck is saying the club should go way ass out to the right post impact on a normal sorta straight shot?
Ah....
I give you—ladies and gentlemen of the jury—exhibit A:
The swing is Derek Sanders, a student of mine, and the Head Pro at English Turn. HE won two big section events this year under my tutelage. I have hundreds of good iron shots/players on the Casio, but Derek has the most centered pivot, something the book literalists love.
So, the
real "GEOMETRY of the CIRCLE—Golf version" is the yellow circle around Derek's actual swing.
The "false" geometry is the one that the guy is "drawing on the easel."
The one with the white ellipse under it is Derek's real geometry sized to show the difference.
What is the point?
The point is that Golfing Machine Book Literalists love to draw this false geometry.
Why do you say it is false?
Because, if you had the amount of downward and outward that the "easel geometry" suggests, you'd take a chocolate layer cake sized divot and hook it around the Washington monument.
Read this very closely:
If you swing perfectly on plane, and you hit down even a little, and the "Plane Line" is at the target, you will have a path of about 3-6° outward, and you will hit a big right to left shot.
THE BALL CANNOT AND WILL NOT EVER FLY STRAIGHT DOING THIS!!!
Ever.
Ever.
Ever.
But it could draw 30 feet and go in the hole.
So?
So, this:
The AMOUNT that from an ON THE TARGET LINE VIDEO or eyeball, would show, even for the "straight plane line inside-out path big draw hole-n-one," would still have the club SWINGING LEFT PRETTY QUICKLY.
I have that video as well and will post that up later.
Your swing looks pretty on plane, so I'm left to wonder if you are trying to tell people they don't need to hit the big slinger like Lucas Glover (I think he would be an example).
We are talking about how fast the club goes left post impact EVEN FOR Lucas Glover-type big slingers.
Does "swinging left" mean bending the plane?
It means how MUCH and HOW QUICKLY the golf clubhead swings LEFT OF THE TARGET LINE post impact.
Period.
Or does it mean positioning your feet to the right of the target?
WTF?
Does it just mean that that since there is some "out" left in downward blow, you need to be aware of it?
Listen closely...
THERE IS NO OUTWARD, NONE, ZERO, GOOSE EGG, OUGHT, ZILCH, outward after a straight shot.
In fact, on a perfectly straight ball, the club is going left almost INSTANTLY after impact.
And for those who hit a "straight at the target plane line draw," the "out" left in a downward blow is SO SMALL, it would hurt a lot of folks' feelings.
It feels like a whole lot a left if you've been swinging too far to the right. I also feel like I'm pulling an OTT move but if I look at it on video I don't see it. The swing looks pretty orthodox.
Feel vs Reel is a Motha F*&%*
Exactly.
But real is a MFer for some folks as well.
All it means is that your planeline is some degree (depending on how much down you hit) left of your targetline. In order to hit it straight (when you hit down on it) you basically need to hit a small push.
It ain't a push.
Oh, were you trying to swing left, or did you say that was your next swing?
That one was slightly to the right, Darryl.
And, BTW, drawing a plane angle line is USELESS with that camera angle.
Wait until you see the "Straight Plane Line" one. No offense.
Just trying to spread some TRUTH in a world of "false physics and geometry."
