impact and separation

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Playa_Brian

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i wouldn't be surprised if this question has been covered many times already, but I can't find the thread:

at the bottom of the swing, the club vertical, and the clubface is square to the target, and if the distance from your impact point to the bottom of your swing is 2-3 inches (for example)

but if the ball separates from the clubface only 3/4 of an inch after impact, then doesn't the ball leave the face while the clubface is still slightly open?

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Jim Kobylinski

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That is why ball postion and clubface control plays a key role in trajectory and shot shape.

Take a driver and put position the ball way back in your stance and take a normal swing and see if you can get that thing to go straight with no manipulations LOL.

*ideally* you position the ball just before your low point so that when you strike the ball and compresses on the face you are squaring it up so that it flies straight. However that is the *ideal.*

I know someone who plays with a GIANT open clubface at impact but because he comes over the top and swings pretty far left he gets the ball to go straight.
 
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Brian Manzella

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On a straight shot:

The ball leaves when the face is square.

Because of 1000's of factors, that 'place' may not be at low point.
 
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rwh

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quote:Originally posted by Playa_Brian

But how does the TGM answer the question, in theory?
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There is no controversy. The ball deforms at Impact, rides along on the clubface for a distance and then leaves the clubface at more or less a right angle at Separation. For most shots, this means means that the clubhead has moved and the clubface has closed some between Impact and Separtion. Therefore, The Golfing Machine states that it is up to the player to experiment to determine where to set the ball and/or the angle of the clubface at address so as to get a straight-away ball flight.


Sorry, Brian. Your reply wasn't up when I started this post.
 
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