Keeping the club on plane in downstroke

[James Marshall (Hogan1953)]

A question:

If I trace the plane throughout the backstroke and my shaft flattens slightly as I start the downstroke my club must go outside the plane line at least for a portion of the downswing. Is that correct?

Then if that's the case some of photos posted recently with the club appearing to point outside the plane line might not be down entirely to parallax.

Thanks for any input.

 

[puttmad]

Think you'll find that when you, as you say, go under the plane, it will remain that way throughout the swing. You will never get back to your original plane. Objects moving in a circle tend to follow the circumference of the circle, so if you have dropped below the original backswing plane, you have now created a new swing/plane circle and the club will be true to that..
Tends to be more noticeable when you swing a weighted club. However you set the club off, you cannot possibly interfere with the resultant swing arc, the club is too heavy for that. You just have to hang on and go along for the ride...

 

[Jim Kobylinski]

A question:

If I trace the plane throughout the backstroke and my shaft flattens slightly as I start the downstroke my club must go outside the plane line at least for a portion of the downswing. Is that correct?

Then if that's the case some of photos posted recently with the club appearing to point outside the plane line might not be down entirely to parallax.

Thanks for any input.

If you are tracing a straight plane line, no matter PLANE ANGLE variation you use, it should always be pointing at the line. If it doesn't, you are off plane until you get it to point back at the plane again.

 

[Brian Manzella]

If I trace the plane throughout the backstroke and my shaft flattens slightly as I start the downstroke my club must go outside the plane line at least for a portion of the downswing. Is that correct?

No.

Just lower (flatten) the TOP portion of the club.