Bucket, you are definitely into some serious smoke. I'm down for a dime.
Do we not have a clubhead that travels in an arc? Things moving in an arc only go clockwise or anti-clockwise. There is no forward or backward. And there is no inward or outward, at least not from the standpoint of the orbiting object. It's just going around and around. (I know you took those girls on the Tilt-A-Whirl at the carnival).
The swing arc of the clubhead is essentially the same whether you are performing it on the horizontal (torso vertical) or on an inclined plane (front of torso bent down toward the ground).
Arguably, thinking (conceptually) of anything other than swinging the clubhead in an arc is disruptive.
You nailed it, IMO.
Could one compononent be responsible for all three impact dimensions? i.e. the PIVOT moves the club clockwise/counter-clockwise on the inclined plane and the ball is positioned accordingly on that plane.