Swing the Clubhead -- Not!!
 

I knew that was where you were coming from, rave154, I just wanted to lay it all out there. And I agree completely with your position that those who focus on the Clubhead -- unless it is done in exactly the right way -- have much to lose and little to gain.

I am particularly concerned when I hear and read one very famous 'top five' instructor recommending that you focus on hitting the Ball with "the head of your instrument."

:shock:

Bucket...do not go there! :naughty:

Suffice it to say that this is exactly opposite of what is taught in The Golfing Machine. The good player hits the Ball with the Pressure Points in his Hands, not with the Clubhead. He drives his Hands toward the Ball, and the Club reacts as it must.

The poor player already attempts to hit the Ball with the Clubhead. That's why he's a poor player! In his futile attempt to "hit the ball with the head of his instrument," he invariably attempts to Steer the Clubhead towards the Target (instead of driving his Lag Pressure-Loaded Hands toward the Plane Line). And he does this by Throwing the Clubhead past his Bending Left Wrist and Quitting Hands.

Unbridled disaster.

for Glcoach (and others)
 

Hi again,

heres a better (hopefully) explanation of my "Swing the whole shaft" description.

first..take a look at this..

http://www.image-upload.net/files/4533/swingpaths2.jpg

in the top portion of the diagram, which represents the motion in a Linear fashion, picture the two green lines as steel trailway tracks. the yellow lines represent the clubshaft per my "swing the whole shaft" aka... no part of the shaft moving faster than any other part of the shaft = all parts moving at the same speed aka = no clubhead throw-away.

Notice that in all the yellow shafts, the nice forward-lean that we want at impact and the angles of all shafts stays the same.

The thin red lines close to the yellow shafts, represents what you would see if you "Swung the clubhead" as were so often told to do, as you can see, the clubhead quickly passes leading to a 'shaft' that is leaning BACK immediately after impact.

Now, imagine.. that i could weld the tops of the grips of all those clubs to the upper railway track..and also weld the clubheads of all those shafts to the lower rail way track.

Now... if i picked up that whole assembly...and bent it into a curve....you would get what you can see in the lower part of the diagram.

In order to actually construct this circular diagram you will notice that the yellow lines are always leaning the same amount of angle away from a line drawn from the centre of the circle. (blue line). In exactly the same way in the upper part of the diagram, the yellow lines were always leaning the same amount away from being vertical. the only difference in the lower part...is that the whole thing is now in a curved fashion.

Notice that in the case of the red shafts ("swiiiiing the clubhead") that the shaft (and clubhead!!) quickly passes in frint of the blue line = THROWAWAY !!....where-as the yellow line DOES NOT ! in fact the yellow line/shaft remains in a constant relationship to the blue line = NO THROW-AWAY !! .....why??????? because the whole shaft has been swung through ....NOT JUST THE CLUBHEAD.

Hope this helps