[Burner]

Burner,

Seems that you may be miss identifying the major flail of the golf swing which is formed by the left arm and club. Alternatively you may be misinterpreting somehow that I would be suggesting, after much discussion of flailing that the rigid structure of arms would remove flailing. This is not the case. Think extensor action.

If however you are suggesting that the firm attachment of the left arm to shoulder excludes the flailing of a flail formed by the lever from the spine to shoulder (roughly) and the left arm, that is true but a secondary effect in power generation.Golfie

Golfie,

I may have "misinterpreted" what you were saying and probably still do.

However, the point I was trying to make is that a rigid spoke/arm attached to a spindle/torso, which is what I thought you were referring to, would not generate anywhere near the speed by rotation of the spindle that our golfing flailis capable of.

Our golfing flail requires no rotary motion to generate, and transfer, its power from top to bottom. This is done by the straightening of the assembly to its in-line condition: arm power in hitting and centripetal force in swinging.

As Homer was fond of reminding us, the golf swing is a body transported - not powered - arm swing.