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I maybe should have asked : "In which direction does the Line of Compression point at Impact, assuming total compression as in Horizontal Hinging". But I didnt.

The answer is not what most golfers would be inclined to think. Dave Pelz for instance or Johnny Miller too perhaps given a comment I heard him make in regard to Dustin Johnson's swing and the need to hold the clubface square to the target for "five inches" at the bottom of the arc. "Five inches"?

"How bout 4.5 or 2.75", said Lynn when I told about this comment.

For Homer's thoughts on the importance of the Line of Compression see 2-0

"........The Principle of Golf is the "Line of Compression". The Mechanics of Golf is the production and manipulation of the "Line of Compression". The Secret of Golf is sustaining the "Line of Compression". Precision is recognizing and reconciling minute differentiations."

Got to get me some of that Line of Compression!!!

Holding the clubface square to the target throughout the impact interval,type 1 Steering, would see the ball slide on the face. For total compression the point of contact between ball and clubface needs to remain intact "as if welded together". But the clubhead and therefore this point of contact are traveling Down and Out (assuming there is no type 2 or 3 Steering). And so the ball must be captured , cradled by a closing clubface. No more , no less amount of closing than that of Horizontal or the ball will slide , wobble. Angled is in the process of closing too after all. Though you can compensate for its associated ball slide by closing the face.

So given Horizontal Hinging and assuming the Line of Compression and the Clubface are pointed straight at the Target at the moment of Separation, at the moment of Impact the Line of Compression, the "bullet hole through the baseball" ......... points Down and to the right. Hogan's "inside aft" of the ball. The face is pointed right as well, briefly.

I personally imagine it to be a long spike or nail driven through a golf ball. It points down into the ground and to the right, my clubhead is the hammer. One visualization as the cure for the three types of Steering.