The question isn't if Mac's Clubhead is on the yellow line...The facts are it is on the yellow line....These are the purest alignments when both flying wedges are aligned to the Plane Angle at this point....

How do I know the picture is accurate?...it is a still from my VHS copy and is filed on my V1 Digital Coaching System.....A tripod was used and it was placed properly by the subject being filmed...

Unfortunately ...I watched the LCG trace all the way down to this point.....I wouldn't ever deliberately choose a picture that wouldn't represent what I was trying to convey...I know I'm not the smartest tool in the toolbox...but I ain't that stooooooopid!!!

Bucket....

Class has been in session.....

Substitue Teachers always get the preferential treatment...

Where's the Professor when you need him....

On Sabatical?

Or

Standing outside the classroom observing his student's behavior?

A star for good conduct . . . here at LBG anyway.
 

I always seemed to find a way to get a good seat in detention when we had a substitute teach.

There was this time when we were throwing science books out of the third story window and . . .

I ain't going there.

Hell yeah I'm okay with that. I learn a little something from 90% of your posts.

I saw the clubface position and I immediately thought that it just had to be Nick Price. I've got some video from '93 of Nicky P. in very much the same position...and I couldn't believe back then what I was seeing.

I just learned another REASON why someone can be off plane instead of just recognizing that the clubshaft IS off plane. I understand what you are saying here.



If Butchie was his man that day, I guess he was just a "little stuck" on that swing.

Have you seen the swing sequence in Freddy's book "Total Shotmaking", taken back when Freddy was #1 in the world? I'll try to scan it and post it this week. His downswing plane and flying wedges are textbook TGM.

I saw your post about Vijay's "Mess" and I agreed with most of your analysis. However, on this swing, is he not closer to the "right elbow, right forearm, #3 Pressure Point , and the LCG on the plane angle" than any of the other golfers in this post?.

Well, the club is parallel to the ground and parallel to the target line. The toe is pointing straight up in the air. Okay, so he might be a hair under the yellow line, which explains his preference for repeating a drawing ball flight.

A lot of ways to get it done. He does cut most of his shots though, doesn't he? He's got to hit fades from that position.

I've always admired his golf swing even though it is not the most mechanically efficient action. I love Watson's upbeat, one-two tempo and his rhythm. I enjoy watching him hit bunker shots - his rhythm doesn't change and he gets the best "thump" in the greenside bunkers. He picks it clean with the long irons and digs out a nice pork chop with the short irons. I love how he fully turns the hips on the backswing - easy on the back. His champions tour career should last until he hits 60+. His five-under-par 65 in the first round of the 2003 Open at Olympia Fields with Bruce Edwards on the bag was special.

vjcapron....an all-star response ...in my book
 

Great responses.....

Vj's clubhead is slightly below and inside the #3PP...

What makes the analysis XXX-Rated in my opinion is where the clubhead and right forearm are here versus Frame #7 in the anlysis on the VJ Thread....

Thanx....90% is still an "A" here at the University

AS

Message from "The Creek"
 

Skywalker~

Continuing with someone's question about what we are to learn from the frames posted.

It would help me if I understood the conditions under which the advanced player would benefit from having the right forearm on the Sweetspot Plane at this stage in the downstroke. Or, was that your intent? My thinking from 5-0 and various RFFW discussions is that only during the Release Interval is it beneficial. That is not to say that the RFFW should not be retained.

JS and TW would seem to be opposites but in the frames posted they represent a unique group.

DRW

http://privateschool.about.com/od/tools/qt/grading.htm

A- buddy ;)

But you get an automatic F for lying.

Class dismissed ;)

The intent
 

The intent....is to show a sample of a small spectrum of variations ........Each picture has been carefully selected using a goniometer to determine the degrees of difference....For the Simpleton's out there slight , moderate ec\xcessive are substitutes for 10,20,30 degrees fro exapmle....For the Techy...you need the degrees to quatnitfy your qualitative analysis...

There are samenesses and differences in each photo...learning takes place when one can look at the samenesses and differences noticng there relationships ...but yet there individuality...It is from their individuality...that reveals the patterns of the whole picture...but also distinguishes the details of each individual picture...

Read 1-J

So if you're a "tree" person...start looking at the forest and appreciate its massive beauty....

If you're a "forest" person..start lookin at the individual trees and appreciate each one for themselves...

Then you got it!!!!

Once you know you know...then forget about it!
- Homer Kelley/Tom Tomascello

The more of these photos I see, real world golfers who are far better than me on their bad days, the less I feel the need to worry about obtaining precise, uncompensated alignments... am I expelled?

If you like to learn..you'll never get expelled...That's why they invented extra credit.....Learn the alignments...Do your homework.....show up for class....no matter how long it takes...then learn some variations....then customize....