[O.B.Left]

I think that Appleby's clubshaft is always "on plane" if the peripheral end of the club always points at the baseline. However, his clubshaft is not on a single plane. It is on an near-infinite number of planes (depending on how thin you slice the planes) between the turned shoulder plane and the elbow plane during the early/mid downswing, and it is therefore continuously shifting planes. During the early downswing, the "imaginary" clubshaft plane will be steeper, and it will be less steep as the hands progressively reach waist level.
Jeff.

Jeff

Thanks. I agree with everything above accept for the word "imaginary".

To my mind a golfer 's clubshaft can and should be lying flat on a plane (turned shoulder or other) in start down. A very real and ideal thing to my mind. I also believe he should be uncocking along that plane or shifting plane. If his butt end is also pointing at the plane line, I think this to be an ideal "on plane start down". Of all the above alignments the latter, plane line, might be the most important. The hands when mapped traveling through 3D space will describe a curve when viewed from down the line, agreed. Alignment golf needs straight line relationships, hence the base line , planes etc. Compliance with curves, though real they may be, is harder to do.

But I could be totally wrong on all this. If I am it wont be the first time.

O.B.