> That's because the hands roll, so the club rotates 90* around the shaft > axis during the downswing. But most of the bending (until centrifugal force > -- tip droop -- takes over near impact) will remain in the target plane.
If you look at the Bobby Jones single strobe pics, you'll notice there seems to be almost no hand rotation of the shaft before impact. His hand position on the shaft is almost identical at address, at the top and at impact. His wrist cock maintains the flat back of the left hand he has at adress. The club stays on a straight plane. The rolling hand action looks to happen after impact. Am I missing something?
One of us certainly is. I just looked at the BJ pictures, and it seems exactly as I wrote. Look at the sequence (these are the file names on my computer, based on a zip from you dated 12/26/00):
bj007R.jpeg Top of backswing, fully cocked
bj008R.jpeg Downswing, still fully cocked
bj009R.jpeg Downswing, beginning to uncock
bj101R.jpeg Impact, uncocked
The pictures where the wrists are cocked show the back of the left hand to the camera. Between 009 and 010, the hands turn so the edge of the left hand is to the camera. That's a 90* roll in the last fraction of the downswing before impact. Which is EXACTLY what I was talking about.
BTW, the only way there could be no roll is if the shaft is twisted 90* at impact. Sorry, no way. Remember that the clubface is in the swing plane at the top (and, in good swings, most of the way down) but is perpendicular to the swing plane at impact.
Cheers! DaveT
