ANGLE OF ATTACK AND APPROACH DRAWINGS

[oztrainee]

The Angle of Attack is the arbitrary straight line drawn Down Plane between Impact Point and Low Point. The Arc of Attack is the actual curved path the Clubhead Covers as it orbits Down Plane through the same two points, i.e., the curved Clubhead blur through Impact. The Angle of Approach and the Arc of Approach are those same two lines as seen by the player on the ground from his Above Plane view. These are illusions because they are actually inscribed on the face of the Plane.

As the Clubhead Covers the Arc of Attack and Arc of Approach, it always Traces ('points at' ) the true Geometric Plane Line, i.e., the straight Line Base Line of the Inclined Plane (normally the Target Line). In so doing, it neither traces nor covers the Angle of Attack or Angle of Approach.

So, except when using the Hitter's Angle of Approach procedure, the Clubhead never covers or traces the Angles of Attack or Approach. Instead, it covers the Arcs of Attack and Approach as it traces the Geometric Plane Line.

Thankfully, all this happens automatically when you 'Trace the Straight Plane Line' through Impact with the Right Forearm and #3 Pressure Point (Right Index Finger).

Said another way, through Impact, a correct Golf Stroke (performed with a laser beam at the Right Forefinger) will only Trace, i.e., point at, the true Geometric Plane Line. In so doing, the clubhead will always cover its Visual Equivalents, the Arc of Attack and the Arc of Approach. It will point at or cover the Angle of Attack and the Angle of Approach only at Impact and Low Point.

All this sounds tough, doesn't it? Stay with us and read this a year from now.

It will be animal crackers and duck soup.

It is not that tough with a bit of visual may be.

Angle of approach - from the golfer's view
Angle of Attack - From the front, looking at the golfer.

[Jeff]

I have a question regarding this video demonstration. The laster light is placed at right angles to the plane and therefore the light beam tracing the arc of approach on the ground is seemingly going to be different to the golfer's viewpoint of the arc of approach - where the eyes are looking down through the inclined plane from a far more vertical angle. Which is the "correct" arc of approach?

Jeff.

[tbyeaton0627]

I have a question regarding this video demonstration. The laster light is placed at right angles to the plane and therefore the light beam tracing the arc of approach on the ground is seemingly going to be different to the golfer's viewpoint of the arc of approach - where the eyes are looking down through the inclined plane from a far more vertical angle. Which is the "correct" arc of approach?

Jeff.

The true arc of approach is on the inclined plane, however the visual equivalent to the eyes would appear as a curved line on the ground

[Jeff]

Tb0627

I realize that the true arc of clubhead movement is on the inclined plane and that the arc of approach is the visual equivalent as seen on the ground - by the golfer when viewed from above. However, that "visual equivalent image" on the ground is surely not in the same place on the ground as the laser light track if the laser light is shone at right angles to the inclined plane, rather than shone through the glass pane at a steeper angle (as from the golfer's eye position)?

Jeff.

[tbyeaton0627]

I would imagine it depends on the degree if inclination

[John Graham]

Interesting question, glcoach. I've never thought about it that way. But, I can see both the illusion and the reality.

The Clubhead has an Inclined Plane Line-of-Flight and passes Inside-Out -- Down Plane -- through Impact Point to Low Point. The Ball, on the other hand, in a dead straight shot has a Vertical Plane Line-of-Flight. So, assuming a Ball positioned prior to Low Point -- Up Plane -- the Clubhead passes outside the Line of Flight of the Ball. Hence, the dead straight shot could appear to be a Pull as the Clubhead passes outside the Vertical Plane.

But...

Only to the untrained eye.

Interesting indeed.

[gmbtempe]

Interesting indeed.

I think there is something to this.

I have a path that is definitely inside out a few degrees yet I hit a lot of straight pulls when the ball is most purely flushed.......how can that happen. It would have to mean a leftward path and face that matched........but I don't get a leftward path, its very rare. The ball should be a major pull hook but its not. My best shots are a push or push draw.