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Your driver cog is well behind the face. If cf aligned the cog then you would come through impact about 30 deg. closed.

HB

Perhaps the cog is not as far back as manufacturers suggest? I dunno, such a thing would not shock me. They do keep trying to tell us the sweet spot is getting "bigger" for instance. It being a point , like a balancing point , of unmeasurable dimension.

Why would Homer get Horizontal for a cone shaped string path then? By what mechanism?

The thing about my anecdotal evidence is that it is common amongst good players. I know that means little given the track record of such things... straight back, straight through, ball flight laws etc. But .... there sure seems like a magical swing of the wand that repeats and repeats ....