[BerntR]

We r essentially agreeing as far as te second point but cf pulling the object towards it's cog is what close the clubface making swinging truly effortless

This is true to a certain extent. For a driver, this alignment "mechanism" will induce toe- down and a backward leaning shaft towards impact. But this mechanism doesn't really care where the face is pointing. It happens because centripetal force pulls the rope in one direction and club head inertia pulls it in another direction. If the face is aimed towards the sky, your "hook face" will "close" towards the sky as well. The golfer has to produce a geometrically flat left wrist to square the face at impact. Luckily, the geometry of the pivot and the power package is such that this can be made to happen without any deliberate club face manipulation in an uncompensated golf stroke.

PS: I like 40 years of research too, but I read TGM through a pair of Newtonian glasses. Some of the stuff that appears to be written between the lines in TGM takes on a different meaning then....