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One major difficulty with horizontal hinging and hitting.
Rotating pressure point #1 . Because the thrust is on plane, the rotation at point of appplication is disruptive for me.

HB

Left hand , club face . Right hand club head. Hitting the right arm drives the primary lever , left arm and club shaft. Meaning the left arm fans open on the way back and fans closed on the way down , but by right arm power. Linear force diverted into angular motion or whatever . The patio door is closed by an inline rod.

But yes generally speaking youre fighting the physics to some degree ..unless you get your right elbow deeper into a side armed skipping stones motion. IMO. The right elbows position has its effect. Back for inline thrusting , deeper for a more throwing like motion which will tend towards Horizontal . the physics of the motion begets the elbow position , naturally.