The Most Important Illustration in the History of Golf?
 

A bold question, to be sure.

Any takers?

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Ben Hogan's pane of glass?

(Can't find the picture from his book)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp0lGcVxidA

I like it,, Air. That has to be in the top 5 if not # 1.
 

There are so many great images in that book, too! The grip, the turning belt ahead of the arms....

But before Hogan, was Jones so...

Famous and Incorrect
 

Hogan's 'plane of glass' Plane illustration is arguably the most famous illustration in golf. It is also among the most erroneous. Especially when combined with the three accompanying illustrations showing the 'baseline' shift to the right during the Downstroke.

My benchmark of "important" demands that the illustration also be correct.

Next?

Do you mean this one by any chance?

http://www.golfingmachinist.com.au/u...Machine_1l.jpg

Up until the one you just posted, I would have said Hogan at impact, specifically the close up of his left wrist.

but I like your post better because it gives the whole picture

Combine that with the 3 essentials, the 3 imperatives and the flying wedges and golf becomes easy to understand.

I'd throw in a supporting vote for 1-L :)

I think the one you put up there is hard to beat Yoda,

But if you develop it into something like this, it will be even better, IMO:



A Bobby Jones like strobe with visble hands and without the flip through impact will tell still tel a lot about the ideal impact position but also a lot about H2 get there.

I couldn't figure out how to grab and post that, Bernt!
 

Thank goodness I'm not a computer teacher! :)

Pictures Worth Thousands of Words
 

Great, BerntR. Who else has an entry? This is fun!

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Your swing had better be as good as your software!
 

Very nice work! Which tags capture the pics, D?







YBGF

New cover for my personal swing keys diary. I love it!!!

Kevin

This would be similar to Yoda's offering IF the Revelli drawing had been done at Impact instead of long after separation............something I had missed until it was pointed out to me. Its hard to see. In that case Hogans hands would be ahead of both his head and the ball.


Which means that Yoda's is still more illustrative. I just wish I could do it better personally.

Could it be that this can be before impact?

This is one of my all time favorites because it shows what most people are missing (at least for swingers).

It is the cure for the steering that most do (as long as they know how to keep the pivot moving)

The next step is to understand what the horizontal hinge is, but until you know this feel, you are forever steering.

A Game for All
 

Knudson's Flagpole
 

George Knudson: "The flagpole at St Charles had everything to do with the development of my thoughts on golf as a target game
and on the swing as a motion. The flagpole became my target, not the ball."

Again.

"Golf is a stationary ball game in which we make a motion toward a target. The ball simply gets in the way of the motion."

Jack Nicklaus described Knudson as "The man with the million dollar swing"

Was he simply 'taking dead aim' by tracing a straight plane line without becoming ball bound or is there more to this?

Down-Out-Forward
 

+1 vote for this.

Would've been +2 if you'd had it on a Waffle House or Cracker Barrel napkin.

That should be framed and put in the Hall of Fame, or Golf House, or somewhere very important. AWESOME picture!!!

Kevin

If we could tape these two together . . . golden . . .

I find that drawing to be very misleading as far as swing center and the left shoulder participation is conserned. The swing center should be somewhere in the back of the spine where the inclined plane intersects. The left shoulder has a rotary motion around this center axis. If the left shoulder becomes the swing center prior to impact you have a major throwaway situation. (sorry Yoda)

A rotating left shoulder that doesn't quit rotating before impact is important for proper impact lag pressure and all good things in golf.

Center Concepts
 

The Left Shoulder is the Center of the Arm Swing (Left Arm-Club Radius). The Head -- or alternatively, the 'point between the shoulders' -- is the Pivot Center and thereby stabilizes the rotation of the Shoulder Turn about the spine as its axis.

It is not necessary that either Center intersect with the Inclined Plane of motion of the Sweetspot.

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Breakfast At Euclid's
 

Had I known this rough drawing would be broadcast to the world, I would have been a little neater! And, I would have arranged a more forward Ball Location (the Head, shoulders and right arm are added after the Radius and Plane Lines).

:redface:

Alas, it was sketched hastily over breakfast at the local Cracker Barrel restaurant, and 'it is what it is'. The good news is that it helped communicate to my new student the essential Geometry of a Golf Stroke and so set the stage for a lifetime of better golf.

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I love the Waffle House! I love Brian Piccolo! I love the smell of Napalm in the morning...

I love greens in regulation within 3 inches of the hole!

God bless America, the world, and LBG golf!


YBGF (this is not a thread-jacking simply effusive praise) :)

Hastily sketched or not, I think its a treasure! :salut:

Kevin

The Rein of Fame stay mainly on the Plane
 

I like that drawing!! :salut:

Drawing Conclusions
 

Thanks, BerntR. The drawing definitely has merits. Again, the goal was 'instant communication' in an informal setting.

It is, however, somewhat of a simplification. As illustrated, it depicts a Turned Shoulder Plane with Zero Shift. In practice, the Right Forearm is normally set on the Elbow Plane (really what I've depicted here) and there is a Single Shift (in the Backstroke) to the somewhat steeper Plane of the Turned Right Shoulder. I do think the illustration of the On Plane Impact and Low Points is helpful to those beginning the journey that is Alignment Golf.

From the Top, the player can then remain on the TSP through Impact (the Stroke is then deemed Single Shift) or he can return to the Elbow Plane (Double Shift) on which the Right Forearm was positioned at Address.



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"The Rein of Fame stay mainly on the Plane"

Love it - tag line of the decade!:laughing9