Shaft Length, Ball Location and Aiming Point
| Martee wrote: | | Yoda wrote: | | brianmanzella wrote: | | First of all I am a BIG one ball position guy.
There are many members of the 'jedi' that are not.
Yoda, bless his heart, is NOT one of them.
I have had a lot of success with the one ball position concept.
I have had students win on tour and at every other level with this as the message.
Today I asked a VERY WELL RESPECTED GSED (NOT BEN DOYLE) what he thought.
He voted VERY STRONGLY for ONE FORWARD BALL POSITION.
...come on....make my day.... |
1. Due to the Law of Conservation of Angular Momentum (6-C-2-B and 6-E-2), shorter clubs take less time to reach the In-Line condition from a given Release Point than do the longer Clubs. That is a scientific Fact.
2. This means that the shorter Clubs will become In-Line further back in the Stance (away from the Low Point) and the longer Clubs will become in-line further forward in the Stance (toward the Low Point).
3. Normally, that would mean that shots from the shorter Clubs would fly off to the right because the Face would not yet have had time to square up. However, the wide Face of the shorter irons permits the Sweet Spot to be moved back a bit from the leading Edge. Therefore, Centrifugal Force squares the Face sooner. Hence, even though the Ball is played further back, with the Face is squared sooner, the player experiences straightaway Ball Flight. This allows the Player the same Release Point Feel with the shorter Clubs as he has with the longer Clubs, even though the Ball position is necessarily different.
4. This same 'Release Point Feel' leads many players to erroneously conclude that with the same 'Release Point Feel', the player can also use the same Ball location. Since this is not the case, and since the wide Face of the short clubs are specifically designed to square up sooner in accordance with the above stated Law of Physics, the player struggles constantly for consistency.
5. However, per 6-E-2, the player may play the Ball anywhere he wants, as long as he adjusts the Aiming Point accordingly.
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Yoda, your point #5, did I miss read or doesn't it require a different combination of component variations between one ball position and using the others? At least that is the way I read it when you apply 7-2, etc. Sorry for the short hand of references.
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Good question, Martee, and the answer is no.
The effects of Ball Location changes (from its normal straightaway BallFlight Location) that are discussed in 7-2 assume no adjustment in theAiming Point. If the Aiming Point is adjusted to reflect the new BallLocation, then the Ball Flight Characteristics that would normally haveresulted from that change are nullified.
Item 5 is actually the reverse of 7-2. In other words, if the Ball isn'twhere it is supposed to be in the first place -- in order to be in perfectagreement with the length of the Shaft and the location of the Sweet Spot onthe Face for a straightaway Ball Flight -- then the player must change hisAiming Point, i.e., redirect his Thrust, in order to compensate for thedeficient Ball Location. This re-direction of Thrust does not requireadjustment of the Component Variations comprising the player's current Basic StrokePattern (12-1-0 / Hitting or 12-2-0 / Swinging).
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