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#731 The Club Path Fallacy: Why Your “Out-to-In” Swing is Still Hooking
Golfers are often taught a simple rule: swing out-to-in for a fade and in-to-out for a draw. But this is incomplete. Ball flight is not determined by club path alone—it depends on the relationship between Club Path and Face Angle at impact.
This relationship is part of the D-Plane, the three-dimensional collision geometry that determines launch direction and spin axis.
Face Angle describes where the clubface points relative to the target. It strongly influences the ball’s starting direction.
Club Path describes the direction the clubhead travels through impact.
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