Quality of strike should be number one aim ....

[BTatHome]

Everybody should try it to improve their quality of strike to get more from the centre of the club face. If your struggling to understand exactly much off centre strikes affect your game (and your ball) then have a look at this ....

[video=youtube_share;E-Nacfd1kCs]http://youtu.be/E-Nacfd1kCs [/video]

Now we can see why all club manufacturers like to tell us about his MOI, and resistance to twisting on off centre strikes in their clubs

 

[Foxholer]

Doesn't look like it's the off-centre hits that are causing the twisting - perhaps that topped 3-wood excepted. It's the lack of stability through impact that's the cause imo.

The sweet spot is actually a long way from the point at which a player actually has contact with it, so there is plenty of torque involved at impact.

 

[Tommo21]

Althought we can see this........what can we take from it I wonder.

The main thing for me is the importance of a good shaft.

 

[Crow]

Can't argue with that, assuming that by quality of strike they mean finding the sweet spot.

The sweet spot is the centre of gravity for the clubhead so all its mass is centred on that spot.

Just hold a club in two fingers at the top of the shaft and let it hang down, then tap the face with a finger from your other hand, when you hit the sweet spot the clubhead doesn't twist and feels solid.

We all know that feeling when the ball comes right out the sweet spot and you can barely feel the impact.

 

[Biggleswade Blue]

Interesting shots. It looks like the off-centre hit twists the club.

I've got some big improvements in ball striking from a simple drill of feet together, ball in the centre, then quarter, half and three quarter swings just to practice being balanced through the ball strike.

 

[HawkeyeMS]

Could they not have found a better swing than Kuchar's to prove their point? That one looks like it twists to me

 

[TheClaw]

Surely this is obvious? The video is good to watch but what golfer sets out to hit a toe or heel shot?

 

[HawkeyeMS]

Surely this is obvious? The video is good to watch but what golfer sets out to hit a toe or heel shot?

Good point. I might start trying to hit the heel though, it might mean I get the sweet spot more often

 

[Andy808]

I can see what they are trying to say but the clubface is square at impact. I also noticed that the only club that doesn't twist much at impact is the Titleist. There is a lot to be said about the quality of shaft as most of them wobble like a jelly after the ball is struck.

 

[Kellfire]

most of them wobble like a jelly after the ball is struck.

As you'd expect of a thin strip of graphite making impact with a solid object at around 100mph...

 

[Foxholer]

The sweet spot is the centre of gravity for the clubhead so all its mass is centred on that spot.

Just hold a club in two fingers at the top of the shaft and let it hang down, then tap the face with a finger from your other hand, when you hit the sweet spot the clubhead doesn't twist and feels solid.

It might be the middle of the club-head, but it's 2.5-3 inches away from the shaft - which is what is in the hands of the player! There's absolutely going to be some torque at impact! If the centre of mass was on the shaft line, holding a club with the face horizontal would stay horizontal (face balanced). Every Driver I know ends up with the face pretty much vertical!

 

[TheClaw]

I can see what they are trying to say but the clubface is square at impact. I also noticed that the only club that doesn't twist much at impact is the Titleist. There is a lot to be said about the quality of shaft as most of them wobble like a jelly after the ball is struck.

The last one- Taylormade driver used by Luke Donald. Pretty much no twist....because it's struck well (same as Hoffman's Titleist).

The ones that twisted were amateur swings. Hardly TMs fault.

Go TM