[EdZ]

Interesting, Ed. Why is that?

Given the natural result of a hitter/an angled hinge is a fade, the offset functions to square up the face a bit easier, resulting in a straigher ball. The crossline motion of the hitter's move is also a factor. In short, the closing and layback of the angled hinge can effectively be more closing/less layback with a club that has more offset, allowing a hitter's motion to result in a more efficient line of compression than an angled hinge would otherwise produce, everything else being equal.