Hinge Action
 

This is how I teach hinge action or as I call it "adjusting the sweet spot balance".

Adjusting the Sweet Spot Balance. (hinge action)

I will explain what I am talking about.

Changing the balance of the sweet spot has different effects on the club face at impact automatically if you let the club work like a club.

If you balance a golf club on you right shoulder you will see how the toe of the club hangs down. If you look at the face angle, the club face is closed.

This is the in balance position of the sweet spot.

Now to change the sweet spot balance at impact you move the sweet spot balance at impact fix from in balance to what I call heavy left or more closed.

This will set the balance for more of a draw.

Move it to what I call heavy right or more open.

This will set the balance for more of a fade.

Using the sweet spot balance allows the club to change the hinge action without a manipulation of the hands.

Make adjustments to the target line, club face at impact fix (Sweet Spot Balance) and ball position for the desired shot.

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Hinging is Rhythm Yes, you might be creating a bias for a fade or draw, but hinge action is not about shot patterns. HH or AH can fade or draw depending on ball position. Do teach students to keep their Hand vertical to the plane they are hinging on? The key is to keep your left wrist vertical to the plane you are duplicating - that will move any clubface alignment in that chosen Hinge action.

And rolling the Hands on plane is not hand manipulation- neither by themselves or with the body pivot. This Release roll swivel and orbiting arms along the plane line is the rhythm that allows the clubface to travel in a full roll or no roll or reverse roll. The distance the clubface close to the plane line determines the chosen Hinge motion

Hinging is rhythm and rhythm is roll. Feel the roll.

Changing the sweet spot balance produces different Rhythms per TGM.

The club face motion through impact has everything to do with shaping shots.

I don’t know if you got the latest news on ball flight direction but the club face is responsible for most and path little.

Hinging is rhythm and rhythm is feeling the sweet spot balance.

“Feel the hinge from the sweet spot balance”

I apologize I should have put this post in the lab section of the forum. I will post it there and continue to answer post about it there.