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bill reed · #15 (**permalink**) 03-21-2008, 05:20 PM

hi Mox
sorry i got you name wrong. my eyes must be getting bad.
please get any club and try and push the ball into the ground. it not possible to do due to the loft of the club and the fact that the face only makes contact with the ball below the mid point and if you draw a line from the face that is the angle the ball leave the club, and the club is traveling forward just as much as it traveling downward with the high lofted clubs and it face always strike the ball upwards and never downwards. even a putter has loft on the face.
try it and you will see what i mean. i use to think like you and that you could trap the ball between the face and the ground but i have been shown it cant be done unless you us a putter and have -loft on the face, as long as there is loft on the face then it can't be done.
get a lump of plasticine and put a ball on it and try and get the ball to make a dent in it. just holding the bottom of the shaft in your hand, you will see it cant be done.
your swinging down but also forward and the loft means your always hitting below the middle of the ball so cant push the ball down if you hit below the middle of the ball, you would have to hit at the middle or above to force the ball between the ground and the club face.
you must have to press down on the ball to compress it into the ground and how do you do that if the face only makes contact below the middle of the ball. how can it press the ball down????
cheers
bill