Driver Angle of Attack and Path
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.6 • 488 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
A useful, technical listener question: what is the relationship between swing path and angle of attack? Mark takes the lead on answering a listener question (that might be from Lou?). If the driver head is ascending into impact, isn't it more likely also turning back to the inside of the arc? Mark attempts to offer some conceptual clarity on a good question—a concept that could have you hitting longer, straighter drives.
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| 0:00.0 | We have a question from Michael. This is a good question, Lou. This is kind of the question you |
| 0:05.0 | would ask. He ends the question, why, or am I overthinking everything? That's Lose Burner account. |
| 0:13.1 | His eyes lit up. I like the sound of Michael. So Michael says, he wants to understand driver's swing plane. If the driver head is on an arc and you want to hit up, I'm assuming the contact point on the arc will be after the apex, so after the lowest point. So to hit up a few degrees, does this mean the club head is traveling out to in? |
| 0:38.1 | He's contradicted himself there, but I get where he gets there. |
| 0:40.8 | I'll try and decode this when we talk about it. |
| 0:43.8 | To hit a draw, would you need to aim path way, way, way right of neutral to compensate |
| 0:48.8 | to not only move your path from neutral, but to compensate for the impact point, or am I |
| 0:55.5 | overthinking it? He then says at the end, my wife, dog, friends and strangers won't |
| 1:00.3 | respond to my golf questions anymore. Definitely my burner account. Yeah, it's Lewis Burner |
| 1:03.8 | again. He just written this in, isn't he? He just wanted to ask me a question. Yeah, asking for a friend yeah yeah so michael we are listening |
| 1:15.5 | to you and we will help and you're not overthinking it um does it makes i've read that pretty poorly |
| 1:22.1 | does that make sense to you gregg what he's asking it does it does i mean out to win would be in relation |
| 1:27.4 | to the target line i'd imagine is what he's saying like as he's asking? It does. It does. I mean, out to win would be in relation to the target line, I'd imagine, is what he's saying. Like, he's talking about the plane of the club as it moves, like the arc of the club. So what he's saying, if you imagine there's a hula hoop, mm-hmm. And you tilt it on its side at like a 45 degree's angle. the apex of the hula hoop would be like zero path. |
| 1:47.8 | So the bit on the ground. |
| 1:50.0 | Anything after that is coming up, but it's also coming in. |
| 1:55.0 | Which is why he says if you're going to hit up at it, does that not make you hit out to |
| 2:00.4 | in? |
| 2:00.7 | Because he's thinking, well, if I'm getting above the apex, my club started passing in at that point. So in effect, out to win. That's how I interpret it. Yeah, that's what he was saying. Yeah. Yeah, that's basically what he's asking. So Trackman has a number on its device. I'm not very good on Trackman because I use GC quad, |
| 2:19.6 | but they used to, and I'm pretty sure they have, swing direction. Yeah, it's negative number for |
| 2:23.4 | left. So swing direction is not club path. Oh, sorry. In that case, that's different. Right. |
| 2:31.4 | So my bad. So, but they're the same negatives and positive swing |
| 2:34.8 | direction is the direction the hoop is pointing in so i have a hoop and i tilt it down at a 45 degree |
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