Ball flight laws vs Tips published in magazines

So am I right in thinking that these tips published here are inaccurate when examined from a scientific point of view. With a special mention to the "point the clubface to where I want the ball to land"

http://www.golfdigest.com/golf-instruction/breaking90_gd0704

what Lorena is saying is "kind of" right, though.  To hit a fade, her face will be open to her SWING PATH but it will still be closed to the target line.  The part about aiming the face at where you want the ball to land is just a misnomer, IMO.  It might help to not close the face down too much when swinging outside in and hitting a pull or a duck hook.

Same thing goes for the draw swing she talks about.  Closing the face down might help her to keep from getting too open and hitting a push fade/slice

My understanding:

A fade is hit with a face open to swing path/closed to target line.

A draw is hit with face closed to swing path/open to target line.

Someone correct that if its wrong...the new ball flight laws get me confused sometimes.

Yup your spot on their Iacas. But whatever about professionals understanding the ball flight laws, they do have lots of experience and feel on their side. But amateurs like myself and others I think it's very important for us to understand them. I can't understand why this is not one of the fundamentals thought to every golfer.

I was also wondering what impact you think they have on off-set, closed drivers and draw biased weighted drivers. Dose it almost make them a futile pursuit..?

Also just like to add about instruction in magazines. One mag recently had Hunter Mahan explaining how he draws the ball with swing-path which is correct. Only later in the mag to have Paul Mcginley in an article similar to the one above. Amazing TBH

What she said is correct for her swing. This is because most professionals have a swing path and club face angle that are relatively close to each other but not identical. this way they can hit their draw, fade, cut shot, etc. There is a great video on youtube which explains how this works which I have included below because I would need 2 pages to explain it in text. Enjoy the video.

It is strange that people don't do more research. I used to think like them until I came here!

I had this discussion with my Grandpa for 2 hours yesterday trying to show him the true ball flight laws. He also didn't believe me that if your plane goes through your target line on an iron shot and you hit the ball on the downswing aka taking a divot that the ball would never ever fly straight at the flag no matter how you hit the ball. He was arguing how Nicklaus used to say that for every shot you should use one swing, where your alignment is the same, your swing path is the same, ball position is the same, almost everything is the same. If i'm not mistaken, it is impossible to hit an Iron (on the downswing) and a Driver (more upswing) both straight using the same exact swing path and alignment.

He kept telling me how I should be listening to these pros like Faldo who have been doing it for years and were able to win doing it and that I should not listen to the scientific explanations for it because the people who make those probably can't break 80 hahaha.