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Hope this isn't too confusing, hope people that know what I'm talking about will understand the question.

Have a bit of a swing theory question based on something I was working on tonight. I recall seeing in the SnT videos months ago (was illustrated there), but also in other places around about hitting the back of the circle. Wish I could find an image of what I'm talking about but I imagine guys that study a lot of swing stuff know what I'm referring to.

As I remember the illustration there was a smaller inner circle for the hands and a larger one for the club head. The illustration and usually the explanations was centered on the middle of the golfer's stance.

My question is would a better idea of the outer circle not be necessarily centered on the stance but rather arcing from the impact position based on clublength thus in some positions actually have said outer circle center more forward or backwards? In working on getting my hands deeper with a driver I got into a discussion with a friend where he mentioned how that it didn't matter about deep hands much with say wedges as far as causing out to in swing paths. So sitting here pondering the why's and such of the golf swing I'm wondering if the reason for that not mattering is more related to the shorter length of say a wedge, or the fact that said outer circle with a longer club and ball position more forward would actually move the clubhead backswing area of the circle closer to the rear hip than if the center of the circle was in the middle of the stance.

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I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. The center of the swing tends to be in the same spot for every swing unless the golfer does something to move the swing forward. With a driver, because the ball is more forward, the golfer has to move the circle more forward in order to still hit the "back side" of it.

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I think you understand, and that helped enlighten something for me I think. I was envisioning the circle at address, but it should really be "drawn" at impact with weight getting the most forward at driver impact correct? thus the circle as it was would be centered on where the weight is.

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