Why and How Senior Golfers should Fully Extended Arms at Impact (Video) - by Dean Butler
Why and How Senior Golfers should Fully Extended Arms at Impact (Video) - by Dean Butler

Okay so why should your arms be fully extended at impact? Well, it’s very simple during the course of the swing, because as long as you have got your arms extended, we have got more control, but we have got more distance. Now that's music to all our ears, we're always searching for more distance with new technology in golf clubs and golf balls. But sometimes we can help ourselves, so let me explain. When we are over the ball, the whole idea of the game of golf is that the club is an extension of the left arm.

So if we put the club down here, you can see, a nice straight left arm here. And the idea is to keep this lovely extension here, where we possibly take the club back. So the extension creates lots of width, lots of shoulder to it as we go back, because the arm gets up to waist height. And from here, we hinge the wrists, the hips are turning the shoulder turning. And from here, if you bring the club back down, we start with the feet, the knees and the hips downstairs coming up to transfer the weight back in. We get into the impact area here and then the right arm comes through and you can see that lovely extension here. So the extension in the arms is absolutely crucial, there’s lots of control, lots of distance was actually added. And just to show you an idea of the actual swing to show you, I'm going to set myself up and I'm just going to swing from this position here, this extension of the left arm. But I also want you to watch the right arm going through because too many golfers do so much good work here, but then pull the club in here and then you lose everything that you have just worked on. So here we go, just half a swing, that's all we are going to try and do here keeping that left arm nice and straight. So from here, arms straight and get that right arm, I have kept my back, my follow-through nice and short here just to demonstrate that arm coming through, because it's all about the extension of your left and right arm. So to work on this, set yourself up as we have shown you and just try and work on going halfway back and halfway through. And once you have got the feeling of that, by all means, just extend it a little bit more and extend it a little bit more. So you feel comfortable but remember it's all about getting more control and more distance with less effort. It's as easy as I have just shown you, it just needs a little bit of time on the practice ground and just work on that half swing with that left arm extended and that right arm coming through that lovely extension. And you will see the benefits, go away and practice. 2013-10-24

Okay so why should your arms be fully extended at impact? Well, it’s very simple during the course of the swing, because as long as you have got your arms extended, we have got more control, but we have got more distance. Now that's music to all our ears, we're always searching for more distance with new technology in golf clubs and golf balls. But sometimes we can help ourselves, so let me explain. When we are over the ball, the whole idea of the game of golf is that the club is an extension of the left arm.

So if we put the club down here, you can see, a nice straight left arm here. And the idea is to keep this lovely extension here, where we possibly take the club back. So the extension creates lots of width, lots of shoulder to it as we go back, because the arm gets up to waist height. And from here, we hinge the wrists, the hips are turning the shoulder turning. And from here, if you bring the club back down, we start with the feet, the knees and the hips downstairs coming up to transfer the weight back in. We get into the impact area here and then the right arm comes through and you can see that lovely extension here.

So the extension in the arms is absolutely crucial, there’s lots of control, lots of distance was actually added. And just to show you an idea of the actual swing to show you, I'm going to set myself up and I'm just going to swing from this position here, this extension of the left arm. But I also want you to watch the right arm going through because too many golfers do so much good work here, but then pull the club in here and then you lose everything that you have just worked on. So here we go, just half a swing, that's all we are going to try and do here keeping that left arm nice and straight.

So from here, arms straight and get that right arm, I have kept my back, my follow-through nice and short here just to demonstrate that arm coming through, because it's all about the extension of your left and right arm. So to work on this, set yourself up as we have shown you and just try and work on going halfway back and halfway through. And once you have got the feeling of that, by all means, just extend it a little bit more and extend it a little bit more. So you feel comfortable but remember it's all about getting more control and more distance with less effort. It's as easy as I have just shown you, it just needs a little bit of time on the practice ground and just work on that half swing with that left arm extended and that right arm coming through that lovely extension. And you will see the benefits, go away and practice.