Which Arm Should Lead My Golf Back Swing? (Video) - by Dean Butler
Which Arm Should Lead My Golf Back Swing? (Video) - by Dean Butler

Okay so the question is, which arm should lead my back swing? There is a 50-50 sort of a chance here isn’t it, it’s my left or my right. So before I give you the answer, go on, tell me at the screen, left or is it right? Okay, you've given me the answer right, but let me tell you what that correct answer is; its left for the right handed golfer let me explain why.

For those people who might have gone my right, what would happen if my right arm took the club away? My right arm would do this… and it would bend. If my right arm takes the club away what I'm going to do is pick the club straight up in the air, everything collapses and from here, I'm now going to chops, so you can see, that’s what happens if the right arms goes and takes the club away so a very steep, very bendy, very choppy, lots of disastrous golf shots so those people who put the their hand up there for the right arm, perhaps you can now if you think maybe I’ve got it wrong but now you know it’s the left arm, so what do we do with the left arm? Well here I have my driver, I set myself up, put my left hand on, and when I put my left hand on, you can see my left arm is in a nice straight position, I put my right hand on. As we take the club away, the left arm should push the club away so as I take the club back, my left arm, my left shoulder should be pushing the club away as one piece, one extension. And as I get myself back to here, the less the left arm is positioned and when we get to that position, the hands and wrists then should hinge and my left arm should stay straight. So it’s the left arm that pushes the club away which takes the club back on a much lower path, which is a more shallow angle and from that, that is the correct position not just for the driver, but that’s the correct position if you go throughout the back so push your way with your left arm it takes the club back nice and low, then from this position here, look at that width in my left arm as I go back and then from here my wrist hinge, and my left arm is still straight, as I come back into the ball, that’s where I should be, back into the hitting area. So now you have it, it’s no longer 50-50, you’ve got the correct answer, it’s the left arm. 2014-07-31

Okay so the question is, which arm should lead my back swing? There is a 50-50 sort of a chance here isn’t it, it’s my left or my right. So before I give you the answer, go on, tell me at the screen, left or is it right? Okay, you've given me the answer right, but let me tell you what that correct answer is; its left for the right handed golfer let me explain why.

For those people who might have gone my right, what would happen if my right arm took the club away? My right arm would do this… and it would bend. If my right arm takes the club away what I'm going to do is pick the club straight up in the air, everything collapses and from here, I'm now going to chops, so you can see, that’s what happens if the right arms goes and takes the club away so a very steep, very bendy, very choppy, lots of disastrous golf shots so those people who put the their hand up there for the right arm, perhaps you can now if you think maybe I’ve got it wrong but now you know it’s the left arm, so what do we do with the left arm? Well here I have my driver, I set myself up, put my left hand on, and when I put my left hand on, you can see my left arm is in a nice straight position, I put my right hand on.

As we take the club away, the left arm should push the club away so as I take the club back, my left arm, my left shoulder should be pushing the club away as one piece, one extension. And as I get myself back to here, the less the left arm is positioned and when we get to that position, the hands and wrists then should hinge and my left arm should stay straight. So it’s the left arm that pushes the club away which takes the club back on a much lower path, which is a more shallow angle and from that, that is the correct position not just for the driver, but that’s the correct position if you go throughout the back so push your way with your left arm it takes the club back nice and low, then from this position here, look at that width in my left arm as I go back and then from here my wrist hinge, and my left arm is still straight, as I come back into the ball, that’s where I should be, back into the hitting area. So now you have it, it’s no longer 50-50, you’ve got the correct answer, it’s the left arm.