Now this is a swing from a bit of a character, the mechanic, Miguel Ángel Jiménez, one of the surely one of everyone’s favorite golfers now just purely for his antics on the golf course. You know his cigar smoking, his little warm up routines where he does all his twerking with his hips which I’m not even going to try in attempt by the way. And famous little glass of Rioja particular after the odd win or two, the guy is nearly in his 50’s now and he is still winning quite regularly on tour and if we look at the quirks that he has in his golf swings, there is two parts to this, one part I think is a good part to copy, one part I don’t think you’ll be able to copy, just purely down to flexibility. Now Jiménez is great with his hips, you know for his age and he is not a particularly slim fellow either, is he, but his hip action through the golf ball is superb, nice big turn away from the ball, and then the drive of the belt buckle and the Rioja towards the target really gets through the ball very nicely. So regardless of your age and flexibility, try and work on turning through the ball as fast as you can, just like Jiménez does and that’s a good part to the golf swing. Now the part that I don’t think is particularly conventional and maybe isn’t something that most club golfers could copy, is the position of his right elbow during the back swing.

So Jiménez will set up to the golf ball, pretty square alignment, nothing too odd there , decent position coming back and then really drops his right elbow quite low, you will see his right elbow well below his shoulder and almost touching back into his side with a bottom half of his bicep which isn’t conventional. We would like to teach an elbow that is horizontal – sorry a bicep that is horizontal and an elbow that is 90 degrees, so quite a square position at the top, Jiménez his is down here. Now one of the dangers from that position is firstly flexibility wise, that’s tough to get into, but a lot of club golfers from here would drop in too low. And in fact you only have to watch Jiménez’s practice swings, to appreciate that he would struggle with the same thing, apart from his practice swing look like this. He comes very much over and across his body and that’s him trying to encourage himself to not get trapped and stuck because if he gets trapped and stuck you’ve got big push shocks in your bag and you’ve got big hook shocks in your bag when you release your hands. So having your right elbow too low isn’t necessarily something we would consider doing or we would encourage you to do unless you are a big slicer of the ball. Often we see big slices of the golf ball have the right elbow way too high coming over the top and chopping. And if that’s you and that’s your bad shot, watch the old Jiménez low right elbow and tucking in is probably a great way for you to get inside the line of the ball. But like I stress it does take flexibility, so if you are struggling to get the full turn and the right elbow too low, Jiménez may not be the character to watch because like I stressed with all his flexibility exercises before he warms, he is a very flexible big hitting player.