Now Martin Kaymer is a really great player to watch if you want to model your golf swing at anybody, and really model your whole on-course demeanor and attributes around somebody like Martin Kaymer. He is absolutely ice cool and he’s a real grinder, he showed his ice cool when he held the winning putt 2010 Ryder Cup in Medinah for the European side from eight feet maybe something like that straight up the hill. And I think most of the European team probably knew this one is going in because this guy is ice cold under pressure. But when I review his golf swing he’s struggled within the last few years, is as he tries to wind up to hit the really big shots, he gets a little bit too much separation in his backswing particularly from his arms, so he is fighting a bit of a tendency to splay his arms out this way and open his hands and arms up, and then get too much of a flying right elbow, too much separation of his forearms. And the way he is devised to stop doing this, he is a very quirky little driller stands out quite a lot on the practice ground. Well he does this, he wears a line yard around his neck and ties a tennis ball to the end of it and then keeps his forearms closing against the tennis ball during his backswing. That’s quite a piece of apparatus to go through just to do that drill.

So here is a really simple way that you could adapt that same drill just simply using a roll of tape. Now as you set up you want to feel like you arms are squeezing together and we are going to put the tape against your arms so just balance it against one arm there, make your grip and then close it up against your forearms and you will feel that the tape is held. Now during the backswing we want to hold that tape as much as possible between the forearms up to the top. During the down swing it will come out and it will drop and that’s why Kaymer uses the tennis ball and the line yard so it doesn’t sort of go flying off down the driving range. But for this exercise this tape will drop out during my backswing. But what I don’t want you to do is drop out in the early stages, so Kaymer is going to make that good one piece shoulder rotation keeping the forearms nicely together and avoiding any separation. Up to the top it falls out here and then he holds it on the way down, tries to get his elbows quite narrow again, what we want to avoid is it dropping up too early. So you can maybe practice this yourself down the line looking into a mirror and if you see this space opening up as you spin the golf club and lay it off a little bit too early and flail it open, try the Martin Kaymer squeezing the forearms together. Either a tennis ball or q piece of tape if you’ve got somebody there to help you out when you are practicing, it’s much easy for them just to drop it between your forearms, they can go and pick it up again and repeat it. But just for my purposes I’ll just balance the tape on my arms, roll it over, squeeze it nice and tight and then try not to let that tape fall out just like Martin Kaymer has been practicing with his tennis ball.