In golf, it is important to maintain a proper arm position during the swing, with the arms swinging in front of the chest. This position promotes a more efficient and effective swing. Here's why it's important and how to achieve it:

1. Alignment and Connection: When the arms swing in front of the chest, it helps align the clubface with the target and promotes a connected swing. This allows for better control and accuracy in your shots.
2. Power and Consistency: The arms swinging in front of the chest help generate power and consistency in your swing. It allows for a proper transfer of energy from the body to the clubhead, resulting in more distance and improved ball striking.

To achieve the proper arm position in front of the chest, consider the following:

1. Address Position: Start with a proper address position, where your hands are positioned slightly in front of your chest. This sets the foundation for the arms to swing in front of the chest throughout the swing.
2. Relaxation and Flexibility: Ensure that your arms and upper body are relaxed and flexible. This allows for a natural movement and prevents tension that can restrict the arms from swinging freely.
3. Takeaway: During the takeaway, focus on keeping the arms and hands in front of your chest. Avoid excessive lifting or pulling of the club, which can lead to an off-plane swing.
4. Downswing and Follow-Through: As you transition into the downswing, maintain the connection between your arms and chest. Feel as if your arms are swinging down and through the impact zone in front of your chest. This promotes a powerful and controlled release of the clubhead.
5. Practice and Feedback: Regular practice and receiving feedback from a golf professional or coach can help you refine your arm position and ensure that they stay in front of your chest throughout the swing. Use video analysis or training aids to monitor your progress.

By focusing on keeping your arms swinging in front of your chest, you can improve the consistency, power, and accuracy of your golf swing. It may take some practice and adjustment, but with time and dedication, you can achieve a more effective swing motion.

So there's an area we now need to look at in terms of having the club swinging correctly within the arms, is making sure the club is swung in front of the body. Now this concept of swinging the club in front of the body from this position is making sure the hands and arms always have the club nicely in front of them to swing back and to swing through, and then from this side here swinging it in front of the chest. If the club was too far this side, or particularly too far that side, that’s going to cause me quite a few problems. Now one of the main concerns here, is the club gets off plan but it also gets quite heavy, it’s quite difficult to swing the club so it nicely in front of the body. Simply put if I hold the golf club nicely in front of me I can hold that up quite well, but if I start to tilt it this way it starts to get quite to get quite heavy and it falls. And once it goes this way it pulls me out of position and likewise here I can hold it this way it pulls me out of position. So from here when the club is there I can hold it, get the club here behind it starts to pull me backwards. So the more I make a mistake the bigger the mistake gets. So we’d like to swing the club nicely in front of the chest up and down and to a certain extent and the club therefore doesn’t feel very heavy.

Quite often we see this mistake more so in juniors and lady golfers, the golfers aren’t necessarily that strong and the club is pulling them around out of position more so. What I would like you to do to check – that’s kind of awkward little drill but it works really well to highlight the issue. Is take two golf clubs together and stand them up in front of you. And then you're going to try and swing both shaft back together and keep them as parallel as you can throughout the entire swinging motion. And what you might see here is that one of the clubs stays on line and one of them doesn’t, I'm going to try and swing them both back nicely on line to the top and back down again. But for a lot of golfers we do this, we start to see a little bit of divergence between the two shafts and they don’t keep on the same line, sometimes this way, sometimes this way. So it’s important to be trying it both hand and arms, swinging the clubs back together up and down and not having them pulling you one way or another way. And that should encourage you therefore to make that swing where the club is swung nicely in front of the body the whole way up and down rather than having it either too far out one way and certainly too far round behind you is going to be a problem. Let the club stay in front of the body using the hands and arms to create a better swing and that will definitely improve the consistency and the accuracy of your golf shots.