Using A Flying Right Elbow To Play Your Best Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles
Using A Flying Right Elbow To Play Your Best Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles

So, if you decided that the Nicklaus flying right elbow is a good thing for your game, you've gone ahead, you've made that change, you've assessed how that's improving your ball flight.

I've got a couple of things that you've got to – now start to consider. Things that you get start living with within your game. Now, hopefully the high right elbow position, particularly if you're a poor shoulder rotation kind of player. The higher the right elbow, should actually start hitting the golf ball a little bit further, because we've gotten a now a longer back swing, we've got a bit more club head speed coming in to the back of the ball. We could start to see the ball going further. Generally, on the principle of every mile an hour is that you hit the ball, could equate to about two yards. So just a simple give mile an hour improvement the club head speed, could start seeing the ball going 10 yards further. So, that could be a one entire club further. So, you might need to consider clubbing down a little bit, particularly when you're playing in to part trees whether there's danger at the back of the green. The other things you might start to see is a slightly higher ball flight, and also less drawer on the ball. So, if you've been overdrawing the ball because you've had your right elbow too low when you spin sort of over hooking or overdrawing it, you might then to start to aim to the right to allow for that. You might be aiming down the right side for the right-handed golfer, low right elbow hooking it in a bit, then you've got this higher right elbow, the Nicklaus position. You're swinging down straighter, the bull flight is straighter, but it's still now going to the right of the green because you're still aiming there. So consider how changing your alignment to go in unison with a high right elbow position has to work hand-in-hand. The other consideration might just be simple tempo, because you've now got a longer back swing because your right elbow is letting the club come up further rather than stopping it so low. The tempo of a golf swing just needs to be a little bit slower. We can't be so quick up and down; we've got to give ourselves simply enough time to make that full back swing before we commit to the down swing. So those are alterations and just in case of how you now need to start living with the new, and hopefully improve golf swing by copying the Nicklaus right elbow position. 2016-04-21

So, if you decided that the Nicklaus flying right elbow is a good thing for your game, you've gone ahead, you've made that change, you've assessed how that's improving your ball flight.

I've got a couple of things that you've got to – now start to consider. Things that you get start living with within your game. Now, hopefully the high right elbow position, particularly if you're a poor shoulder rotation kind of player. The higher the right elbow, should actually start hitting the golf ball a little bit further, because we've gotten a now a longer back swing, we've got a bit more club head speed coming in to the back of the ball. We could start to see the ball going further.

Generally, on the principle of every mile an hour is that you hit the ball, could equate to about two yards. So just a simple give mile an hour improvement the club head speed, could start seeing the ball going 10 yards further. So, that could be a one entire club further. So, you might need to consider clubbing down a little bit, particularly when you're playing in to part trees whether there's danger at the back of the green.

The other things you might start to see is a slightly higher ball flight, and also less drawer on the ball. So, if you've been overdrawing the ball because you've had your right elbow too low when you spin sort of over hooking or overdrawing it, you might then to start to aim to the right to allow for that. You might be aiming down the right side for the right-handed golfer, low right elbow hooking it in a bit, then you've got this higher right elbow, the Nicklaus position. You're swinging down straighter, the bull flight is straighter, but it's still now going to the right of the green because you're still aiming there.

So consider how changing your alignment to go in unison with a high right elbow position has to work hand-in-hand. The other consideration might just be simple tempo, because you've now got a longer back swing because your right elbow is letting the club come up further rather than stopping it so low. The tempo of a golf swing just needs to be a little bit slower. We can't be so quick up and down; we've got to give ourselves simply enough time to make that full back swing before we commit to the down swing.

So those are alterations and just in case of how you now need to start living with the new, and hopefully improve golf swing by copying the Nicklaus right elbow position.