Let The Right Arm Bend At Set Up To Improve Your Golf Back Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles
Let The Right Arm Bend At Set Up To Improve Your Golf Back Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles

As golfers we know that generating power in a golf swing is quite an essential part of what we’re trying to achieve, golf courses tend to be six, maybe even 7,000 yards long, individual holes over 500 yards long. We’ve got to try and hit this driver maybe travelling over 100 miles an hour to get the ball to travel over 200, 250 yards. We need a lot of power. The way we generate power in a golf swing is in a rotational fashion in our back swing.

So we generate power by turning to our right up to the top. And at this point here I’ve got one arm straight and I’ve got one arm very bent. One mistake I see a lot of golfers making is they try and keep both arms straight in their swing for some reason maybe they’ve picked it up from their friends, they’ve read it in magazines, they’re talking about keeping arms straight in the back swing. And they get to here, and they get stuck, so they bend their wrists and they get stuck again. You simply cannot generate power unless you allow your right hand to fold for the right handed golfer and you generate power in a turning motion. Now I think one of the mistakes a lot of golfers get into here is they get very, very tense in their address position and they keep their arms too straight in their address position. So from this side on a golfer will set up their golf ball and they’ll be there both arms dead straight, shoulders tend to rise up in front of them and they’ve got their arms locked out and in this position we’re struggling a bit. Because now as we try and turn we just get very stuck on the back swing. So what I’d like to see a golfer do in the address position is keep the left arm quite strong and straight, not necessarily locked but definitely straight, but then actually let the right arm just flex a little bit, just becoming a little bit softer. As you rotate into your back swing you’re going to find that an awful lot easier in your backswing with that right arm flexing. Now in this next little miniseries of videos we’re going to look at the importance of how that right arm can do its job correctly and why you should ensure that your right arm is flexed to set up. 2016-08-24

As golfers we know that generating power in a golf swing is quite an essential part of what we’re trying to achieve, golf courses tend to be six, maybe even 7,000 yards long, individual holes over 500 yards long. We’ve got to try and hit this driver maybe travelling over 100 miles an hour to get the ball to travel over 200, 250 yards. We need a lot of power. The way we generate power in a golf swing is in a rotational fashion in our back swing.

So we generate power by turning to our right up to the top. And at this point here I’ve got one arm straight and I’ve got one arm very bent. One mistake I see a lot of golfers making is they try and keep both arms straight in their swing for some reason maybe they’ve picked it up from their friends, they’ve read it in magazines, they’re talking about keeping arms straight in the back swing. And they get to here, and they get stuck, so they bend their wrists and they get stuck again.

You simply cannot generate power unless you allow your right hand to fold for the right handed golfer and you generate power in a turning motion. Now I think one of the mistakes a lot of golfers get into here is they get very, very tense in their address position and they keep their arms too straight in their address position. So from this side on a golfer will set up their golf ball and they’ll be there both arms dead straight, shoulders tend to rise up in front of them and they’ve got their arms locked out and in this position we’re struggling a bit. Because now as we try and turn we just get very stuck on the back swing.

So what I’d like to see a golfer do in the address position is keep the left arm quite strong and straight, not necessarily locked but definitely straight, but then actually let the right arm just flex a little bit, just becoming a little bit softer. As you rotate into your back swing you’re going to find that an awful lot easier in your backswing with that right arm flexing. Now in this next little miniseries of videos we’re going to look at the importance of how that right arm can do its job correctly and why you should ensure that your right arm is flexed to set up.