In this video tip PGA professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will explain the role of the left arm during the golf swing, understanding that in this example the left arm is the lead arm as a right-handed golfer. The left Arm should maintain a degree of width during the backswing with the lead arm reaching away from the body and the head at all times. With the feeling that at the top of the backswing the lead arm is reaching up to the sky.

There's one fantastic component part of a really really good quality swing that provides width, power, stability, consistency, accuracy can provide all of these things and if it's missing from your swing you're going to struggle. So what's the secret ingredient this secret compartment that we talk about the lead arm here for the right hand to golfer what your left arm is going to do. Mainly in the backswing, because if it's going wrong in the backswing chances are we're going to suffer on the way down into impact.

This arm is responsible for all mention right from the address position all the way through the backswing this arm can influence so much. Definitely, so it is a big is an integral part of our backswing you know we know that ideally in the backswing the trail arm the right arm is going to fold in a little bit. We're going to see you do this a lot but what we're always trying to keep is a straight a left arm because you touched on that Pete it's going to provide some width for us if we can get a wider golf swing on the way back it's going to create a really nice arc and shallow arc down at the bottom of the golf swing.