Elbows – Golf Lessons & Tips (Video) by Pete Styles
Elbows – Golf Lessons & Tips (Video) by Pete Styles

The elbows in your golf swing are often overlooked because it's not necessarily a glamorous part of the body to talk about. We talk about the body is producing all the power in the hands in terms of delivering the power in delivering a square clubface but the elbows are just kind of the linking between those 2 areas. For a lot of golfers they don't really know what their elbows are doing more importantly they don't want to elbows should be doing let's just break this down and understand some key check point to what the elbows could and should be doing.

During the address position which certainly want the lead arm to my left arm as a right and a golfer to have a straight elbow. Now it's important that's not a locked out elbow locked out would imply tension and be forced into position and likewise bent would be this position that's not good. So straight but not locked the trail arm the right hand for the right handed golfer goes on and again the club is largely held with a straight elbow by for some golfers as a bit more flex here than there is in their lead arm so the trail arm just sits down with a bit of a flexed elbow.

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The elbows in your golf swing are often overlooked because it's not necessarily a glamorous part of the body to talk about. We talk about the body is producing all the power in the hands in terms of delivering the power in delivering a square clubface but the elbows are just kind of the linking between those 2 areas. For a lot of golfers they don't really know what their elbows are doing more importantly they don't want to elbows should be doing let's just break this down and understand some key check point to what the elbows could and should be doing.

During the address position which certainly want the lead arm to my left arm as a right and a golfer to have a straight elbow. Now it's important that's not a locked out elbow locked out would imply tension and be forced into position and likewise bent would be this position that's not good. So straight but not locked the trail arm the right hand for the right handed golfer goes on and again the club is largely held with a straight elbow by for some golfers as a bit more flex here than there is in their lead arm so the trail arm just sits down with a bit of a flexed elbow.