In Golf Right Arm Close To Body Means Power In Your Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles
In Golf Right Arm Close To Body Means Power In Your Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles

So if we understand that during the backswing we’re trying to create a good amount of power to then release into the downswing. It’s important we understand one of the key moves that creates that power. So from a good address position, as we’re turning into the backswing, this right arm falls in and stays quite tight to the body and then stays nice and tight into the downswing as well, and that really creates and holds a lot of power. If the right arm comes away from the body at the top of the downswing, throws away here effectively it’s lost all its power there and it’s got nothing to give as it hits through the golf ball. So think about just throwing a ball, in fact pick a ball up and try to throw it a long way, my right arm would fold it next to my body and then I would release it through. If I have my hand a long way from my body and try to throw it, it’s going to have less power as I do that. So during the golf swing we’d like to maintain that power and then release that power as well.

So great exercise to help you with this is a pumping drill, an exercise called a pumping drill. We set up nicely, swing to the top, pull your arm in, keep that right elbow in front of the body and really tight and up and down and up and down and you feel how that right elbow of the right handed golfer stays in and doesn’t release. Anything where we get to the top and release is out we've lost a lot of power. So we can exercise this pumping drill a couple of times before we hit a shot than when we actually strike it, we really feel that right arm stay tight to the body and accelerate is coming through. And the right hand now doesn’t leave the side of body until just through the impact is on and then it can extend in a way, we don’t want to keep it in all the way through the ball of course but we do want to keep it up until the impact phase and then release away. So keeping the right arm connected and close to the body in the downswing is a great source of power and that pumping drill is a great way to check you're doing it correctly. 2015-11-03

So if we understand that during the backswing we’re trying to create a good amount of power to then release into the downswing. It’s important we understand one of the key moves that creates that power. So from a good address position, as we’re turning into the backswing, this right arm falls in and stays quite tight to the body and then stays nice and tight into the downswing as well, and that really creates and holds a lot of power. If the right arm comes away from the body at the top of the downswing, throws away here effectively it’s lost all its power there and it’s got nothing to give as it hits through the golf ball. So think about just throwing a ball, in fact pick a ball up and try to throw it a long way, my right arm would fold it next to my body and then I would release it through. If I have my hand a long way from my body and try to throw it, it’s going to have less power as I do that. So during the golf swing we’d like to maintain that power and then release that power as well.

So great exercise to help you with this is a pumping drill, an exercise called a pumping drill. We set up nicely, swing to the top, pull your arm in, keep that right elbow in front of the body and really tight and up and down and up and down and you feel how that right elbow of the right handed golfer stays in and doesn’t release. Anything where we get to the top and release is out we've lost a lot of power. So we can exercise this pumping drill a couple of times before we hit a shot than when we actually strike it, we really feel that right arm stay tight to the body and accelerate is coming through. And the right hand now doesn’t leave the side of body until just through the impact is on and then it can extend in a way, we don’t want to keep it in all the way through the ball of course but we do want to keep it up until the impact phase and then release away. So keeping the right arm connected and close to the body in the downswing is a great source of power and that pumping drill is a great way to check you're doing it correctly.