Keep The Shaft And Left Arm In Line For A Wide Golf Swing Takeaway (Video) - by Pete Styles
Keep The Shaft And Left Arm In Line For A Wide Golf Swing Takeaway (Video) - by Pete Styles

A wide golf swing is something that you'll hear about, you'll read about, you'll see a lot of the commentators on the TV talking about. What exactly does a wide golf swing mean and how can it be implemented into your game? What are the benefits of doing it?

The first thing to consider when we are setting up to the golf pole is we can actually create width in the address position, basically height and tall. So being as tall as you can be and as high as you can be with nice straight arms, that's immediately creating this concept of width basically getting the body away from the golf ball. And you might consider this easy for me to make a wide looking swing because I'm a taller person with longer arms and longer legs. But that does not mean that just because you are short in stature you should forego the idea of making a wide swing. Really it is all relevant for the type of golfer the size of golfer that you are. So a sure golfer can still make a wide swing for them and a tall golfer could still make a very narrow swing for them. So we want to work on this wide concept. So setting up to the ball, stand really tall, nice and straight back and good straighter arms. Then we want to keep the width during the backswing phase and this for a lot of golfers is where it goes wrong. A lot of golfers in a good address position here change the backswing get super narrow in the backswing rather than keeping the width. So the width when we look at it from this side of things would look like that position. The left shoulder for the right-handed golfer turns underneath the chin, the left arm stays straight and as much as we can we keep the shaft in line with the left arm. What we wouldn't want to do in this position is whip it away with the hands and create this very broad position here or and even worse than that would be bending the left arm as we come back creating super narrow. So wide position would be to push the shoulder away and keep the arms at in front of the body nicely here. A good checkpoint would be if you had a mirror exactly where that camera is there we would want to see the hands and arms move back to here. So effectively pointing at the mirror and the camera the club head should be in line with the hand and the hands should be in line with the toes. Everything has moved away. We haven't gone out. We haven't gone in and we haven't collapsed and lost width. So wide position, club on top of hand when I look in that view there and then hopefully the width would remain for my entire swing. Wider swings are more powerful and more controlled golf swings. 2016-10-17

A wide golf swing is something that you'll hear about, you'll read about, you'll see a lot of the commentators on the TV talking about. What exactly does a wide golf swing mean and how can it be implemented into your game? What are the benefits of doing it?

The first thing to consider when we are setting up to the golf pole is we can actually create width in the address position, basically height and tall. So being as tall as you can be and as high as you can be with nice straight arms, that's immediately creating this concept of width basically getting the body away from the golf ball.

And you might consider this easy for me to make a wide looking swing because I'm a taller person with longer arms and longer legs. But that does not mean that just because you are short in stature you should forego the idea of making a wide swing. Really it is all relevant for the type of golfer the size of golfer that you are. So a sure golfer can still make a wide swing for them and a tall golfer could still make a very narrow swing for them.

So we want to work on this wide concept. So setting up to the ball, stand really tall, nice and straight back and good straighter arms. Then we want to keep the width during the backswing phase and this for a lot of golfers is where it goes wrong. A lot of golfers in a good address position here change the backswing get super narrow in the backswing rather than keeping the width.

So the width when we look at it from this side of things would look like that position. The left shoulder for the right-handed golfer turns underneath the chin, the left arm stays straight and as much as we can we keep the shaft in line with the left arm. What we wouldn't want to do in this position is whip it away with the hands and create this very broad position here or and even worse than that would be bending the left arm as we come back creating super narrow.

So wide position would be to push the shoulder away and keep the arms at in front of the body nicely here. A good checkpoint would be if you had a mirror exactly where that camera is there we would want to see the hands and arms move back to here. So effectively pointing at the mirror and the camera the club head should be in line with the hand and the hands should be in line with the toes. Everything has moved away. We haven't gone out. We haven't gone in and we haven't collapsed and lost width.

So wide position, club on top of hand when I look in that view there and then hopefully the width would remain for my entire swing. Wider swings are more powerful and more controlled golf swings.