Measure The Success Of Your Flying Right Elbow In Your Golf Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles
Measure The Success Of Your Flying Right Elbow In Your Golf Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles

So as with any of the changes that we make to your game, we then want to assess how is this new position from my right elbow actually giving me any advantageous differences to the way I play the game. Now particularly that the thing we’re looking for obviously is lower golf score.

So, if you have maybe a couple of months of practicing the high right elbow position, you would feel like your swing is improving and you go out and shoot lower scores, then that’s great. Let’s stick with our elbow position, it’s obviously working for you. A couple of other factors that we might look at that can help you get those lower scores would be improving your confidence. If you feel more confident by lifting the elbow into that position rather than keeping it trapped in as more of a conventional swing, then that’s fine, keep the confidence rolling, that will in turn bring low scores. And I guess the biggest change for a lot of golfers would be the feeling that they improved their ball flight, be at the front of the ball house, less drill or the fact the ball goes further. Because if we go back to the first video of this little mini series about Jack Nicklaus' right elbow, we talked about golfers that had too much drill on the ball and struggled with distance by not rotating their shoulders enough. So, if you are a golfer who had not enough rotation to which dropped to the inside and too much right-handed drill, then maybe lifting the right elbow up a little bit higher, the flying right elbow like Nicklaus would give you more power through a bigger shoulder rotation helping you hit the ball a little bit further. And the fact you’re not coming so much from the inside could encourage the golf ball to go further with that. So if you got more confidence, lower scores, better ball flight, and a little bit more distance, then maybe this change was a good change for you, stick with it, keep working with it, if it worked for Jack it could work for you too. 2016-04-21

So as with any of the changes that we make to your game, we then want to assess how is this new position from my right elbow actually giving me any advantageous differences to the way I play the game. Now particularly that the thing we’re looking for obviously is lower golf score.

So, if you have maybe a couple of months of practicing the high right elbow position, you would feel like your swing is improving and you go out and shoot lower scores, then that’s great. Let’s stick with our elbow position, it’s obviously working for you. A couple of other factors that we might look at that can help you get those lower scores would be improving your confidence. If you feel more confident by lifting the elbow into that position rather than keeping it trapped in as more of a conventional swing, then that’s fine, keep the confidence rolling, that will in turn bring low scores.

And I guess the biggest change for a lot of golfers would be the feeling that they improved their ball flight, be at the front of the ball house, less drill or the fact the ball goes further. Because if we go back to the first video of this little mini series about Jack Nicklaus' right elbow, we talked about golfers that had too much drill on the ball and struggled with distance by not rotating their shoulders enough. So, if you are a golfer who had not enough rotation to which dropped to the inside and too much right-handed drill, then maybe lifting the right elbow up a little bit higher, the flying right elbow like Nicklaus would give you more power through a bigger shoulder rotation helping you hit the ball a little bit further. And the fact you’re not coming so much from the inside could encourage the golf ball to go further with that.

So if you got more confidence, lower scores, better ball flight, and a little bit more distance, then maybe this change was a good change for you, stick with it, keep working with it, if it worked for Jack it could work for you too.