Setting The Stage Correctly For Extended Arms In Your Golf Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles
Setting The Stage Correctly For Extended Arms In Your Golf Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles

If we know that as a golfer we want to get through the ball and achieve this strong, straight extended left arm position through here, it's really important that we focus on getting into a good address position and working on some key areas in our swing to encourage us to get into that position. That position doesn't happen in isolation. Other things have to precede it. So in the address position as we set up to the golf ball, we want to make sure we've got our lead arm. For me it’s my left arm. I want my left arm to be really strong and straight in the setup. It doesn't have to be locked out and it doesn't have to be overly tense. But it is definitely strong and firm. And my lead arm will then stay strong and firm throughout the entire swing. As I come back, it’s strong and it’s firm coming back.

At the top it transitions down strong and firm and extended all the way through this way. It never breaks. A classic position for a club golfer would be the bend over too much. We see the left arm bent at setup during the swing left arm pulls in here. This is going to cause us some pretty serious problems as it comes in this way. So we want strong arm and straight all the way through from start to finish of the golf swing. Alright key area to help us get that left arm straight through the ball is going to be rotating the hips. It's almost impossible to get your arms to go straight through if you don't rotate your lower body. You can see here it's a real strain on my left arm starts to bend. It's just physically difficult to get my arm in that position. However if I turn my body my left arm stays straight almost naturally. So from here coming through, turning the ball the arms will straighten out. Keep the body still. The arm will bend coming through the ball. So don't worry if you're getting through to this position and seeing bent arms. If you're not turning your hips, you had no chance anyway. So make sure you focus on turning your hips to allow your hands and arms to stay straight through here. One last thing I think would really help you as well as is if you were to stay grounded in your downstroke. By staying grounded simply means don't jump up this way. Any golfer that’s lifting their left heel, that lead heel coming into impact is probably going to see that left arm pulling at the point of impact as well. So we want to keep that left heel grounded through impact, stay down and turn the body. That will help us extend through the ball. So although that left arm is important to us it doesn't happen in isolation. We've got to have those other things in check to make sure we can get fully extended through the impact position. 2016-10-20

If we know that as a golfer we want to get through the ball and achieve this strong, straight extended left arm position through here, it's really important that we focus on getting into a good address position and working on some key areas in our swing to encourage us to get into that position. That position doesn't happen in isolation. Other things have to precede it. So in the address position as we set up to the golf ball, we want to make sure we've got our lead arm. For me it’s my left arm. I want my left arm to be really strong and straight in the setup. It doesn't have to be locked out and it doesn't have to be overly tense. But it is definitely strong and firm. And my lead arm will then stay strong and firm throughout the entire swing. As I come back, it’s strong and it’s firm coming back.

At the top it transitions down strong and firm and extended all the way through this way. It never breaks. A classic position for a club golfer would be the bend over too much. We see the left arm bent at setup during the swing left arm pulls in here. This is going to cause us some pretty serious problems as it comes in this way. So we want strong arm and straight all the way through from start to finish of the golf swing. Alright key area to help us get that left arm straight through the ball is going to be rotating the hips. It's almost impossible to get your arms to go straight through if you don't rotate your lower body. You can see here it's a real strain on my left arm starts to bend. It's just physically difficult to get my arm in that position. However if I turn my body my left arm stays straight almost naturally. So from here coming through, turning the ball the arms will straighten out. Keep the body still.

The arm will bend coming through the ball. So don't worry if you're getting through to this position and seeing bent arms. If you're not turning your hips, you had no chance anyway. So make sure you focus on turning your hips to allow your hands and arms to stay straight through here. One last thing I think would really help you as well as is if you were to stay grounded in your downstroke. By staying grounded simply means don't jump up this way. Any golfer that’s lifting their left heel, that lead heel coming into impact is probably going to see that left arm pulling at the point of impact as well. So we want to keep that left heel grounded through impact, stay down and turn the body. That will help us extend through the ball. So although that left arm is important to us it doesn't happen in isolation. We've got to have those other things in check to make sure we can get fully extended through the impact position.