Try This Move On The Golf Driving Range (Video) - by Pete Styles
Try This Move On The Golf Driving Range (Video) - by Pete Styles

So, it's an exercise to feel that you're going to incorporate the Nicklaus flying right elbow into your back swing. We want to too look at – well, can we give you a drill to work on so you know when your right elbow started to raise away, when it's start to lift away in the correct fashion. And here's the drill I'd like to give you.

So, from down the line, we're going to go ahead take our setup, swing in the club by, now a traditional right elbow position would be more here, the Nicklaus right elbow position a little bit higher up. So it's lifting the right elbow on the right side out of the way. So if we take a club and pop it underneath your right elbow, I'm going to just follow the tab out of the way there's no Velcro that's attaching to my jumper. And then trap the elbow into a good position. As I go ahead make my back swing away, I'd like to lift my elbow up enough that the club falls out. Now, for a lot of golfers, we actually teach this drill in the opposite way that we should be trapping the club, to keep the elbow down a little bit more. That's for a golfer who's coming over the top too much and wants to come down on the inside a bit more. So it stands to reason that if your fault is the reverse of that, the drill is a reverse. Take the club underneath the elbow again, swing it back up, let it fall out and then swing down. You must need to wait for that club to drop out before you start your down swing. And to that end, that back swing is going to help that right elbow to get a little bit higher. Great drill to practice on the driving range. You can start doing it without a golf ball a few times. Then incorporate the ball as well and see if you can get the right elbow to lift out of the way. Drop the club and swing down and hit the golf ball. And that should encourage that slightly high, a Jack Nicklaus style, right elbow position. 2016-04-21

So, it's an exercise to feel that you're going to incorporate the Nicklaus flying right elbow into your back swing. We want to too look at – well, can we give you a drill to work on so you know when your right elbow started to raise away, when it's start to lift away in the correct fashion. And here's the drill I'd like to give you.

So, from down the line, we're going to go ahead take our setup, swing in the club by, now a traditional right elbow position would be more here, the Nicklaus right elbow position a little bit higher up. So it's lifting the right elbow on the right side out of the way.

So if we take a club and pop it underneath your right elbow, I'm going to just follow the tab out of the way there's no Velcro that's attaching to my jumper. And then trap the elbow into a good position. As I go ahead make my back swing away, I'd like to lift my elbow up enough that the club falls out. Now, for a lot of golfers, we actually teach this drill in the opposite way that we should be trapping the club, to keep the elbow down a little bit more. That's for a golfer who's coming over the top too much and wants to come down on the inside a bit more. So it stands to reason that if your fault is the reverse of that, the drill is a reverse.

Take the club underneath the elbow again, swing it back up, let it fall out and then swing down. You must need to wait for that club to drop out before you start your down swing. And to that end, that back swing is going to help that right elbow to get a little bit higher.

Great drill to practice on the driving range. You can start doing it without a golf ball a few times. Then incorporate the ball as well and see if you can get the right elbow to lift out of the way. Drop the club and swing down and hit the golf ball. And that should encourage that slightly high, a Jack Nicklaus style, right elbow position.