What Should My Right Elbow Do During My Golf Downswing? (Video) - by Peter Finch
What Should My Right Elbow Do During My Golf Downswing? (Video) - by Peter Finch

What should my right elbow do during my golf down swing? Now the right elbow is a very tricky thing to get it right but is very important if you want to get the club moving on a correct path through the ball. In general what will happen as you swing back is the shoulders will turn to the top and this right elbow it’ll be relatively close to the side but maybe just rising up slightly away from the body. Now the first movement that should actually happen with this elbow during the down swing is it returns back to the side. Now if it returns back to the side it is then very hard to actually get the club moving from out to win. If you can get that elbow just dropping into the side, it should allow and help that club move on a slightly more inside path through impact.

Now it’s not easy to do because it involves sinking up a couple of movements mainly the hip turn on the way through and also the drop of that elbow. So what you want to be feeling is when you get to the top of the back swing that the hips turn as the right elbow drops. And is that synchronization of the movement which is often tricky to get. A lot of people feel and imagine that that pulling down on a belt or just pulling down on a rope imagining that feeling all of that pinching the elbow into the side. There is also different ways you can get the feeling but what’s important like I said, is that you turn to the top, you start the rotation towards the target with the hips and that right elbow just drops into place. And that will allow the swing to come through on a much more inside path. So have a few practice swings and then just try and sync those movements as swift as you can. And in general I will allow you to drop the club on a much better path and hit much straighter goal shots. What you don’t really want to be doing on the down swing is really throwing that elbow out and really powering at the ball with as much force as you can. And soon as that happens the club is always going to come over the top and you’ll always liable to slice the ball all the way. So keep that elbow and keep that connection, drop it as the hips turn and you should be out to drop the club on a better path hit straighter golf shots. 2014-08-20

What should my right elbow do during my golf down swing? Now the right elbow is a very tricky thing to get it right but is very important if you want to get the club moving on a correct path through the ball. In general what will happen as you swing back is the shoulders will turn to the top and this right elbow it’ll be relatively close to the side but maybe just rising up slightly away from the body. Now the first movement that should actually happen with this elbow during the down swing is it returns back to the side. Now if it returns back to the side it is then very hard to actually get the club moving from out to win. If you can get that elbow just dropping into the side, it should allow and help that club move on a slightly more inside path through impact.

Now it’s not easy to do because it involves sinking up a couple of movements mainly the hip turn on the way through and also the drop of that elbow. So what you want to be feeling is when you get to the top of the back swing that the hips turn as the right elbow drops. And is that synchronization of the movement which is often tricky to get. A lot of people feel and imagine that that pulling down on a belt or just pulling down on a rope imagining that feeling all of that pinching the elbow into the side. There is also different ways you can get the feeling but what’s important like I said, is that you turn to the top, you start the rotation towards the target with the hips and that right elbow just drops into place.

And that will allow the swing to come through on a much more inside path. So have a few practice swings and then just try and sync those movements as swift as you can. And in general I will allow you to drop the club on a much better path and hit much straighter goal shots. What you don’t really want to be doing on the down swing is really throwing that elbow out and really powering at the ball with as much force as you can. And soon as that happens the club is always going to come over the top and you’ll always liable to slice the ball all the way. So keep that elbow and keep that connection, drop it as the hips turn and you should be out to drop the club on a better path hit straighter golf shots.