Where It All Goes Wrong In Your Golf Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles
Where It All Goes Wrong In Your Golf Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles

So we see even some golfers they have too much thought or too much focus on what the right hand and arm is doing actually causes them some faults, but we need to just highlight that you're not going to make faults with your right hand and these are the four main things that I would consider could become [Indiscernible] [0:00:25] faults during your backswing and downswing particularly relating to your right hand. So, one of the first areas is too much extension of your right hand and your back spin. Now we want the left arm to do a really good job of extending and winding back creating loads of power for the right-handed golfer of course. But we want to make sure the right hand isn’t trying to extend as well for the right-handed arm should fold into a good position, the right hand doesn’t do that and it extends way too much wind it with very, very little rested you have actually very, very little power. So let the left arm do the extending, let the right arm do the folding. Now next point to look at would be from down the line here is where does the right elbow go in the downswing and does it get stuck? Now for a lot of golfers we talk about bringing the right elbow down into the slot, but there is a point where that gets too far back behind and the right elbow gets a bit stuck in the downswing. So if my setup here to the top, bring the right elbow down, now here the right elbow has gone too far back behind me. It's too flat, it's too stuck. The only direction this club can go is now down that right hand side to block the ball out to the right too much. So I'd like to keep the club more in front of my body and stop at getting stuck behind me.

So the right elbow has a chance to get too stuck from the inside and I get a bit too stuck. Then one consideration I'd like you to have is the grip pressure with your right hand. We want to make sure we've got a good firm hold of it with the right hand but definitely not squeezing it to death. I see some golfers when they setup to the ball because they're right-handed they strangle the golf club like this is their security blanket. The problem there is that actually cuts out power contrary to what you think of giving you more power, too much grip pressure with the right hand takes away power. So not too much grip pressure with the right hand will allow the right hand to release through effectively. The last fault that we can look at of these four is throwing the golf club from the top. So I see golfers that wind the club to a really good position at the top and then throw the right hand away from them. And again it happens because you're trying to initiate power using your most dominant side so you turn with a throw of the right hand desperately trying to hit the ball as hard as you can. But if you throw the club from the top the club gets off line, it gets outside the line and then from being outside and over the top it will travel left and cut across the back of the golf ball. More efficient use of the right hand here would be to use the powerful motion of the right hand to pull the club down into the slot and then release it rather than just chuck it off the top. So if you can improve on those four elements of your right hand position in the golf swing, that will definitely help improve your golf game. 2015-11-06

So we see even some golfers they have too much thought or too much focus on what the right hand and arm is doing actually causes them some faults, but we need to just highlight that you're not going to make faults with your right hand and these are the four main things that I would consider could become [Indiscernible] [0:00:25] faults during your backswing and downswing particularly relating to your right hand. So, one of the first areas is too much extension of your right hand and your back spin. Now we want the left arm to do a really good job of extending and winding back creating loads of power for the right-handed golfer of course. But we want to make sure the right hand isn’t trying to extend as well for the right-handed arm should fold into a good position, the right hand doesn’t do that and it extends way too much wind it with very, very little rested you have actually very, very little power. So let the left arm do the extending, let the right arm do the folding. Now next point to look at would be from down the line here is where does the right elbow go in the downswing and does it get stuck? Now for a lot of golfers we talk about bringing the right elbow down into the slot, but there is a point where that gets too far back behind and the right elbow gets a bit stuck in the downswing. So if my setup here to the top, bring the right elbow down, now here the right elbow has gone too far back behind me. It's too flat, it's too stuck. The only direction this club can go is now down that right hand side to block the ball out to the right too much. So I'd like to keep the club more in front of my body and stop at getting stuck behind me.

So the right elbow has a chance to get too stuck from the inside and I get a bit too stuck. Then one consideration I'd like you to have is the grip pressure with your right hand. We want to make sure we've got a good firm hold of it with the right hand but definitely not squeezing it to death. I see some golfers when they setup to the ball because they're right-handed they strangle the golf club like this is their security blanket. The problem there is that actually cuts out power contrary to what you think of giving you more power, too much grip pressure with the right hand takes away power. So not too much grip pressure with the right hand will allow the right hand to release through effectively. The last fault that we can look at of these four is throwing the golf club from the top. So I see golfers that wind the club to a really good position at the top and then throw the right hand away from them. And again it happens because you're trying to initiate power using your most dominant side so you turn with a throw of the right hand desperately trying to hit the ball as hard as you can. But if you throw the club from the top the club gets off line, it gets outside the line and then from being outside and over the top it will travel left and cut across the back of the golf ball. More efficient use of the right hand here would be to use the powerful motion of the right hand to pull the club down into the slot and then release it rather than just chuck it off the top. So if you can improve on those four elements of your right hand position in the golf swing, that will definitely help improve your golf game.