The “Create Space” Myth Is Killing Your Golf Swing

One of the biggest myths in golf just got obliterated. If you’ve ever been told you need to “create space” in the downswing… this video is about to flip your golf brain upside down.

In this breakdown, Mike Granato & Shuan Webb dig deep into the trail arm’s true role during the downswing, expose the illusions caused by camera angles, and show you exactly what pros do differently. This is the kind of insight that lights up every golf school they visit — and will finally help you clean up your impact position without the confusion.

If you’re tired of wipey, weak shots and feel like you’re fighting your swing, it’s time to reprogram what you think you know. This video lays out the real sequence of motion that leads to effortless, powerful, and consistent ball striking.

Watch until the end — we’ll not only explain it in simple terms but also show you drills to implement it immediately.

Golf Swing Concepts they break down:
– Why “space creation” is an illusion
– What REALLY causes shallowing
– How pros keep their trail arm connected
– The midline myth of hand position at impact
– Why camera angles lie to your eyes

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Video Chapters:
0:00 – The Space Creation Myth
0:39 – Trail Arm’s Real Role
1:35 – Why Camera Angles Lie
3:17 – Hands Are NOT Where You Think
5:02 – Trail Arm Connection Drill
6:32 – Proper Release Explained
8:10 – Why Most Golfers Struggle with Impact
9:56 – Static vs Dynamic Swing Differences
11:40 – Final Thoughts & Free Drill Link

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One of the biggest myths in the golf is that you have to create space. That’s not a bad swing. Well, yeah, it is. Wow. The swing gets so much more easy to reproduce and understand. Once you realize that every golf school, there’s at least one, sometimes all four golfers are trying to do this motion. It’s a light bulb. It’s like, “Oh, that’s way easier than what I’m trying to do.” One of the most common questions we get, especially after our pros versus ams video about shallowing, and we we stopped that video intentionally just to show you the shallowing movement, which is basically around lead arm parallel. This is what that trail arm needs to do from there to and through impact. And this creates a lot of confusion just because of how we see that thirderson view of the swing from this camera. It certainly looks like the hands are on the front leg with shaffling. That’s not what happens. We’re going to show you now exactly what does happen. So, you’ve seen us probably talk about this in recent videos about how the hands are on the trail side of the body. So, you want to kind of demonstrate it that again, Sean. I like how you go to impact and then square the hips back up. If I got into like a tour looking impact, so hips are going to be 45 degrees open, which by the way is just basically the belt buckle over the big toe. That’s it. We came up with that a while ago. Just the easy way to think about it. All right. Now, I’m going to do that first. Now, I’m going to put my arms over top of my body. Right. Shoulder line fairly square to slightly open. Obviously, the rib cage is open, but I’m side bend. So, my shoulder line is still pretty square. Right? And now, I have my arms where they need to be. A little bit of shaft. I’m going to take my Just resquare your hips. Don’t move anything with your upper body. And just resqu your hips. From there’s impact. So, his hands at impact. We’ll have you go back to that again from a face on camera have shaft or in front of the ball, right? And depending on the body dimensions, they’re going to be look like they’re on the front leg. Okay. Now, if you just square up to the camera, you can see that’s an illusion. He did not move his hands across his body to put him on his front leg. He just turned his body to the side to show the camera. Yeah. Look, it’s kind of crazy to think about. Address impact. Yes. The hands are farther back on your body at impact than they are at address. At address, they’re usually on the front leg. Yeah. Address impact. More more unccocked. Yep. Right. Cuz the handle’s higher at impact. Still on the ground because I’m touching the ground. Maybe off a little cuz I’m pivoted back, but impact basically right there, which is mind-blowing because if you cut a line right up the middle of my body, there you go. The arms are on the trail side. Okay, we’re going to do this facing the camera. So, there’s still people kind of scratching their head going, “How is that possible?” All right, I’m going to put you at a 45° angle to that camera. So, you line up with your toes on this shaft and do the exact same thing you did there. So, this this face on camera is going to be able to see what we’re talking about. Yeah. You’re doing that to show that the turning motion hides it. Yeah. Cuz the camera now is going to be instead of being squared up to the hips at address, it’s going to be squared up to his hips at impact. So there’s 45. Now I’m facing this camera straight out of my belt line. Right. And then if I drop my arms back, now you get a better view. So the hands and you can see images and we’ll put some on the screen of pros at impact with this same look. The hands are on the trail side of the body. We got that covered. So that’s the first thing you got to understand. We’re not trying to wipe the hands across the body to produce shaftling. That’s not how any good player you’ve ever seen, certainly on TV, do that. Not a fan of saying wipe in a golf. It’s not a good It’s not a good one. Good term. Okay. It’s like shame. So how do we get then from this where that pros versus video ended to that spot and then be on that spot. So where the pros versus video right here basically. that basically right around left arm parallel. Hips are square. Trail elbow is basically reconnected to the side. Tricep reconnect to the side. So let’s let’s stick on that. Yeah. Do show that again. I’ll get out on the tricep. So your bicep or upper arm is basically on the same angle as your body line. It is not in front or the elbow is not working towards the navl. Well, it’s interesting. There’s a place for it where the club will pitch about right. I never thought about it like that. But if I go too far back, it tends to pitch too vertical. Right? If I go to the top and pitch my arm this way, if I drive too much, so there’s a pretty there’s a there’s a spot right there that makes this fairly simple just to get this club to shadow the right amount. And if you want to see that, the easiest way to see that is just stand up. So this would be address and my arm is about a 45 degree angle to my spine at the point Sean showed. The arm’s right there. So it’s just in line. Now I’m bent over. That’s it. So it looks like that. If I get my elbow in front, it’s actually lifted in the down swing for me to get in this position. It puts the hands out too much over the ball. No good player does that. Okay. So, we’re coming down. We’re reconnected to the rib cage. The elbow, if we put a a gears marker on the outside of the elbow and outside of the hip, the outside of the elbow is always behind the hip coming into impact. Okay. Now, what? So, now you’re going to keep So, let’s see. The best way to show this would be Yeah. this down the line view. So, I’m going to get to square and then stop the body and show what the arm would do. Okay, perfect. Okay, so at the top, I’ve come halfway down. Now, if I had a a machine where I could just stop my body or software and then show what the arm would do from here, it’s going to unccock and lower some more. I’m going to unfold my elbow some. And then it’s going to actually go that way. This is the tricky part of the release. So now I’m going to put that dot do go back to the starting point there. My dot right maybe last can put a dot right there on your elbow. Watch. It’s going to go out closer to the ball and over kind of like a 45 I would say right there. Now cool part is if I continue my pivot around that’s what gets in the classic kind of shake hands with a target release position or even more depending on how much rotation you have. It’s not about taking the hand path left by using this wipe motion. The arms, this adduction motion across the chest. That happens later. But if you want to get a pure release, the arm has to feel this way. And you can see if I just add the pivot, it puts you in a worldass release position. Yeah. So, we’ll do that squared up to the camera now. So, it’s right here is kind of the delivery phase of my hips aren’t open. And what you’re talking about is the hands work this way. They work in front this way, not in front towards the target. They don’t pass the midline. They go right to the midline. And then again, you’re going to see them start to pass the midline as the hands and club start to go over the head. But impact delivery is here. There. Now watch. You can’t see the outside of my elbow, but I finger. So my finger starts there. Now go to there. It always goes out more. Uh I think the average is from shaft parallel to shaft parallel. I think the average is 8 in out and around towards the golf ball. Myth. One of the biggest myths in the golf is that you have to create space. You do not create space because the arm stays beside the body. I’m just turning my body as that happens. The swing is we say this all the time. It is an illusion. It’s a well because that camera does not move. Yeah. The turning motion skews everything that’s happening. Yes. Like if I go like this, you’d be like, “That’s not a back swing.” Well, yeah, it is. What is the back swing? Cuz if I do this and turn, right? It It’s mindbending at first, but wow, the swing gets so much more easy to reproduce and understand. Once you realize that when you break these movements out, you can train them a little bit more individually. Like you could stand here and say, “Oh, I got to do that with my arm.” You could just keep your body square almost like like a circular motion. I know Haney Hank Haney had this drill where he would get guys kind of making circles. He would get him making circles on the right side like this and then kind of swing to fix slices. That’s what he was doing. He was training in that motion where the arm goes that way. This is because so many of us struggle with impact, right? You’re watching this video. You probably struggle with impact. Think about how easy this motion is. Top spin forehand compared to this motion. Low slice over the net. This is why every golf school there’s at least one, sometimes all four golfers are trying to do this motion. That’s the wipe because it looks like that’s what happens from a static camera angle. But you know, with AMG 3D, we can put the gears, every millimeter, every joint moves. So, we can put that in AMG3D and turn off any segment. And when you can turn off the turn, like you said, and you see, okay, this is how the arm moves with no turn, it’s a light bulb. It’s like, oh, that’s way easier than what I’m trying to do. Yeah. If you just This is kind of interesting. If you just thought, that you knew where the club needed to get right here. Yep. Yeah. So, I’ll I’ll hold the club here. Like, so I know I got to get there. What the average golfer would do is try to put their hands there like that because they, oh, I got there, but they don’t realize that the hands kind of stay over here and go like this and then my turn is what gets them there. So, let’s do that from this angle. Now, by the way, I’ve never thought about like this. Let’s do that from this angle. You’re making my brain light up a little dimmer. So, don’t allow your hands to cross your midline and do this. Okay. So, so come back to square. Yep. So, there’s my square. Yep. So, where would your hands be in the down swing? You’d be on your trail side. They are. Don’t let them cross the midline and touch the grip. There you go. They’re still there. That That’s the feeling to get. It goes back to the fishing for positions, right? If you’re just trying to stick the club there, oh, I’m putting my club in the release, but you didn’t realize that the only reason it goes there is cuz your arms are going like this. You’re going to be lost. That’s why a lot of people play golf their whole life and never get any better. There’s there’s golfers at golf courses that never ever ever get better just because of lack of good information. I played nine holes yesterday after work. Oh, you snuck some golf in. Yeah, I’m trying to trying to get it right. And u I got paired with two gentlemen, great guys, senior golfers, right? Both retired. And one guy, bless could not stop making the ball go at a 45 degree angle to the right. He was a new golfer just learning. His buddy was trying to help him. He had the same problem. But no one wanted to shank. It was just a massively open face because he got here and was trying to make it go straight as best he could. I showed him exactly the haney deal. Yeah. Just make the circle. And started making that circle. He goes, “There’s no way that’s right. Just try it.” Well, sir, I do. The first couple times, right, the face was like this wide open and then like, “No, you got to let that go. You got to let that go.” And then he started to actually make the ball turn over and was flabbergasted that that’s what it took. It’s just our perception from seeing swings from these, you know, angles that aren’t what the body’s doing and then try to backineer it, you’re going to wind up some really goofy ideas. For a long time, probably video and stop motion video is probably hurt golfers more than it’s helping because they’re able to stop positionally. All all of the bad swing concepts that I’m aware of come from video. Yeah. And the the 3D is like been the best thing for my whole life game in general because we can break out the movements. So that’s how you get from the shallow spot to impact and it’s just by keeping your arm on the trail side of your body moving to the midline, not across it. The cross happens way up in here. So if you want to know a drill on how to do this, go to the first pin comment down below. Click on that link. We’re going to show you another drill other than the awareness drill to how show you how to start to incorporate this proper trail arm movement in your down swing.