The Role of ARM POSITION in the Golf Swing

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In this video, Adam reveals how your right arm controls the golf swing and why proper positioning can instantly improve your ball striking.

If you’re losing power, struggling with consistency, or feel out of sync, your trail arm might be the problem. Adam shares simple drills to get your right arm or trail arm working correctly in the backswing, downswing, and follow-through.

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Hello there, Adam Basiljette here, founder of Scratcholf Academy. Today, right arm positioning, the key role of the right arm in the golf swing, trail arm if you like, if you’re a left-handed golfer, especially what does it do in the critical area through impact. I’ve got some ideas for you that I think you’ll find a common sense, but you may not have considered them this way before. So the right arm through impact, the trail arm if you like the right arm for the right-handed golfer. Several things it’s absolutely key in applying pressure to the golf ball that determines to some extent or it’s related to the low point of the swing. Really, really important what’s going on there. Certainly, it affects swing plane. We’re going to look at that momentarily here. And it also of course has some role in terms of squaring up the club. We’ll have to examine how to do that. Let’s get started from here then. Now, the absolute worst case scenario for this trail arm is that it gets out, elbow out rather than elbow in and under. Almost for certain it will steepen your golf swing. It will weaken the way you apply pressure to the ball. I’ll show you that in just a minute. Certainly, the arm shouldn’t say stuck. It should straighten. Picture me, let’s say, hammering a nail into a wall a couple of feet above the carpet. It should straighten, but it should be at this angle. Now, frequently when people do that, they leave the club face open, which is a big big problem, and it gets them back to doing this. So, we’ll examine that as well as the video goes. So, let’s say that’s our target line. Obviously, there’s the golf ball. Now, when the right arm is more under, you can apply pressure more effectively than when it’s this way. I don’t know anything about martial arts, but when I see these fellas or ladies break the the boards, it’s always this angle with the arm, never that. And you can just imagine that that makes a difference. Another thing it does when the arm is more under the grip end of the club generally goes forward more. This is excessive but that generally happens again an instrument and applying pressure moving the low point of the swing forward. And finally when the shaft is more at this angle it will tend to be more on the inside trail. Once it flips and gets that way it’s a factor in making the club go this way. Let’s have a look at me in slow motion briefly. Then we’ll tackle more of it. Especially how you can square the club face. So here’s me coming down. weights on the lead side there. Look at that right arm. You’re looking very much at the underside of the forearm or the underside if you like, the inside of the joint of the right elbow. And yet, you can see the face is squaring. My right hand is tilted down. Notice the grip end of the club is pushed beyond the ball for contact. The hands are being pushed with the help of the right arm much more up to that front leg. There’s a solid impact and all the way through. One more look. Here we go. Okay, so the club face, solid contact aside for a moment, the club face is the overarching, the predominant determiner of direction, not just curve, but start direction. And people’s instinct always somehow find a way more or less to keep the ball in front of them. So if you’re not good at squaring the club face or if you start to dabble with this feeling in the arm and you’re leaving the face open again, it’s not going to help you because you won’t be hitting the ball very solidly or online and it will quickly deteriorate into some instinctive way to square it up. So here’s the key. The way our human arm is put together, I can rotate my elbow under and at the same time rotate my wrist forward. Under. Forward. Now, if you doubt that, hopefully you don’t doubt that, but if you doubt that, look at some of the famous photos of Ben Hogan hitting the ball, how he looks, Johnny Miller, some of these great Tiger Woods, you name it. Under, but the club face is square. So, you have to get good at keeping that under and still turning the wrist. Like anything, you got to practice this a little bit. So, I’m going to feel that under right wrist tilted. That would be too much. But that’s the squaring agent. Not that or this so much. Let me just chip a couple. So, I’m going to preset that excessively under. Preset that right hand there. And just chip a couple like that. And I can feel my swing going this way. But the face is delofted and it’s knocking it down. No shortcut for that. Even if between shots, you just practice up in front of you. Here it is. Here’s the feeling of the right arm, the hammering the nail, there’s the squaring of the face. If you get good at this, you will really be helping yourself. One final note then before we wrap it up. What is the body’s role in all this? Obviously, it has a significant role. This isn’t a lesson about dynamic sequence and all that stuff. But let’s just touch on it in the broadest terms. It’s the job of your body to deliver this unit to the ball. Now, if you don’t have enough body movement rotation, or your weight’s hanging back, you’re probably going to flip it anyway. Conversely, if you’re relying too much on just body turn, there’s no real snap and pop in it. So, you’ve got to start to get that feel. An impact bag is great. One of those big bags there, how you can feel some movement in your body, but then that begins to stabilize so you can really pop the thing. Again, like you might pop some board if you were doing karate. I don’t do karate, but I don’t think I’d hit it like this. I don’t think I’d just do that. So, get the feel for that. Blend it in. Little bit of pop down there. You’re going to help yourself if you master this right on.