How to keep your arms straight in golf: In this golf lesson, Eric Cogorno reveals the exact arm motion drill that helped him hit irons solid and gain 15 yards with a recent student. Learn how the best ball strikers use their arms in the golf swing to create consistent, powerful contact.
⏰ TIMESTAMPS:
🏌️ 0:00 The Arm Straightening Secret to Hit Irons Solid
⚡ 0:29 15-Yard Distance Gain: Real Student Transformation
🎯 0:55 3 Fatal Arm Mistakes Killing Your Iron Contact
💪 1:30 How Tour Pros Extend Their Arms (vs. Amateurs)
🔥 2:39 The Club Head Path That Creates Pure Contact
⛳ 3:43 Straighten & Square: The Two-Part Formula
🏆 4:40 Hip-High Drill: Level 1 Arm Training Station
✅ 6:15 The Exact Follow-Through Position You Need
💥 8:36 Elephant Trunk Feel: In-to-Out Arm Motion
🚀 10:09 Swing Plane Station Setup for Consistent Draws
📈 11:19 Progression: Hip High → Shoulder High → Full Swing
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In This Video, You’ll Discover:
• The proven drill Eric used for 7-10 years to transform his iron striking and learn how to play golf at a competitive level
• Why bending arms toward your body destroys contact (and the opposite motion PGA Tour players use)
• How to keep your arms straight in golf while maintaining natural rotation for square contact
• The “elephant trunk” feel that helps you train straight arms in the golf swing
• Exact progression system: hip-high → shoulder-high → full golf swing
• How one student gained 15 yards and eliminated weak fades using this golf drill
• The relationship between arm extension, divot contact, and hitting irons solid
• Why your head position and shoulder angle matter as much as your arm motion
This is a fundamental in the golf swing that separates inconsistent ball strikers from players who compress their irons like PGA Tour professionals. Eric breaks down the exact arm straightening motion, natural rotation, and body movement that creates effortless power and precision.
The three-level progression system ensures you master each component before advancing. Start with the hip-high thud drill, progress to shoulder-high holds, then integrate into your full golf swing. This is the same teaching method Eric has used successfully with students for 20 years.
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This is a great Drill!
question: should I be feeling my " in to out " swing path towards 1st base ?….thanks
Part of the issue I find is that if I do something like this, I end up reaching for the ball (with zero hinge at impact) and often strike it very heel-side (or even on the hosel). I then counteract this by standing up and early extending. It feels like swapping one issue for another.
This is, honestly, such an important topic.
During a practice swing or training, i can make this happen.
However, when i get over the ball, I just wanna bring my arms up into my body.
I end up hitting the toe a bunch, leave my face open, and kinda sweep across the ball.
I can see on my replays at the sim, exactly how my face interacts with the ball but have such a hard time dealing with it.
When i really get my arms working the way the video describes, I feel like i can effortless CRUSH the ball.
Last night at the sim (still pretty cold up here in canada) I had a tee shot near the end of my round. Was a 315y par 4.
Just was kinda done with my round, a lil tired, etc. But just took a pretty casual swing focusing on getting my arms extended.
Hit it with a 115mph club speed, carried 297 and rolled out to 311.
Too bad my next drive i really tried to crush and ended up in my old habits ha.
Love the tips Eric. Your channel is one of the good ones!
I'm in the 20% that hits hooks and pushes. Could you do a video on how to get more rotation?
Eric, I have a question. I have seen a few videos from you on this extension and it has helped me, but what I'm not seeing is in the irons swing, the lateral move toward the target and the left shoulder actually moving down and toward the target first. Almost a falling onto the left side.
Any way you could take a look at that and maybe do a video explaining the two and combining them?
I was hitting well and then get into a rabbit hole of watching these videos and end up hitting bad. Fml.
Watched this last night and worked on it today. I've been so focused on putting myself in position numbers and been really struggling for a while, so to almost give up control and just think about swinging my arms has instantly helped me a lot. Great simple to understand teaching thanks Eric 👏
5 years ago this Eric Cogorno guy had my game rockin and rollin, single digit handicap from a 20+. I haven't watched your vids in a while and I'm back up to double digits again. I guess you can say IM BACK BABY! ready to go back to single digits
In my low 70s (not golf scores😜) and have gotten back to the game after ‘life’ got in the way of the game. 50+ years back I was a very solid 7-10 handicapper. Today, hell it’s easily 20+ and that’s by using my foot-wedge occasionally-:) It’s very rare for me to subscribe to any YT account, but I have found this gentleman’s videos, to include this one, to be excellent. It’s amazing what I’ve forgotten over the years, meaning golf ‘stuff’. Hopefully, memory loss stops at golf techniques😉
Anyway, glad I ‘stumbled’ (figure of speech-:) across this guy.
Golf never gets old …like, well, never mind. God bless y’all
Thank you EC
Wow. Can't tell you how many vids I've saved over the years but few if any have explained and demonstrated cause, effect , and the fix as clearly. Earned a solid follow and eill recommend to others. Well done snd thanks.
Eric, your stuff is always spot on!! This is great advice! Just don't forget to turn the lower body…
Rotation is the key
Dang, you've been doing some leg work, haven't you?
Eric… I have to say this was one of your best topics. When you think about all the lessons out there, it's 95% about the set up and backswing. This "inside to out" part added a much needed dimension for me. Thank you!
I found my so far perfect swing yesterday.
Instead of squaring face to where i want to hit it. I opened the face up a little.
I hit the ball straight every single time.
It worked for every club irons woods even driver.
I couldnt believe it.
Plus 140yrds out of bunker
Onto green and 2 ft from pin for birdy on par4 with my 9i.
Probly my best game of my life so far.
I did the same with my wedges and it worked.
I have never been able to hit clean with my 69°. Yesterday that was my go to wedge around the green.
Eureka moment Eric! Probably THE best golf instruction video I’ve ever seen. It works. At least 10 yards gained per club and a nice baby draw. Thank you
You are basically explaining the same what my pro taught me just a week ago. Great to have someone show and correct on your own swing and even better to have a video like this to come back to and repeat any time.
Thank you for all your work – you're a great instructor! Love from Austria on the other side of the lake (:
Hey Eric, I've seen quite a few of your videos and something that I notice is that you always super exaggerate the fault, which is good in some ways, but I think it would be more useful to showcase an example of a more subtle version of the fault, which would be more similar to what most people are swinging like
Great Channel and Great lessons I took a one on one lesson with Martin Chuck in AZ one of the swing thoughts he gave me was to feel like I’m hitting the Ball with my Right shoulder and I think this lesson has allot of that in it keep up the good work
Thanks for this very clear explanation. This is extremely useful!! Glad i subscribed to your channel.
Brilliant. One of the best iron instructions. I've been playing 50 years and have struggled hit the ground past the ball. Now its easy. Thank you.
Get that right knee to the ball.
P8 extension. The best players bend back
Thanks Eric, improving day by day with your videos and tips. Thanks Oscar. Canada
Eric great video instruction as always. I have tried this in the past however was not closing the face and lacked proper body rotation. I don’t chicken wing. Arms straight towards the right resulted with me presenting the hosel and a super open club face through the ball. This resulted in me pulling the handle left to try and close the face. I will set up the station and try this tomorrow. Best ball tournament in a few days so worked driver and 3W. Focused on letting my left arm rotate and bend thru impact…found the center of the club face quite a bit using impact tape. Can’t wait to get my mount to be able to to start using the swing coach app.
Thanks for this video. This has found me at the perfect time.
I am a fairly new golfer but had a bit of a natural knack for it – I found myself only hitting draws or hooks to begin with, never slicing except with woods. And the times where the shot felt really good I would get this amazing feeling of the club pulling me forward with my RIGHT arm and almost folding my torso in half, resulting in a very solid feeling finish and feeling just like a pro :D.
It's funny because I was intentionally hitting very in-to-out to avoid slicing and must have accidentally fluked it and discovered correct technique!
Anywho… Fast forward a bit and I have been wrestling with fixing a hook/flipping face and struggling to find this feeling again because I have been taking a bunch of bad advice! Too many golf tips emphasize tiny details like bowed wrists and weight shift etc etc, which are actually the RESULT of swinging your swing with the correct intention and allowing your instincts to do the rest! (in to out path, rotate body to straighten path and create "whip")
It's very reassuring now to see that I was instinctually doing the right thing from day 1, everything makes sense now (need loads of practice of course xD)!
It's funny how many things in life you get worse before you get better and a lot is learned either way.
Time to go chase that "being pulled away by the club" feeling at the range again! Working on small half swings with PW and 7i of course 🙂