Stop A Bent Left Arm Destroying Your Ball Striking In Golf

keeping the lead arm rigid or bold straight in the golf swing is that something you should do or not let's discuss so lots of golfers believe that keeping the left arm straight is vital to play Great Golf and it certainly is not the worst thought I've ever he but there certainly is a little bit of flexibility you can let the left arm soften I would call rather than collapse and still play Great Golf and it can add extra power in if you've got a particularly short gol swing it can add that extra lever uh and particularly good if you've got like a lack of mobility and you want to get the swing longer and create some more speed but but most of us certainly could have some structure added to our lead arm let's get into it so we see lots of golfers that when they swing the golf club kind of get this kind of underturned bent lead arm look in the back swing now if you have both of those things that's certain here is a really poor recipe to play Great Golf if you're changing the radius of your goal swing to get consistent contact is difficult okay if you're not turning your arms will want to pick up the kind of let's say pick up the workload to try and make you swing bigger and again orbe was some people that is the only option we want to feel like we can turn and keep the lead arm straight is some Bend is absolutely fine let's not be overcritical one of the reasons this arm bends is because we tend to grip it it sometimes in the palm of a hand so if I grip the golf club say somewhere like this that will make my arm want to bend because my wrist won't be cocking or loading in the correct place so the elbow takes the brunt to the force so gripping it in the fingers holding the club on my shoulder and then taking my grip with my fingers like this is a great way to feel am I holding the club in the right place making sure I can use the club with ease like a kind of hammer action like I'm knocking the nail in is also a great way of checking if the grip's in the right location then when we swing it's important to feel the lead arm has some kind of control and strength if the lead arm is floppy when we take the club back we might need to build up the dominance in that arm because we are as right-handed golfers or as I am as a right-handed golfer quite dominant with our right arm so we might need to build up that dominance with that lead arm just to feel feel it work away but essentially what we need to do is feel that we can turn and push the lead arm away with our Trail arm that kind of extensor action that really helps treat this lead arm with structure we can also do some various other drills where we kind of push to the ground and swing back and feel like our hands this part of our hand you is really pushing away that's a great way of Feeling Again with lengthening this arm and creating some form of structure keep using that word structure it's an important word from a physical point of view the anything else that can be an issue is the lat if the lat is tight you'll struggle to keep the lead arm straight so what I'd like you to do is make a few practice swings one-handed and then put the trail hand on and push away and get an idea of how that feels and we can even do that hitting don't worry about how well you hit it doing that it's really just to feel that kind of width and structure conceptually we're going to try and feel out our hands are as wide as they can be away from the golf ball and our body at the top of the swing that doesn't mean you can have a huge sway away it's purely the arm extension action we're looking for a good phase two would be to put a alignment Rod or a golf club on the ground and you'll see here when I take my address position I'm putting this probably two Club head wids outside my foot which is an exaggeration we don't need to be there I'm really going to try and push the boundaries and what I'm going to try and do is is when I swing is trying to feel it my glove is this side of that Rod trying to turn and tilt and keep my glove that side of the rod again if the arm has a slight bit of Bend in it I'm okay with that pure collapse is what we're not okay with keeping the arm comfortably straight helps the radius of the go swing there I feel felt sweet effortless really felt really wide I'm really kind of body Le rather than arm leg because I'm keeping that structure as best I can so the guys that feel kind of flappy and army like this in the GOL swing keeping the width and keeping the lead arm what you feel is more structured or straighter will help that so in essence the arm can bend but let's make sure we can keep it fairly straight or comfortably straight as the word I would use by checking your grip if your lat feels like it's tight when you're doing it you could stretch your lat out look up that on some other YouTube videos but also just trying to feel we have the extension action and pushing action with the arms as we swing back as we make a nice turn is essential to help control that rise of the swing and give us consistent contact give it a go and let me know how you get on