STOP Letting Your Trail Arm Ruin Your Golf Swing!

If you struggle with inconsistent golf, you're probably overpowering your swing with your dominant arm. Now for me, that's my trail arm. Let me explain to you how we can change that. So most golfers are right-handed, a high percentage, and most golfers' swing fault would be a kind of hands moving out over the top of the downswing. Now as a right-handed person, the right arm, right shoulder becomes very dominant and it's very hard not to be that way. Now if we are going to be dominant with the trail hand, it's very important that we try and actively move it the right way and that's one thing we will talk about is if we were going to again throw a ball, that right arm, right shoulder would be in the correct angle and plane to deliver that pressure onto the golf ball. It certainly wouldn't feel natural doing it this way. But when we get to golf and we stand beside the golf ball and the ball's certainly more up in the stance, it definitely will promote us more to be even more dominant with our trail side. So what we're going to look at today is a few practice swings and exercises you can do to reduce the amount this trail arm, trail hand is dominant to help most golfers. Now the idea would be obviously that we want the left hand to feel like it's doing this more, it's more in charge, the right arm is more a passenger. That's the theory. But if we are going to move the right arm, we want to move it the right way. So if you take your right hand only in the golf club, as we swing down, I want you to feel this trail elbow points more towards the golf ball and the club points above the golf ball. And we feel that the trail shoulder works towards the trail ankle in transition, as opposed to that move where you see that the elbow points more behind me, but the club points more towards me and the trail shoulder moves away from that trail ankle almost immediately. So if we are going to promote the trail shoulder correctly, it's this move. You can focus on the shoulder, the butt of the club, the elbow, all three practice swings. And certainly the more you practice that in the garden or even in the living room with a little small swings, it'll help the way your trail arm behaves. Now for the guys that want a bit more hardcore feelings from this, what I would recommend is this following exercise. So we take our lead hand, place that on the golf club only. We take the trail hand and we're going to basically let it kind of float like this. But what we're going to try and do is in the swing, use it as a supporting role, but not a dominant role. So because I'm not gripping it with my hands properly, the trail arm can't do as much. Also having the hand more in this kind of position like this in the palm position, it allows the trail arm to fold a little bit better in the backswing. So it allows us to do this action more as opposed to this internal action more. So it has other benefits too. But what we're going to try and do is one, the practice swings, try and keep that trail arm in the same position. And also we're going to try and hit some soft shots. Some of you might need to tee the ball up for this and certainly I won't be hitting pretty shots doing this, but it's all about again training that feeling. Trail arm floating, trail hand floating, rather. Good. So it doesn't feel as powerful as normal and it probably would take quite a number of reps until it does. But it definitely feels massively different. My trail shoulder feels like it's doing a totally different action. So that would be the exercise I'd recommend you do. And again, if you don't want to hit golf balls with it, just do this practice swinging. But if you are going to make practice swings, make it active practice swings and do them at an object, at a leaf or a tee that makes it a bit more real for you. Air balls in the garden, something like that. And what I'd recommend is you do quite a few reps like that and then the normal swing and see how it just affects you, influences you to change a little bit. For the guys that are the right side dominant guys that want to feel, well, I'm still going to use my right arm. I can't get out of using it. Let's just try and have some visuals here. So if I take my roughly. In transition now, I'm going to try and get my trail shoulder to work towards that golf ball. Again, I'm avoiding it going forward. I want it to work this way. That makes my right side bend. I also want at the same time, ideally some lateral movement of the hips so I don't hit it fat and heavy. But it's more about getting the direction in this arm and shoulder to go this way as opposed towards the golf ball. It's kind of away from the goal ball rather than towards the ball. Maybe the opposite of what you think you should do. So if I take my set now, top my back swing, trail shoulder towards that golf ball. Don't care I hit this ball. So it went to the right, like I'd expect if I overdo this, and it was a little heavy. But the feeling is really just training the arm to work differently. To stop that dominance that we get as natural right-handed golfers. For me, for left-handed golfers, if that's the way, if you're left-handed playing right-handed, it's probably an advantage. You will still have issues in your golf swing, but it's probably an advantage because your right side won't want to be naturally as dominant as you swing down. So for you guys to come over the top, to slice the golf ball, trying this right arm, right hand off drill will certainly help you change the pattern of movement to make you swing differently, to change the fortunes of your golf swing. If you're new to the channel, please like, share and subscribe, it really helps. I hope to see you back here real soon.