Fix Overswing/Across the Line - Flying Right Elbow
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If you want to cure your overswing/across-the-line swing, you first need to diagnose the cause. This video will show you the 4 main causes and get you started on your path to correcting yours!
- 4 Main Causes Over Swinging:
- Right Knee Bent and Forward
- Limit Hip Rotation to 45 Degrees
- Right Arm Wide and In Front Of Torso
- Wrists Do Not Fully Set in Backswing
another really common cause of the overswing and getting across the line and for those of you that aren't sure if you do this look in the mirror look at your video when you look at your swing and if you see that club pointing to the right of the target you're in trouble because the club has to try and reroute itself or you're going to reroute the club from back over here and it needs to somehow get back on the target line and so not only is it going to lead to dramatic inconsistency with ball flight direction but also with the quality of the strike because most golfers who swing way across the line tend to come way from the inside and the club comes in really shallow now if the higher handicapper who gets way across the line then starts to come way over the top too so we don't want to do that if you're at that level we really need to focus on just some really critical fundamentals that are going to get you getting the club on plane at the top because it makes everything so much easier coming down if you're not trying to make all these compensations from the top of your backswing after all the backswing is the easy part to get right the downswing is the part where stuff is really happening very quickly and there's a lot more moving parts that are happening a lot more explosively so if we're in a bad position at the top that's going to make it really hard unnecessarily difficult to get the club down into a good position coming down to impact so how do we get this club from going way across the line well we need to understand what would allow the club to get into that position the first one that i want to talk about here is what this right arm does if you're a left right -handed golfer during the backswing now if you've watched the five minutes the perfect backswing video you know that really the arms only do this during the backswing but if your arm does this guess what's going to happen to that club the arms should never ducked away from the body during the backswing like this because guess what that does to my wrist it makes it point in now looking at the camera from this perspective this looking from the camera this would be on plane as you're doing this drill this would be across the line now notice what happens to my left wrist it gets into this cupped position and how i'm doing that is taking my right arm and moving it away from my body and that is what's going to get you into this position so if you go to the top and you look like this check your right elbow first if it's getting into this position you know for a fact that you need to go back and watch that five minutes the perfect backswing video because you're doing way too much with your right arm and what you need to do is take your body get the club up to the top with your left arm and bring the right arm up to support it underneath so that it's not swinging out away from you the right arm you should feel that your bicep is still touching your chest at the top of your swing it shouldn't be pushed way out like this there's no reason for it to ever go there so that's the number one thing that you're going to check now from there you could still get pretty floppy with your wrist and so what i want you to then look at is the position of your wrist let's just pretend that your elbow is in the right spot but you still have the club across the line at the top is your left wrist cupped if so flatten it out now notice just making one little change from a cupped wrist to a flat wrist look where the club goes moves it several feet just by making that one little tweak so if you put those two checks together the right arm staying in front and the left wrist staying flat the club will have a really hard time going across the line at the top so as far as the going across the line check the arms first and if the arms are going wrong then you need to go back and look at that right leg video where i'm talking about loading up the right leg so that you don't straighten up your right knee and let your hips slide because that will also allow you to get across the line at the top
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Thomas
Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
Thomas
Craig (Certified RST Instructor)