Right Arm Backswing Drill
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This is an excellent drill to train your mind to use your torso rotation to move the club rather than swinging your arms around the body.
- The Right Arm Drill helps you learn to let the torso rotation carry the arms & club back, instead of actively moving them
- In setup position, do the shoulder elevation and right elbow flexion to "preset" the right arm
- Hold the right arm in place while you rotate your upper torso - torso & arm rotate back as a unit, with no additional motion provided by the arm
- After you are comfortable with the drill, add the club and left hand back in
The most common backswing problem that we see on a daily basis is for somebody to take their left arm and swing it across their body going back.
It's in an effort to try and create a swing plane.
This golfer is typically trying to swing their arms in such a way to create a plane for the club to swing on.
It's not necessary.
And in fact, it introduces way more problems than learning how to swing back correctly.
So that's what we're going to show you today.
I have a drill I call the right arm drill, Which is just basically presetting your right arm in the correct position from a dress that it's going to be at.
At the top of the swing and turning back to learn how your body is, what's transporting the club rather than you trying to create this artificial swing plane.
So let me show you what that looks like.
From face on, All you're going to do is you're going to do a little bit of shoulder elevation, like we talked about in Move two.
So a little bit of shoulder elevation with the right arm, and then go ahead and fold or do right elbow flexion and put your arm in a preset position where you want at the top.
Once you're here, you should notice that your bicep and your upper chest are touching.
And now all you're going to do is pull that right shoulder blade back, turn back, and don't move your arm at all.
This is key because everybody wants to take that arm and start to push it away from the body so that at the top of the swing, instead of being in a good position, they end up way out here.
So what you're going to do is you're going to preset the right arm and now turn your body back and don't move the arm at all.
There's no movement of the shoulder going or the arm moving away from the body at the shoulder joint.
It's just turning back.
So once you start to feel this, you can feel how your arms, your right arm stays in position throughout the swing.
Now, once you get comfortable with that, do it with both arms and get a club.
So now my arm's set.
Now I'm just going to turn back to the top of my swing.
My arms are not swinging.
I'm not trying to create any momentum or create a swing plane.
I'm just setting myself at the top of the swing and turning back.
That's all we're wanting to do.
We don't want to end up out here.
This is swinging the left arm or pushing from the left side.
That's going to create that position where the arm comes way away from the body.
So, the simple right arm drill will get you the feeling of how your body is going to rotate and transport the arms and club back, rather than just your arms.
Now your arms have a job to do.
The left arm has a job to do.
But the catch is most people overdo it.
So you need to really focus on turning back and keeping that right arm in place.
When you get to the top of your swing, just doing the right arm drill, if you keep it in position, you should really feel this lat engage.
You're going to feel your shoulder down and in.
And you'll feel that your right arm and upper bicep and chest are still touching.
That's where you're trying to get at the top of the swing.
So do this simple right arm drill.
If you look at the top of your swing on video and see your right elbow coming way away from your body, This will help you get that feeling of the body, transporting the arms and club back and get you in a much better position at the top.
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