Right Arm in Downswing: Stop Casting
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In this video, you’ll find out: 1) How Tiger Woods builds lag for power, 2) What to feel with your right arm in the downswing to maintain lag, and 3) When you should fire your right arm for a powerful release.
- Casting Caused by Extending Right Arm Early
- Keep Right Arm Bent Late Into Downswing
- Right Elbow Extends Like Piston Through Impact
Hi, I'm the lag doctor, Clay Ballard, and I know a lot of you out there have been struggling with casting in your golf swing.
What casting is, it's really your right tricep firing at the wrong time in the swing.
As we go to the top of the swing, as I'm starting down, This right tricep is firing that's extending your arm and causing you to cast this club and lose lag early in your downswing.
The key for this all has to do with your right elbow, and I'm going to show you what to do with your right elbow first without a club here.
So, a great feeling to have is that as you're starting your downswing, let's start with no club at first, and I'm going to work my right elbow what feels like in front of my belly button.
So, I'm working my right arm in front of my belly button this way without extending this right arm.
So, you'll notice that this right arm is still bent as I'm working this club in front, and that's going to allow me to create a lot of lag.
So, let's go ahead and take a look at this with Tiger Woods and his swing and see this Okay.
So, here we have Tiger Woods, and in his downswing, one thing you'll notice is that well into his downswing, he keeps this right arm bent, so you can clearly see a lot of bend in his right arm here.
And all the way down into his swing, he's keeping this right arm bent and working it back in front of his body.
So, This is the position that I was just demonstrating to you in the video, where it feels like your right elbow is working in front of your belly button.
Now, obviously it's not actually going to get in front of your belly button, but that's the filling.
The right arm is working down, it's remaining bent, and this right tricep back here on the back of your arm, we're looking at the front of the arm here, but on the back of the arm, it's not firing yet.
And then we're going to get to the point of release where this right arm is firing, and that's what's going to get speed.
And now you can see that this right arm is straight, great extension here, and that's going to be the key to speed.
So, we want to get the speed at the bottom of the swing, and if you're casting, you're losing that speed because you're extending the arm too early.
Okay, so we saw Tiger Woods doing that exact same motion.
He was building lag, working his arm in front of his body, and then he's going to release that to get speed.
So if you're casting, you're releasing early, you're firing this right tricep which extends your arm from the elbow way too early in the swing.
We need to be saving that up by working our elbow in front of our body, and then releasing that later in our swing.
Thanks for taking the time to watch this video, I really appreciate it, guys.
Now, one thing that I'm absolutely certain of is that we can all improve our golf game.
All we need is the correct information and some smart work.
Good luck with your golf game, I can't wait to work with you more on the website.
I'll see you soon.
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