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Bending your arms on the way through can cause frequent contact problems. If you struggle with fat and thin shots then you may need to work on your arm extension. When you work on your arm extension, make sure that you don't lock your elbows to your sides. It's better to strive for stability in the shoulders, rather than the elbows.
Tags: Poor Contact, Chicken Wing, Follow Through, Drill, Intermediate, Beginner
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In this concept video, we're going to investigate arm connection.
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Now, arm connection is somewhat tricky topic.
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It just takes a little bit of understanding of some
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basic anatomy concepts.
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But what I frequently see is many golfers in trying to
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brace or to get into a good connection position in the
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follow-through will overdo it and keep their arm
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their whole tricep and their whole upper arm up against
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their side.
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I think this stems from some of those drills where you'll take a
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glove and place it under your armpit or take a T in place
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it under your armpit.
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The purpose of getting that armpit connection is really
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for scapular stability.
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So if you've ever done any exercise and you've played around
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with kettlebells or some of the functional movements
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stuff, they're very big in scapular control.
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So at the top of the kettlebell swing, you want your
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shoulder to remain relatively packed.
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You don't want it to get pulled out of its socket like so.
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This is the same relationship that we want at the end of
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the follow-through position.
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So right about there, we want that same position.
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So my arms are straight and extended, but my shoulders are
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nice and retracted or stabilized.
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What I see when a lot of people are trying to get
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an armpit extension position is that they end up
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extending more from the shoulder blades and not from the
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arms.
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So I want you to focus when you're getting into that good
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three position that you're getting the armpit extension
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from the arms and not from the shoulder blade.
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Or yeah, not from the shoulder blade.
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All you need at the shoulder blades is for the scap to
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stay stabilized.
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You don't really need the arms to stay up against
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your body.
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They're going to drift out, but they'll be in a strong packed
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position so that if something was to pull me that way,
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my shoulders would be able to absorb that speed.
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One way that I work on this with students that you'll have
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to try to kind of improvise yourself is in nine to three
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shots, I'll have them go to the finished position and I'll
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kind of all stay in there and pull on the club or I'll walk
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to there once they're done hitting.
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And I'll pull on the club just to feel that the arms are
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relaxed, but that I can't pull them over and that basically
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their whole unit or the energy would go through the shoulder
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blades.
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If they're here, if I go to pull, it's going to pull them over.
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So if you have someone who can grab the club and pull it,
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that's great.
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Otherwise, you can just kind of do this little pump movement
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where you're basically feeling almost retract, protract
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of the shoulders, but the arms are relatively loose.
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And then what you can do is you can dial in that retract
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feeling and then take some swings.
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We're basically it gets to that feeling where the arms are
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soft and extending, but the shoulder blades are actually
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stabilizing.
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This will help you with your bracing and your follow-through
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position, which will ultimately help you get it get rid of a
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little bit of that scoop or stand-up movement down through
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the wall because that's an alternative to stabilizing in
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the shoulder.
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So when you're doing these 9 to 3 in focusing on that
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scaps ability, you would get to the end position and then
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if I did that facing this way, get to that end position and
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then just kind of softly float the arms out towards the target.
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From the face on view, we're going to do that same little
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pattern and we're just going to let those arms pump a few
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times in that follow-through.
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So we're there and then we just kind of feel that softness
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in the arms, but that's the ability and the shoulder blades.
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Use that to help you with your stability position in your 9
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to 3 training.
