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The struggle is arm extension timing and direction.

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So there's two major things that you can look at when you're watching a video and you're

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seeing when the arms are releasing and kind of what direction.

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Now, we can't see on video the intention and necessarily why your arms are extending when

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they are.

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But simply put, the more that your body stops, the more that your body kind of braces,

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that's going to cause your arms to extend, the more that your body continues rotating,

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and that's going to delay the timing of those arm extension.

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So if you videotape yourself and you look at your swing or you submit it and we talk

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about the timing of when the arms extend, this is roughly what we're looking at.

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What should happen is right about here, my arms are going to start extending, but my body

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is going to continue turning, so it looks on video like they're going to be extending

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more or less down through this hitting area with everything say longer than a seven-iron.

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The wedge is it will tend to look a little bit sooner.

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So the timing of it is the later we can get the timing of that arm extension, the more

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that we're using our body to power the swing, and the more that we're going to have

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a lengthy flat spot at the bottom, because the more that my arms are extending through

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the hit, that's going to keep that club head low to the ground.

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My arms have already extended, the only way that club could say low to the ground is

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if my upper body drifted forward like that, which wouldn't be very powerful or consistent

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or easy for me to balance with.

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So the only way for me to get a really good flat spot is to delay the timing of those

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arms extending and working on getting those arms to extend down through the hit instead

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of into the hit.

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So the timing piece is a little bit pretty cut and dry.

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We can look on video and see when that right arm is starting to extend.

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The second piece is going to be the direction.

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So I really break it down because there's only two real options.

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The arms could either extend straight out away from me, kind of like so or straight out

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in front of my right shoulder, or they could extend more across my body and head of my left

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shoulder.

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So the more that my arms extend across my body, the more that they're going to go across

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kind of like so, which is similar to that white movement, similar to what we teach with

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the open trail hand.

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That's going to get the bottom this way and further forward and give me a more shallow

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contact, but it's typically also going to open the face.

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So it allows me to be more aggressive with both the supination of the lead arm as well

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as the motorcycle movement during transition.

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So a lot of golfers what they struggle with is using this arm release in order to get the

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club pointed in the general direction of the target.

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Now this can be fine for wedges when I'm releasing to get the club pointed in the direction

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of the target like so because I don't really need a really long flat spot there.

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I'm actually trying to get the bottom of the swing pretty close to where the golf wall is.

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But with the full swing of the irons, with the full swing of the driver, if the arms are

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extending too soon like so, then the club is going to come start working its way back

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up relatively quickly.

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If the arms working more across my body like so, that's going to help encourage that

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body rotation.

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In fact, if you look at it down the line camera and you see that you can you kind of look

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like this in impact where you're not seeing a whole lot of body rotation, then trying

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to get that elbow to lead that wrist and trying to get that arm to work more across your

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body will almost force the look of rotation at impact.

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In fact, that's part of my contention as to why golfers tend to look like they're more

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rotated as because of the direction that they're releasing their arms more across their

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body through the release as opposed to straight out away the way we would do in kind

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of a short game shot.

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So if you're struggling with either getting body rotation or arms releasing too soon or

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you're struggling with really consistent contact, typically working on the timing and

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the direction that the arms are starting to extend can be very helpful for lengthening

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your flat spot and working on your consistent strike.

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One last little piece about this arm timing and direction is that ultimately the timing

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of the arm extension should be driven more from the body movements, especially how my left

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leg is interacting with the ground rather than a force movement of the arms.

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So if I get to our delivery position and then I really push with that front foot through

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the ground to cause my side bend that will help trigger those arms extending.

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In addition, if my arms are working out away from me kind of like so when that leg tends

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to push that can cause me to hit behind it.

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So the more that I get my arms working more across my body then when it allows me to create

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this body side bend.

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So again the timing of when the arms should be starting to fire is driven by this brace

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of that lead leg not a forced or conscious action of the arms.

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If you're able to connect everything to the body and what the arms are trying to do,

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then conjuncture with how the body gets them to do it.

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Ultimately that will lead to the most consistent version of your swing.