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In this analysis video, we're going to look at examples of the arm movements and how

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they relate to the shallowing of the club.

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So over on the right, as I used in the details of the arm shallowing, we can see Ben

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Hogan demonstrating, he's talking about his lower body, but you can see as he gets into

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this position, his left elbow is roughly above his right, not exactly, but you can see

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that there's kind of in a similar path, similar point there.

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Now we're going to use that as a reference as far as this shallow movement.

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So the elbows do a great job of showing us what the shoulders are doing, right?

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The hands to the elbow shows us a lot of what the forearm's doing and the elbows can help

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us see what the shoulders are doing.

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So here we have a kind of a novice golfer, and as he comes down, you can see that his elbows

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are roughly parallel to the ground, if anything, that right elbow is actually a little

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bit higher, and we can use that as a reference against the spine angle, and we can see

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that there's a pretty good difference between the two.

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We were looking at Ben Hogan here, his spine would be kind of like so, and his elbows are kind

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of like this, it would be less than an angle.

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It'll make more sense when we take a look at some of the pros from that same down the line

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view.

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So now over here on the left we're going to have a golfer who tends to battle hooks because

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he does most of his shallowing from his body, and then over here on the right we have

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Carl Peterson who's an awesome ball striker.

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So what used the elbow location during the backswing is kind of their reference, so you

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can see that roughly Carl spine is kind of like this, and at this point his arms are

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more or less perpendicular to it.

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Now as he goes up towards the top of the swing and he starts back down you can see that

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the spine angle pretty much stayed the same, but now instead of having the right elbow above

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the right elbow is below, we're closer to that angle of the spine.

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So here we have the same two lines over on the left, as he goes up we'll see that there's

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a big shift as far as what his elbows look like, but you can also see that there was a

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bout an equal shift in what's going on with his body.

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So the other way to kind of look at it is he gets to a similar elbow orientation as Carl,

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but Carl did it while his posture if anything got steeper by dropping slightly down, where

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the gentleman left it by standing up.

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We're going to take a look at a few more tour pros to see examples of this elbow orientation

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during the transition position.

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So here we have two more examples, Jordan's feet on the left, Graham on the right.

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We're going to use the kind of elbows compared to the spine as a representation of what

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kind of shoulder rotation movements they're doing.

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So you'll see his spine has dropped down, but now on the way down his right elbow is getting

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slightly underneath the left.

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Graham is going to do it a little bit more, so we'll see those elbows roughly parallel

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to the ground at this point.

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His spine is actually getting down, but we can see that as he comes down now his right

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elbow is underneath the left, similar to what Ben Hogan was demonstrating in the early

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part of the video.

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Let's look at a few more.

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So here two more fun examples, we've Kenny Perry on the left and Sergio on the right.

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Now Sergio will actually demonstrate that he does not do a lot of that rotation from the

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shoulders.

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You can see that the elbows, which is going to give us a better indication of what's

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going on at the shoulders, are is relatively level.

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Now he still gets it the flatten, which means he's doing it more from his forearms,

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because that's his only other option.

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But that's the only other way that you could have your upper body go down slightly the

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way that we want during transition, which is an indication of how well you are using the

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ground.

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So here we have Kenny Perry up at the top of the swing with his slight loss of posture.

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So you'll see that upper body start working down, but you can see that right elbow

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working underneath the left and that left arm slightly rotating.

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That's what helps get in that appearance of the elbows more parallel to the spine angle as

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opposed to perpendicular as we saw with the amateurs.

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Now I like to show you some of the differences between the driver and the iron.

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Anytime I'm doing these videos, so here we have Steve Strikker with the driver.

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You'll see that right elbow gets well under the left, so he's created that shallow movement

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with the shoulders.

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But here he's hitting just a three-quarter wedge, and you'll see that as he comes down,

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even though the spine angle is relatively the same, you can see that he hasn't had nearly

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as much of the shoulder rotation.

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So it's not as critical for the short shots.

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Filmmackelsim would be another one who doesn't make the adjustment with his driver, and

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that's part of the reason why he struggles with the driver.

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And one more set of examples.

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I wanted to show you that it is possible to see from the face on view.

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I think it's easier from the down line, but from the face on view what you'd be looking

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for is the ability to see that trail arm underneath the lead arm as they approach delivery

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position.

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So kind of down in this area and then looking at the timing of when you start to see that

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left arm on top of the right, that's giving you an indication of how much those shoulders

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have rotated.

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So here cameras a little bit higher, but you can see the point of that elbow.

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Actually Nick Watney does it more than Graham, but you'll see similar movement where we

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can see that right elbow just underneath the left as they approach delivery position.

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I can give you an indication of what they're doing with the shoulders, how they're

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shallowing it out, and how it relates to the rest of the swing.

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This shoulder movement is one of the movements that I see unlock a lot of things for the

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parameters, but some of the coaches who use our site have indicated that it's one of

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the key movements that they use, especially for golfers who tend to get over the top,

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struggle with open club face and tend to struggle with having enough body rotation on

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the way through.

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So if that fits your description, consider looking into the different videos we have

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on how to properly shallow out the club using your arms.