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Bottom Rib Backswing

Keeping your trail arm straight can be thought of as a relationship between the arms and the rib cage. One phrase that I use is "keep the trail arm in front of the trail pec". For some golfers, they lose it early in the backswing because the body stops turning and the arm keeps pulling. This creates tension on the front of the shoulder instead of on the armpit side of the shoulder. To feel tension better, feel the bottom ribs on the right side keep moving and stay further away from the golf ball than the arm.

Tags: Standing Up, Chicken Wing, Backswing, Drill, Intermediate

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This drill is the bottom rib backswing. So this

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is a drill for helping work on keeping your Trail arm

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in front of your PEC or the Jazzy Jeff move or or basically

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this relationship here. A lot of inconsistent golfers

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do so because the

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arm gets too far behind that right arm gets behind and

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then they have to do some version of a compensation

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on the downswing and there has to be some version of

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a ketchup move. They're very few who tend

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to coordinate more like a gym Furyk

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or a Rory McIlroy.

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So most of the time when this arm gets

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behind you're going to tend to see a little bit more of a dump

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or a slide or a stall and

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throw but some of these things that require more timing. So

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one of our goals in the backswing if we're going to use more of our

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body and our downswing is to keep this arm a little

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bit more in front and use more of a body wind up in the

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backswing. So one of the concepts here is

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there's a relationship between your arm and your ribs where

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your arms in your body.

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In order for me to keep this arm in front and make

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this backswing my ribs are going to

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have to turn in fact, I like to.

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Grab onto or I kind of activate this

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area here. So I'll kind of poke these bottom ribs. These

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are the like the bottom the 10th rib kind of right in here

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on the side here. Now, what I'm going to try to do is in this

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next backswing I'm going to try to feel like I take this away from

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my arm if my arm pulls behind

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this rib, then it's going to tend to

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have to bend but if I keep that rib moving and staying

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on this side of the arm, then essentially the arm stays

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more in front of my body. So as an exaggeration

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almost becomes more of kind of a float load

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where I'm going to turn my hips

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and rib and that keeps moving until

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pretty much I can't move anymore and then the

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arms can finish it. So backswing wise

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I'm gonna do a little isolated drill hit from

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the top so I'm gonna feel like this is going to get to

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there while my arms stay.

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out in front so I'm gonna

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turn that there.

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Just like that.

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And then from there.

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Turn my hips and my core and feel like the arms kind of

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playing the club a little bit.

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So let's do that again.

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So backswing, I'm gonna feel like that 10th rib gets out

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of the way.

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Arms are a little bit more and a wide and in front and

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then from there.

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Turn through turning my hips and my

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core flip that one just a tiny bit. So let's get one more good one,

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but backswing's feeling very nice and

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fully turned good. That one

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was really nice there. So now I'm gonna try to

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shorten the pause or feel

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like I get that backswing load

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from that 10th rib, you might feel more in your legs

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getting loaded or you might feel more in your core. Everybody's a

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little different as far as where they feel it, but you should

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definitely feel less shoulder load or

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or when I pull this arm back. In fact,

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if you're sitting there you can do that when you pull this arm back you're gonna feel a bunch

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of tension on the front of the shoulder and you might feel some tension on the back here.

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If I do this movement here, I feel none of

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those I feel a little bit of tension up in the back side of the shoulder or

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more down in the ribs and into the

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core. Okay. So now let's combo this

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together. I'm gonna get that

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10th rib to finish the backswing while the

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arm stays to the left side of it.

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Just like that. So if you're struggling with bending the arm,

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you can see one of the ways to stop that arm from bending.

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Is to get the rib to rotate further than

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the arm. If you do that, you're almost half to

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keep the arm in front and therefore it's going to say a

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lot straighter.

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