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The trail arm has the responsibility of setting the club during the backswing so that it is ready for the movements of transition and the downswing. Often, if the arm looks out of position, it is because the body has not done enough and relied on too much movement of the arm. Learn the common pitfalls and checkpoints for properly training this position in this video.
Tags: Backswing, Drill, Intermediate, Beginner
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This drill is right arm backswing. So in this drill we're just going to practice
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kind of pre-setting where the right arm is going to be at the top but kind of
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down and set up and then figure out a way to get it there. Okay so essentially
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what we're going to do is we're going to take our good setup position and then
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you're going to take your right arm and bring it in towards your side kind of
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like so and do the little claw where the hand points away from you like so. Now
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what we're going to do from here is we're going to make our good pivot so that
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this arm is kind of still in that reference compared to my body. It can move a
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little bit this way but it's not allowed to move a whole lot this way. Okay so it
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can kind of winch your wiper a little bit. It can set a little bit more but we're
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not allowed to let it go back here. Okay so from here we're going to make that
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backswing pivot and then we're going to take our left arm and we're going to bring
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it so that they kind of meet. So I'll do it facing this way. So you're going to take
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your setup position. Right arm is in this good little claw in towards my side palm
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facing away thumb roughly up or point it even out that direction. Then I'm going to
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make my backswing pivot and then I'm going to bring my left arm across my body.
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Now they'll adjust a little bit but bringing this left arm to that right arm is
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going to help you feel like you're in a good position for what we want to do in
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getting into this delivery position in the downswing. What most of you or what a
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lot of you may do is not use this upper body to turn and basically just bring
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the arm here and now my hands can't even reach or when I go this arm will be way
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back here and again they're not going to be able to reach unless I rotate my arm
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this way. Now I said we're allowed to wiggle this way and what's called external
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rotation but I don't want you doing a whole lot of internal rotation unless you
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absolutely have to. So this is a great way to feel some of this proper back swing
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position. So if you think your back swing is part of the reason you're having trouble
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with your downswing then give it a little bit of attention.
