Working on trail elbow extending too fast

Hi Phu, Thanks for posting and giving us something to talk about. The trail arm has a strong relationship to the pivot so we know that we'll have to use our core differently but to dig deeper, let's work backward from impact. Also, a face on video could have been helpful At impact, if you were going to have a more bent right arm, then the right shoulder socket would have to accommodate and be lower (more side bent). The right arm would either have to be more in front of the body or more behind. The right shoulder blade would have to be slightly more retracted. Feeling-wise, you'd have more of a feeling of a crunch, maybe more of a posterior tilt of the pelvis, and the wrists would have more of a motorcycle (you don't have very much in your swing). If we then back up to p5.5, we'll see that the shaft is on the steep side, the trail arm is a little bit more internally rotated and the trail arm is slightly externally rotated. These are all indicators of more of a steeper arm pull, which usually matches up with an earlier arm straightening. Then if we look at p6, the chest and pelvis are both slightly under-rotated and the lead wrist is in a similar position to where it was in the takeaway (no motorcycle) Lastly, if we look at the swing-through impact into the early follow-through, the lead arm has the appearance of pulling (and maybe going into early external rotation, but too hard to see from just the DTL). So you have a few opportunities to play around with. For sure, we need to get more turtle shell and ab activity down near impact. You could experiment with that combined with some lead arm blocking in some 9-3's. Sometimes that helps shallow the club indirectly. Or you could work on transition pumps to get the body more rotated and the shaft a little flatter. I've had each work well for many different players, so it's more about experimenting to see which clicks best for you. Keep us posted, or comment if you have any follow-up questions! Tyler

No worries, but I've said before, I think the face on view shows about 80% of the key elements, while DTL shows only a few. I think most of the reason you struggle with the trail arm bend will show up easier in the FO. It makes sense that your path moves to +10. Your body is overly shallow (less rotation and higher) so if you add shallow elements, it will need to be balanced by steeper elements so the path doesn't change much. The steeper body movements usually revolve around using your core differently (less back, more abs/glutes). Squatting may feel easier, but that's not the core driver to your move, unless it's connected to a stronger vertical pelvic tilt and core crunch during impact. One of the things for your pattern is trying to decouple the rib cage movement from the arm movement. Currently, the rib cage and the arms are moving in the same direction (toward the golf ball) as opposed to opposite directions (elbow in front, rib cage away). That's part of the wipe training of using the core with the trail arm less behind...but that will show up easier to look at from a face on video :D

Thanks for posting the face on! Yes, I think you're on the right track with the side bend. Lack of side bend requires more straightening of the trail arm to reach the ball. If you look at this face on, you'll see the line I drew as a reference. See during your release how your shoulder stays closer to the line as the arm extends, compared to Adam Scott where the arm and the shoulder move through together. That move through together comes from the obliques primarily, and part of the oblique action creates more side bend. It also appears that you are avoiding that left hip a bit and overusing the ankle instead. Something to look out for if you have a harder time getting the obliques to fire. Tyler