Straight Arm Triangle

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This drill is the straight arm triangle drill.

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So this is working on using your chest to control low point and working on more

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of a

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stall pattern or trying to improve someone who doesn't keep their chest moving

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on the

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way through.

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So it's one of the old classic triangle drills.

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So I'm going to keep my arm straight and I'm going to try and keep that right

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arm straight

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in the backswing and then I'm going to try and keep that left arm straight in

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the follow

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through.

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I'm really going to feel like I do nothing with my wrists other than maybe a

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little

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bit of natural unhinging to help shallow it out and get the club all the way

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down towards

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the ground.

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But the main goal of this drill is those arms staying as straight as you can

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keep them and

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controlling low point by where the chest is.

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In fact I like to do this sometimes I'll draw the low point lines and I'll work

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on just

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okay if my arms are straight there I'd have a little bit of early extension and

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maybe

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too much side tilt to move the bottom swing back that way and then I'd have

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more of a

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stay flexed and turned to try to move the bottom of the swing there and then I

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'd try

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to find the middle where I stay a little bit more flexed in kind of my merry go

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round position

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and then turn my body while keeping the chest height down towards the ground.

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Many golfers I find this very beneficial for golfers who have more of a stand

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up or more

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of a reverse thrust like this in combo with their hands flipping or for some

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golfers who

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reverse thrust and still keep their chest moving on the way through but hit a

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lot of

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thin kind of picky shots because the chest is out of position.

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So this is a way to kind of dynamically feel the merry go round drill while

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making contact

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with the golf ball.

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One common pattern that I'll see is often golfers when they're first starting

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this let's

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say there's my merry go round position when they first do this trying to keep

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the arm

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straight they might shank it or at the very least they will do that and they

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will come

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in very steep with the club face open and hit it way off to the right.

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So you'll see that again they will have the arm straight and then spin the

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upper body

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and kind of bring it too much outside in with the club face wide open.

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What usually happens there is this golfer would naturally bend those arms to

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balance

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that out so my upper body would turn a little bit more level and my arms would

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come from

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the inside not hit a lot of straight shots but typically struggle with that fat

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thin

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contact like I demonstrated there.

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So what you would have to do if that's your pattern which again is one of the

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more common

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patterns is you have to watch your your tilts and make sure that that right

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shoulder is

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staying down and the club is shallowing a little bit or coming from more of an

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inside

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path because of what the arms are doing not because of what the body is doing.

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So my arms are going to stay straight and I'm still going to monitor bringing

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the club

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into the golf ball on a slightly inside or or a solid path and manage the club

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face with

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just a little wrist movement.

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If you do a lot of adjusting your swing with your elbows and shoulders this

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will help you

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to control it more with your wrist as well as with your pivot two good ways to

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help create

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a little bit more consistency especially with your short iron game.