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Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of Best
Young Teachers in
America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.
Why Your Arms Behind the Body Cause Poor Contact
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Identify how arm positioning impacts your low point during the swing
- Understand the connection between arm timing and shot quality
- Learn strategies to avoid common pitfalls like fat and thin shots
In this video, we'll explore how having your arms positioned behind your body affects your low point and overall ball striking. Understanding this concept is crucial for improving your consistency and shot quality.
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.470
This concept video is discussing the low-point killer of the arms behind your
2
00:00:08.470 --> 00:00:09.640
body.
3
00:00:09.640 --> 00:00:13.790
So when I say your arms behind your body, what I'm referring to is kind of
4
00:00:13.790 --> 00:00:14.320
looking at
5
00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:15.600
the midline of your chest.
6
00:00:15.600 --> 00:00:20.440
So if we say that the midline of your chest is kind of the middle of your body,
7
00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:21.680
then having
8
00:00:21.680 --> 00:00:27.440
your hands or the handle well behind that can make it hard to get the low point
9
00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:28.440
forward.
10
00:00:28.440 --> 00:00:32.840
Now some good players struggle with this.
11
00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:36.050
They can be a good driver of the golf ball, you can be a pretty good wedge
12
00:00:36.050 --> 00:00:36.720
player, but
13
00:00:36.720 --> 00:00:42.570
you might struggle with more your mid and scoring irons if you have the club
14
00:00:42.570 --> 00:00:43.720
too far behind
15
00:00:43.720 --> 00:00:48.160
your body like so, especially if you're early with your arm timing.
16
00:00:48.160 --> 00:00:52.480
So this trail arm gets away from you kind of like this.
17
00:00:52.480 --> 00:00:56.140
Essentially what will happen is when the arms go like this that lengthens the
18
00:00:56.140 --> 00:00:56.920
club and moves
19
00:00:56.920 --> 00:00:58.440
the low point backward.
20
00:00:58.440 --> 00:01:02.350
So now if I did that merry-go-round drill, you could see that the club is going
21
00:01:02.350 --> 00:01:02.980
to strike
22
00:01:02.980 --> 00:01:06.720
the ground more down here.
23
00:01:06.720 --> 00:01:10.430
What a lot of golfers do is in order to avoid striking the ground down there,
24
00:01:10.430 --> 00:01:11.200
they're going
25
00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:15.320
to bend the wrist or throw the club forward.
26
00:01:15.320 --> 00:01:20.400
So then now the club is coming up to avoid hitting the ground behind it.
27
00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:25.920
I end up with a lot of fat and thin and oftentimes top shots like I just hit on
28
00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:27.080
that last one.
29
00:01:27.080 --> 00:01:34.090
So that all stemmed from bringing the arms too far behind my body kind of like
30
00:01:34.090 --> 00:01:34.520
this and
31
00:01:34.520 --> 00:01:38.600
then having them throw down to the bottom.
32
00:01:38.600 --> 00:01:43.200
You'll see I was able to make okay contact but it was still a little bit thin.
33
00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:48.420
The one way you can get away with having the arms way behind your body like
34
00:01:48.420 --> 00:01:49.280
this would
35
00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:56.290
be more if you still keep the extension of that trail wrist and you have a very
36
00:01:56.290 --> 00:01:57.200
excessive
37
00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:04.240
or aggressive body rotation so the arms almost never feel like they fire.
38
00:02:04.240 --> 00:02:07.840
A good example of this would be someone more like a gym puric.
39
00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:13.590
But for most golfers who have some arm extension and some feel of a release
40
00:02:13.590 --> 00:02:15.240
down at the bottom,
41
00:02:15.240 --> 00:02:19.670
most of this hold off feel in the shoulders, if you have some type of release
42
00:02:19.670 --> 00:02:20.280
down at the
43
00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:25.470
bottom then getting the arms way behind is going to cause more of this low
44
00:02:25.470 --> 00:02:26.400
point issue
45
00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:28.120
behind the ball.
46
00:02:28.120 --> 00:02:31.600
So there's a couple of different ways you can approach that.
47
00:02:31.600 --> 00:02:36.140
You can either look at some of the backswing videos about keeping the arm more
48
00:02:36.140 --> 00:02:36.680
in front
49
00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:42.660
of your chest or keeping the elbow in front of your back or the handle more in
50
00:02:42.660 --> 00:02:43.360
front of
51
00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:45.040
your chest.
52
00:02:45.040 --> 00:02:50.820
That makes it so that then when I get my chest down to impact my hands are in
53
00:02:50.820 --> 00:02:51.600
front of my
54
00:02:51.600 --> 00:02:56.220
sternum and ahead of the golf ball and ahead of this midline or they're in line
55
00:02:56.220 --> 00:02:56.840
with the
56
00:02:56.840 --> 00:02:59.040
low point line.
57
00:02:59.040 --> 00:03:04.700
The other option is if I get the arms behind my body in the backswing then I
58
00:03:04.700 --> 00:03:05.520
have to be
59
00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:11.560
patient enough and exaggerate the arm components of the wipe movement.
60
00:03:11.560 --> 00:03:18.160
So if I get the arms behind but then I let them catch up kind of in this
61
00:03:18.160 --> 00:03:19.440
feeling of this
62
00:03:19.440 --> 00:03:25.960
more kind of floating or what I call Zorro loops, feeling the arms work more in
63
00:03:25.960 --> 00:03:27.080
a direction
64
00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:32.440
ahead of the golf ball kind of out there can allow them to get a little bit
65
00:03:32.440 --> 00:03:33.400
more behind
66
00:03:33.400 --> 00:03:37.360
in the backswing and then ahead through impact.
67
00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:43.560
Ultimately the place that really matters is impact and having the hands in
68
00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:44.400
front of the
69
00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:48.720
chest of the chest is a little bit open is one of the surefire ways or one of
70
00:03:48.720 --> 00:03:49.240
the best
71
00:03:49.240 --> 00:03:54.120
ways to get low point to be out ahead of the golf ball.
72
00:03:54.120 --> 00:03:59.530
So if you look at your video and your body is in a reasonable position or even
73
00:03:59.530 --> 00:04:00.360
slightly
74
00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:04.510
ahead but you're hitting a lot of fat and thin shots then you want to
75
00:04:04.510 --> 00:04:05.400
investigate the
76
00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:09.550
arms and look at more of the single arm drills and ways to get more comfortable
77
00:04:09.550 --> 00:04:10.080
with the
78
00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:11.600
arms being in front of your body.
79
00:04:11.600 --> 00:04:15.610
If you do that that will have a really big impact for quickly cleaning up your
80
00:04:15.610 --> 00:04:16.200
low point
81
00:04:16.200 --> 00:04:16.640
issues.
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.470
This concept video is discussing the low-point killer of the arms behind your
2
00:00:08.470 --> 00:00:09.640
body.
3
00:00:09.640 --> 00:00:13.790
So when I say your arms behind your body, what I'm referring to is kind of
4
00:00:13.790 --> 00:00:14.320
looking at
5
00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:15.600
the midline of your chest.
6
00:00:15.600 --> 00:00:20.440
So if we say that the midline of your chest is kind of the middle of your body,
7
00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:21.680
then having
8
00:00:21.680 --> 00:00:27.440
your hands or the handle well behind that can make it hard to get the low point
9
00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:28.440
forward.
10
00:00:28.440 --> 00:00:32.840
Now some good players struggle with this.
11
00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:36.050
They can be a good driver of the golf ball, you can be a pretty good wedge
12
00:00:36.050 --> 00:00:36.720
player, but
13
00:00:36.720 --> 00:00:42.570
you might struggle with more your mid and scoring irons if you have the club
14
00:00:42.570 --> 00:00:43.720
too far behind
15
00:00:43.720 --> 00:00:48.160
your body like so, especially if you're early with your arm timing.
16
00:00:48.160 --> 00:00:52.480
So this trail arm gets away from you kind of like this.
17
00:00:52.480 --> 00:00:56.140
Essentially what will happen is when the arms go like this that lengthens the
18
00:00:56.140 --> 00:00:56.920
club and moves
19
00:00:56.920 --> 00:00:58.440
the low point backward.
20
00:00:58.440 --> 00:01:02.350
So now if I did that merry-go-round drill, you could see that the club is going
21
00:01:02.350 --> 00:01:02.980
to strike
22
00:01:02.980 --> 00:01:06.720
the ground more down here.
23
00:01:06.720 --> 00:01:10.430
What a lot of golfers do is in order to avoid striking the ground down there,
24
00:01:10.430 --> 00:01:11.200
they're going
25
00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:15.320
to bend the wrist or throw the club forward.
26
00:01:15.320 --> 00:01:20.400
So then now the club is coming up to avoid hitting the ground behind it.
27
00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:25.920
I end up with a lot of fat and thin and oftentimes top shots like I just hit on
28
00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:27.080
that last one.
29
00:01:27.080 --> 00:01:34.090
So that all stemmed from bringing the arms too far behind my body kind of like
30
00:01:34.090 --> 00:01:34.520
this and
31
00:01:34.520 --> 00:01:38.600
then having them throw down to the bottom.
32
00:01:38.600 --> 00:01:43.200
You'll see I was able to make okay contact but it was still a little bit thin.
33
00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:48.420
The one way you can get away with having the arms way behind your body like
34
00:01:48.420 --> 00:01:49.280
this would
35
00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:56.290
be more if you still keep the extension of that trail wrist and you have a very
36
00:01:56.290 --> 00:01:57.200
excessive
37
00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:04.240
or aggressive body rotation so the arms almost never feel like they fire.
38
00:02:04.240 --> 00:02:07.840
A good example of this would be someone more like a gym puric.
39
00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:13.590
But for most golfers who have some arm extension and some feel of a release
40
00:02:13.590 --> 00:02:15.240
down at the bottom,
41
00:02:15.240 --> 00:02:19.670
most of this hold off feel in the shoulders, if you have some type of release
42
00:02:19.670 --> 00:02:20.280
down at the
43
00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:25.470
bottom then getting the arms way behind is going to cause more of this low
44
00:02:25.470 --> 00:02:26.400
point issue
45
00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:28.120
behind the ball.
46
00:02:28.120 --> 00:02:31.600
So there's a couple of different ways you can approach that.
47
00:02:31.600 --> 00:02:36.140
You can either look at some of the backswing videos about keeping the arm more
48
00:02:36.140 --> 00:02:36.680
in front
49
00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:42.660
of your chest or keeping the elbow in front of your back or the handle more in
50
00:02:42.660 --> 00:02:43.360
front of
51
00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:45.040
your chest.
52
00:02:45.040 --> 00:02:50.820
That makes it so that then when I get my chest down to impact my hands are in
53
00:02:50.820 --> 00:02:51.600
front of my
54
00:02:51.600 --> 00:02:56.220
sternum and ahead of the golf ball and ahead of this midline or they're in line
55
00:02:56.220 --> 00:02:56.840
with the
56
00:02:56.840 --> 00:02:59.040
low point line.
57
00:02:59.040 --> 00:03:04.700
The other option is if I get the arms behind my body in the backswing then I
58
00:03:04.700 --> 00:03:05.520
have to be
59
00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:11.560
patient enough and exaggerate the arm components of the wipe movement.
60
00:03:11.560 --> 00:03:18.160
So if I get the arms behind but then I let them catch up kind of in this
61
00:03:18.160 --> 00:03:19.440
feeling of this
62
00:03:19.440 --> 00:03:25.960
more kind of floating or what I call Zorro loops, feeling the arms work more in
63
00:03:25.960 --> 00:03:27.080
a direction
64
00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:32.440
ahead of the golf ball kind of out there can allow them to get a little bit
65
00:03:32.440 --> 00:03:33.400
more behind
66
00:03:33.400 --> 00:03:37.360
in the backswing and then ahead through impact.
67
00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:43.560
Ultimately the place that really matters is impact and having the hands in
68
00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:44.400
front of the
69
00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:48.720
chest of the chest is a little bit open is one of the surefire ways or one of
70
00:03:48.720 --> 00:03:49.240
the best
71
00:03:49.240 --> 00:03:54.120
ways to get low point to be out ahead of the golf ball.
72
00:03:54.120 --> 00:03:59.530
So if you look at your video and your body is in a reasonable position or even
73
00:03:59.530 --> 00:04:00.360
slightly
74
00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:04.510
ahead but you're hitting a lot of fat and thin shots then you want to
75
00:04:04.510 --> 00:04:05.400
investigate the
76
00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:09.550
arms and look at more of the single arm drills and ways to get more comfortable
77
00:04:09.550 --> 00:04:10.080
with the
78
00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:11.600
arms being in front of your body.
79
00:04:11.600 --> 00:04:15.610
If you do that that will have a really big impact for quickly cleaning up your
80
00:04:15.610 --> 00:04:16.200
low point
81
00:04:16.200 --> 00:04:16.640
issues.
Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of
Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.
Why Your Arms Behind the Body Cause Poor Contact
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Identify how arm positioning impacts your low point during the swing
- Understand the connection between arm timing and shot quality
- Learn strategies to avoid common pitfalls like fat and thin shots
In this video, we'll explore how having your arms positioned behind your body affects your low point and overall ball striking. Understanding this concept is crucial for improving your consistency and shot quality.
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.470
This concept video is discussing the low-point killer of the arms behind your
2
00:00:08.470 --> 00:00:09.640
body.
3
00:00:09.640 --> 00:00:13.790
So when I say your arms behind your body, what I'm referring to is kind of
4
00:00:13.790 --> 00:00:14.320
looking at
5
00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:15.600
the midline of your chest.
6
00:00:15.600 --> 00:00:20.440
So if we say that the midline of your chest is kind of the middle of your body,
7
00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:21.680
then having
8
00:00:21.680 --> 00:00:27.440
your hands or the handle well behind that can make it hard to get the low point
9
00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:28.440
forward.
10
00:00:28.440 --> 00:00:32.840
Now some good players struggle with this.
11
00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:36.050
They can be a good driver of the golf ball, you can be a pretty good wedge
12
00:00:36.050 --> 00:00:36.720
player, but
13
00:00:36.720 --> 00:00:42.570
you might struggle with more your mid and scoring irons if you have the club
14
00:00:42.570 --> 00:00:43.720
too far behind
15
00:00:43.720 --> 00:00:48.160
your body like so, especially if you're early with your arm timing.
16
00:00:48.160 --> 00:00:52.480
So this trail arm gets away from you kind of like this.
17
00:00:52.480 --> 00:00:56.140
Essentially what will happen is when the arms go like this that lengthens the
18
00:00:56.140 --> 00:00:56.920
club and moves
19
00:00:56.920 --> 00:00:58.440
the low point backward.
20
00:00:58.440 --> 00:01:02.350
So now if I did that merry-go-round drill, you could see that the club is going
21
00:01:02.350 --> 00:01:02.980
to strike
22
00:01:02.980 --> 00:01:06.720
the ground more down here.
23
00:01:06.720 --> 00:01:10.430
What a lot of golfers do is in order to avoid striking the ground down there,
24
00:01:10.430 --> 00:01:11.200
they're going
25
00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:15.320
to bend the wrist or throw the club forward.
26
00:01:15.320 --> 00:01:20.400
So then now the club is coming up to avoid hitting the ground behind it.
27
00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:25.920
I end up with a lot of fat and thin and oftentimes top shots like I just hit on
28
00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:27.080
that last one.
29
00:01:27.080 --> 00:01:34.090
So that all stemmed from bringing the arms too far behind my body kind of like
30
00:01:34.090 --> 00:01:34.520
this and
31
00:01:34.520 --> 00:01:38.600
then having them throw down to the bottom.
32
00:01:38.600 --> 00:01:43.200
You'll see I was able to make okay contact but it was still a little bit thin.
33
00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:48.420
The one way you can get away with having the arms way behind your body like
34
00:01:48.420 --> 00:01:49.280
this would
35
00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:56.290
be more if you still keep the extension of that trail wrist and you have a very
36
00:01:56.290 --> 00:01:57.200
excessive
37
00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:04.240
or aggressive body rotation so the arms almost never feel like they fire.
38
00:02:04.240 --> 00:02:07.840
A good example of this would be someone more like a gym puric.
39
00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:13.590
But for most golfers who have some arm extension and some feel of a release
40
00:02:13.590 --> 00:02:15.240
down at the bottom,
41
00:02:15.240 --> 00:02:19.670
most of this hold off feel in the shoulders, if you have some type of release
42
00:02:19.670 --> 00:02:20.280
down at the
43
00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:25.470
bottom then getting the arms way behind is going to cause more of this low
44
00:02:25.470 --> 00:02:26.400
point issue
45
00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:28.120
behind the ball.
46
00:02:28.120 --> 00:02:31.600
So there's a couple of different ways you can approach that.
47
00:02:31.600 --> 00:02:36.140
You can either look at some of the backswing videos about keeping the arm more
48
00:02:36.140 --> 00:02:36.680
in front
49
00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:42.660
of your chest or keeping the elbow in front of your back or the handle more in
50
00:02:42.660 --> 00:02:43.360
front of
51
00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:45.040
your chest.
52
00:02:45.040 --> 00:02:50.820
That makes it so that then when I get my chest down to impact my hands are in
53
00:02:50.820 --> 00:02:51.600
front of my
54
00:02:51.600 --> 00:02:56.220
sternum and ahead of the golf ball and ahead of this midline or they're in line
55
00:02:56.220 --> 00:02:56.840
with the
56
00:02:56.840 --> 00:02:59.040
low point line.
57
00:02:59.040 --> 00:03:04.700
The other option is if I get the arms behind my body in the backswing then I
58
00:03:04.700 --> 00:03:05.520
have to be
59
00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:11.560
patient enough and exaggerate the arm components of the wipe movement.
60
00:03:11.560 --> 00:03:18.160
So if I get the arms behind but then I let them catch up kind of in this
61
00:03:18.160 --> 00:03:19.440
feeling of this
62
00:03:19.440 --> 00:03:25.960
more kind of floating or what I call Zorro loops, feeling the arms work more in
63
00:03:25.960 --> 00:03:27.080
a direction
64
00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:32.440
ahead of the golf ball kind of out there can allow them to get a little bit
65
00:03:32.440 --> 00:03:33.400
more behind
66
00:03:33.400 --> 00:03:37.360
in the backswing and then ahead through impact.
67
00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:43.560
Ultimately the place that really matters is impact and having the hands in
68
00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:44.400
front of the
69
00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:48.720
chest of the chest is a little bit open is one of the surefire ways or one of
70
00:03:48.720 --> 00:03:49.240
the best
71
00:03:49.240 --> 00:03:54.120
ways to get low point to be out ahead of the golf ball.
72
00:03:54.120 --> 00:03:59.530
So if you look at your video and your body is in a reasonable position or even
73
00:03:59.530 --> 00:04:00.360
slightly
74
00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:04.510
ahead but you're hitting a lot of fat and thin shots then you want to
75
00:04:04.510 --> 00:04:05.400
investigate the
76
00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:09.550
arms and look at more of the single arm drills and ways to get more comfortable
77
00:04:09.550 --> 00:04:10.080
with the
78
00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:11.600
arms being in front of your body.
79
00:04:11.600 --> 00:04:15.610
If you do that that will have a really big impact for quickly cleaning up your
80
00:04:15.610 --> 00:04:16.200
low point
81
00:04:16.200 --> 00:04:16.640
issues.
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.470
This concept video is discussing the low-point killer of the arms behind your
2
00:00:08.470 --> 00:00:09.640
body.
3
00:00:09.640 --> 00:00:13.790
So when I say your arms behind your body, what I'm referring to is kind of
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looking at
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the midline of your chest.
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So if we say that the midline of your chest is kind of the middle of your body,
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then having
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your hands or the handle well behind that can make it hard to get the low point
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forward.
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Now some good players struggle with this.
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They can be a good driver of the golf ball, you can be a pretty good wedge
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player, but
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you might struggle with more your mid and scoring irons if you have the club
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too far behind
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your body like so, especially if you're early with your arm timing.
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So this trail arm gets away from you kind of like this.
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Essentially what will happen is when the arms go like this that lengthens the
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club and moves
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the low point backward.
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So now if I did that merry-go-round drill, you could see that the club is going
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to strike
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the ground more down here.
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What a lot of golfers do is in order to avoid striking the ground down there,
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they're going
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to bend the wrist or throw the club forward.
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So then now the club is coming up to avoid hitting the ground behind it.
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I end up with a lot of fat and thin and oftentimes top shots like I just hit on
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that last one.
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So that all stemmed from bringing the arms too far behind my body kind of like
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this and
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then having them throw down to the bottom.
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You'll see I was able to make okay contact but it was still a little bit thin.
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The one way you can get away with having the arms way behind your body like
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this would
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be more if you still keep the extension of that trail wrist and you have a very
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excessive
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or aggressive body rotation so the arms almost never feel like they fire.
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A good example of this would be someone more like a gym puric.
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But for most golfers who have some arm extension and some feel of a release
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down at the bottom,
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most of this hold off feel in the shoulders, if you have some type of release
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down at the
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bottom then getting the arms way behind is going to cause more of this low
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point issue
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behind the ball.
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So there's a couple of different ways you can approach that.
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You can either look at some of the backswing videos about keeping the arm more
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in front
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of your chest or keeping the elbow in front of your back or the handle more in
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front of
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your chest.
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That makes it so that then when I get my chest down to impact my hands are in
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front of my
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sternum and ahead of the golf ball and ahead of this midline or they're in line
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with the
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low point line.
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The other option is if I get the arms behind my body in the backswing then I
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have to be
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patient enough and exaggerate the arm components of the wipe movement.
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So if I get the arms behind but then I let them catch up kind of in this
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feeling of this
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more kind of floating or what I call Zorro loops, feeling the arms work more in
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a direction
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ahead of the golf ball kind of out there can allow them to get a little bit
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more behind
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in the backswing and then ahead through impact.
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Ultimately the place that really matters is impact and having the hands in
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front of the
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chest of the chest is a little bit open is one of the surefire ways or one of
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the best
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ways to get low point to be out ahead of the golf ball.
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So if you look at your video and your body is in a reasonable position or even
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slightly
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ahead but you're hitting a lot of fat and thin shots then you want to
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investigate the
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arms and look at more of the single arm drills and ways to get more comfortable
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with the
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arms being in front of your body.
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If you do that that will have a really big impact for quickly cleaning up your
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low point
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issues.
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