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This video is pointed trail elbow at your trail hip.

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So many golfers work on trail arm training.

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Either the trail arm kind of pulls behind them in the backswing and take away or at the

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top of the swing that trail elbow starts flying at the top and kind of gets across the line

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or the trail arm tends to get stuck behind and go into more of a flip pattern.

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So this is a video that I used to work on just kind of the global awareness of that

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right arm and specifically it's targeting more the visual of you know where is that elbow

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pointing.

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So some golfers have a hard time feeling all those different movements of the shoulder

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but they can usually gravitate towards this one little visual.

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So if I imagine that I had like a laser beam shooting out of my elbow I want to keep

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that elbow pointing roughly at my right hip or that right ASIS during the entire golf swing.

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So what would happen is if I have more of an arm take away like this you can see that

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that elbow is pointing behind.

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If I have more of a one piece take away this elbow is still pointing at my trail hip.

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Next when I go to set the club so I get to here and then I pull the arms behind.

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Again that elbow is pointing directly behind me or behind my back instead of if I have

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to keep that arm more in front of my pack and let the arm rotate this elbow will be pointing

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more down towards the trail hip.

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When I get into transition if I get in a steep movement again that elbow gets pointing behind

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you'll notice that's the trend.

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It's rare that a golfer will struggle with the elbow pointing too far in front or pointing

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at the left hip.

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What usually happens is at some point the elbow starts pointing behind.

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So some golfer happens in transition where it gets pointing behind kind of like so and

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then it becomes really hard not to have the hands go flying out to the right from way behind

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unless I'm really patient and use much more of a body hit with just some subtle arm extension

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on the way through.

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So in transition I'm keeping that elbow pointing at that trail hip and then through the

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release I'm keeping it pointing at the trail hip.

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Some golfer have it perfect all the way down until here and then that arm tends to fly

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away and they get more of kind of a really extreme end out which can cause shanking or

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load a high so topping it can cause the club face to get really closed and hit shots

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way over there to the left.

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Where if I keep that arm in a little bit more of external rotation then when I come

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through this elbow is still pointing closer to the trail hip instead of pointing behind

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me or out towards that camera or towards the target line.

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So if you're working on your right arm at all whether it be single arm drills or whether

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it be nine to three or full swings you can use a simple visual of keeping that elbow pointing

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at that trail hip and see what that does as far as helping you use more of your hips,

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helping you use more of your core as opposed to dominating the arm with pulling that elbow

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too much behind.

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This can be a problem for low point control or face control with primarily your full swing.

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Short game it's less of an issue to get that arm behind because that's going to be dominated.

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That motion is going to be dominated more by the shoulders and less by the legs.

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So if you're struggling with contact and ball play to the full swing and you're working

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on your trail arm mechanics with a simple little visual helps you make your practice drills

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a little bit more specific or a little bit more focused on the key movement.

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So in demonstration you can either do just regular swings really just focusing on the location

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or you can do more of a stop kind of checkpoint drills.

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You're going to do the tip.

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It's pointed at the hip, pointed at the hip, pointed at the hip, pointed at the hip, pointed

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at the hip and I can basically work my way through little stop or checkpoints making sure

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that it's pointed at the hip.

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It's a little frustrating at first but it will make you aware of the timing of when you get

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off which will hopefully make it that much more focused for where you need to train the

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trail arm awareness in your swing.