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Importance of maintaining club & left arm 90 degree angle at top?

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,590 ✭✭✭agusta


    NFH wrote: »
    Cheers, tried most of those tips at range and was definitely striking it well. I was focusing on not overswinging so trying to keep the hips very quite, something I've noticed I haven't been doing lately and I think this has been a major reason for overswinging and in turn the wrist breakdown. When you keep the hips rock solid and try to do backswing you really see the difference between pros and amateurs. Rory's hips barely move and shoulder can go well past 90, insane!
    If your wrists are breaking down i think the golf training aid "swingyde" might be very usefull to you.Zach johnson uses it regularly in practice.There is a good few videos on youtube about it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,244 ✭✭✭rrpc


    GreeBo wrote: »
    You can hit great shots with a bent arm and terrible ones with a straight arm.

    Get a lesson to determine what's wrong with your swing.
    Anything else is pointless, who's to say your arm is the cause of anything other than this thread ?
    Funny you should say that GreeBo. Was on the range yesterday evening and doing a bit of experimentation with the driver and I discovered that if I allowed my left arm to bend slightly at the top of the backswing I was getting far more consistent drives; height, distance and accuracy were all better than when I kept my arm straight.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,505 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    rrpc wrote: »
    Funny you should say that GreeBo. Was on the range yesterday evening and doing a bit of experimentation with the driver and I discovered that if I allowed my left arm to bend slightly at the top of the backswing I was getting far more consistent drives; height, distance and accuracy were all better than when I kept my arm straight.

    Its probably because your body is not flexible enough to keep it straight AND make a full swing so you were doing all sorts to achieve it. This then requires you to undo the "all sorts" in the correct order to get back to impact correctly.

    Just letting your body naturally do what it wants "back there" will result in a more consistency imo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,026 ✭✭✭spacecoyote


    GreeBo wrote: »
    Its probably because your body is not flexible enough to keep it straight AND make a full swing so you were doing all sorts to achieve it. This then requires you to undo the "all sorts" in the correct order to get back to impact correctly.

    Just letting your body naturally do what it wants "back there" will result in a more consistency imo.

    Yup I dont have close to enough flexibility to make it to the top & maintain a straight left arm. I keep it straight for as long as I can on the takeaway but then I just let my arms do what they have to do to complete my back swing.

    Have a mate with an awesome shoulder turn that I'm very jealous of, but I work with what I've got


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,590 ✭✭✭agusta


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXKs_UR-wGo
    This guy gets a nice flex in his left arm and he hits it out there 320


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,138 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    agusta wrote: »
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXKs_UR-wGo
    This guy gets a nice flex in his left arm and he hits it out there 320

    Jordan Speith is another who gets plenty of flex in his left arm.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,590 ✭✭✭agusta


    PARlance wrote: »
    Jordan Speith is another who gets plenty of flex in his left arm.
    Thanks,Just looked at his swing.he does curve his left arm quite a bit at the top


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,138 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    agusta wrote: »
    Thanks,Just looked at his swing.he does curve his left arm quite a bit at the top

    He also has quite the "chicken wing" action in his follow through. Couldn't find any vids to really highlight that but it's definitely there.

    Here's a vid with the left arm collapsing for others: http://youtu.be/2HUgt5sVptI

    I was fairly surprised to see "golfs next big thing" with such an unconventional swing, refreshing really. He doesn't strike me as having an flexibility issues but it's still part of his swing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,000 ✭✭✭Russman


    Speith will be fine until some coach gets a hold of him......;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 998 ✭✭✭John Divney


    The older hickory players had bends in the arm Bobby Jones being one . It's the angle the club makes with the inside of the wrist when it uncocks that gives clubhead the most speed at impact.

    All thing being equal the tighter it is the more rotational speed gets transferred when it naturally unwinds into the ball.

    It's not about an actual angle, it's just not throwing speed and decelerating before impact, commonly know as flipping.

    Also I even though I have a straight arm at the top of the backswing, I think a bent arm going straight in the downswing be a benefit in keeping the leverage in the mid downswing.


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