Why You Need This:

There needs to be a certain amount of elevation in the golf swing to create distance. Learn the proper motion of the deltiod and help your students increase distance!

What's Covered: How to use the Deltoids in the golf swing.

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 1:24

Video Transcription:

Hi, welcome back, guys. In this video we’re going to talk about the deltoid, that’s the muscle that’s on the top of your shoulder here. You have an anterior, a medial, and a posterior deltoid.

The deltoid, specifically the front of the deltoid is going to help you to elevate the club and your arms. So the deltoid helps you to elevate your arms vertically like this. In the golf swing, my right arm is going to elevate up just a little bit over my shoulder, and my left arm is going to elevate to match that.

So if you can imagine if I don’t get any rotation to swing, my deltoid is going to help to lift my arms into place. I’m also getting a little bit of bicep in there, but a lot of that is deltoid lifting the upper arm upward in my swing.

So this is about where I would be at the top of my backswing, if I add rotation to that, then we’re going to see it looks a little bit different. But that’s basically what I’m doing. My upper arm, or your humerus is being lifted vertically using your deltoid.

So if somebody’s having difficulty lifting their club up, maybe they have a very low, flat swing, they’re very around their body, losing some speed, we need to know that the deltoid helps them lift that up, and we can key in on and kind of show them where they should feel that muscle tightening up to get the club to lift a little bit more vertically.

That’s going to help them out to understand the body movements, the biomechanics, and it’s really going to cut down your time teaching to get them to learn the move.