Why You Need This: In this video, you’ll discover how to avoid getting your golf club stuck behind you.

Getting stuck in the downswing is extremely frustrating.

You make an aggressive swing and your arms get left behind and stuck, causing you to block your ball a mile to the right.

Sometimes it can be worse...

Your hosel can lead the way resulting in a horrendous shank!

In today’s video, you’ll learn how to eliminate getting stuck in the downswing.

There are three moves that’ll help you avoid getting stuck.

First, make sure your right elbow feels like it’s moving forward in the downswing.

Second, your club needs to be close to the same angle as your right forearm.

Lastly, you need to make sure your left shoulder doesn’t pop up way too early in the downswing.

Your left shoulder should be going down then start to move up as you come into contact with the ball.

Watch this video now to see what’s causing your club to get stuck behind you...

And learn the three key moves you need to focus on to hit solid, consistent shots!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 4:09

Video Transcription:

Hey guys, one of the most frustrating things that you can have is getting stuck in the downswing. So I’m setting up to this golf ball, I make a good, aggressive, hard swing.

Sometimes I get my arms kind of stuck in behind my body, my club gets to the inside, and then all of a sudden I block that ball a mile to the right, maybe even I get the hosel working toward the ball and I get a shank in there.

Extremely frustrating, it’s just not a lot of fun to get stuck and hit a lot of those blocks. It seems like you can’t get out of it.

So in today’s video we’re going to talk about two things that are going to allow you to get out of this getting stuck position that are pretty easy to do. So number one has to do with your right elbow and your hands and arms in the downswing.

As I make my downswing, as I start my downswing, I’m going to be shifting a little bit to the left and my hands are going to be kind of working fairly flat in the downswing.

What I mean by this is if you were watching from a down the line view, get lined up whir the camera’s going down my feet, this club should be coming down basically my forearm if we’re looking from that angle.

So with my camera shooting down my feet toward the target, I’m looking at that on video, I want my club to be on my forearm. One of the things that I see sometimes people that get stuck do, is they start to do this and get the club underneath your forearm so that it actually drops down below.

You’ll also notice how my right elbow right here, starts to drop behind the seam of my shirt. So if you look at the seam that goes down the side of your shirt, I want to make sure that my elbow stay in front of that seam as my first move down.

That’s going to get the club and arms working more in front of my body, and that that club again is traveling down my forearm.

If my club is tending to be here, stuck to the inside, my arms are behind this shirt seam, now I’m lined up in position to block that ball a mile to the right and I just can’t get the club to catch up to release down the line.

There’s just not enough time in the downswing. What I want to focus on there is two feelings. Number one, as I mentioned, I want to feel like my right elbow is moving forward, and I’m going to do this in a slow-motion practice swing.

As I’m here, my right elbow’s moving forward. Number two, I’m going to check on camera to see if my club’s inside. If my club is inside, I’m going to feel like my club starts down pretty flat, but then it starts to work more this way.

So as I start to bow with my wrist, as I start to get forward shaft lean, I want to make sure that my club works back out in front of my body slightly.

This wouldn’t be a good drill for over the top players, guys that are casting coming over the top. This would be a good drill for guys that are getting stuck and underneath.

So if those two things are right, you’re already in great shape, you’re starting to work it and you’re going to get rid of a lot of those blocks.

The next thing that happens with this, I see this a lot, a lot of people struggle with it that are doing that same move, is as I start my downswing, my let shoulder starts to pop up very early. So my club gets inside, my left shoulder pops up, and I’m almost pulling the club out to the right.

What I want to feel like I have happen, is have this shoulder stay down to the last second, then I’m going to whip the club through to get a lot of acceleration.

If you can imagine, if you kind of visualize a dot here on my shoulder, as I go into the backswing and start my downswing, I’m going to work under that with my let shoulder. What I’m doing here is I’m creating a big angle.

My shoulder is low, my wrist has a lot of lag, and my club is building up with a lot of lag. Then as my shoulder starts to come up, so my legs are pushing into the ground, my shoulder starts to work up, then that club is going to be released and it whips through contact.

If we watch that, I’m going to feel like we start out with my shoulder here, my shoulder’s going to go down and then come back up. I’ll do this very slow so you guys can see that.

Going down, getting lag, and then my shoulder is, my legs start to drive, my shoulders rotate, that shoulder’s going to work back up and then I’ll create a whipping action as I’m coming through the shot. So those three keys are going to help you to eliminate getting stuck.

Elbow in front of the shirt seam, club working back down the forearms, and I’m letting that left shoulder stay low and then work up high to whip the club through as I’m coming through contact. Let’s go ahead and try it out.

There we go, right down the middle. Good luck to you guys, work hard on the drills. I’ll see you all soon.