Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "How To Use The Right Arm On The Downswing | Crazy Detail"

In today's lesson...

You'll discover the right way to use your trail arm in the downswing so you can start playing great golf.

Plus, you'll find out how to imitate Jon Rahm's right arm move...

...so you can STOP making the fatal trail arm mistake nearly every recreational player is making in their swing.

If you like detail, this one's for you!

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 6:58

Video Transcription:

If you can learn to use your right arm in the down swing the proper way, you're gonna play some pretty daggon good golf. So here's exactly what I mean. There's one big mistake that almost everybody makes. They go to the top of the swing and they wanna start throwing with that right arm right away. Well, if you have a ton of lag like this, like the pros, you're not doing this.

If you have the club somewhere out here and your leg looks more like that, Then you're doing this move the wrong way. So let me go ahead show you exactly what to do with the right arm, step by step. So as I go to the top of the swing, what I wanna feel like is my club hasn't really set. Imagine John Rom now.

It's not gonna be that extreme. I know the club is almost gonna be fully set with an iron. That's completely fine. But for most people, they wanna start throwing that club right away, feeling like you're John Rom and imagining your right wrist. So we go into what's called extension. So if you make a fist in front of your body like this, and you pull your knuckles back towards your elbow, that's extension, and this is flexion.

So in the right wrist, the right arm, As you complete the backswing, you want to be moving into the downswing. You wanna get more extension or feel like you're almost like you're, uh, you know, you're taking a motorcycle and you're revving the gas on a motorcycle. That's what you wanna feel like you're doing in the downswing.

So it's fairly flat. And then in the downswing, I'm letting that action happen and that's gonna actually increase my lag. Now do about five or six practice swings. Of the revving the gas motion, and you'll start to see how that brings that club in with some more lag. It gets the club shallower in the downswing.

All good things that you want to have happen. Now, the second piece is the right elbow tuck, and if you feel your elbow here, your funny bone is right on the inside there. That's where if you whack it, it really feels crazy. There feel like that at the start of the downswing. Is going toward the golf ball.

So in the backswing, I don't care if it flies out away from your body a little bit, there's been some fantastic players, Jack Nicholas, John Daley. Lots of majors have been won with players whose right arm flies out away from their body. And that funny bone will be pointing back here somewhere. But all those players, as soon as they start their downswing, that tucks in and all of a sudden that elk, that funny bone, is driving right toward the golf ball.

Now you'll notice when I do that, that shallows out the club. When this funny bone gets in, there's no way to get the club out here like this. If you watch your swing and you see that right arm kind of chicken wing out away from your body, which I see with a lot of players, there's this big gap in here.

My funny bone is pointing back there somewhere. If I tuck that funny bone in toward the golf ball, watch how that lays the shaft back in a slot. I have tons of lag and man, I'm gonna hit some really good shots. Those are the first two pieces. Now finally, to pull this in together, I call it pulling the rope versus pushing the roper casting.

So imagine this club is a rope and instead of golf club, and at any point in the swing, I wanna just take the angle that this rope would be at. And I wanna feel like I'm yanking that almost like it's a lawnmower chain. So imagine this is a rope tied to my lawnmowers floating up here in the sky somewhere.

And I'm gonna be pulling that rope outta the lawnmower to try to feel like I'm starting the lawnmower there. Now, this is kind of a weird feeling. Most players, when they get to the top, they want to throw the club out like this to try to generate speed. The last thing you've probably ever felt in your golf swing is that you're pulling the club this way to start your downswing, but that's the real sensation that you should be having.

So go to the top of the swing. Now I'm pulling that rope. Well, as I start to come down the arc, my club is naturally gonna start to. Kick out a little bit all on its own, just cuz my hands are swinging on a circle like that as I get a little farther out again. Now the lawnmower's over here. Here's the rope.

I feel like I'm pulling down as I get a little farther down here. Now the rope's going this way and I'm pulling forward as I get. Down to contact. The momentum of this club is slinging it toward the ground. If I did nothing else, that would slam into the ground, and I'm actually pulling that rope up and in.

That's why you see players clear their hips. That's why you see players clear their chest outta the way they get long arms versus that kind of chicken wing, which would be pushing the rope across my body. So at every point in the downswing, I feel like I'm pulling the club. The direction that the club shaft is pointing, like, I'm gonna pull this grip right off the club face.

And as momentum builds up, that's gonna sling the club right through the golf ball. So here, notice how I'm very relaxed. I let the club set my wrist and my elbow tuck, and then from there I just feel like I'm gonna pull the grip off the club and it just kind of slingshots through contact. So I'm gonna go very, very soft here and you're gonna see I still get a lot of speed.

Even that one wasn't the best. Hit 180 carry distance with a six iron. Not bad. Now I wanna ramp it up a little bit more and the sensation I'm gonna have here is very late in the swing. I'm gonna make sure one thing, I wanna make sure my rope isn't pointing this way at last parallel, as my hands are in front of my right leg.

This club shafts parallel to the ground. I do not want to have the club or that rope going this way. Every good player, no matter if they're playing a draw or a fade, that rope is coming from the inside. And now I'm just gonna yank that rope up and around my body. So I'm still gonna go smooth, but you'll see as I get that clip from the inside, now all of a sudden I can get a lot of speed without looking like a lot of effort.

There we go. Very nice and solid on that 1, 2 0 4 total or carry distance two. 12.6 total distance with a six iron, and it didn't look like I had to go at it very hard doing that cuz I was being very efficient with what my right arm was doing and delivering it from the inside. Now I've actually found there's one more drill that really brings us home.

It makes it almost completely automatic to where it feels natural when you're doing this. And I call it the stick behind the ball drill. Now if you remember top speed golf, go to the lag section. Go to video 1.2, that's level one, video two, and in this drill, I'm gonna show you a feeling to have where you keep this club shaft pointing behind the golf ball as long as you can.

There's a specific way that you do it so that you can keep tons of lag, really get that late hit and feel like you're not really having to jerk on the club or at any speed until the last second and it just flies away from you. That's the way I was able to be smooth on this shot, and that's how you're gonna be able to be smooth too.

All you need to do is go to the instruction tab. If you remember, go to the top speed golf system lag section and video 1.2. I'm gonna walk you through exactly what to do in that video. So head on over there. Now, I can't wait to share, share with you this drill. I think you're gonna love it. Let's go ahead and get started.