Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover the "Right Arm Throw Golf Swing | 90-90-90 Drill"

Are you struggling to get the most from your clubs?

Well, if you're like most, your letting your right arm sabotage your swing's potential...

...but, once you're aware of what NOT to do with your right arm, it frees up your swing to do more.

You see, my 90-90-90 Drill is perfect for getting your arms into a great position at the top of your backswing...

...so you'll be able to unleash your downswing with the power and consistency you've always know you were capable of!!

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Quentin Patterson    

Video Duration: 8:03

Video Transcription:

Quentin Patterson: If I handed you a ball and I asked you to throw it side-arm like you were skipping a rock across the water, I think most of you would do a motion that’s very much like that.

You would get the ball back here, you would open up and you would release that out in front.

Well the golf swing is basically the same motion. We’re getting that club at the top of the swing, and we’re right-hand throwing that out in front. We want to throw the club head out in front.

That’s how we get the speed and the compression that all the Tour players are getting. But what I see a lot of students doing is they get this arm really bunched up at the top.

They won’t separate the arm from the body, they’ll get too much of bend in the trail arm, and they’ll also have this wrist in kind of a flat, the trail wrist, in kind of a flat position.

That just creates a lot of issues, it makes it very, very difficult to throw that arm out in front. So if you imagine if I really bent my arm like this, imagine you were going to throw a ball like this.

You’d bend your arm a lot, or keep the arm kind of close to your side here, it’s hard to throw with a lot of power.

There are some players that do that, one that comes to mind is like a Matt Kuchar, he does keep his arm kind of close to his side and bends his arm.

He’s not a real powerful player, but I would say as far as good players are concerned, he’s kind of an outlier.

I think most people are going to get more power if they’re getting some separation from their body, because that helps elevate the club to get it up a little bit higher. That way you’re creating more space and time to accelerate the club which gives you more speed.

Also if we bend this arm a lot, so some people are getting the arm elevated, but then they’re really bending the arm a lot at the top.

Well, if I get up at the top like this and I have a lot of bend in my arm, if you imagine if I were to throw this as hard as I could, what direction am I going to be able to throw this as hard as I can?

That direction’s going to be straight into the ground. It’s going to be like a Gronk spike, right into the ground.

That’s typically what I see with players who get a lot of bend in that trail arm at the top as they start to throw the club right away.

If we want to get power, and we want to throw that club out in front to get that whip of speed, that crack of speed through impact, and that club releasing out in front like we see all the Tour players doing, if we have to get into a better position at the top.

What I want you to do is a drill that you may have heard of it, it’s called the 90-90-90 Drill. I’ve seen this in other sports, and I’ve seen some other instructors doing a drill like this.

Another sport where I’ve seen this is basketball. In basketball, when you’re shooting, you want to have about a 90° angle here, a 90° angle here, 90° angle here to shoot the ball.

That’s how I learned how to shoot a basketball. Whenever I’m struggling shooting a basketball, I play a little rec basketball every now and then, it’s usually because I’m bending the arms too much, or not getting it out in front of me and things like that.

So I go right back to that 90-90-90 drill, and now I’m shooting good again. Same thing applies to golf. If we can get into a good 90-90-90 position at the top with our arms here, it’s going to make it much, much easier to release that club out in front.

If you look at a baseball pitcher, baseball pitchers, you don’t see any of them like this at the top. They’ve all got that ball out here with those 90° angles.

Let’s talk about how we’re going to get into those angles here and how we can translate that into our normal swing.

What I want you to do initially here, is just do some one-arm swings. Right hand only, or trail hand only, and grip lower on the club where your right hand would normally be.

What you’re going to do is you’re just going to go up to the top here, and you’re going to get into that 90-90-90 position.

So 90° here between my torso and my upper arm, then I have a 90° angle between my upper arm and my lower arm, and then 90° angle between with my wrist here, between my arm and my hand here.

Now these don’t have to be exactly 90°, so don’t be too much of a stickler on that. Basically, you want to almost create like a box here.

If you have a box right here, box right here, and then a box right there. That’s what you want to feel like you’re creating there.

Get it up there in that 90-90-90, and then what I want you to do, is I want you to swing down through and feel like you’re creating momentum with your lower body, you’re opening your body here, and you’re releasing that club head out in front.

Almost like if I was going to toss this club head into the impact screen here. That’s what you want to feel.

Now you don’t really want to let go of it, but you want to feel like that club head, the weight of the club head’s kind of going out there like that.

Let’s do about 10 where we go up like this, pause at the top, and then feel that release there out in front.

So get 10 of those in, and then let’s do some fluid ones where we’re taking out the pause and we’re getting into that 90-90-90 position.

Here going up, and then I’m feeling that release out in front. Get about 10 of those in. Now let’s add the other club, and let’s do a couple more pausing ones where we’re going up to the top, we’re getting into that 90-90-90 position, and then we’re releasing that out in front.

So here we go, pausing, and I’m going to release that out in front of me, toward the target.

So again, here, and you’re going to feel if you’re someone who’s really getting bunched up like that, you’re going to feel how much more powerful that is and how you feel your body really opening up, almost like you were throwing a ball out in front.

That’s the motion and the feeling that you want to have when you’re hitting a golf ball. That’s how all the Tour players are so accurate and consistent is because that’s how they’re releasing the club.

That’s how they’re bringing the club into the ball. Let’s try to speed that up and add some fluidity to it and get that same kind of 90-90-90 position at the top.

So here we go, speed it up a little bit, so you can see I’m not overbending my arm. I’m not keeping that trail wrist straight. I’m kind of bending everything back, getting into this nice position just like that.

Once you’ve got 10 swings in, if you’ve done 10 fluid, high-speed swings, you feel like you’re getting into that position, I’d say now it’s time to get a ball out and see if we can get that same position with the ball.

Let’s tee up one here, and let’s see if I can get in that good 90-90-90 position. Let’s see if I can get a fairway hit there.

All right, so in order for this 90-90-90 drill to work properly and be able to throw that club out in front, we have to be getting the club shallowed out in the start of the downswing.

What that means is, when I start my downswing, I want to get this butt end of the club to be pointing at the golf ball, or even a little bit outside of the golf ball, my lead arm gets to parallel in the downswing.

So what happens is, is let’s say I get into that 90-90-90 position at the top, but then at this point in the swing, my butt end of the club would be pointing inside of the golf ball, on this side of the golf ball.

Well, what I’m going to end up doing is in order to hit a functional golf shot, meaning to be able to hit a golf shot that goes down the fairway, what I’m going to have to do is I’m going to have to stand up.

See, and when I stand up, that club head drops to the inside, and then I’m going to have to throw the club early. Now that gets my club on plane, but it makes my swing very, very dependent on timing.

Some days you’re going to be great, and a lot of days you’re going to be very, very inconsistent, and it’s going to be very frustrating.

So if we want to get that right arm throw motion working properly, and be able to be very, very consistent with it like we see the Tour players, we’ve got to get the club shallowing out earlier in the start of the downswing just like we see the Tour player do as well.

This is what’s referred to as The Move on the Top Speed Golf website.

As a member of Top Speed Golf, you’re going to have free access to this Move course where we have a series of drills where you work through to get that club shallowing out sooner, and get that face squaring up sooner so that way you can be very, very consistent with this throw motion.

So to get to that Move course, all you have to do is click the Instruction tab at the top there, then click Top Speed Golf System, and then click The Move.

Get started on those drills, keep up the hard work, everybody, and I’ll talk to you soon.