Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "This Drill Fixes Your Right Arm In The Golf Swing"

And have you ever felt the frustration of watching a pro effortlessly maintain lag in their swing…

…while you struggle with an all-too-familiar scoop or flip of the club?

You’re not alone!

Today, I’ll help you correct one of the most common issues with the “right arm interlock drill…”

…which top pros swear by.

I’ll dive into deep detail on your right arm in this one… and some of the insights might surprise you!

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 10:37

Video Transcription:

Clay: Let's talk about how this interlock drill can help you get the perfect feeling with your right arm in the downswing. Just like the pros are doing, it can help you get more lag. So if you've been trying to get more lag in your downswing, if you've been trying to get rid of a scoop or a flip where you're, you know, you're not really having a ton of lag and releasing out in front, but you're kind of casting, maybe losing lag up here and scooping at the bottom.

that chicken wing. You want to get your body to rotate more. Everything can be solved when we do this right arm interlock drill. So first let's go over before we get to the drill, what the right arm should be doing. So we know what the goal is. Then once we know the goal, let's walk through the drill step by step.

All right. If you look at it, pretty much any PGA tour player or any great player at your local club, what you're going to find is that in their downswing, If you pause at last parallel, or when the club shaft is parallel to the ground in the downswing, the hands are going to be in front of the right leg.

That's a pretty good amount of lag to have that late in the swing. I see almost virtually no recreational players getting that much lag late. Now, from there, you can hit a high shot, you can hit a low shot, it's basically just taking the hands out of it. So what I mean by that is, If I have all this angle coming into the downswing, I can just let the hands go and that club release and it gets a lot of whip to that last little section and the club head does the work for you.

I'm not having to feel like I cast it out and all of a sudden the hands are manipulating the club as they're coming through there. So, in order to do that, the right wrist, specifically, has to be bent back. So, if I'm going to have this angle with a lot of lag, if I just hold up my right wrist, it's basically as far back as I can get it to go.

If I start to let, that's what's called extension of the right wrist, if I start to let that go and flatten out this way, you'll notice how that directly releases the angle of the club. So, as I start to flatten that right wrist. that club starts to release. So last parallel, or when my hands are in front of my right leg, I want to have this thing bent back as much as I can.

If I add the club there again, I'll show you this way. That's that releasing of the club shaft. Now, another one here, which is called supination. You can remember this, like you're holding a bowl of soup. You rotate your forearm this direction. That will also be happening. So the right wrist is not only bent back, but instead of the hand being this way, it's supinated or turned to the right there.

So even if I don't move my elbow, I can turn my wrist. Another way to feel this, imagine you walk up and grab a doorknob and you just turn the doorknob to the right. You notice how the elbow isn't moving. You're almost fully supinated as far as you can be. Um, not quite a hundred percent, but pretty much as far as you can be considering the left hand is still on the club.

So again, if I come down to the downswing, if my left hand is basically here, I'm really feeling like my wrist is turned to the right. or supinated as much as I can in the downswing there. And you'll notice when you look from down the line that the club is a little bit from the inside, depending on the camera angle, where you have it set up.

It should be, if this is straight toward the target or parallel to the target, let's just say it's very slightly inside of that. And that's not a small thing. If you ever want to hit a power fade, you have to come in from the inside like that. If you take all the great power faders. Uh, throughout history, you know, look at Dustin Johnson, how well he hits a power fade on virtually all his drives.

You're going to see him coming from the inside like that. And that allows him to be able to let the club do the work. And he just keeps on turning to the left. It doesn't feel like you have to get a lot of hands into it. So it's that extension. It's that supination of the right wrist or rotating to the right, turning the doorknob to the right.

And then finally, it's tucking that elbow. The reason that you have the elbow tucked through impact is so that I can have that lag. and rotate through the shot and kind of stay in my posture. If I start to throw that right elbow or release that right arm, I have to back up out of my posture in order to not bury the club in the ground.

So, for example, if I'm here and I have this right elbow tucked, I'm in my posture. Well, if I throw the right elbow, I'm going to be throwing that club into the ground. You do release that right elbow, but it's more towards your, what we call the straight line release in the top speed golf system, so it's here.

And then as I rotate through, it's releasing. Now you can see the right arm goes straight. So it's there. And I'm almost like, I'm feeling like I'm throwing a golf ball out in front, kind of down my target line. So I'm letting that golf ball go as I release the club. So that's the feeling that you should be having now as a bonus, this drill is going to walk you through a feeling of connection with the left side of your body.

So the left side of my body actually should feel like it's very tight in with my chest. So if I put my right hand in my armpit, I should feel like when I'm coming through impact, my body is rotating into the left side. So everything's rotating into my arm and this is getting tighter and tighter and it's very connected.

If you look at every great ball striker, they're going to be very connected with that lead side, or it's going to look like this. This would be me, everything facing the camera. This would be me rotating into that lead arm, but the arm stays still. So the arm doesn't move, my entire body rotates into it, and you'll notice you feel really tight there when that happens.

This interlocking drill is great for that too. So finally, let's get to the drill. We know what the body is supposed to be doing now. Let's just get a good way to feel this. So take your right hand, interlock it with your left hand, left hand on top. I want to go down to where I'd be in my posture, and then I'm going to rotate that as far to the right as I can while keeping my left arm pretty straight.

Now from here, I'm going to imagine that my palms are toward the ground. I'm feeling like I'm putting pressure into the ground with my palms. I'm rotating my wrist to the right like this, so I don't want my hands straight up in front. I want them rotated to the right, or supinated like we went over. I want that elbow to be tucked, and from there, I'm gonna feel like I, almost like I'm petting the grass with my hands, instead of flipping my hands, or scooping my hands.

So I interlock the fingers, I'm here, and I just pet that grass, elbow tucked. I would have a ton of lag, and I would have this feeling. Now, what I love about this, you're so tight with this left side, it gets rid of all that kind of throwing of the club, and you have to rotate the body as this is happening.

So just imagine you're kind of petting the grass for 10 or 15, uh, repetitions here. You also have a ton of lag. That's just the feeling of lag there. You have a, that right arm really tucked in tight with the side. So once you get the feeling of that, and now that you know what the right arm is supposed to be doing, just do 5 or 10 reps and then try to recreate that same feeling with a shot.

The progression I like to do, which will actually speed your progress as fast as quick, as fast as possible. So, five or ten reps doing the interlocking drill, then a couple of swings, trying to get that feel with the right arm. Maybe I'm going a little bit slower, but I'm not hitting a golf ball. So here, there's the motion, and then I'm just letting that go.

One more time. And I say, okay, that feels like my interlocking drill. Then I'm ready to hit a golf ball. See if I can get a nice little tight draw, and get the same sensation I had in that drill. There we go. I'm not gonna hit one any better than that. That was a seven iron. First swing of the day. I might have started doing that drill every single time.

I hit 198 yard carry, 260, 206 yards after rollout. That's about as good as I can do. Now there's one piece that's still missing here. You see, golf is kind of a cruel game. And what'll end up happening is you'll start hitting the ball really well as you're doing this drill. It's gonna get you in that position to where you can really compress the ball.

I feel like you're not using your hands as much. The right arm feels like it's doing exactly what you want it to do. And when you look at it on video, it looks a whole heck of a lot better. But golf is cruel because what's going to happen is the newness of this drill is going to wear off. Maybe you absolutely love it and you play the best golf of your life after doing this drill.

But then after a week or two weeks, your buddy tells you another tip. You see something on TV, you read a magazine, you see another video and gradually you start trying out these other new ideas because they're new and exciting. Everybody does it, myself included. So, what'll end up happening is, it doesn't just flip off right away.

So it's not like you do this drill, you hit it so solid, and then you try anything else, and it all falls apart. What happens is, it falls apart so slowly, that you don't even recognize it. It just gradually chips away, until it's a little less solid, a little less straight. And you turn around in a month, and you've lost all your lag, the club's casting out, you know, I'm standing up and scooping at impact.

And it's like, what the heck happened? I had that right arm drill and everything was going good. Well, if you want to solve that forever, what you have to do is follow a system that builds this into your swing so that you don't have to think about it anymore. So you can take five years off of golf. And the very first time coming back, you look at your swing and that right arm is doing what it's supposed to be doing.

Now, the best way to do that is if you remember top speed golf. Go to the lag section of the top speed golf system. That's where we work on these right arm fields. And specifically in there, there's a stick behind the ball drill that's covered in the lag section of the top speed golf system. I'd like for you to start there because I think that's going to build perfectly with what we worked on here today to get a lot of lag, get that right arm in a great spot as you work through level one, you're still going to have to think about this.

Yeah, you're going to be hitting it great, but you're going to have to go through the drills and think about the motion as you go to level two. You're going to be hitting it even better and you have to be reminded, it doesn't, it's not like you have to think about it hard, but you just get reminded of what the feeling should be.

As you get through level three though, what ends up happening is it becomes completely baked into your golf swing DNA to where that's just the way you swing the club. The same way that a professional golfer could take 10 years off, come back and his swing is going to look pretty much identical to what it looks like now because that's baked into his swing and he knows that's what gives results.

That's what I want to get you to. That's the only way to play great golf and have a blast while you're doing it. So head over to the lag section right now, start with level one, just do one drill. I recommend the stick behind the ball drill, go to level two and level three. You're going to be playing some fantastic golf and it's going to be baked in your swing forever.

So as your swing looks beautiful and your game's beautiful too. Let's go and get started.