Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "Trail Arm Move You Have To Know"

In today's lesson...

I'll show you exactly why you likely have the opposite idea of what your trail arm should be doing in the downswing...

...and I'll give you a great drill to give you the perfect blueprint for making your arm move correctly...

...so you're shot will be both on target and powerful.

You're going to love this move.

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 5:57

Video Transcription:

There we go. I can't hit much better than that with a six iron, two 11 Carrie, two 18. I wish I could hit 'em like that every single time. Well, there's one thing that really makes this a lot easier, and that's getting that club shallow and on plane, and then once you're from there, you can turn through this shot as hard as you want to.

Most people have the exact opposite idea of what they should be doing with their right arm. Lemme explain what I mean by this. So we go to the top of the. It feels so powerful to take the big muscles in your chest, your right, peck your right shoulder, your right forearm, your right, everything in the right side, and start to steepen up this club.

If I push or hit something that's kind of this motion where I'm almost like you're arm wrestling and you're turning it this way, it feels really powerful to. Now if I do the opposite of that and start to turn my arm that way, it feels very weak. But that's exactly what you should be doing in the golf swing, which can drive you absolutely nuts cuz it's so counterintuitive.

So I have to get rid of these overactive right arm muscles and use 'em the right way. And lemme show you a drill that's gonna help you with that. Go to the top of the swing instead of feeling like the right arm steepens and comes this way. I want you to keep the butt into the club facing back away from you.

And I want you to let the right arm extend behind your. Go ahead and let your arm drop down as you're doing this. So I'm just doing this motion here about four or five times, and I'm gonna feel like this club drops down behind my butt, honestly. So I want it butt high, butt into the club pointing away from the target, and I'm just gonna do that motion now after I've done that a few times.

Now, go ahead and rotate as you do that same motion what you're gonna feel, the sensation is very weird. , this motion throws the club back out in front of your body, in front of my chest. This way, this motion that I'm doing puts the club behind my body as I rotate. I feel like this club is completely behind my body like this.

I feel like it's so far behind me, but that's actually the pro move that everybody needs to be feeling. Instead of getting this club working back in front of our body, we have to open up as that club shallows. Let it drop in from the slot in here. And here's a great checkpoint after I've done this, if I've done this motion correctly, so I open up and I let it drop behind.

I should see that club going down my right forearm if I'm looking from the down the line view. So as I shall this out, I wanna see it running down that right forearm as I'm coming in the slot. I'm pausing here, so it may not be perfect, but I wanna see this matched up. And when my club is parallel to the.

what I call last parallel. When I'm looking from face on my hands should be in front of my right leg. I should be close to the ground. So I'm sinking into the ground as I'm rotating. I'm not standing up outta my posture. My hands being low toward the ground will help with this. And then here's the big key.

If I do this right, instead of the club being pointing down the target line, it's gonna be pointing inside the target line slightly. So if I do that motion, that should. Exactly like that. That's the same as this motion here. That's the same feeling I have when I'm doing that. So do about five or 10 reps, then take it in a full swing and try to recreate that same feel.

Let me go ahead and really exaggerate here. I'm gonna feel like this club is so far behind my body. It swings way out to the right, and I'm gonna try to hit another nice power draw if I can. Let's give it a shot. There we go. Another good one. Nice little draw again, even farther, I, I, that may be the longest six iron I've ever hit.

Two 16 carry two 30 after the roll, so pretty lucky on that one. Now there's one extra piece here that a lot of players will tend to get wrong, and that's squaring back up the face. You notice on these, if you look at the, the shadow here at the bottom, those trace from right to left and that's. If I'm gonna get this club to drop from the inside, the last thing I want to do is leave that face open.

We have to learn how to square the club face up. And these, these are the things that, that throw people off so much is we'll get the club shallowed out. We'll get it coming from the inside, but we don't square up the face. Well, let me show you what happens when I don't know how to use my forearms the correct way, and I do exactly what I'm talking about right there.

So I'm gonna shower this club out, get it from the inside, but I'm gonna use the release pattern that most players. Which is kind of a, a way of rolling their arms to, to attempt to square it rather than doing it the way the pros do it. So here, I'm gonna get that great shadowing shot, but I'm not gonna square the face up the right way.

The ball starts a mile to the right and it slices even more. So notice this little shadow at the bottom here. Look how it's starting right, and going even farther, right? That's so far offline that it's embarrassing. You're probably gonna hit a house 80 yards, right of the green if you do that. , my distance went down, still had great swing speed because I got that thing shallowed out and I turned on through there.

But that is so far to the right. What we have to learn to do is to use the, the forearms and the wrist the proper way so that we know that when we shallow this out, it's gonna turn back over like these first two shots. Look at the curvature there, almost identical coming back to the left. And that's what I wanna show you how to do.

That's exactly what I teach you in the move section of the top speed golf system. Now, if you remember of the top speed. Just go to the instruction tab, click on the TSG system, then click on the move, and I bring both of these pieces into there. So this is gonna help you to get Shallowed out here. Once you start to get the feeling of that, if you have any shots like that, head on over to the move.

And I'm gonna add the second piece. That's where we get the club really turning over and releasing the way that the pros release it. You'll see this nice Bode wrist, you'll see the club releasing out there. Nice and long like that. That's exactly what I'm gonna show you. That's the second piece of. I have a handful of videos that break it down for you, step by step, teach you exactly how to do that in your game, and I can't wait to share it with you.