Tips on Left Arm Control to Improve Your Golf Swing

Video Transcript

"Hello I am Arthur DeBolt on behalf of Expert Village. The last video we did was on aiming, so this particular video is going to be relative to left arm control. Whenever you set yourself behind the ball, at address, you want to be sure that your left arm is against your ribcage here, up against your breast or your left pectoral. You know how to grip the club from previous videos, so therefore you will want to let it sit at an angle, and keep your arms straight, from your shoulder all the way to your hand; and set the club behind the ball with the pressure against your chest, with your arm, so that you do not have it out this way or back this way, but it is sitting on your chest. So, by doing this, I now have control over the movement of the club head. So I can move my club head this way just by moving my shoulders, without moving my hands at all. I can put it just about anywhere I would like. The purpose of the control is to cause this hand to be pointed straight at the ball…if I am holding it this way and this part of my arm pointing straight at the ball. So that when I turn back, I turn, and my hand does not change, the only thing that changes is the position of my shoulders; and I come back to the ball by moving my body. You may think, how I can get the ball to go where I wanted to. Well, the purpose is that, when I comeback this way, my hands will bring the club up like so, so when I turn back here, I can come back to this point here and then I snap the club down to the ball like that, see. So, anytime that you are going to address the ball, and you are going to line up and aim and set yourself up, you want to be sure that you have control over your left arm. "