GOLF: Left Arm Loading In The Golf Swing | PRESS It In To Your Chest Then LET It Fly Off! 

Left arm momentarily pressing close to my chest in downswing then "slinging" club through a compact release is the best advice I've received. I feel this topic is not brought up at all on You Tube by golf instructors. Eric's video is the first one I've come across and I watch a ton of RU-vid golf instruction. This feel is brilliant and it simplifies my entire downswing. My hands stay close to my body. My arms feel closer together until impact. I feel totally connected through the downswing. My club travels on the correct arc. I don't have to overthink because this is the "feel" I'm going for each time I swing. This one video helped me improve my impact and I'm now closer to being a scratch golfer because of this one video. Thank you Eric ! This is your most helpful video in my opinion because it fixes so many faults with one feel.

Best feel ever!!!!! This is how you become a great ball striker with this feeling. Great video. Thats what i feel but it hard to explain it to people. You did a great job. I will be sending this video instead of trying to explain it to others myself lol. The early the left arms it comes of the more open the club face is easy to hold off a fade. If you really want to turn one over. Keep it connected as long as you can and roll the hands.

Love this video never seen anyone explain the relationship arm to peck so detail. Always had questions about it EXCELLENT.

This has been my key for a few years now, catapulting left arm off chest wall. This gets easier if one were to, for a micro second, pause shoulders when they get parallel to ball target line.

Thanks Eric I like the angle and how the club in the down swing coming behind with two steps compression. Very good video. Thanks.

I appreciate the visual of the hands behind the shoulders at top to get the right press. Great video

I stumbled across this move the other day while looking for a way to propel my lead arm in synch with my pivot. I’ve always struggled with sequencing. It’s not a panacea but it’s helpful. Hit two drives today that were longest ever for me on their respective holes.

Wow you talked about this before I rotate my right elbow left handed to the ground to get that feeling of your bicep hugging your peck and you called it slingshotting off your peck. This is genius 👍👍👍

Hi Eric, don’t know if you ever thought about this but there are some other benefits to feeling the arm fly off. It can help with coming over the top a lot because your body has to ‘stop’ moving to let the arm fly off. Also will stop you from sliding forward because you can’t sling your arm off if you are too far forward. If lucky it will even give players the correct sequence and the feeling of small energized movements. Brilliant video!!

I need this in my life. Can't wait to get to the range tomorrow.

Great lesson as always Eric. Enjoyed seeing the classic swings. I have just a few weeks of drilling to get where I want to be to join you for online lessons. Cheers

Eric, I mostly skip product endorsements. I may not purchase, but out of respect for the effort you put into your instructions I feel obliged to at least listen. Keep up the great instruction.

Henrick Stenson is someone that does this extremely well and has always been one of his signature moves imo

Good video Eric 👍 this helped me solve another piece of the golf swing puzzle.

If you pin your lead arm across your chest it will recoil. If it recoils too much during transition, you can't feel the arms float and end up coming in steep. Just a thought if you can't make this work.

Great overhead views of the swing!

Feel - turn into left arm until parallel in downswing as I pin right elbow in front of body and rotate with proper wrist angles!

Hi Eric, Would it also be accurate to state you should keep your trail elbow tight to your side as you come back down? So lead arm to chest as you go back, and trail elbow to side as you come down. Not sure if you’ve already discussed that elsewhere.

Eric dropping off heat 🔥 as always excellent info thanks Eric

I would love to see a version of this lesson for seniors with limited motion. I have had 2 back surgeries and 2 knee replacements, 69 years old and play to a 14 handicap

So club going behind you as you pivot could be a good feel for this?

I would encourage golfers to keep that relationship between the bicep ant the pec from the top until after impact. This encourages them to turn more. If you stop turning, you have to let the left arm come off. This is also evident when chipping. Keep that left arm on your chest and turn.

Master accumalator #4. The golfing machine. Homer Kelly. Give him the credit

This is a power tip 👍🏼

During the adduction of the left arm is there also some clockwise rotation of the upper left arm as described by John Dunigan in a previous video?

You absolutely have to get someone from good good golf on the channel. Definitely get grant or Garrett (gm golf) on there, the hype for all channels would be great

Would this be a feeling like snapping a towel .?

Gary player says left arm is closer to chest wall as much as possible in backswing.

The center snaps the left arm?

excellent...

I try so hard to keep my lead left arm straight in the backswing but it bends every time I get out to the course. Any tips for that?

Love it dude!

SC300i does not record swing speed in the absence of hitting a ball, however. It was a deal-killer for me.

Is it wrong to pre-pin to left arm at address?

Slooooow it down to show where the weight shift is relative to the arms. The weight surely has to be on the front foot before any down swing starts, right?

I call it the frisbee move

As a left hand dominant right sided golfer I seem to pull too much with my left side. My hips start "firing" too early and I hit a lot of blocked shots. Any solution? Thanks.

Steve Pratt, another good instructor, teaches this as well. . The biggest issue w me re this concept has been it causing me to raise off plane. I have to concentrate on turning my shirt buttons BACK rather than them starting to point to the sky. When I rear up it can get ugly so the only thought I have w my swing is to keep my left arm into my pec AND turn my buttons BACK not UP.

Unless your driving range uses Pro V1’s or any premium golf ball, the data you’re collecting on those garbage range balls is useless. Also you should never use range balls for club fittings which I see all the time at the driving range. It’s a joke.

This move encourages me to throw my hands out, not down on the transition. And also encourages getting the hands and arms too deep instead of in front of the chest. Not a fan of this.

My pecks are like Arnie’s.....not Palmer. Perhaps bench pressing is not a good drill for golf.

My screen went black with the Nornan footage! 🤡