HOW TO KEEP THE LEFT ARM STRAIGHT IN THE GOLF SWING 

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Adam is the most relaxed, confident speaker of golf instruction on the internet! I can't imagine how he makes giving lessons look so easy.

By far the best tutor on youtube in my opinion. Doesn't talk numbers and fixed rigid positions all the time, just good basic movements

You are an excellent teacher. I am not surprised you won Teacher of the Year two times. Thank you for your videos.

This channel is probably the best tutorial golf channel I've seen. Amazing content!

Watched loads of these things in the past (many contradicting each other) but Adam, yours are so well done. The only ones I watch now.

This adds so much power and changed the trajectory (more height) a lot. What a great tip!

Gosh, I’ve watched many videos about keeping the arm straight. Yeah everyone says keep the wrist flexible but don’t go in depth on how it should be in the process of the swing but You my friend hit the nail on the head and now I’m going to the driving range to practice! Thank you!

Your videos have helped me win tournaments in my school! Thank you so much! Keep up the videos maybe I'll make it in the PGA because of practicing with this videos!

Easy and useful drill to understand the mechanics behind the swing. GREAT WORDS OF ADVICE.

as always great lessons,,,thank you

i was working somewhat on this today.. was swinging my lagshot 7 iron and then went to my 7 iron and was focusing on keeping my hands in front of my chest and keeping my left arm straight and only hitting half shots. amazing results with that. half back and half through and i was hitting crisp 7 iron shots about 125 to 130 straight without much effort at all. thank you Coach!!!

LOVE this. Realised I was getting really relaxed with my left elbow, knew I had to keep it straight but was not doing it right. This drill and feeling makes it so easy to keep it straight. THANKS

Best channel and teacher ever. It’s my favorite so far

Just the lesson I needed!!!...now to work on my timing @ impact. TY!!!

Thanks Adam, love your teaching style.

Adam, your videos are my "go to" lessons on line and this is my favorite. I've struggled with coming over the top and this video has helped me tremendously. If you were In Charleston you'd have a life-long student, thanks much!

Your videos have helped me considerably. You really have a nice delivery. Thanks for posting these videos.

Thank you for the work out.

Excellent video ,thanks Adam !!

Great video I never realised pushing the handle away helps so much I hit some very solid shots using it they sounded fantastic thanks for the advice 😊

it really helped thanks for such good drills

Great analysis and explanation as usual. Thanks.

Another great video, thanks for the advise.

Perfectly explained drill. Thanks!

this is very helpful. thank you

Thank you sir ! Helping a lot !

This is a great video. When I do this right with good tempo I hit it so much better.

another excellent video from Adam.

Another great lesson thanks Adam

Just done this drill with the wrist push and on every swing i felt all the power release at the bottom of the swing and also had a complete full finish which i never have. My finish never follows through as well as it does with the hinging of the wrists.. Straight arms have never been an issue but the pushing with the wrists have unlocked something i never had. Thank you, cant wait to try it out on the course

This drill has helped me a ton. Especially in my driver.Getting more distance. Feel like I'm using my core a lot more in the swing. It seems to have help hitting shots thin as well.

Thanks. Liked the side by side of Watson and Els. Ernie does look double jointed. I will try the drills.

Good stuff. Thanks

Excellent tip thank you.

Great Job...Thanks

I've been trying to keep my arm straight for years and I'm a 7 minute video you fix it! Thanks your the best!

Very effective. Thanks!

Love this drill. My left arm has become more bent over the years and I have never been able to eradicate it. It caused me to overswing and to be very inconsistent, despite getting down to 8 handicap. One session at the range after seeing this video and I think this is already helping. Thanks for this and your other videos!

Great tip. My oldest problem of bent arm has been solved. Thanks a lot.

I learned that keeping the arms connected helps maintain width at the top of the backswing. My senior swing is a lot closer to Tom Watson than Ernie Els. I'll keep doing my drills for that reason. Thanks for illustrating that so clearly.

Excellent. This is one of the things I (58y, HC20) am working on. My challenge is not to get tense when trying to have a more straight left arm plus to maintain the lag Long enoüugh and a good lose release. My best shots are with a lose wrist at release. But I think a more straight left arm could give me more consistency. I think though this only works if turn and weightshift are well performed. Thank you.

Finaly i find a key to keep straight left arm....thanks

Split grip move is defiantly helping me extend that left arm straight. Now I just need to bring it to the course.

...THATS IT ... Thank You !!!!!

I rest my case: just plain, simple, organic golf logic. Thanks so much Adam!

I feel like I’m looting $150 lessons for free with Adam. This stuff is gold.

I’ve found the MISIG works wonderfully, to at least get the feeling of the straight left arm. Works well for lefties, as well.

Really appreciate the fact you show that you DON"T need to have a stiff left arm, i feel it's virtually impossible for anyone I have met that started the game after their teens. Structure is the best thing to teach, work with what your body can do, i dropped 10 strokes once I stopped trying to do what "was right" - so if you have to bend that arm, do so, but remember the structure and get as close to that as your body allows, work/practice with what the good lord gave ya - and enjoy the game, if you have to sway cuz you have to then do it, but minimize it, it just helps not to.

Another great video I'm still trying to figure out what is the better feel for me I really like this left arm pushing I've heard of other videos of the right arm straightening the left arm I believe it's called extensor action golf machine terminology your method seems to be a little easier with the left arm what method is best for is it the same

Adam--great golf swing

This guy has given much thought on how to explain the golf swing than most (all?). Part of this is that he provides the 'why', not just the how.

When I first started playing, I was under the impression that the club needed to be brought to parallel on the backswing. In order to do that (at age 62), I had to bend the left elbow. One day I was at the range admiring the swing of the young fellow on the next tee. He had a swing right out of the picture book. Turns out he had been a college star and had continued to play at a fairly high level. He asked if he could make a suggestion. "Sure," I said. He suggested I try keeping my left arm straight. I put a ball down and took a swing with a straight left arm. "BOOM!" The ball exploded off my club like it had never done before. No tip I have ever gotten has made such an immediate improvement.

thanks for this, after watching this video and a few others I made the switch to a straight left arm. With flexibility issues, I reduced my swing to a 3/4 plus swing .. do you know.. I gained 30 yards on average? Yes, straighter and longer ... slice is all but gone.. but the bonus is my irons are longer straighter too .. this vid has changed my game for the better ...

Hi Adam, I really like your instruction style. my question does not pertain to this straight left arm video, but I was hoping you had some instruction on early extension or maintaining the tush line. I did a search and I did not find anything on that from you. I would appreciate your expert instruction on this subject.

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I think my left arm has always been a problem...I will You this drill to see if I can get that squared away..thanks again for the videos Adam I am looking forward to get outside and golf...

This is an incredible drill which has help w my structure. I feel that my right hand is pushing away from the target while my left hand is pulling toward the target. It's more tension feeling than anything. Thank you so much for this great tip, its helped my ball striking enabling more of a consistent sweep off the grass.

Great video. Thanks. If I may add just one thought...to me, the shoulder turn is critical. If you get a nice shoulder turn, then keeping the left arm straight is easier. When it bends is when the shoulder turn stops too soon and thats all the left arm can do...bend. Just my thought.

Helluva teacher

My swing is the tail that swings the dog. My grip pressure with both hands at each moment of the swing, completely dictates the movements in the rest of my body. As the backswing happens my left hand grip pressure goes from firm to nothing. My right hand grip pressure increases from light to very firm during the backswing. When I start the forward swing from the top, my right hand grip is very firm and my left hand grip is very very light. As the forward swing continues and I decide to uncock my wrists, I transfer grip pressure from the right hand to the left hand. Usually I uncock the wrist when both hands are about the height of the right trail hip. At that moment I reverse left and right grip pressure. At that momente I decrease the right hand grip pressure and increase the left hand grip pressure. Relaxing the right hand grip allows my wrist to uncock, and increasing the left hand grip pressure at that moment causes the wrists to uncock. Because I do my golf swing in this manner, the momentum of my arms and golf club pull my body up onto my left leg after impact and my right foot heel also comes up without any effort. I use the right hand to be in complete control of delaying the uncocking of the wrists. As I decide to uncock the wrists, I relax the firm right hand grip and increase the grip pressure with my left hand. For me and in my case, the only way I can delay the uncocking of the wrists on the forward swing is to grip the club only with my right hand firmly, and force the left hand to only have a very small amount of grip force on the club. If I try to grip the club with my left hand with a significant force on the beginning of the forward swing, my wrists uncocks, and so my swing is totally dictated by the dynamic,grip pressure graph of both the left and right hand. My body is used to coil and uncoil in a manner that is consistent with how the club moves as a result of my grip pressure in both hands and how my arms are swinging back and forward. So I am focusing on using grip pressure to stop any possibility of a premature uncocking of the wrists. The entire point of my swing being designed around changing grip pressure is the release the club during and after impact, rather than releasing the club before impact, which I do not enjoy. Luke

When I was younger and playing a lot it was so much easier. Now that I'm older it's so damn hard.

Good job coach, For how long do I practice this drill? Hussein

Hello Adam. You're the best Professional Golf Instructor on RU-vid IMHO! Love your golf shoes in this video... brand?

Is there any brace for the left arm, nobody seems to have a video on how to keep it straight ?

Thanks for the instruction, hopefully it'll help me lower my scores. For some reason i like to see the instructor hit a ball at the end of the video. Maybe you could incorporate that in future videos.

Should I focus on keeping a straight arm and give up on the goal of getting the shaft parallel at the top of the swing? What I'm asking is, whats more important, getting parallel at the top, with the club pointed at the target, or keeping the left arm straight with a shorter backswing. I'm not sure I can do both.

I can't believe I've only just discovered that the left (right for me as LH) arm should be straight. I coil up a heap at the top and only noticed it once I filmed myself. I think this could be a game changer as I tend to come over the top slightly and timing of my wrist, elbow and shoulder release seems so much simpler with a straight arm. That's what 15yrs without a lesson will do.

I did the drill, never felt that feeling. A few muscles got a good stretch.

i see many videos about the left wrist staying flat

Is it better to be more straight up and down or more bent over?

Adam - great to see your viewing numbers. Much deserved. Not sure if you do a video dealing with how the right elbow behaves during transition. I know there is the glove under the armpit thing. Do you really feel the glove should stay intact throughout take away?

Is okay

Good Morning, I am writing a book targeting Golfers who are trying to improve their scores to 90. I would like to include the link to this video in the book. To whom may I make the request? Thank you

My grandpa used to tape cardboard to my aunts and uncles left arms to keep them from bending their arm in the backswing when they were kids.

let me see if I have this correct..I can do this at home??????

I am not tightening up...but I am getting golfers elbow in my left elbow. HOw can I prevent this?

Adam, can you explain the relationship between wrist hinge on left wrist vs the cupped, bowed or flat position? For me when I hinge my left wrist it seems to me it has to be in a cupped position. But during impact most instructions said it has to be a flat left wrist or even a bowed left wrist. How can we achieve this transition with hinging and unhinging and from cupped to bowed position or am I getting it wrong?

how good is the grass you are standing on can't see any divots

Please talk about it at impact because chicken wing can be my biggest problem.

I see so many videos in golf instruction that tell me what i need to do but forget to tell me why. Why do I need to keep my elbow straight? why?

I'll be playing far more in retirement than I do now. Still haven't decided if we retire in Los Angeles, Phoenix, or Naples!

Wait for it! Wait for it!

Should you keep it straight when hitting a driver?

At about the 4:45 mark, you refer to pushing the butt of the left hand against the left thumb. Do you mean the butt of the right hand pushing against the left thumb ?

4:45 u say “butt of the left hand” do u actually mean the right hand? This tip helped me focus on keeping my left arm straight without over concentrating on it, but just wanted to clarify the above

Pull with right hand, keep left arm straight, right hand against left thumb, twist your shoulders, add pressure, don’t push head off the ball, wanna a soft arm, keep elbows and forearms together, GOT IT! I hate/love golf! Great videos, (kidding aside)

Space and structure

is your left hand flat

The important thing is for the left arm to be straight at contact with the ball!

I hit much better with a straight left arm but I have to really think about it or I forget.

But how does it keep the left arm straight??

I’m still convinced the pro have bionic arms.

That's the widest fairway I've ever seen

Fantasy? Gotta Be , we all have em, edpeciall women!

I tried this drill but got a cupped wrist😢

Try not to "HIT" the ball. Instead imagine the ball just getting in the way of the swing. Swing as if there is no ball there, you'll feel the difference in how the ball jumps off the club head.

Bollocks.. just do not over swing... shoulder to shoulder..using left arm only... keep the left arm soft and let the weight of club straighten it naturally.

all these vids tell why,but never tell how to change a subconcious movement.

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