Thank you Pro your good teachings and advise,but what if you are a righhander playing left handed ,then your lead arm is your strong arm ,and you naturally pull with the lead strong arm.Whats your thought on the best approach in these circumstances. Thanks
Thankyou Marcus, I am from Australia and at 73 trying to get back into golf with degrees of frustration. Been tuned into many online golf teacher through RU-vid but really found your teaching so helpful. Probably as I am also a lefty, viewing a lefty is more helpful to understand the moves, and not having to reverse the process in your mind to be able carry it out with the clubs. I now watch your material exclusively and look forward to being consistent and an improved scorecard. Many thanks for your dedication to teaching us. Peter
It’s funny: unless my final thought is “hit out,” I nearly always pull the club with my lead hand. I can feel my body fighting itself. Heading to the range now. I like this idea. Thanks, Marcus.
This was the feel I was missing. I can come from the inside all I want, but my lead arm is always going to pull and take the club across from outside in. I can instantly swing way inside out with this feel. Thanks!
Before my wife's first pregnancy... i had this swing thought, consequently, GIR was high and shot some 70s round. But taking time off during her pregnancy and a year after baby turned one... coming back... forgot a lot of these swing thoughts. Thanks Marcus for yet another great tip. Also... the lead shoulder has a lot to do with this. Pull it circular and all kinds of nasties come out. But pull it up and back enables hands to to swing freely in this correct motion. Also keeps the trailing hand from turning over lead hand.
This advice is very important, for general golfer the lead hand is the most obstruction. From my experience my lead hand stubonly insist to keep the status of leading. The best way make it learn to change is concentrating on trail hand by firmly hold the club with trail hand and keep lead hand as loose as posible all the way.
Thanks again for another awesome video (as always), Marcus! I’ve tried this drill and it is hard as heck! But it does, like you say, provide the proper feeling that you should have in each hand and it actually helps me properly set my tempo too… Cheers brother!
I never feel as though i release the club. I always pull with the left arm and feel as though i neglect the right arm. I am hoping emphasizing and straightening the right arm will allow me to release and more distance. Let the retraining begin!
I think in downswing, trail arm is the culprit which pushes lead arm out of the swing path and causes lead arm to go out to in . I try not to make trail arm not a dominant arm and it works.
Another great video and another Thank You. Question: Regarding the trail hand grip: Is your grip more in the middle fingers of the trail hand....or do you utilize the trigger finger more? Through your exercises and a sweeping motion from the inside, I have found it much easier to keep the trail arm flowing using the middle fingers more. My trigger finger tends to interrupt the flow. Opinion?
I don't have a dominant finger in my trail hand like I have in my lead hand. I think we need to try different thoughts and find what works best. Grip and feel is very personal.
Another great video. Now being an educator myself ( French teacher) for more than 30 years, can I suggest that you use the term ( this will be new for you) instead of ( this will be difficult for you) or (this will NOT easy to learn) as I always told my students over the years. It is not hard or difficult to do. IT IS NEW. Thank you for your attention. B. GAGNÉ OTTAWA, CANADA !
Hi Bertrand. I need to think about your suggestion because it would feel like I was lying to the golfers in the world. Of course it is new but it is also extremely difficult to become good in golf. I really don't like instructors saying something it easy when it isn't. 🤔
@@GolfwithMarcusEdblad As a former English teacher, I love your simple, direct, unvarnished explanations. I TRUST you and that is the main thing. Golf is damn hard and it's more important to say it, not to couch it in soft verbal tissue. As always, you are deeply appreciated.
I have to commit to making my trail hand power the swing. My lead hand has had ligament surgery 4 years ago and I can't get any power from the lead side. Plus my lead shoulder gets really sore if I just pull with lead arm for a whole bucket of balls.
@@GolfwithMarcusEdbladI will winter in Scotland is the time to practice. As I said before 7 hcap and was at 5 for a decent while Came to golf very late 48, now pushing 60 but have never at any point thought " I've got this".....always think I could get that bit better despite well into senior category. I find your videos very different from others on you tube......part of the attraction.
Quick question, Marcus: In one of your 'scoop videos" you mentioned that you open the clubface, just a little bit at address with the driver, so you always remember to scoop. Do you do the same with your irons? Thanks...Derek The scoop is really working for me, so I am just fine-tuning a bit now.
Hi. I have tested to play with a Cobra set (7 iron length). I lost a little feel in my wedge game and the jump to all woods got huge so I don't see the point. If all clubs was the same it would really be "one length". Most of the golfers I know have bought them change back within a year but I don't know why. It's nothing wrong with it, it just wasn't for me. I like the different in feel from the different clubs.
Another great lesson, thanks Marcus. There’s some difficulty in addressing the ball with feet parallel to the target line but starting the take away about 20 deg or so inward to the target line in order for the club to descend and follow the same line inside out. Does it matter if the takeaway is done parallel to target line and loop it in on the down swing. That doesn’t seem easy either. Or could we start with a closed address so that the inward takeaway is more natural? Your thoughts please.
Stop that Bala. You do not need to start in that much. The body rotation will take the club in.But going forward we need to exaggerate the path because the body rotation is trying to bring the club in here too. To make it work in the long run we need to separate the swing path from our stance and aim so no closed stance. A closed stance will also block the trail side from pushing forward and we loose the release. Bring the club slightly in on the way back but feel/try to get a very exaggerated in to out path forward. You can do it. 💪
Thanks for sharing… I’m a right handed golfer… I can get hit fantastic wedge shots with my left hand/arm alone … but when I use both hands and get aggressive my right hand wants to over power my left hand and shut the club face … this kills my long irons as I end up smothering the ball and it can’t get up … any thoughts?
We all need to teach both hands to not roll trough impact. The best way to practice is to purposely hit a hook and then try to change it in to what we want. If you go through my hand series you will find your answer. Start here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JYJrkN991ac.html
I think the way you play right now. I'm right handed but play as a lefty. Watch this video on the subject: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kZlLYGpNdH0.htmlsi=nQBkzrZUPV-yWhxa
I find when I focus on a dominant right and forget about keeping a straight left arm, the swing collapses around to the left with my body turn giving me a severe pull hook. When I try and keep my left arm straight without pulling, it seems to straighten up my shots. Is this the right thing to do?
The lead arm can be straight but not too long. It needs to fold and send the club up over the lead shoulder. The club should not follow the body turn around you and finish low.
@@GolfwithMarcusEdblad when I was a kid, my teaching pro told me to "hit to the crossover"......both arms straight when the arms are parallel to the ground in the follow thru...... but when I did this I found it hard to swing the clubhead over my lead shoulder which also blocks my follow through and finish.. Some teachers talk about. the9 to 3. swing which is like hit to the "crossover" but I have trouble. with this . Comment?
@@williamreichert4798 I need to know more and get a good explanation why he/her wanted you to have both arms straight. I would use it to hold the blade opened but it would kill the speed and the release. You need to decide if you want to change or not and what ever you decide, stick with it for a long time.
Watched quite a few of your videos now, love your content. Honestly wish I could have you as a coach, the commute from NZ might be a bit long though unfortunately
Marcus...great instruction. But, I am confused...You say many times that your hands should swing out and up (even scouping) and NOT to roll you trail hand over your lead hand. But, in the great picture you show at the beginning of this, and many other videos, it clearly shows your trail hand and arm has completely rolled over your lead arm and hand. Please explain...
Hi Mike. I you see that it's misleading you. Look att the toe of the club and you se that the toe is not pointing to the right it is pointing up between 12 and 1. The trail hand is passing on it's way up otherwise I would be hitting hooks all the time. It is over the lead hand but not rotated over. Try it and you will understand.
@@GolfwithMarcusEdblad Marcus, thanks for your quick response. When I mimic your follow through picture, my clubface is pointing at the ground, not between 12 and 1. So...that tells me that my grip is much stronger than you use. With a very weak grip (for me) I can get the clubface to point more toward 12. It seems like I need to use a much weaker grip to work on your methods. Thanks again for you help, from Ft Lauderdale...
@@Galaxieman You don't need to change the grip but you are probably right, my grip is weaker than yours. My grip makes my palm on my trail hand mimic the club face. Focus on the club face and make it close upwards so the toe goes up at finish instead of the face closing down and the toe going sideways. You can do it. 👍
