Top video Chris. Once again demonstrating why you’re the best coach on RU-vid in my opinion. You have a knack of explaining complex techniques in such a simple and helpful way. Thanks for such great advice.
Excellent job Chris on explaining the correct movement of the right arm! I am very much an advocate of the right arm folding and unfolding in the golf shot. You can't believe how much this has transformed my game! Keep up the good work Chris!
Chris, I am not exaggerating when I say that this video clarified so many things for me. It transformed my swing, but especially my trail arm and wrist angles.
I was very lucky to attend two golfing trips with Chris (and Davis Aliestar). In Spain and Portugal. And that's where I took most benefits in studying golf in years. Fantastic player and an even better coach. The main conclusion from the trips is that you can't learn golf by just watching youtube, unfortunately. I believe, guys like Chris know this, so are perfectly ready to share all the secrets here)))
Thanks Chris, I'm also very curious as to the proper position of the trail arm at address, particularly the direction of the inside of the elbow? Maybe you've done a video on this?? The reason being is I've noticed i only hit the very sweetest crispiest most delicious shots when that trail elbow is practically pointing down at address or rather the biceps are practically pointing towards sky. From what i understand this is called forearm supination. And this move slightly opens the club face at address but apparently leads everything on a perfect path bc fyi pretty good ball striker without this move, but seemingly perfect strikes only come with it.
OH MY GOODNESS - The second drill is SO hard! I can’t get the club head past my alignment stick, let alone the two golf balls. Thanks for the video and the drills, Chris. This is a drill that I will do everyday..
Try feeling like your maintain the shape of the arms at the top of the backswing as long as you can into downswing, the arms then unfold naturally with gravity. Note im not saying hold the wrist angle, instead feel like youre holding angle between biceps and forearms. Check out Dan Martin 'shape of arms' for more on it.
Nice drill Chris, not so easy I would think for some because the club will feel heavy using only one hand. I would be interested in a good practice drill to include hitting balls on the range or practice nets with only 10-15 minutes before you tee off.
Hey Ray, I agree that would be useful, would be nice if we all had perfect ranges and an hour to loosen up but the reality is it’s often just a few minute as you say.
The reality is that it will be a combination of the two, but each player may benefit from ‘feeling’ one more than the other, but would depend on the swing
You need to practice some swings with left hand only. Your faults will show up very quickly. Once you figure it out…. Just combine the feels with both hands on the club. I’m thinking it’s probably your wrist conditions are wrong, with the lead arm. You’ll need to feel “knuckles down” through impact on your left hand, to strike the ball good. You may even need to slightly change your left hand grip a bit, if your ball start direction is off, when swinging with left hand only. These one hand swings drills are perfect for diagnosing faults. Trust me.
This is a disconnected approach. You build the swing from the ground up, not top down. Build a braced address and focus on building the triangle in which the elbows point down throughout the swing. You have are representing a complicated approach to the golf swing and how it should work. Big muscles drive the swing not the hands and arms. Been a PGA Professional for 20 years and I have never found and easier way to move the club outside of the Hogan approach. Jimmy Ballard was and is a great teach folks. Simply pull up his RU-vid and start enjoying a very simple approach to the swing. Works every time.
You seem to be disagreeing with a point that I didn’t make. Where did I say you build the swing from the top down or that the bigger muscles don’t control the movement? If someone asked me how the head should move through the swing and I answered, that doesn’t mean that I believe you build the swing from the head down, I actually agree with most of your points
