Tips/Drill to keep my arms closer to my body during the Downswing

[mikewhitehurst]

Hi All,

I have been playing golf for 8 months now and have a H'cap of 28. My pro has said that my biggest problem is keeping my hands closer to my body during the downswing (I Push and slice the ball a lot!).

Does anyone have any tips or drills I can use to help me get over this?

Thanks,
Mike

[BrianW]

Re: Tips/Drill to keep my arms closer to my body during the Downswing

Standing too far away from the ball will tend to make your weight fall forward and create slices and pushes. Work on your posture and distance from the ball, you should not be trying to pull your arms into your body but rather setup in a posture that allows you to swing freely into the ball.

This video shows you how:

[rogue]

Re: Tips/Drill to keep my arms closer to my body during the Downswing

cause and effect. Does a chicken wing cause slices, or does swinging out to in with an open face cause a chicken wing???? chicken or the egg situation

In most sitations a player starts with a weak grip (this seems to be very natural to 90% of players). With time they get piseed with hitting the ball right so their subconscious satrst them swinging more left (its the most logical thing the subconsious can do). when you swing left a chicken wing occurs. this then leads to other compensations like moving backwards to compensate for the over the top move and also standing further away form the ball to allow for the fact the club gets thrown over the top and clubhead moves further away from body.

The biggest problem is over time the subconsious ingrains this way of hitting the ball, especially the swing path which relates the most to the moveemnt. to try to fix the faults - standing to far away, chicken wing, arms to far away from body, over the top move............ is a futile process.

you must get to the new root cause of the problem, the subconsious idea of how ot hit the ball. If you cahneg this, the faulst will start to collapse. you need to change your swing path and clubface at impact. For path i like the idea of the hammer and nail, aim the nail to the right and try to hit the ball the same way. (this should fix half of the chicken wing and will fix the arms coming down closer tot he body without having to foce it or think about it).

For the face just feel like it rotates through impact like you are hitting topspin in tenning. This should fix the chicken wing. The other faulst will fix themselves with time.