If you're slicing it, pulling it, hitting
thin or fat shots what i'm about to show
you in this video is going to help you
out because it's all about the magic
of the right elbow. Okay, the first part
of this magic right elbow on the golf
swing I want to show you starts at the
setup. So a lot of golfers as I see it set up and
i'll get to the down the line position
this right elbow will be pointing
straight behind them. So if you point in
if you're set up with the position of
the right elbow pointing straight behind
you what that will, what will tend to
happen is as you make your backswing
the elbow will bend as it naturally does
from that position and it will pull
the club behind you.
There's
no alternative there's nowhere else for
it to go that's the way the elbow bends
and you'll get the club in behind and
very often the club will then come down
steep and you'll hit your slices and you
pulls. So right from your
setup what I want you to do
this elbow pit I want it pointing
towards the golf ball. So from this angle
I want this elbow pit pointing
forward in this direction here
towards the golf ball because what
that'll do that'll make the elbow bend
in a more upright fashion like that
instead of back here behind you.
It'll encourage it to bend more
like this and get into a spot
where it's pointing more towards the ground
and that sort of position there.
And from
here you're in a much better spot to
then shallow on the way down
and get through to impact.
And the problem with this is if you have
this elbow pointing behind you it's set
up another thing it will tend to do is have
your shoulders and your upper body open
right from the start and that'll look
something like this
and you probably think this there's
nothing wrong with this this looks okay
but if you were to have a look at my
shoulders you'll notice
they should be pointing down left of the
target line now i can't do this by
myself matching it up but i'm pretty
sure if i was to draw a line down there
they'll be on a slight angle left
now by turning this elbow pit forward and you'll also notice
in this spot here that you can probably
see my lead arm a bit it's set up and if
you can see my lead arm i'm set up very
open so get that elbow pit forward and pull this
arm back in towards you and now mostly
both these arms should be covering each
other my shoulders should be a lot squarer i
can't quite see myself but they should
be fairly square much better than there
there should be a lot square and from
here I can turn and i can get into a fantastic backswing
position making my life easier
as I come through in the
downswing now the magic of this
right elbow for me really comes into
play in your golf downswing so
as you get the top of your back swing
we've made a good backswing we've kept
that elbow pointing more
down towards the ground i
like to feel as this elbow stays more
bent in the downswing but more
importantly i like to feel it like it
traces down my rib cage like that stays
a lot closer to my body and almost
you probably heard before you may have
heard before about trying to get the
right elbow to touch the trail hip or
the right hip somewhere like there now
watch what happens when i do this
if i can get that trail right elbow to
trace down my rib ribcaging it close to
that right here to here
you'll notice there how shallow
that club gets and from there i can just
rotate through to impact with lots of power so
that feel of getting that right elbow
keeping it bent and having it trace down
your ribs and get closer to that right
hip like there that is a wonderful
spot you can get into all great players
do this and i'm going to show you one in
just a moment exactly how he does it
but if you do the opposite for exple
let's say you're someone that gets up
here what happens if i don't keep that
right elbow closer to my body well this
is what happens it's away
from your body club will come
down steeper even if you only do it a
little bit club tends to come down steep
and you cut across the golf ball have a
look at this golf swing and slow motion
of ceron smith one of the best golfers
in the world as he makes his backswing
notice how his elbow bends more up and
as he gets to the top of this backswing
his elbow is pointing more towards the
ground so he's got that club in a great
backswing position now as he starts the
downswing you'll notice that elbow
remains fairly bent and he
keeps it nice and close to his
rib cage close to that lower hip as he
gets down towards pre-impact
and he doesn't straighten it out until
after he struck the golf ball now
another great feel that i find
works really well is to feel like this
right or trail elbow gets lower than the
lead one in the downswing and watch what
happens now the opposite to that
right elbow getting higher
club comes down steep
but i want you to feel
trail elbow gets
lower lower than left look what happens
shallow shaft then all we've got to do
is rotate so that can be a great feel
for you quite often on the first tee i'm
waiting to hit my shot i'm just there
practicing feeling that trail elbow
getting lower it's a great
way to shallow at the club
and really nail that downswing position
and really get it into the slot which is
what you're after
so if you can get that one feel
and i'll show you a drill in just a
moment trail elbow lower than the lead
close to my body closer to
that right hip and then
rotate through so let's have
a look at this drill the
no is going to help you out a great
drill with this right elbow so you can
really nail this in your downswing is
take a club i want you to turn it around
the other way and grip it about halfway
down the shaft like this you're going to
set up to a ball
and as you come on your dancing i want
you to feel like this grip end either
points at that ball or just outside and
watch what happens when you do that if i
come here and i get it pointing at the golf ball
i'm shallowing out that shaft
i'm in that great spot to swing through
on that downswing so that's the feel
that's what i want you you can even do
this as a pre-shot routine if you like
get to the top of your backswing and
just feel like
that shaft points more
at the golf ball and that will shallow
out your shaft every time it's that
simple if you're someone that's coming
over the top
you'll notice
look where that shaft points straight
down the target line even left of the
target line
steep down swing i want you if you're
someone that comes over the top or at
least steep feel the opposite feel the
opposite there
and that is a wonderful spot for you and
then it's just
rotation
that will really improve your golf swing
now i've got a video coming up that you
need to watch because this talks about
how to stop standing up through impact
so if you're someone that
suffers from early extension you come
through and you stand up
you're losing power and consistency this
video is going to help you out so make
sure you watch it i'll see you on it.