No doubt, the commonest mistake I see in my every day golf classes is golfers over swinging their arms through the backswing.
The supply of this fault could be a number of various things:
Why You Have to Load Your Physique Appropriately

With out the physique loaded appropriately through the early phases of the backswing, you’ll get to the highest of the swing and really feel such as you don’t have any energy.
Due to this you’ll proceed to swing your arms farther in an effort to really feel that your muscle mass are loaded so that you simply’ll have some energy through the downswing.
In fact, this simply results in over swinging and the irritating downside that the majority golfers have of not having the ability to shorten their backswings it doesn’t matter what their instructors inform them.
The Answer
The important thing to fixing this downside is to correctly load the correct leg and core muscle mass through the backswing, and it’s essential to start out doing this through the takeaway.
What this does is provide the feeling of muscular pressure earlier within the swing and a way of loading in order that whenever you get to the highest of the swing along with your arms, you could have one thing to cue you to start out the downswing.
This sensation of load, notably in the correct glute and proper leg, is what triggers your mind to start out shifting within the different course initially of the transition. With out this cue, you’ll proceed to swing lengthy and throughout the road, irrespective of how arduous you attempt to cease.
A Drill to Shorten Your Swing Eternally
So for those who wrestle with swinging previous parallel on the high, do that:
Throughout the takeaway, make sure that your proper knee stays flexed and you are feeling that you simply’re rotating in your proper hip socket in such a approach that your proper glute and your proper thigh really feel a way of pressure instantly through the takeaway like I describe on this video.
If you happen to really feel the stress early within the golf swing, by the point you get to the highest, you’ll be unable to swing again any farther along with your arms. At first, you’ll most likely need to exaggerate this and actually really feel quite a bit load so that you could get the feeling.
However with time you’ll be able to again this down and never must really feel such an over aggressive use of the decrease physique through the backswing. You’ll discover that, as you’re employed on this drill, you’ll really feel your swing biomechanically get shorter and shorter, and your mind could have the right cues it must transition the downswing on the proper time, which is essential for sequencing.
What Concerning the Arms within the Backswing?
Right here’s the place practically each golfer destroys their golf swing – within the first 6 inches of membership motion!
That’s proper, most golfers’ swings are set off on the incorrect monitor instantly.
Right here’s the easy actuality it’s good to burn into your mind is that your arms are going to really feel like they don’t actually transfer a lot in any respect throughout your entire backswing!
If you happen to really feel that, you’ll possible transfer them the correct quantity.
Within the picture above of my golf takeaway the crimson triangle represents the place of my arms in relation to my chest. Most significantly, they’re very near the place they had been at setup.
I’ve bought numerous drills on the way to study this correct takeaway, my favourite is roofed within the video 5 Minutes to Grasp Rotation. That’s as a result of it’s your higher torso rotation that strikes the membership through the first half of the swing as the first mover.
This golf instruction video emphasizes the a part of the takeaway the place most golfers wrestle as a result of the tendency is to right away simply transfer the arms to get the membership shifting. This makes good sense as we do nearly all the pieces in our every day lives with our arms and arms.
A lot of our tactile suggestions on the earth comes kind our arms and arms and our arms are the one factor truly making contact with the golf membership.
Due to this, we’ve to study to beat our instincts to depend on simply our arms to maneuver the membership. It is advisable “really feel” the precise reverse through the backswing.
To know how the arms work through the backswing, take a look at this video: How the Arms Work within the Golf Backswing