- If you bend your lead arm, you loose the radius of your swing. Good ball strikers create a wide arc on the backswing because they accomplish a couple of things:
1) As they swing back, they naturally hinge their wrists, which puts the club on the proper plane. 2) They are flexible enough to make a full turn while maintaining the lead arm extended.
High-handicappers tend to do the opposite:
1) Because of a faulty grip they are unable to hinge their wrists properly and then usually end up hinging their elbows instead and 2) because they may not be as flexible, they are unable to make a full turn so they cannot keep the left arm extended and end up bending the arm instead.
Exercise Ball Swings
- Stand in a golf stance holding an exercise ball between your arms as shown.
- Swing the ball to the top of your swing as if you were going through your golf swing motion.
- Hold the ball at the top of your swing for a moment and then follow-through.
- Repeat for 8 to 10 repetitions.
Because of the ball is large, you have to keep your arms extended.
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