Keep Swing Taut for Width; #1 Most Popular Golf Teacher on You Tube Shawn Clement

www.shawnclementgolf.com Shawn Clement, Director of the Richmond Hill Golf Learning Centre, and top 25 CPGA Teaching Professional as rated by Score Golf Magazine, shows you ways to keep your arms in the right place throughout your swing using the "David and Goliath" analogy and the baseball technique to keep everything "Taut".

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[claytronica23]

Shawn - great and critical clip here. In the pursuit of width, I have become fixated on a super straight left arm going back - similar to Els, who is nearly hyper-extended. All I seem to doing is adding tension to the arm unit, which results in "holding on" to the whole damn thing into impact and through - blocking shots right and never giving myself a chance to relax, stretch out, and release. Is it acceptable for me to abandon the notion of a dead straight left arm going back? Many thanks!

[clemshaw]

@claytronica23 Yes; you want to feel that the width is created by centrifugal force resulting from the body getting out of the way of the Arm club unit's swing; we have a few threads on this in my forum and you should check it out! See "arms and body timing", "stop crashing" and "top view of swing" for more on this as well as "Get Bubba wide"; they expand on this nicely; Shawn

[MrRichardbirkbeck]

Hi Shawn,

Feel like ive just got the last piece of the jigsaw. I've been trying all the other stuff on your vidoes but still i've been hacking up the turf or topping the ball. Realllly struggled to maintain constant good contact with the ball. Keeping the arms taut to the side of the chest and swinging forward before the backswing with a straight arm solved all the problems. Went from my average round of 100- 106 to 89 straight off!! Hope its not just a flash in the pan? Many thanks Rich

[clemshaw]

Hey Rich! Make sure you see my latest "Golf Pro lesson the insanity of golf" so that this issue does not return!

Shawn

[Michael10659]

Hi Shawn,

This taut arms technique (IMO) is one of the most important things in the swing. The taut arms will give you the width you need and help maintain all the other concepts you talk about. For most golfers if they are like myself tend to get lazy in mid swing and lose the taut, You have to maintain that taut sensation all the way thru. This was so the key for me. One other thing was the fact that I was a little to tall at address and adjusted that as well. I am CRUSHING my irons now

[clemshaw]

Way to go Michael! Stay tuned for a couple more videos coming in the next few days! Shawn

[steckleinjr]

Another long golf season is over in South Florida. Time to re-feed my Clement addiction! Maybe i'll skip a rock or snap a towel or throw a club! You should be seeing a few of my canadian students this summer, aye! Least i can do. Hope all is well

[tfdoke]

I watched this video for about the 100th time today (like all your videos) and just thought is this why when you watch on TV the pros look like they are lining up to the ball and the ball is out to the very front of the club head (their arms are relaxed and not taut) then before they swing they taut their arms and the ball ends up being in the middle of the club. I think I have been lining up with the ball in the middle with "un-taut" arms and pulling the ball left...thoughts???

[jlnewma7]

At address, do you suggest an angle between the wrists and clubshaft (resulting in slight toe-up position) or more of a straight-line relationship with the taut elbows.

[AbbyCadaver01]

Good tip to review if you haven't played in a while to get thing back on track quickly.

Good suff!

[clemshaw]

Good! The thing that will seal the deal is the video I just uploaded called "Golf Pro lesson the insanity of golf" which talks about having the right focus that will bring about the solid contact and direction;

BTW, very sorry about not getting to this comment sooner! Shawn