Keep Elbow Close? #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 Teacher as Rated By Score Golf Magazine shows you what happens when you keep your right elbow too close to your body and what should have been instructed in the first place...

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[theciskokidd]

The right arm lift isnt necessarily a bad thing, as long as you bring the club back down into the slot. For beginners I would not teach a right elbow lifting but a good example where it works is by watching Fred Couples. He just brings it back to the correct position.

[clemshaw]

@theciskokidd Beginner or not; the action of the arms are not your job!! Do you have any Idea how amazing the human body on planet earth is and how it is already wired to do this?? You fear what you don't understand and this is OK but please do something about it and see my "Ridiculously easy; Shawn Clement" part 1 and 2 videos and then my "Arms and Body; Shawn Clement" and "Stop Crashing; Shawn Clement" videos; the titles speak for themselves! Shawn

[kuroineko77]

Are you a preacher? 

[clemshaw]

@kuroineko77 That is not a preacher's collar; that is my MICROPHONE! :)

[ktkl68]

Hello

Great video and thank you

I have a question about the right elbow.. I may be wrong and if I am please correct me. After the takeway about the half swing, the folding of my right elbow is what elevates the club upward right? Without the folding of the right elbow the hands and the club will go deeper (inside) and will have a right elbow that is kind of disconnected at the top.. Please give me your advice. Thanks

[clemshaw]

@ktkl68 Partly yes! The body turning out of the way of the arm swing into the backswing, yes backswing (see "golf pro lesson perpetual motion drill) will cause the arms to get pulled away from the body and arm getting pulled away from the body means arms going upwards! The right arm folding causes the wrists to hinge up and this provides lift as well; see "golf pro lesson takeaway and starting the swing" and "golf pro lesson momentum toss" part 1 and 2; Shawn

[silowhore]

you're definitely onto something there shawn, i've always kept my right elbow close in the backswing, last night i started practicing letting it go more freely and getting the arc of my swing a bit wider and i was absolutely crushing it, best i've ever hit the ball. thanks buddy :D

[benitocarbone54321]

ClemShaw, you should try playing cricket, nice throw

[Theclassiccarnut]

The right elbow does get "close" to right hip on the downswing.

[CosmicSPC]

so the left arm connection a la McLean is nonsense too ?

[Strgchris]

For right handed golfer you do want the right elbow close to the body at the top of the back swing correct? I find that if I let my elbow lift away from my body to much I cross the line really bad.

[KaleAshrim]

@kuroineko77 - LOL - I noticed that too. Anyway, Shawn may not be a preacher, but he's certainly the arch deacon of golf instruction.

[TheGolfingGuru]

You the shit bro! (in a good way)

[kbakken1]

Couldn't have said it better, Shawn!  That those "fixes" are re-active and don't address the bigger issues in the swing.

Before I really got big into your methodology (which is really only explaining what the human body already does), I went for a lesson to straighten out my drive. He had me do a bunch of re-active things to straighten out flight path.

While this did straighten it out, I was not even close to swinging to my full potential. It also felt forced.

[kukocs13]

The reason the towel is used under the left arm is that the the left arm is tied to the side of the chest to square the clubface. This brings in a more consistent squaring of the clubface and prevents the dreaded chicken wing . Otherwise, you will have to depend on TIMING OR FLIPPING of the hands and arms. This will cause massive inconsistency. The part of your video where you show the swing with your arms tied to your chest shows just how little you know about the golf swing. Read B. Hogan.