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Golf Tip of the Fortnight

Full Swing Tip

Keep your left arm straight? Many golfers complain about how difficult it is to keep their lever arm (left arm for right-handed golfers) straight in the backswing. Let me offer two general suggestions:

It is not absolutely necessary to keep your lever arm completely straight in the backswing. Many excellent players have a slight fold or give in their lever arm in the backswing, only to allow it naturally re-extend with angular momentum on the downswing.
Most of the time when extension is a problem it is not necessarily a lack of flexibility, but a lack of upper torso (shoulders) rotation in the backswing, i.e. the arms are trying to go too far back for how much the shoulders are turning.

Although a fully extended lever arm is ideal for a simple golf swing it is not essential. And if you make sure that you're making a full shoulder turn instead of trying to create the backswing with your arms, then keeping your lever arm extended is pretty easy.

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