Brian Muench Online Lesson and Follow-Up: -Addressing Right Arm Issues

I met Brian when I worked at Woodmont CC and he was an assistant pro. He has since gotten his amateur status back and had an exciting win in 2018 when he prevailed in the Oak Hill (Rochester, NY) club championship. He is getting close to playing some quality golf and would like to compete on a State Am/ State Open level. He has always had wrestled with the problem you will see here, where the right arm bends and pulls back in transition, leaving it unable to straighten as it heads from P4 to P6, bringing the hands toward impact with a high approach. He tends to feel like he is steep, which with most players would indicate that the shaft is angled too vertically in the downswing, but as you will see this is not the case here. I’m thinking that the steep feeling comes from the arms being too far from the body in the downswing, and my advice is to try to get a bit deeper into the backswing (I put him side by side with Kevin Streelman as an example) and then try to control the right arm movement in transition so he can retrace that feeling in the forward swing and have his left arm deeper at P5 and his right arm straighter at P6, giving him a shallower approach to impact. (Follow-Up lesson is below, be sure to scroll down to view it)

 
In the follow-up lesson we see that Brian has done an excellent job deepening the arms in the backswing, but still exhibits the same right arm and shoulder issue at the end of the backswing and starting forward. This has been a long -time problem for Brian and figures to be a stubborn thing to change and I use Byron Nelson as an example. I do give him one more item to deal with as I’d like to see him straighten his left leg sooner after impact, and I side by side him with Tommy Fleetwood to demonstrate what I mean.