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Chris had this lesson given to him by his good friend and website member Todd Strible as a going away gift (Chris is moving to Florida, presumably to play more golf). Chris has always wrestled with some oddities in his technique and has been unsuccessful in the attempt to break age-old patterns. Watching the swings at full speed you will notice right away a serious issue with the shaft in transition as the club crosses the line and the hands and arms pull back and steepen to start the forward swing. This is a classic pattern that starts with the arms (especially the right arm) being locked at the elbows at address. The upper right arm resists external rotation (remains pinched in front of the chest) and arrives at left arm parallel almost looking straight back at the camera. From here the right shoulder muscles (trapezius, deltoid and others) pull the humerus backwards as one would in a cable row exercise. At the same time Chris slides his hips to the right, creating an out of sequence transition that causes the shaft to cross the line and remain quite steep well into the downswing. Chris also has a pronounced cup in his left wrist that he closes down by supinating his left wrist and forearm as soon as he has reached the end of his backswing. The result is a shaft that needs to be flattened late in the downswing along with hands and arms that are well away from the body and approaching from a high position. I would like Chris to soften his arms at address, retain more bend in his right arm in the backswing, delay the loading into his right hip in the takeaway, and use right arm extensor action to retain width in the backswing and avoid the right arm pull back that takes him out of any chance to utilize a sidearm throwing motion as a general swing model.
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