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“29 year old engineer from Sweden with a big passion for golf and swing technique.. Made a couple of years at the Swedish tour but have now take a step back to improve my swing/ballstriking and then come back again. Train about 20 hours per week. Feels like I need something new to work with in my swing. Often hit the ball over sweet spot and miss it to the right with a fade. And I’m not sure what it comes from. Searching for something like Hogan with low hand at impact where the hands go left (down the line) through impact… I’m very interested of getting a lesson from you after been watching your videos about compression and players analysis…”
Well, Mattias, you’ve come to the right place. Here we see yet another example of an excellent swing hamstrung by poor right arm movement. Mattias “pinches” his right arm in the backswing, which, as we can see from Adam Scott’s swing, is not really a flaw if you can deal with it on the forward swing like Adam does. The problem for the vast majority of players is that if the elbow widens, or get further from the left elbow in the start of the downswing the right arm stays pinned behind the right side and has a hard time delivering a solid blow. Mattias does a ton of great stuff with his pivot, and if he can get his right arm in front of his right hip in the approach to impact he will more than likely experience a nice improvement in his ball striking. The key is the sidearm motion, and in cases like this I like to start with softer arms at address and a wider, deeper backswing, with the right arm further from the body and more bent at left arm parallel. Then the idea is to squeeze the elbows together after the lower body has initiated transition and to aim the upper right arm to end up in front of the right side ribcage as opposed to behind the side, a move that will also “kick” or flatten the shaft. The upper arm then has a chance to stay closer to the side through impact as the club steepens during the rest of the downswing instead of separating from the body like Mattias’.
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