Hands and Left Arm on Golf Downswing, Swing Tips

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Left arm and hand action on the golf downswing. Re-route the club with the hands and drive the left arm down in plane, for a natural release of the golf club at impact.

The move to start the downswing is often regarded as the most important in the golf swing as it is responsible for the plane of the downswing. Even with a fault on the backswing, a good transition from the top, with the hands and left arm, will re-route the club onto the correct downswing plane for crisp iron shots, long drives and maximum compression of the ball.

Apart from golf there are other activities that require a similar 'lag' move to set up a disciplined attack on the right line. To help understand the importance of the transition it is worth looking at two of them – playing the violin and javelin throwing.

Hand and Left Arm Action on the Golf Dwnswing

The three activities, golf, violin playing and javelin throwing all have one thing is common; all must maintain a disciplined line of attack as power is injected. It is crucial for a violinist to keep the bow straight as it moves across the strings. To throw the javelin aerodynamically it must be released through the correct line. In golf it is essential to keep the club in plane on the downswing.

In all three actions it is the hands that are responsible for finding, and importantly, holding, the line as power is injected. In all three activities, if the hands don’t locate the correct slot independent of the body action (or right arm arc of a violin player), disaster looms.

The violin bow would only just miss the left ear of the musician, the javelin thrower could well spear his left foot and a golfer would hit the most enormous slice. It is the lag or re-routing of the hands onto the correct line, and the maintenance of that line on the downswing, that saves all three actions.