The KEY To The TRAIL ARM In The Backswing

In this video, Mike Pitt teaches your the most optimal trail arm position during the backswing. The trail arm is very important for creating connection between the body and hands. Some may think that a higher trail arm can create more power in the swing, which may be true BUT the golfer will need to reroute the club way more! The name of the game is to create efficiency in your swing without losing distance.
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[@GolfPitt]

What video should we do next??

[@khimyap1142]

Hi Mike, can you please make a video on how to hit fairway woods ? Thank you for your amazing videos 😊

[@owenosteocyte7455]

Can you do a video on ground force or weight shift?

[@michsneddon6077]

Now you've done the right elbow might as well do right wrist and release

[@MrBleedk]

golf vlog, Mike en match play

[@bogey2528]

I have a problem with my lead knee buckling which causes my upper body to dip towards the ball, how could I stop from doing that?

[@ejcarey6679]

In my humble opinion, this is the best explanation/demonstration of what the right arm/elbow should be doing during the swing that I have ever seen. Ben Hogan is likely smiling right about now - bravo Mike!

[@GolfPitt]

Thank you thank you thank you! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Reading that just gives me the chills!

[@MsIng]

It can’t get any better than this. You’re such an excellent coach!

[@GolfPitt]

Thank you so much! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@RagingBaby]

Another sick video. For whatever reason your instructions resonate with me and I’ve watched prob 500 hours of KZbin videos by now. Thanks!

[@AM-wv5mm]

Great lesson, Mike. And the overlay of your student / Homa was mind-blowing!

[@GolfPitt]

Thank you kindly! Appreciate you watching!

[@fredmcmichael5727]

Soooo good!

[@Dkrin28]

Really enjoy your channel! Love to see your views on the release

[@GolfPitt]

Thank you! Coming right up!

[@systemoptimizer3542]

I like the drill of externally rotating the arms at address and keeping the arms in that position during the backswing and at top of swing. I also like that it can be practiced at home without a ball or club. It's a myth that a long swing leads to long distance. Mcilroy, Rahm, and Fenau all have short arm swings with decent torso twist and the club shaft being short of parallel when their clubs reach the top of swing and all of them hit the ball a long way with a high swing speed. My worry about driving the rear elbow into the belly is that it promotes the hands and arms away from the body, high hands and arm rotation coming into and through impact. I also think it encourages the rear arm staying too bent and leads to more side bend and a rounded back at impact among other things. I'd rather see the rear arm straighten, the hands separate from the right shoulder more room for the arms to swing back under the shoulders at impact and better back posture at impact. (Like what Adam Scott, Justin Rose, Rory Mcilroy, Nick Faldo, Stuart Appleby, Charles Howell, Ernie Els and many other great ball strikers look like at impact not like Dustin Johnson or high handicappers look at impact...) I'd like to know more about how to best accelerate the grip, hands, and arms accelerate down from that top of the swing location.

[@chrismunson9104]

I love what you said about external rotation. I've watched almost all of your videos and the move that finally fixed my over the top baseball swing was externally rotating my trail arm during the set. It locks in the slot and allows me to move everything as one unit from the set to the top and back down again. Truly the path to the least amount of manipulation!

[@GolfPitt]

I love how your talking! You are absolutely starting to understand the golf swing the way we want you to!!!! 👊🏼👊🏼👊🏼👊🏼

[@glamapandacapital]

Exactly for me as well. “Winning the arm wrestle” in transition is an absolute death move for the golf swing. Great shit Mike

[@nevillelee-archer8359]

Thanks for addressing my biggest problem hitting left your comments and explanation at 6.00 are brilliant.

[@GolfPitt]

Thank you for watching!!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@Hlla387]

Excellent vid, just what I was after. From London

[@GolfPitt]

Get after it!

[@tukeww4525]

Thanks for this video guys! I've been working on this and it really has helped me a lot, but now I'm in the situation where the black shirt guy in the video. If you pause the video at appr. 08:00 time swing you can see massive chicken wing. I bet it's not due to muscles so what should be done differently? My swing is the exact copy and it bugs me, also at trackman my attack angle is max -2ish deg down, usually closer to zero just barely coming down on the ball.

[@lenardtan7169]

Great lesson tips

[@GolfPitt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@warwicklorraine]

Simple and so effective

[@GolfPitt]

Thank you kindly that is the ultimate compliment in my mind! 🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@winston1234]

WTF!!! This is the holy grail of golf videos! Solves everything if you have the basics down!

[@GolfPitt]

Hahaha! Thank you so much brother! We feel the same way! We want to simplify the overly complicated golf swing for all you guys so you can ALL play better golf and enjoy this great game more than ever before!

[@richardjackson9725]

I love this with irons but honestly never had any joy trying it with driver. Would love an explanation as to why that might be.

[@michaelsica6928]

Great video 👍.... can you tell us how people that dont have that look or posistion at the top make it work... Like jack or phill or whoever. Is it just repetition and good coordination and timing? Thanks

[@markhospers8264]

Thanks Mike. Does the same technique apply to the driver?

[@mikemoulder6970]

Thank you 🙏

[@GolfPitt]

You’re welcome 😊 Thanks for watching!

[@Mr5thWard]

After watching this video , I want to go to the range. Great lesson!

[@GolfPitt]

Get after it!!

[@MrBleedk]

epic video thx

[@GolfPitt]

Thank you for watching and for the kind words!

[@netiratsoithong9031]

Thank you for video. It is clear for the trail arm position in backswing. However, if you set up the left arm (elbow pit turn upward to the sky) as in the minute 9.52-9.53, it is easy to achieve such trail arm position in the backswing. However, i have tried your drill in actual swing with normal left arm setup( elbow pit turn away from target or turn downward). I cannot achieve the desire trail arm position because The left arm push both right arm and right elbow out from the position. Please advice how to manage left arm as per the actual setup.

[@GolfPitt]

Everyone is a little different on left arm but it sounds like you need to be like hogan with both arms giving blood! Or in your words the elbow pits sky! Of you keep those funny bones close together in the backswing your hands will stay in front of you body, one of best connecting thoughts in golf. It’s the famous hogan picture with his arms wrapped together! Thank you for watching!

[@Ikhianosime]

Great explanation!! Please please can explain what the lead arm should do on impact?. I feel it’s prompting the lead arm to contact the ball sideways. Is that expected?

[@Ikhianosime]

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[@jackhunt9364]

The same procedure for the driver? Excellent demonstration.

[@GolfPitt]

You betcha!!!!

[@josephchang1289]

awesome.

[@GolfPitt]

Thank you for watching!

[@dkproduction01]

Do you exert force from the arms during the down swing? Or try to keep the grip pressure constant throughout the swing , say 4/10 grip pressure? I have the tendency to always use more force from my arms during the down swing, probably the wrong mindset that “more force = more distance” but instead should think “efficiency > power”

[@neffets2047]

Hi Mike, Adam talks a lot about a dominant left arm in the downswing. It would be very interesting to be more detailed about it. Thank you and greetings from bavaria 🍺

[@GolfPitt]

Will do!

[@michaeldodd6864]

Which Adam??

[@rogerwhite7719]

Only if you use a side on grip. If you’re a side cover or on top grip golfer, your elbow will be behind your ribcage-aka Jack Nicklaus and Scottie Scheffler. We don’t all move in the same manner. You don’t have to believe me, ask Mike Adams or Terry Rowles.

[@MarkSmithhhh]

I've been really struggling with this right elbow getting behind me and just like him, left going left, I hate it...I'll give this a try

[@GolfPitt]

let me know how it goes!

[@orkayen]

Great tip. Please share how to superimpose the picture.

[@GolfPitt]

You’d have to ask big Kev on that one! He is our KZbin genius!

[@oscarsalazar9174]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@GolfPitt]

👊🏼👊🏼

[@JohnMcneil112]

Subbed, great instruction. Have been wanting more controlled speed. Learned to keep the ball on the planet with the trail arm glued against ribcage like Hogan says but dropped some club head speed. Conversely when trying to mirror tour swings previously, the trail arm was getting stuck behind - has lead to OTT hitting pulls with short irons, low pull hooks off the tee. Looking forward to testing this.

[@GolfPitt]

Thanks for the sub! So happy you found the page! This drill will certainly create a feeling to help you keep a more connected trail arm in front of the right side of your body in the backswing!