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right arm has to start to come unhinged as soon as you begin the downswing.
The good news, bad news is the terms “pulling on the handle” and “creating a tight angle” have kept me very busy for the past 25 years.
If you are trying to practice the above mentioned phrases, I feel very confident you’ll end up hitting too many shots to the right.
The ability to hit a golf ball squarely with the correct timing has more to do with how many hours you can dedicate to the game than it does with how hard you can pull on the handle of the golf club.
Your ability to create clubhead speed lies in the speed you can swing your hands, arms and golf club not in how fast you can pull the grip end of the golf club.
Clubhead speed is created from you generating width in the right arm on its journey back to the golf ball.
Swinging just the hands, arms and golf club back to the golf ball with maximum clubhead speed independent of the lower and upper body is not the answer either.
Swinging the golf club back to the golf ball on the correct path with maximum clubhead speed is the combination of the hands, arms and golf club swinging in conjunction with the lower body moving out of the way and the upper body turning back towards the target.
The upper and lower body CANNOT swing independent of each other.
