This little video is from last week's School of Golf. Martin Hall has two drills to help you square up the club face using what he calls EDPU -- elbow down, palm up. First, here's the video:
Now what he's doing here may seem pretty obvious, but it's easy to miss it. In all likelihood you're going to focus on forearm rotation to get that palm pointing up when you do these drills, but that's wrong. The key is the elbow down part. Let me explain what's happening by stretching out the swing a bit.
When you are making your normal downswing and your palms are round waist excessive, your lead arm is a bit underneath parallel to the floor and your lead elbow is pointed down in the direction of the floor. That way that the back of your lead hand is facing faraway from your frame -- this is, if someone were status on the other side of the ball dealing with you, they might see the lower back of your lead hand. So a ways so top.
The hassle is that most slicers now pull their lead elbow toward the goal. As a end result, the lead elbow is chook-winged away from the frame and the again of the lead hand keeps to factor primarily away from your frame. This is the hassle, and I'm going to show you why right now.
If you stick your lead arm out so that your hand is in that waist high downswing position and then just swing your hand and arm away from your body as if your lead arm were a door -- keeping your lead arm parallel to the ground -- the back of your lead hand will face the target when your arm points straight out over the ball. Your lead shoulder acts like a hinge, and that's what keeps the lead elbow pointed down.
Then, as your trailing elbow straightens, it will force your lead elbow to bend -- your higher arm will live very close to your facet -- and your lead hand will rotate sufficient to turn the palm up; with a purpose to cause the toe of the membership to turn toward the goal. Remember, your frame is popping as all this takes place, so the drill Martin confirmed is an exaggeration of what simply happens. But even with a large forearm twist you might not get that palm up consistently in case you chook-wing your lead elbow away from your frame.
So it will help you do those drills in case you maintain your lead elbow near your body at the same time as you do them. It's almost as if your upper arm -- from shoulder to elbow -- is rolling against your chest and facet as you swing the membership beyond your body. The momentum of the club will pull your lead elbow and arm faraway from your body at some stage in the followthrough when the time is proper for it to achieve this.
Once you get used to that "rolling top arm" motion, you may locate it very easy to get into that "elbow down palm up" followthrough role that Martin is speakme about. That's due to the fact you'll be using the huge muscles of your top body to get the rotation and now not the smaller (and weaker) muscular tissues in your forearms and wrists.
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