Golf Swing Fix: Correct Your Hands & Elbows for Pure Strikes

🏌️‍♂️ The position of your elbows and hands on the golf club directly influences the type of shot you set up for, such as slices or hooks.

🔄 Adjusting your trail elbow to position three and rotating your trail hand underneath the grip helps prevent slicing and promotes a stronger, closed clubface.

🖊️ Drawing a dot on your trail hand's index finger can help monitor grip placement and improve shot control.

🎯 The best golfers pay close attention to both elbow and hand positions, setting up for straighter and more consistent shots.

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00:00:00 - We are here today to talk about the relationship between how your hands go on the golf club and where your elbows are pointed. So, the two of those relate very closely to the type of shot that you're potentially setting yourself up to hit. So, if you struggle with this or if this is something you've ever wondered about, you are in the right spot.

00:00:21 - All right. So, I want to talk about this in a couple ways. So, you can move your your arms or your wrists and your elbows independently of one another. You can move them together obviously where you don't really change the position. You can see how my elbows are moving and my hands are moving or I can also just keep my elbow in the same spot and change the position of my hand. So the way that we want to talk about this, there's essentially three positions for both

00:00:42 - your hands and your elbows that you need to know. So if you were just standing there relaxed, had your elbows basically facing one another with kind of the back of your hands facing the camera, we'll talk about that as position one. If I were then to rotate everything about 45 degrees, that would be position two. And then if I rotated everything 90 degrees from where it started, that would be position three. So the way to think about this and where a lot of golfers

00:01:06 - struggle is if you slice or if you end up curving the golf ball too far to the right, generally what you'll see is an elbow position in your trail arm that is rotated too much or too close to that position one. So your elbows sort of pointed towards the target, which is then going to make it a lot more difficult for your hand or your your right hand in this case to get more underneath the grip. You can see how it basically presets my hand to be more on top of the club. So elbow position one

00:01:33 - and grip position one, that would build in the most amount of slice. So if you were trying to hit the ball super far to the right, not very very far down range, that'd be a really really good way to to set up. Most people who are playing golf are not trying to do that. So, what you really want, especially when you're talking about your trail arm, is pointing your elbow more towards the camera. So, more of that position three. And then that's going to allow you to

00:01:54 - sort of move your hand in any different position that you need to. If you slice, you'd want to have your hand in position three as well. So, your trail hand more rotated underneath the grip. The way that I would monitor that, I would just draw a dot on the first joint of my index finger on my trail hand, and I would place that more on the underneath side of the grip. So, if I were to put my trail hand on there and elbow in position three, hand in position three,

00:02:16 - you can see how that puts my hand in a more strong position or a closed face position. Okay? So, that'd be a really good way if you slice the golf ball to set up. If you struggle with a hook, you could almost go the opposite way. So, you'd still want to have your elbow in that position three, but what you could do is you could take your trail hand and have that more towards like a position two or even a position one. So instead of having it so underneath, I'd take

00:02:38 - that dot on the index finger of my trail hand and I'd have it more on the side of the grip instead of on the bottom of the grip. That would help keep the face from getting too closed and help you prevent some of those hooks. So when you're thinking about this, just keep in mind you can move your elbows and your wrists and your hands independently of one another. You can also move them together. So for your trail arm, I would want that position three with the elbow,

00:03:01 - position two with the grip. that would get me in a really good spot to hit a shot. That is a nice little push draw.

00:03:13 - Something like that. So, this is a really cool way to think about it. Um, you can obviously do the same thing with your lead hand. So, the more that you move your lead elbow inward or towards that position one, it's going to tend to put your hand more on top of the grip, which again would be more towards like the closed face or the blue side. So elbow pointed in, hand more on top of the grip. That would be more of like your draw bias option. If you wanted to go more towards the fade side, you'd

00:03:39 - have that elbow less rotated inwards, so more pointed out. That would get your hand more underneath the grip. That would help keep the face a little more open. So just a different way to think about it. Instead of just how you place your hands, you also need to pay attention to where your elbows are pointed when you're holding the club. The best golfers in the world generally set up with their trail elbow in kind of that position three and their grip somewhere in that between one and two

00:04:01 - position with their trail hand. And then on the lead arm, they're going to have that elbow pointed more inwards as well. So kind of that position one over here and then sort of a position two on top with the with the hand where it's rotated about 45°. So really easy way to think about it. Think about your elbows and your hands. That'll set you up in a really good place to hold the club the right way and hit a lot of straight shots. [Music]

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