My wife and I were in the Rochester NY area and we stopped at an Italian restaurant to grab a bite before seeing a movie.<\/p>\n
As often happens to me at odd moments, I had a brainstorm – or as my friends and family often refer to it – an attack of brain gas.<\/p>\n
I challenged my wife to an arm wrestling contest right there at the table, much to the amusement of two older ladies who were sitting nearby.\u00a0<\/p>\n
My wife reluctantly accepted the offer – she’s used to unusual requests from me –\u00a0 and slowly, excruciatingly – she pinned my right arm.<\/p>\n
I thought that the two older ladies were going to start cheerleading,\u00a0as\u00a0Mary was apparently their new hero.<\/p>\n
My wife asked me why I let her pin my arm, and I replied that it was necessary in the interest of research.\u00a0 I had just discovered the cure to a common golfers malaise, the flying right elbow.<\/p>\n
A flying right (left for lefties) elbow occurs when a player tries for too much length in their backswing, or when they have poor technique to begin with.<\/p>\n
For better players, it happens when they try to get too much out of their backswing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The elbow disconnects from their body line too much, and the result is an over the top move on the downswing, which usually causes an outside in swing path and a horrible shot.<\/p>\n
This disconnect is often caused by inadequate elbow flexion – the<\/p>\n
elbow gets pulled back from the body line instead of rotating.<\/p>\n
There are at least two easy ways to work on your elbow flexion.<\/p>\n
One is to do what I did in the restaurant, get into an arm wrestling position, and let the other person pull your arm down slowly, resisting mildly all the way down.<\/p>\n
Another is to put your arm in an arm wrestling position while holding a light weight, and then lower your arm as if it’s going down in an arm wrestling match.<\/p>\n
Chose a light weight for starters, the important aspect is the range of movement, not the amount of weight.<\/p>\n
Either of these exercises, done regularly, will allow your right elbow to stay down in the backswing and help keep your swing path correct on your downswing.<\/p>\n
It will even allow you to go for a little more length on those reachable par 5’s<\/p>\n
Try it, you’ll like it.<\/p>\n
Enjoy,<\/p>\n
Tom<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My wife and I were in the Rochester NY area and we stopped at an Italian restaurant to grab a bite before seeing a movie. As often happens to me at odd moments, I had a brainstorm – or as my friends and family often refer to it – an attack of brain gas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tom-tucker"],"yoast_head":"\n