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  • Hi Robin here. If you've videoed your swing, you've seen the club crossing the line at

  • the top, or you've seen that your club shaft is getting very steep coming down. You heard

  • lots of shots of the toe of the club, you've heard toe shots, high weak cut shots to the

  • right. You're probably not setting your right arm in the correct position during the swing.

  • You're probably not rotating your right arm and keeping your arm in front of your body.

  • Your elbow will be flying, causing the crossover. Your elbow will be coming down too much behind

  • you with your forearm almost parallel to the ground.

  • That's probably quite an easy fault to see, and when I see people with this fault, often

  • they're really focusing on how their elbow is working. I've mentioned this as well in

  • another video about flying right elbow. But they are focused on how their elbow is working,

  • trying to keep their elbow in front of their body. But in my lessons and in my experience

  • I've had better success when I've tried to encourage people to understand what they're

  • feeling in their shoulder. What their shoulder is doing when they're setting their arm into

  • the right position.

  • Now you can do that to your hitting balls in practice swings, but if you're really struggling

  • getting the feeling, something I encourage is add a little bit of weight. Get a dumbbell.

  • It really depends on your strength level, what kind of weight you're gonna use, but

  • it doesn't have to be particularly heavy. And what I want you to do is work on first

  • of all, I want you to feel like your shoulder is open at [inaudible 00:01:37]. You're pulling

  • your shoulder back. You're feeling like your shoulder blade's working. Down and back, you're

  • packing your shoulder. And then simply during the swing I want you to keep that feeling.

  • So yes, your elbow will be in front of you, but you'll feel your shoulder blade down and

  • back. Your shoulder stays open. Rather when your elbow will fly, your shoulder will get

  • forward, your shoulder blade would raise up. You can feel your shoulder blade down and

  • back. It's quite a packed feeling for me, and that little bit of weight when I'm swinging,

  • increases my awareness of that movement. Just a great drill you can do on the driving range,

  • at home, in the gym, to teach you the feeling of setting your right arm into the right position.

  • The movement of that right arm, the position of the right arm and the swing is a very crucial

  • part to a good golf swing.

  • So really, once you started to sense what's going on in the shoulder, keeping that shoulder

  • open, keeping that shoulder blade down and back, you can put away the dumbbell. Take

  • your club and just try to sense the same things during your swing. Now if you can create that

  • at the top, it's sure to fix your club crossing over. If you can keep that same feeling coming

  • down in the shoulder, shoulder blade thing down and back, shoulder staying open, that

  • will keep your elbow in front, and that will shallow out your sink path. So say a good

  • drill for anyone who's crossing over, feel like you're getting the club steep at any

  • point in the swing. Someone's told you your right elbow is flying, or your right arm is

  • not working correctly, give the dumbbell a try. Try to become aware of what's going on

  • in your shoulder, rather than so much what's going on in your elbow.

Hi Robin here. If you've videoed your swing, you've seen the club crossing the line at

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