Keep Your Arms on the Trail Side... The Cue That Gets Hips Into the 40s!
Athletic Motion Golf demonstrates how keeping your arms on the trail side during the downswing allows the hips to rotate properly into impact. Pulling the arms across the chest too early restricts pelvic rotation, stalling the swing. By maintaining trail-side arm motion, golfers can naturally unlock over 40 degrees of pelvic open rotation at impact.
Avoid trying to swing the arms to the left early in the downswing, as this stalls pelvic rotation.
Keep your arms working on the trail side of the torso longer during the downswing transition.
Allowing the arms to stay trail-side gives the pelvis freedom to open into the 40+ degree range at impact.
Correcting the arm path naturally removes the body stall without forcing hip turn.
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