{"id":302399,"date":"2025-11-23T20:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T20:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/302399\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T20:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T20:37:09","slug":"do-this-move-with-your-trail-elbow-for-more-crisp-ball-striking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/302399\/","title":{"rendered":"Do this move with your trail elbow for more crisp ball striking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\">You chunk irons. Or, you don\u2019t hit them very far. I have an idea why this happens: Most rec players release the club too early because of poor body mechanics.<\/p>\n<p>To keep this from happening, delay <a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/instruction\/pro-approved-drill-release-tpi\/?srsltid=AfmBOopo2c_SOILZrSSEbffYqZI43u492tL_dzGK1kboCVAcyOgQT1-9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">your release<\/a> by moving your body and trail arm like you\u2019re throwing a ball sidearm toward the target. This will allow you to deloft the club, which produces more ball speed and positions the low point of your swing farther in front of the ball. When you get it right, you avoid hitting the ground before the ball and produce that ball-first contact that every golfer strives for.<\/p>\n<p>So, in your practice, focus on making your regular downswing but keep your trail elbow in front of your hands for as long as you can as you approach impact (above). Key: Don\u2019t drive your trail elbow into your trail hip; it should move in front of it and always be moving toward the target. <\/p>\n<p>Groove this move and the ball won\u2019t know what hit it.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Baile is a <a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/instruction\/golf-magazine-top-100-teachers-america-26-27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GOLF Top 100 Teacher<\/a> and the director of instruction at Jupiter Hills Club in Tequesta, Fla., and the 2025 PGA National Teacher of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You chunk irons. Or, you don\u2019t hit them very far. I have an idea why this happens: Most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-302399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}