All-Arms Backswing
What is actually happening
Your arms are running the backswing by themselves. The club swings back, the hands reach a spot that looks like a backswing, but your chest never turned and your hips never coiled behind it. From face-on, it's almost convincing. Underneath, the spring was never wound. The big muscles that store your power are still standing at address.
What it costs you
Arms can move a golf club, but they can't store energy, so the swing arrives at the top with nothing to spend. That's the shot that flies twenty yards shorter than it should. It also breaks your sequence, because arms that go back alone come down alone, ahead of the body, and they steal the strike.
Turn your back to the target. That's the entire backswing thought. When your lead shoulder touches your chin and your back faces the target, you're loaded.
Back-to-Target Pump
Hold a club across your shoulder blades, take your golf posture, and turn until your back faces the target. Go slowly and pay attention to what loads: the trail hip accepting pressure, the lead knee giving toward the ball, and above all the stretch building through your midsection. That stretch is the coil, the thing an all-arms backswing never creates, and once you've felt it you can't be fooled by arm-lift again. Make ten turns with the club across your back, resting a beat at the top of each to let the stretch register. Then hit five balls with a single thought: back to the target before anything moves down. The arms will take care of themselves, because they're connected to a chest that's actually turning. Film one face-on and compare P4 to your old swing. Same hands, completely different body behind them.
Is this the one costing you shots?
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