If You Don’t Understand This About Your Trail Arm, You’ll Never Have a Consistent Golf Swing!

u/JangoTat46 2025 · r/GolfSwing · in “Gone from fading to drawing everything overnight? Any ideas why?”

Your takeaway is too far inside ▶ this video ▶ this video ▶ this video You're picking your hands up too early. ▶ this video ▶ this video Your trail arm is chicken-winging and "pulling the lawnmower string" instead of maintaining Width and Connection in the backswing. ▶ this video ▶ this video ▶ this video ▶ this video

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u/GolfExplained 2026 · r/GolfSwing · in “Back Pain”

Grip isn't helping and you're swinging your arms way across yourself. ▶ this video The arms don't wrap across you

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u/Imwonderbread 2026 · r/GolfSwing · in “Captain Hook Reporting for Duty”

Starts in the backswing, you bring your trail arm way around you and it gets stuck, this video shows how the arms should move: ▶ this video

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u/throwaway1045820872 2025 · r/GolfSwing · in “Need to work on a higher top of the backswing. And my hips turning too early? Takeaway and grip all jank?”

So like you pointed out, your backswing has issues. I think some of it might stem from common misconceptions about the role of your arms in the backswing. Your arms should essentially work just up and down in the golf swing, and your shoulder turn will bring the club around your body. Essentially your hands should mostly stay in front of your chest for the entire swing. Right now, you are pulling your arms behind …

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