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Golf Backswing Drill - Keep Your Arms In Front Of You (Fast Results)

Coach Lockey

3 golfers recommended it

YouTube

Drill · Beginner

Backswing drill for keeping the arms in front of the body, with lower body sequencing.

Why golfers recommend it

  • Does good job explaining
  • Lower body sequence; link
  • Setup video for beginner

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3 comments from Reddit

u/NM2ndA 2026 · r/GolfSwing · in “Two way miss”

▶ this video This guy does a good job explaining it.

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u/Brannian 2026 · r/golftips · in “Help: My Swing is Broken”

A big reason why you are getting stuck and hitting shanks is that you aren’t rotating your lower body and most of your backswing is your arms rotating … so your arms are doing a full rotation excessively long .. while your lower body is only doing a small portion of the work… Your body needs to rotate in a proper sequence in order for the downswing to work in a proper sequence… Since your arms are 150% rotated and …

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u/Striking-Western433 2026 · r/GolfSwing · in “FIX MY SLICE”

No problem. Your setup looks great for being 3 months in, and having a good setup is half the battle a lot of times. If you're still early in your golf journey, you should absolutely be getting lessons. Don't do what I did and wait too long, and then have a bunch of bad habits that need to be unlearned. In the meantime, give this video a watch, or one of the many others on the topic on YouTube: ▶ this video

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