Very dominant right arm in swing and short game

[Trap Junior]

Today was my forst time on a course since January. Obviously my game was going to be rusty and will take me a number of rounds to get some semblance of my normal game. I was pull hooking everything today off the tee and this is my bad shot under pressure.

Certainly part of the problem is a very dominant right arm. I have big hands and very long fingers and my right hand has always felt too ''on top'' of my left and dominating it. Also my right arm tends to act like a piston through impact and my right arm is pretty straight at impact and then after impact striaghtens completely and rolls the clubface over and it exits rolled over. My left arm feels weak in that it just seems to let thr right arm take over. The left arm folds down and it doesnt feel firm. It feels sort of loose and floppy after impact and puts up no resistance to my right arm and hand.

In my short game I also feel my right arm has a tendency to 'hit' and I have a tendency to overhit. Again my left arm feels sort of dominated by my right hand and is sort of floppy. On video it doesn't really look that way but I feel like my chipping and pitching is at the mercy of my right arm and hand.

Do any pros here have any tips for this?

[Zitlow]

This is a dominate right arm.

[N0rs3man]

Imo dominate right arm is good. The only way you can stop the pull hooks is to get your left wrist in a position so it cant be overpowered. This is basically supernation of the left wrist. Making damn sure the back of your left hand is pointing to the target at impact. Left wrist will be ahead of left hand at impact. So this and your right cant overpower the left

[nlk10010]

Well, I'm not a pro but I have time on my hands so I thought I'd offer my opinion, based on years of thinking my problems were caused by a dominant right arm/hand (not that yours aren't, just my experience).

I agree with the previous poster: In fact a dominant trail hand/arm is not necessarily a bad thing, many good players hit this way (e.g. the lead arm guides the club, the trail smashes it). What I found was that it is important WHERE in the swing the trail arm overtakes the lead and the lead wrist "breaks" down. In many swing theories this is SUPPOSED to occur, sometimes at the point of contact and almost always in the follow through. So I would say rotation plays a part: If you don't rotate enough then the breakdown will occur before contact and you'll get an early release and the face will be closed to the target line (and probably path) at the point the club hits the ball. That same swing can be fine if you rotate enough to bring the "breakdown" to contact or beyond.

At least the above is what I'm working on, I can't ever rotate my body sufficiently.

[Zitlow]

Not only a dominate right arm but a dominate right side. The left side is a resisting holding force.

 

 

[chipa]

I'm not a pro but suffer from the same problem, and from what I can tell mine is more severe. When I do hit well I feel that my left hand and wrist are firm and no matter how hard I try my right hand can't break them down. I feel that letting the left hand muscles control my waggle and the intial takeaway help and also twist my left wrist CW right after the takeaway somewhat like Hogan recommended, this too seems to firm up my left hand to be able to withstand my right hand action. My clubhead speed has been measured at 128 mph when I was younger, at 5'7 and 155 lbs.

[Trap Junior]

Nice speed!

My left arm when I am hitting it crap feels like a wet piece of spaghetti.. Just folds and the right hand rolls over. Also when this happens I get a weak strike. My best ballstriing days my left arm felt like it was more braced through the hit and followthrough.

If I try to keep my body turning it doesn;t work for my swing. What happens is I pull the handle more left, my arms pull left across my chest and right hand rolls even more.

I'd love to be left handed and play golf right handed. I think those type of golfers get a really strong hit on the ball.

[chipa]

That's exactly how I feel. Try keeping the club low to the ground until the left hand goes past the right foot on the takeaway like John Daly as this will add width and may help you.

[N0rs3man]

Ur in a good spot, just imagine that your hands are passing right over the target, if you also keep your left wrist firm then the ball has no choice but fly straight

[chipa]

The advice about the lower takeaway I got from watching Jimmy Ballard videos about the takeaway.

The other things I do when things feel disconnected is to make sure the pad of my right hand is always on the thumb of the left hand and also I will do left arm only swings that also help with the proper grip and sequence to get the club up into position during the backswing. I had read many years ago that pros that suffered with an over active right hand practiced keeping the right hand all but completely passive during the backswing.

[Tax77]

Not a pro but I'm very right sided in my swing. The only way I can chip or pitch is take a very open stance, grip down and give the ball a nice whack with my right hand. Have you tried a very open stance for the short game?

[harolease]

I do notice a “dominant “ arm and thumb effect in putting and wedge play around the green I think this is for distance control for me

For my woods and irons my arms have to synch together and know there roles either tow or throw the club. For the long game ,it’s a matter of getting the timing right for the “swish” of the shaft I don’t think dominant as each arm has equal importance their role in flighting the ball

[chipa]

I suffer from the same problem to the point that I have to stop me right hand at impact to prevent a smother hook and go thru long spells that leave me confounded looking for a solution. My natural tendency is to hold most of the club in the right hand because I like to feel it snap through impact. Sometimes I'll try starting the takeaway with the left hand but it always doesn't work. Recently l have been playing with my grip and see that when I bring the right hand higher up the club next to the left hand it helps maybe a little exaggerated like John Daly's grip and what it feels like is the left hand position is "hiding " the right hand a lot later in the downswing which means it can't release until then. It feels good and if anything it seems like it has increased lag and not stifled my right side. I can't wait to get to the course to see if I can get a fade back.