SWING THE MAKER One simple move – straightening your trail arm at the right time – can upgrade your entire game, driver to wedges
I’m a swing junkie. I look for things great players
do and try to figure out why they do them. Three years ago, I noticed that the longest hitters swing into impact with some bend in the trail arm. The arm is straightening, but it’s not straight. I also found that power players in other hitting sports – tennis, baseball, boxing – don’t fully straighten the trail arm at impact. I began training this move into my swing, and the results were shocking. A year ago, my ball speed with 235 kilometres an hour max. Now, I can get it up to 250! That’s 20 to 25 more metres. This straightening of the trail arm has a major effect on other parts of the game, particularly iron play and pitching. With irons, it promotes solid contact because it helps you stay in posture through the shot. On pitches, it controls the loft at impact for pre- dictable trajectory and roll. In short, this one key move can give you the things you probably want the most – more driving distance, qual- ity contact on iron shots and better control with the wedges. Let me show you how.
By Michael Breed with Peter Morrice
Photographs by JD Cuban
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