Pete Cowen’s Right Arm… a Powerful Lesson, but Watch Out for THIS

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I watch a ton of golf instruction videos on YouTube… and even after all these years, I still love comparing notes and learning from other top teachers.

I recently came across a video on Danny Maude’s channel (great channel that I highly recommend you check out) where Danny was working with Pete Cowen.

The video has been getting a ton of attention, with 2.5 million views and counting. And while it is a GREAT lesson overall, there is one detail he discusses about the trail arm that I wanted to offer a different perspective on.

Now I want to be clear… I have a TREMENDOUS amount of respect for Pete. He is without a doubt one of the top coaches on the planet, and it’s no surprise that elite professionals like Rory McIlroy, Brooks Koepka, Sergio Garcia, and many more have trusted him with their swing.

So I hope you give both videos a watch, and let me know in the comments below which approach works best for you!

Check out Danny Maude’s excellent channel here:

https://www.youtube.com/@DanielMaude

And one more time, here’s the video with Pete Cowen:

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So there was a great Danny mod and Pete Cowen video that came out a couple months back and it’s got over two million views already and there was some really particular things that he was saying in there that I think we need to be a little bit careful about okay and

That’s what I wanted to talk about today it’s kind of the part where he talks about the trail arm right his right arm and he talks about spinning the right arm down right he talks about why he believes in doing that okay so let’s just take a quick listen what Pete is

Talking to with Danny about that aspect when you say spinning the right arm down what do you mean well if I if I I’m spin I’m just spinning the spinning the arm down without losing the right wrist and that’s why Hogan says I wish I had have

Got three right hands because he could compress the ball with three right right hand not this no so your forearm turns down but you maintain the pressure yeah yeah so then I can maintain the pressure on the shaft with the right hand and move it to so I’ve got shaft pressure

Face pressure and I’ve got right wrist pressure all the way through so wonderfully done video but the things that I would really remember as we talk about the action of the try Al arm is a couple different things right I mean Pete Cowan is a phenomenal instructor he’s worked with more world-class

Professionals I mean take a look at this list here it’s a who’s who Sergio and Louie us haasen and Darren Clark and Lee Westwood and Rory mroy I mean amazing crop of players that he’s worked with okay but your average golfer you’re 10 you’re 15 you’re 20 handicap and higher

Struggling to hit it far this motion of spinning the right arm down that’s not going to help you hit it better or farther so I need to politely disagree with Mr Cowan okay now that might be something that he works with with his elite players because you know like take

A look at this video of Tiger Woods describing what happens when he gets the club stuck behind him right very common fault of really high level elite players in other words arms in front of the body where the club used to lay down show them how when your old swing when you

Used to get stuck o swing yes they go Olay that’s the lay the shaft down 16th T Players Championship right you and then that’s just because of a product of being a junior golfer all Junior golfers fire the hips hard to get the club stuck

From the inside so they can flip it hit the ball long ways yeah hit the ball long ways but it’s hard to control so he calls that his Olay swing right and that getting his right arm trapped and in here right kind of the opposite of spinning the right arm that’s part of

Why he hits the ball absolutely freaking miles right it’s a fault of Rory mroy it’s a fault of Henrik Stenson I’ve heard them talk about it um it’s a fault of many great ball it’s a fault of Sergio Garcia’s okay so you know that’s the sensation where they say they feel

Like they’re getting stuck right the right arm you know is basically going opposite of what he’s talking about so we would be so happy as to have that problem right because that’s what’s part of that’s part of what created all their power that’s part of what taught them

How to clear their hips right and really get open through the golf ball and create a lot of snap yes like tiger said the ball didn’t always go so straight right it’s a product of being a junior golfer but that Brilliance is what led to him hitting it so far so unless

You’re one of those people that comes say you came to take a lesson said Zack you know I’m hitting the ball so far I just can’t keep it straight that’s not something I encounter on an everyday basis most everyone that I encounter is looking for ways to hit the ball farther

Hopefully with less effort okay so you know when we’re talking about this right arm right just you know just so you kind of you know not to ruffle feathers with Pete Cowen but um the right arm right when he talks about spinning right the right arm is pronating it’s going this

Direction This Is suating Right think of like holding a a bowl of soup right it’s suating is going I’m saying the right arm should supinate coming down okay until about this point and then it actually starts to pronate it’s very late he’s saying from the top start feeling this sensation right and he’s

Talking about some specifics of not doing with the hand and the wrist take a look at this graph I’m going to put it up there okay this is a trail arm the red line is a trail arm supination pronation graph and what it means just to kind of you know I know not

Everyone’s looking at graphs all the time it’s basically saying that the action of the right arm is it’s going this way it’s subena until around P6 or 6.5 so that’s just after Club parallel that’s the only time it actually starts to pronate is right here okay right here

So from here to here it’s actually doing that movement that he’s talking about and I believe that H that movement happens because of the stretches and the um the athletic tension that’s occurring and it’s just a natural kind of unloading or releasing of that right arm

In this fashion let’s say I don’t think it’s something that you actively use the muscles in your shoulder your right arm your right forearm we don’t actively do that on the way down and if you do you’re going to really be putting this force that I see too many golfers doing

On the downswing where I start to see some of this movement so he referred to Ben Hogan he said you know this is why Hogan talked about having three right hands and I would definitely politely disagree with that okay so this is how Hogan described the down sying and I’m

Saying this not to be you know disrespectful to Peter to cause conflict I want this to help you hit it the best and the farthest okay so Hogan in talking about what the arms do okay to start the downswing he he begins he goes what do the hands do the answer is they

Do nothing nothing active until after the arms have moved on the downswing to a position just above the level of the hips the arms don’t Propel this motion themselves they are carried down by the movement of the hips to understand just how the hands and arms get this quote

Free ride pick up a club swing it back hold your position at the top now forgetting about your hands and arms entirely start to move your hips back to the left in a comparative slow motion okay so he’s exactly describing this he says take it to the top okay hold it now

He goes just move your hips right just move your hips and he demonstrated this beautifully after he hit 18 Greens in Shell’s Wonderful World of Golf he says this is a free ride so literally our hands and arms are doing nothing I’m there’s no tension there’s no I’m just

Pulling down with my hips and my hands and arms get this free ride and it’s exactly what that graph is kind of showing too so that the forearm is actually going this way until about this point in the downswing and then it starts to turn over and I think that

Feel and that thought in itself would help you hit the ball much better and definitely much farther okay because like I said most of the people that I’m working with they’re putting some type of force on this end of the club that’s not beneficial whether it’s a force that

Starts here whether it’s a force that goes out this way there’s some type of force that’s happening in the right shoulder and the right arm that’s actually a big detriment to their golf swing hey it’s your coach Zach Allen here and if you’d like to permanently eliminate your slice add 20 or more

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So go ahead click the link right now and I’ll see you on the other side all right now let’s get back to today’s lesson so like what Hogan’s talking about in that free ride so he says okay from here to here is a free ride and

Then boom that’s when I wish I had three right hands like literally that club was getting whipped and slung so hard he’s like if I had a couple more hands on there I would sling it even harder but he’s not talking about using it as far as Contracting the muscles back here to

Actually move the golf club down now I think where Pete gets this from is he’s working with a lot of players like tiger that they actually do get stuck they are the probably 05% of golfers out there that actually have this very rare problem it’s part of why they hit the

Ball so far too okay so like I said earlier if we could ever have that problem we should be so lucky right I actually in my golf swing I need to be more stuck when I come down my arms look more like this wish I could get them

More like that and the golfers that I’m working with it’s the same thing too so you know like I said I’m sure if Pete was here in person he would have some descriptions and some debate we could talk through this and try to you know figure out what he exactly means what I

Mean where we’re coming from but my my point would be with that many golfers watching that video I would say be very careful and you trying to spin this right arm down in kind of the terms and the fashion that he’s talking about even though he’s talking about with his body

Moving at the same time I would not be using these muscles back here I would not be using this whole rear chain in my right arm I don’t think it’s a good place I think if anything we start to feel this and then this is just kind of

Letting go going through so we’re not actively Contracting those muscles so with that uh I’d love to hear what you think right like no I’m a Pete Cowen guy Danny M you’re wrong Zach I’d love to hear it in the comments right or maybe your interpretation of what do you think

Pete exactly means when he’s talking about this because the video is getting a lot of views and it’s getting a lot of you know positive feedback or vice versa you know what Zach I think you’re right I think I could walk over and I think I would definitely kind of gear it that

Way more that’s how I would teach myself or I was teaching my my son or daughter this game I would teach them that way um I’d love to hear your opinion on that okay so um if these videos that I give you if they’ve ever helped you out in

The past please feel to you know feel free to subscribe give the video a like I’ve got some other videos here that I want you to take a look at if you got some other questions or concerns about your downswing but until then cheers and I’ll see you next video