Keeping your trail arm straight can help create width at the top of the swing but more importantly, it helps you make your backswing with your core. This maximizes your ability to use your core on your downswing and power the swing in a more rotary fashion.
the one piece uh pivot or takeaway we’re going to take a look at that right elbow staying straighter a little bit longer now if you do this on 9 to three shots and you tend to kind of bottom out um then it it means that you’re bending this arm in order to create some of the depth because you’re not shallowing enough with the shoulders or forearms uh but keeping that right arm straighter a little bit longer tends to force the body to dominate that early part of the takeaway and we can look at that as it gets to the top of the Swing uh because a lot of in order for the elbow to work behind you or to really Bend you will tend to see the arms work a little bit more across the body so that’s why a lot of golfers um have described having that width at at the top as a really good feeling it kind of complement making most of the movements happen from the body as opposed to from the arms
