Still having problems getting the arms extended through and after impact.
Ive tried putting a tee 3 inches ahead and just left of ball but I still feel as if Im not extending out after impact.

Should read “Ive tried putting a tee 3 inches ahead and just RIGHT (outside) of ball but I still feel as if Im not extending out after impact.

Are you hitting the tee?

What club you using….if it is a short iron or wedge put the tee a foot ahead of the ball and 3 inches outside the ball…see how you go then.

Having the problem with all clubs, only hit the target tee 1 in 5 if lucky when placed nearer the ball.
Toolish, obviously if I am putting the tee a foot ahead and 3 inches outside my aim is not to hit it the tee but to “train” the arms to go in that direction?

If you are only hitting the tee 1 in 5 at the moment forget what I said. I assumed you had been successfully completing the drill.

Hit shorter shots until you can achieve 100% success with hitting the tee.

And the foot ahead, 3 inches outside…for a wedge it is not a massive exageration, maybe a little one. The tee should be at low point. Use guru’s articles to work out where low point is and where you set up for a wedge. Remember the tee won’t have to hit the centre of the club for you to register as successful so that means it has to be a bit more outside the line than the sweetspot.

As for the foot ahead …check this..

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

That is not a wedge, but it would be in the ground for near a foot.

I have always had problems getting the arms extended but have recently achieved some success after first (finally) paying some attention to keeping my left arm straight (with extensor action).

Perhaps the guru can comment on whether this is just coincidence but it feels to me that a straight left arm is a prerequisite to achieving extension after impact.

Certainly with the combination of the two (straight left arm and extension through the ball) I am so far getting pretty impressive improvements in distance and accuracy.

Good point nearly. If you are using extensor action (article on Keeping your left arm straight) then life gets good. It allows you to finish with both left and right arm straight and it feels so much more powerful to finish in the right place. A new student of mine last night made exactly that comment. He learned to straighten the right arm down and out more aggressively than perviously and reach that down and out power look.

Guru, as the left arm leads the right in downswing my line of thinking has been to concentrate on the keeping the left straight and by the point of impact the right arm has therefore been pulled straight by the left arm.

I guess my question is do you need to learn to straighten right arm or just lear to straighten left and let the right follow.

You want to be straightening the right arm all the way through impact to both arms straight way out in front of you. If you arrive at the ball with a straight right arm you are going to be powder puffing it. Look at the pics in Sick of Hacking by Lynn Blake to work out how to get right arm bend from set up that will allow you to keep straightening.

Thanks Guru,

During practice last night I was practicing the tee drill outlined by Toolish and was hitting the ball fairly straight and leaving straight, long, shallow divots running paralell to the tee sitting outside and ahead of ball. However I was not hitting the tee.

Are you saying the divot should not be straight but extend from ball to tee. (eg left to right)

Sorry to harp on this one but just need to get it in my head what I am looking to achieve here.

A little out away from the initial strike. Hint: The base of the swing plane is not at ground level.