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I think because I'm pulling my arms and hands forward that my hands are futher ahead of the ball at impact than they are at address.
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The swing is getting better focusing on the upper arms. However, have one more question, instead of breaking my arms and by extension, hands, I have a tendency to pull my arms forward. I wondering if this is also causing me to push alot of balls because I'm narrowing my arc so much on the downswing. Should it feel like my radius of my left arm never changes - and it drops down instead of pulling forward?
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Chris:

Give me a better explanation.  I am not following you on how you worded it.  

Eddie Kilthau
PGA Member

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Chris:
I think I follow.  If you are "pulling" your arms forward in the downswing, yes that would lead to an open face and a push to the right.  It's not because you are narrowing your arc, you are simply not swinging the club fast enough to stay up with your arms.  Let me give you a better picture.  Without a club, take your set up and pretend you are holding a small soccer ball.  Now, take your backswing a little past waist high (both arms and both hands).  Once there, take both arms and both hands and swing them together back to impact until they return to the set up position in front of you.  Do it a few more times slowly.  Now notice what is happening.  Because there is no club, you swing your arms and hands in sync and have no trouble returning both to the impact area perfectly square.  Now if you are trying to move your upper arms forward, I think you have exaggerated too much, because you are not swinging the club with you.  So the upper arms are being pulled past impact leaving the clubface open and hitting pushes.  Think back to when you swung your arms and hands together back to the impact area in the drill picturing a soccer ball in your hands.  When you started forward to return to the impact area, did you sense (in slow motion)how the upper arms will start the forward swing and the hands and club blend into the motion so everything arrives at impact together?  Do it slowly and watch what happens.  Point of the story, yes your arms are swinging more than there is hand action, but it all must be blended together to feel smooth.  You're on the right track Chris, I think you have exaggerated too much.  Blend it in better and allow the club to swing with your arm swing.  

Eddie Kilthau
PGA Member