Hope you're all enjoying the season so far. So as time goes by and my game steadily improves under Tom's methods, after discussing with a playing partner last week, I wondered if my "lead" arm, my left arm as I'm right handed, has any useful role in my golf swing. When i explained the fundamentals of my swing he said well if you were skimming a stone or throwing a ball, you wouldn't dream of using your left hand or arm. When i practice swing on the tee, it's with my right only, it helps me define an in to out path. Maybe we should rename the "lead" arm to the "nothing" arm. I feel like now all the power and direction are coming from the "trail", right side. To me this seems now natural and after all it's the dominant side so I'm left wondering why so many golfers have some funny fascination with the lead arm. I used to feel like my swing was like rowing through toffee with my left arm, now it's like skimming that 13 skimmer stone across a loch with my right side. Thoughts welcome...or maybe this might help a little for some of you.
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@CJL are you still doing the trail arm hit with the passive lead arm? How is it going? Are you still keeling confident with the trail side power source?