If your golf swing feels like a frantic rush to the ball, with your arms far outpacing the rest of your body, you’ve discovered one of the most common and power-robbing habits in the game. The good news is that the solution isn’t to consciously swing your arms slower. Curing fast arms is about understanding the real engine of the golf swing and learning to put your arms in the quiet, passenger-seat role they were always meant to have. This article will show you exactly how to rebuild your swing a sequence, synchronizing your body and arms to create effortless power and consistency, just how the pros do.
Here’s the thing about "fast arms": they are almost always a symptom of a much larger issue. Your arms aren't the problem, they're the last-ditch effort your body makes to save a swing that started on the wrong foot. The real culprit is an incorrect swing _sequence_, a chain reaction that begins right at the start of your downswing.
In a powerful, a well-sequenced swing, the downswing is started from the ground up. The hips lead, followed by the torso turning, which then pulls the arms down, and finally, the club whips through impact. For most amateur golfers with "fast arms," that sequence is flipped on its head. The very first move from the top of the backswing is a forceful action with the hands, arms, and shoulders.
This "over-the-top" move - where the hands and arms throw the a clubhead _outside_ the proper swing plane - is a desperate attempt to create a hitting motion and generate power. From this position, the golfer has severed any connection between the club, the arms, and the powerful rotation of the core and hips. The arms are now on their own, a swinging frantically to catch up and square the clubface at impact.
This leads to a cascade of common swing faults:
Slowing the arms down isn't about moving them in slow motion. It's about getting back to the a root principle: the golf swing is a rotational action powered by the body. Once you let the big muscles do the driving, the arms naturally fall into a more passive - and far more powerful - role.
Understanding the proper order of operations, often called the kinematic sequence, is the first step toward syncing up your swing. Think of it like this: your lower body and torso are the engine, and your arms are a the transmission. The engine has to rev up first to send power through the a transmission. If you slam the a transmission into gear before the engine is running, you just get a lurch and a stall. In golf, that lurch is your arms flying out of control.
We've got to fix that seqencing. To do this, we need to completely overhaul how you feel you ought to be staring the downswing. This starts with changing two critical phases of your swing
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