The setup is critical to allowing the club and body to move properly in the backswing. On tour, nearly every player starts with a soft trail arm. The right elbow for right-handers is slightly bent ...

Then, get into your golf posture and mimic a backswing with your trail arm and your core moving together as you hold the towel tight. Take it to the top and note the resistance.

GOLF Top 100 Teacher John Scott Rattan shows Nick Dimengo a helpful alignment stick drill to create more hip turn in the backswing to create more consistent ball striking.

You can see here Leadbetter demonstrating the difference between a solid top-of-backswing look (above, left) with one where the arms have collapsed and the body failed to coil very well (above ...

Averee Dovsek explains the simplest trick to getting the lead arm straight in the backswing and it has nothing to do with the lead arm itself.