Missing Golf Shots Left – How To Cure It and Hit It Straight

When golfers begin learning the rotary swing, the most common miss is one that starts left and tends to go further left — a pattern that can quickly become a stubborn habit if the root cause is not addressed.

If you have performed all the other fundamentals correctly, then this is almost always caused by the arms releasing too early in the downswing. There are two causes of this: either the body has stopped rotating, or the arms were overly active. Let’s talk about what happens when the body stops rotating first.

In the Rotary Golf Swing, the spine is acting like an axis for the body and arms to rotate around. Because the arms and club are furthest away from the axis, they, of course, move the fastest.

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This, in turn, makes them more difficult to control through impact. In order for the body to maintain control of the club, the lead arm must remain connected to the chest through impact. But when the body stops its rotation, the arms will be flung past due to centrifugal force.

This causes the arms to outrace the body and the club face to close prematurely. It is critical for the body in the one plane swing to always be rotating and it should never stop until the ball is long gone. This allows the body to remain in control of the club longer and avoid the arms whipping out too early — a key principle reinforced by the AI swing analyzer when diagnosing early release patterns.

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