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9 Out Of 10 Golfers Move Their Arms WRONG (It's Killing Distance)

May 08, 2026 • Mike Granato and Shaun Webb • Season 1 • Episode 179

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99% of golfers are lowering their trail arm in the backswing. Tour players lift it. This single move is the difference between a swing with power and a swing stuck in a plateau.

Shaun Webb and Mike Granato break it all down on today's Athletic Motion Golf Podcast...the trail arm lift epidemic. Why decades of "don't lift your arms" instruction, the Hogan rope image, and the towel-under-arms drill have created an army of golfers fighting their own swing. Backed by 20,000+ swings in the AMG GEARS database and over $2 billion in tour earnings worth of swing data.

What you'll learn:
- The 5 to 15 degree window every tour player lives in
- Why amateurs lower the arm in the same window pros lift it
- How the wrong arm position destroys rotation, lag, shallowing, and shaft lean
- Why down the line video lies to you and face on tells the truth
- The two backswing fixes that have made players better overnight
- What "the hoist" is and why your takeaway might be faking it

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CHAPTERS
00:00 The Epidemic. 98% of Golfers Are Doing This Wrong
00:42 No Mask, No Vaccine. Why It's Spreading
01:02 What Trail Arm Lift Actually Means
01:32 The Hogan Rope Image That Started It All
01:55 Arm Lift Relative to the Body, Not the Ground
02:35 The 45 Degree Reference Point at Address
03:05 What 98% of Amateurs Do in the Backswing
03:30 The Cascade. Casting, Lag Loss, No Shaft Lean
04:03 Why You See Tour Players Doing the Towel Drill
04:52 Tour Players Get Coached Off Tour Too
05:26 Why Lowering the Arm Feels Easier
06:09 The Desk Job Problem. Side Bend and Mobility
06:43 The Backswing Is Pulling the Bow Back
07:03 If Towels Helped Distance, Long Drivers Would Use Them
07:34 Two Tour Players Who Fixed This in Six Months
08:30 The Rotation Killer. Senior Golfers and the Arm Trap
09:30 The Club Out of Position Problem
10:09 Why the Arms Have the Easiest Job
11:02 The 5 to 15 Degree Range Tour Players Live In
12:14 The Hoist. How a Pretty Down the Line Lies to You
13:13 Why You Need Face On AND Down the Line
14:06 The Lift First, Turn After Drill
14:50 Come See Us at AMG and Get on GEARS
15:27 Two Fixes That Make Players Better Overnight
16:18 You Are the Unicorn If You Already Lift
17:20 Overturning Is the Symptom of No Arm Lift
17:56 Why Your Putting Stroke Is Not Your Golf Swing
18:45 Beginner Swing vs. Best Player Swing
20:02 Why Bad Instruction Builds an Unbreakable Plateau

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