Lee Trevino On the Right Forearm Flying Wedge

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Interesting segment yesterday on The Golf Channel's Champions Learning Center.

Lee Trevino was giving Jerry Pate a lesson on the practice tee of the Ford Senior Players Championship, and as Jerry addressed the ball, Lee had this to say:

"This elbow" -- Lee punched Jerry's right elbow with the butt end of a driver -- "should be broken a little...inside...just a tiny bit. Then you can go from there. That's where your power comes from."

Despite the focus on the subject on this site, very few students come to me with this alignment in place. It is given scant attention elsewhere, and most advice, e.g., "let the arms hang naturally," totally ignores it.

So, the handicap golfer labors on in the ignorance of either omission or misconception.

But not Lee.

As I watched Lee punch Jerry's right elbow, I was transported back to January 1982, a public range in Seattle, and the lesson I took from Homer Kelley. With me in my address position, Homer leaned over, took his hand and forcibly bent my right elbow.

"Your arm's too straight, Lynn. Put some bend in it."

Good advice then.

Good advice now.