At the moment of impact, the trailing elbow is still very bend. The “face” of the “v” form by the forearms points rearward away from the target rather than more to the front. “The “face of the v” of the arms is formed by the surface between the two arms, or the two forearms in this frame.) With the “v” of the arms (or the triangle formed by the arms on the lower two sides plus the shoulders on the upper side) leaning rearward away from the target direction, the trailing forearm is lower than the leading forearm at impact. This rearward tilt of the “v” makes it harder for the trailing hand, the trailing wrist, and the trailing forearm (as well as the back of the left arm and hand) to rotate fully to face the target.

The trailing shoulder has rolled forward pass the trailing ear up to the chin at impact. Woods at impact still has the trailing shoulder to the rear of the trailing ear, as his trailing shoulder turns more down than turning to the front of the player. With the trailing shoulder staying back by turning more downward rather than frontward before impact, there is more room to stretch out the trailing arm.

However, a driver swing sequence of Baron Nelson shows his trailing elbow to be fairly bend at impact. This implies there is a whole range of positions that can be effective.

in my opinion your right hand is to dominant in the backswing (a problem I’m familiar with). That’s the reason why your swing is so flat.

I’ll try to explain what I mean. When the club is at 9 o’clock the hands should be beside your hips (imo you have to increase the movement of the club in comparison to your hands ). The distance between body and hands should be the same as at address. The hands just move to your left.

When your right hand is dominant, the right hand pushes the hands forward away from the body to a flater backswing.

See the following video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSRgz_2q7cE

Cheers

I like the swing… Everyone has a Natural Swing and whatever works for them to get the ball straight and long. I believe in consistency, not every one on the tour has “the perfect Swing” you have great mechanics, great posture and your hitting your goals and doing great. I love people or players who have unique swings or something unique about it and they still strike the ball perfectly. I dig it! I put something kind of funny together for you. I will email it later to you. I think you will like it.