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In this concept video, we're going to discuss the three key pieces to early extension.

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So some golfers struggle with the early extension pattern.

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We're basically the hips are going in and there's a little bit more of an arm throw.

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There's a bunch of different components that can relate to it.

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But in my opinion, there's three key ones that you have to tackle in order to correct

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this problem and usually getting one of them to work better will help improve the other

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too.

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So the three big pieces are either the lower body moving in towards the golf ball.

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So pushing with my feet in towards the golf ball too much, especially from that trail

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knee where that trail knee gets in towards the golf ball or pass the foot and the hip goes

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past the middle of the foot kind of like this.

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The second component would be the upper body going backward.

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So the upper body pulling back away from the golf ball or getting more vertical from

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the down the line camera angle.

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And then the third one is going to be the timing of the arm extension.

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So typically what happens is in order to make this all work, the hips go forward,

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the upper body goes back and the arms extend kind of like this.

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And you'll see I can pick the ball, I can hit it pretty straight, but it becomes a limiting

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pattern when I start to add more speed or when I try to time it up with the longer clubs

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or it can become a low point problem for the shorter clubs.

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So if you're working on it and one of these areas isn't clicking, let's say you're

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trying to do some hip back drills and you're just feeling like you're kind of stuck and

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they're not rotating, you can always focus on more the chest being closer to the ground.

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Or working the chest closer to the ground.

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If you're in this chest closer to the ground position and you went forward, you would fall

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over or if you were in this chest down position and you straighten your arms, you would

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hit behind the golf ball, you'd hit it fat.

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So the chest being down or the hips being back get your body closer to the golf ball.

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So then it would require a delayed timing of that arm extension.

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Kind of like that.

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So it would require this arm to be a little bit more bent as I'm getting into impact

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in the next standing through the shot.

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Now there are a couple, let's say, complimentary movements such as if the body has gotten

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more steep like this, I might have to do some arm shallowing, either with kind of some

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of this actual rotation of the arms or a little bit more owner-deadiation.

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Because I'm down and have more body rotation on the way through, the club face may be

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more open than I'm used to.

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You can see that from the overhead view as the hands go forward, the club face gets open.

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So I might have to feel a little bit more motorcycle component to it.

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So the big pieces are lower body in or upper body up or timing of the arm straightening.

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If you work on one of those three and you're just trying to dial in some contact

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and ball flight, then you might have to go after some arm shallowing or club face control.

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But if you're struggling with early extension and the associated either block hook, thin

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divot, consistency with the longer clubs and contact with the shorter clubs, then I recommend

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targeting one of the big three until you get a change on video.

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That can provide the platform that you can then build some of the other movements

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around.

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Alright, so demoize, let's work through a couple of these common ones.

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First one, I'll focus on the hip-scowing backward.

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Oftentimes what can happen is if the hips go backward and I still kind of straighten my arms,

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I'll have a really exaggerated feel of the stall pattern.

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So when the hips go backward, I want to now feel a little bit more body rotation.

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So I'm making sure that even though my hips went backward, my chest is facing the target.

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Alright, let's try one of the other components.

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So now let's say I'm going to focus on the chest being more down.

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So if I focus on the chest being more down, if I straighten my arms early,

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you'll see I hit way behind it and the divot is quite deep.

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So that's a really frustrating one.

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What I'm going to focus on during this next one,

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chest is going to stay down, but I'm going to get either a little bit more arm shallowing,

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or I'm going to feel a little bit more of my body rotation.

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I did a little bit of both because I wanted to decrease the depth of that divot

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and move the low point a little bit more forward.

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Okay, then third combo would be I'm used to straightening the arm into the ball.

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Now it's going to feel like I'm kind of stuck here.

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Now if I don't have enough older diviation and I keep this in here,

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then I'm going to be well above the golf ball. I might actually top it.

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So if I feel like I'm keeping this in and I'm hitting a lot of shots like this,

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you saw I stood up and I didn't give any older diviation.

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So on the next one, trying to keep the wipe or trying to keep that arm a little bit more

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in, now I'm going to feel at the same time a little bit of body staying lower and letting

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a little bit of that older diviation happen.

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So the challenging thing with the early extension pattern is that there's a couple of components

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and you have to do it at least two of them usually to have some really good success.

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But in order to do two of them comfortably, you'll have to work on each piece,

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maybe for a couple of practices before you can add them both at the same time.

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But it is a pattern that when you get through it and you've improved it,

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you'll typically experience much greater consistency and overall enjoyment of your ball strike.