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When building a body position reference, I often use the drill "Extend, Turn, Tilt" to get people into a repeatable body position. This sequence can be helpful for golfers who:
- Early extend
- Lose posture in the backswing
- Flat shoulder plane
- Forward lunge
- Arm dominant release
This drill is also really helpful for beginning golfers who are dialing in their basic pivot!
Tags: Poor Contact, Early Extension, Standing Up, Drill
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This drill is extend turn tilt.
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So extend turn tilt is a drill that I will use to help people refine their pivot, especially
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if they have an issue with either not having enough extension or not having enough tilt.
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If you don't have enough extension then in the backswing it will tend to look like your upper
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body shifts off the ball and in the follow-through it will tend to look like your chest
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stays pointing more down.
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If you don't have enough tilt then it will tend to look like your early standing or you're
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losing more of your shoulder plane at the top of the swing or you're standing up in the
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follow-through.
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So extend turn tilt is a really easy way to get a reference either of where we want to
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be at follow-through position or where we want to be at the top of the swing.
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So with the follow-through position we're going to kind of get this bracing feel and we're
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going to walk through it in the order of extend turn tilt.
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So let's say I'm going to get set up at a ball that way I'm going to have the reference
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of where I am in space.
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So good ball position.
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Now I'm going to follow through position.
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I'm going to lean backward from my hips and from my upper back.
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But I'm going to make sure that my core stays braced.
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So I don't want to be leaning backward in my lower back kind of like this.
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I want to lean from my hips or tuck my hips and I want to lean from my upper back
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or chest.
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So I'm leaning back about 30 degrees.
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Now I'm going to turn and face the target and then I'm going to turn or tilt down
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towards the ball.
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Now the last thing I like to do is then set the arms where they would be so squaring up
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the club face or getting a little bit more rotation.
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So let's do that again.
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So I'm going to set up.
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I'm going to extend.
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I'm going to turn and then I'm going to tilt.
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And this is roughly where I want to get to into my bracing position or into my follow
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through.
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Kind of there.
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I caught that a little thing because I didn't quite have enough tilt.
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So what I do is after I have golfers get this reference.
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Now the goal is to get back there in one movement and that one movement is going to have
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more of this kind of blend of rotating while staying on a spine angle.
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Usually it doesn't feel quite as dramatic as when we do that step by step extend
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turn tilt.
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But it's going to turn into more of a feeling of either being more side bent if that's
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the one you're struggling with or for a lot of golfers being more extended in the hips
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or upper body staying more centered.
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A lot of golfers who struggle with this get the upper body a little bit more forward
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like this.
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Classically, if you get your if you lack that extension through the ball you will get overly
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active with the arms because if you're chest stays pointing down towards the ground
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as the arms try to swing up.
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The only way your arms are going to get above your chest height is by bending the arms
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or the shoulders.
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And so it's this extension move that helps keep the arms straight and keeps everything
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flowing on the way through.
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That extension again is happening from the hips as well as the upper back but hopefully
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not doing a ton of extension in the lower back.
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You want your core to stay active or engaged.
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Once I have that feeling then I'll tend to work it into more of a kind of 9 to 3 or
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10 to 2 where I feel that that extension move is what brings the club through.
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So similar to it for some golfers who struggle with the L to I drill it's this upper body
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extension that they're lacking because if I do one where I do one I'll do two I'll
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do one where I lack the extension and you'll see that the arms tend to scoop a little
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bit more on the way through and now I'll do one where I lack the side bend and you'll
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tend to see I have to like throw those arms a little bit earlier to get down to the ball.
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So if you have a lot of arm action down to the ball it could be that you don't have a really
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good solid bracing position and if you're losing that it's because of one of those two positions.
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I also use this extension tilt for the back swing.
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Now the key here is with the follow-through I'm leaning back about 30 degrees with the back
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swing I'm just going to stand so that I'm vertical but then the operation is going to be
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the same.
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I'm going to turn and I'm going to tilt and for a lot of golfers you tend to kind of
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more of that staying flex forward and turning back and picking up the arms that they're
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going to feel more wow my chest is more up my back is facing the target I've really turned
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my hips you're going to feel more of this full body turn in the back swing.
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So if you're struggling with your pivot a really quick recalibration can be this extend turn
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whichever direction we're working and then tilt so that the shoulder closest to the ball
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is pointing down at it.
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That will give you two references to help you work on your pivot and the upper body staying
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center while turning through on the right angle.
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So try that if you're having a lot of excessive upper body movement which is affecting your
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low point control or the smoothest of your release.
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So we'll do combo.
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So back swing follow through so now I'm going to try and connect those two which will
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help me feel a little bit more centered all the way around.
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Kind of like that.