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- Maintain Spine Angle
- Side Tilt
- Spine Extension, hip extension
- Arm extension/Elbow closing
The follow through position is the “end of the swing” and by that I mean, it’s when you are done with all the critical movements and the rest of it is just a way to absorb force and have a gentle landing. What takes the club up from here is the speed that you have applied through the ball. Contact issues can arrive for golfers who try to force a finish position.
The follow through position has a couple really critical things to monitor. The right side bend is going to continue from impact. It is not until after this position that you should start to stand up out of your side bend. This is what gives the appearance of maintaining a spine angle. In addition, the spine will be extending and the pelvis will be posterior tilting, tucking, or extending. The reverse crunch continues, but the extension of the mid spine creates the look of a reverse C. The critical component is to make sure that you are using your hips to initiate the extension and not the lower back. This piece creates a stable plafform for your arms to accelerate away from through impact. It is like pulling the hand back to snap a towel and will help create speed in the release when we get there.
The last piece of this follow through checkpoint is learning to extend the arms without collapsing the wrists. Some schools of thought refer to the angle of the wrists as the flying wedge and is a key component to controling the apex. The consistent pattern that I see between impact and follow through is a consistent narrowing of the elbows. The elbows at this point should be as close together as you can get them without collapsing your shoulder blades, this involves both straighting and a rotation of the left forearm. If you do it with the right arm, then the bottom of the swing will tend to move backward.
Playlists: Beginner Program, STS - Swing Phases
Tags: Follow Through, Release, Concept, Beginner
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In this concept video, we're going to talk about the follow-through position.
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Now the follow-through position is roughly going to be when the club is parallel to the
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target line or to the ground in the follow-through, or after you've hit the golf ball.
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So somewhere kind of right out in there.
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Just like impact builds off of the movement before it, the follow-through position builds
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off of what you're trying to do at impact.
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So if you remember those six keys of weight left, spine turn, side bend, forward bend, elbow
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in, hands ahead, right wrist, left wrist, all that stuff, we're going to continue building
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off of that.
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Now it's a little bit simpler than impact.
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What we're going to try to do are focus on three key factors here.
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So from impact position, we are going to continue side bending or letting that right shoulder
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continue down towards the golf ball.
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Many golfers will tend to let that right shoulder come up through impact.
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I can be a sign of a poor release.
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The second key factor is while this right shoulder is going down, that upper body is not
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going forward, but it's actually staying over the golf ball as the hips continue to slide
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a little bit forward.
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So it'll end up looking kind of like that.
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And then the third piece is that the elbows are going to be continuously getting closer
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together from impact until you finish your release.
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Getting your elbows very narrow helps continue to basically release the energy that you
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built up during transition.
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The other thing that it does is, or I should say, one of the things that I look for on
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3D is something called arc width, which is looking at the distance between the grip and
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your chest or your sternum.
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What the best players in the world do is that continues to increase a couple inches between
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impact in this follow-through position.
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So continued side bend, upper body staying back, arms extending.
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Those are kind of your big keys once you get to that follow-through position.
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Because after follow-through position, it doesn't really matter whether you have kind of
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a classic finish, like so, or you had kind of an Arnold Palmer Tommy Gainy.
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So classic finish versus changing the direction with that left arm and having that kind
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of Arnold Palmer Tommy Gainy movement, they'll look very similar to a Steve Elkington or
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a classic swinger at this last follow-through position or this last parallel.
