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Fix Your Early Extension
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Set up a pool noodle just outside the left hip and just left of parallel to the target line. This will help you create a visual map of where you want your hands to go in the follow through. You'll quickly realize that it's impossible to get the club there if you early extend and swing your hands high out toward the target line. This is a key space to train for golfers who hook the ball. if you slice the ball, this drill is not for you.
Tags: Poor Contact, Not Straight Enough, Early Extension, Iron, Fairway Wood, Follow Through, Release, Drill, Intermediate, Beginner
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This wind noodle is looking at left hands in the follow-through.
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So a common problem for good players is having a little bit of the
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early extension to help shower at the club and getting the club to kind of swing too much out to the right.
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If you're a slicer, this is not for you.
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This drill system or this drill setup is looking at the path of the hands.
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Now we know that from other ones, we want the path of the club going slightly out to the right kind of extending like this.
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But if you're used to getting into more too much side bend or early extension, your hands will typically go straight out towards the target as they rotate more like this.
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What we can do with this one is kind of simulate that hit my arms feeling.
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And now I'm going to place this at about hip height.
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Okay, if I go into more of an early extension pattern, you can see that the height of my hands gets pretty high pretty quickly.
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If I get that hip height, then in order to kind of have my hands match that going left, kind of like that.
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It's going to be closer to the height of my hips.
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Once I have a good visual, I can try to recreate that in my mind.
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So that's coming somewhere over here.
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You know what?
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I'm used to swinging way up here.
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Now I have a little bit more spatial awareness for what I'm trying to do through the release to get out of that whole
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book block pattern.
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Now that I have an image in my mind, I can take some reps trying to recreate that image while I'm standing over the golf ball of where I want my hands to swing.
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Looks something.
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Like that.
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So that's getting the hands going a little bit more around my body and low left.
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We can compare that to more of the early extension pattern where I would get my hands swinging very high on the way through.
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So if you struggle with your hand path getting high on the way through or going too much to the right and you struggle with big blocks and hooks, you can create a little visual alignment using the pool noodles to help get the hands working a little bit more around your body from better posture control.
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Your body continuing to rotate on the way through and good arm and release my hands.
