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This drill is monitoring the right knee for early extension.

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Now a lot of golfers struggle with early extension and there's lots of causes.

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Sometimes it's not the worst thing, but other times it causes the ribcage to get in a position

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that really messes up your release.

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So when you're working, if you've tried some release drills and you're able to do it at the release,

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but then you take a full swing and it kind of breaks down because of early extension,

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I would recommend going directly at the source of the lower body moving in towards the golf wall.

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And this is a simple little feedback device for looking at the right leg.

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If you look at many golfers on 2D video from down the line,

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what you'll tend to see is that better players are not going to let their knee go in well past their toes.

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So we can take a shaft and stick it in the ground or in an indoor station,

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you can take a alignment stick and place it up against or in a bucket so that you've got

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kind of an alignment rod just like so.

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Then what you're going to do is you're going to place it so that it's just over the end of your toes.

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So not quite all the way to the end of your shoes, but where your big toe joint connects right

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at the ball of your foot. So kind of like that. So now I can take some practice wings with this

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alignment stick and if I were to early extend, I'm going to hit it. Now I'll mostly be able to tell

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if I hit it because of if this thing moves, but if you're hitting it outside where you've got a

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shaft in the ground, you'll get a little bit of really good feedback. So what this will help you do is

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it'll help you feel, how can I push through my lower body without letting my lower body drift

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in towards the golf wall? For many, it'll feel like some of the trail leg push that I talk about

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for others that will feel like the legs are working more in the direction of the target or even

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back 45 like in the pelvis track. So if you're setting this up, you want to get put the alignment

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stick in the ground so that it's a bout knee height. You can actually angle it one way or the other,

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but about knee height or just below. And then you can practice taking your swings feeling like

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your legs work a little bit more at the target or not in towards the golf ball as opposed to

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if you were to get set up and then really early extend, you can see now I've got some feedback.

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And that'll help you build your own personal map of where your body is in space, when you're working

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on how the lower body pushes against the ground, if you early extend.