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This drill is the swing extender release drill.

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So as a general really simple training tool, I'd love to work on the release and getting

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some shaft lean with a little bit of feedback.

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So we're going to take an alignment stick and you're going to hold it on the bottom of your

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stick.

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If you're doing this at home and you have a training club, I recommend just taking some

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tape and taping it on the bottom so that it stays almost like a rib grip in line with

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the leading edge.

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Just kind of like this.

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But if you're just practicing with your regular clubs, then you can just hold it in place.

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You want it to stick out a couple feet out to the side.

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So the downside to this is most of the time when we get set up, the club is going to be

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pointing at my body and this stick would be in paling me.

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It would be in my body.

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So if I do this correctly, it does force me to have my hands set up a little bit more

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forward than I normally would.

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But the benefits of the drill are far exceed the annoyance of not being able to get

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in my normal setup position.

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Because a lot of golfers, if I had to categorize the tour release versus more of a amateur

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scoops dial release, it would come down to shaft lean and you can see if I don't have

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shaft lean with this, then I'm going to hit myself in the side.

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So I'm going to work primarily on 9 to 3s and you'll see that this stays off of me.

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I keep a good amount of space as I get to my follow-through position.

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I'm not going to be able to swing past parallel or it would hit me.

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So I'm mostly going to do this in 9 to 3s or L to I.

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So I can do a little bit bigger back swing.

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But you'll see that sometimes that one hits me in that follow-through if I have too much speed

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down to the release.

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It's a good challenge to work on.

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Let's talk through a couple common problems that I'll see with this.

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Aside from the obvious ones.

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So the obvious one would be basically if I use all arms then I'm going to feel this hit

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me probably before or right at impact.

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So rule number one is if it's going to hit you, I want it to hit you way after impact,

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not down at the bottom.

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So then there's two things that I see golfers commonly do to try to cheat the game.

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One would be they're going to slide a lot so you'll still hit yourself.

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This allows me to kind of scoop and still make solid contact but shift the low point

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forward.

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So if I need to, I'm going to put some type of awareness or some type of object just

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to make sure that I'm not sliding in order to get solid contact.

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The second thing will be lack of extension.

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So by extension I mean extension of the spine.

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A lot of golfers that I give this to will tend to really round the back kind of like this

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in order to create that extra space.

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So it will have kind of a throwing look more like this where yeah I was able to keep

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the club off my body but I did so by sacrificing my pivot.

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So kind of more like that.

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So when you're doing this drill I want to make sure that we're getting into a good

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follow through position.

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I want to make sure that it's not hitting me but I'm still finishing in a good bracing

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position where my chest is up and extended inside tilt kind of like this, not down here

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just holding it off with the arms.

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I'm holding it ahead of me.

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I'm not holding it off of me by artificially creating the distance.

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Especially I'm not holding it off with my shoulder blades.

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I'm holding it off more with my wrists and forearms not going into a flip style release.

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So we can dig into more of the details when we go into single arms but this is a good

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just general feel.

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If you're working on getting out of more of a flip style release this gives immediate

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an instant fade back and as you work through it you can develop your own feels that help

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you create more consistent solid chef.

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So a challenge my students to get as much distance or at least be able to hit this

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120 yards without having to hit them.

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That's a really good that's a sign that you've got some good speed from your body and

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not getting all of your speed from your arms in your hands.