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This video is trail egg back 45. So this video or this drill is to help you with your early extension pattern.

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Many golfers have a pattern where their lower body is moving in towards the golf ball and that can be a

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complement to a steeper arm movement and more of a flip style release which the early extension pattern serves a purpose of

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helping you shallow it out and avoid hitting it fat. But it can linger when golfers start working on a little bit better

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release pattern and what can happen is that early extension by itself can cause the hand path to work too far

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out to the right and cause a little bit more of a roll-style internal rotation style release pattern down to the bottom.

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So it can cause some unneeded inconsistency. It's great for a lot of golfers to work on.

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So to what we're going to do in this drill is we're going to focus specifically on the role of the right hip

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because some people actually as their shifting weight that's when the majority of the early

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extension happens and then they're able to post up around the left leg but they've kind of already

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started that pattern. So to use the trail leg properly I have a few videos on kind of pushing the

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the leg away from you or pushing the ground back in that direction. If you keep the foot

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planted then what ends up happening is the hip is going to move backward 45. In fact with golfers

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who have this pattern what I'll do is I'll go up to the top of the swing and then I'll take the golf club

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and I'll place it right here on the point of their hip or just below the bony part of the pelvis

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and I'll push it back 45 and then have them rotate through. So it ends up looking like the weight shift is

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going like this but you can see that as I'm moving back this way I can still have a bit of a rotation.

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So if you don't have someone to push on your hip which likely you don't you can use a pool noodle

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and a couple of lime instincts or a chair. This is similar to the wall or the butt finger print concept.

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So if I go up to the to set this up properly I want the foam or the pool noodle to be about

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a hands width away. I don't want to be right up against it although this one is soft enough that I can

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push up against it but if it's a firm object I have to make sure that I have a little bit of space.

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Then what I'm going to do is I'm going to go up to the top of my swing and I'm going to

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push that right hip basically in a 30 or 45 degree angle back that way. So if I'm hitting it at

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these flags I'm pushing it back towards those other flags over there. That will help create the space

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for my arms to stay in front of my chest and require my upper body to continue rotating on the

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way through. What happens with a lot of golfers when they first do this as they just push the hips back

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and then stall the body and just kind of throw the hands. You have to make sure that when you do this

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and you push that hip back that your body continues its rotation. So you can do this with half shots and

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full swings up against and then go ahead and step away from it and try to duplicate the same

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feeling when you don't have the support there. So don't overdo the drill just for the sake of doing

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the drill. Use it to get a feeling and then try to apply that feeling with a golf wall. So I'm just

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off the pool noodle here. I'm going to do a little 9 to 3 first so I'm going to go up. I'm going to push

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back and then I'm going to rotate and do a good release. So I felt like I had a little extra space maybe

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then what I was doing during warm-ups. You may feel like it's a completely different amount of space

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and like the weight distribution towards your heels and less in towards your toe. You may feel

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close to the ground. There's lots of different feels that you may develop from this. Now I'm going

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to try to do it in one fluid motion. Not bad. Lost it a little bit. I felt that I was on the

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stick instead of foam roller. It's using what kind of little sensations can disrupt your pattern.

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And now we'll try it in more of a full swing style action.

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So pushing into that hip didn't quite get the release to come around but had my start line just

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club-based got left and you bit open. So now that I've got the feeling of that hip going backward,

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I'm going to try and duplicate that feeling without the pool noodle. So we'll do a 9 to 3

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style first. So feeling like that hip went back and then turned and executed good release with it.

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And then we'll try it in more of a full swing pattern. Really emphasizing that transition of the right hip.

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Now what some of you may find is that if you shift too much into that back hip,

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like if your hip goes way far back in your back swing, then you can't go back any more in the

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downswing. So you want to make sure that when you make your pivot, you're more towards the center

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of your foot so that you have the room to let this hip work a little bit more back that way as

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you're shifting into that left mid foot. So if you struggle with more of your trail leg early

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extension and the early extension happening really early in the downswing, this is the drill for you

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to correct that lower body weight shift right leg push dysfunctional pattern.