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- hands too high
- hands too low
- elbows wider than impact
- not enough side bend
- standing up
Playlists: Beginner Program
Tags: Follow Through, Concept, Beginner
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In this concept video, we're going to go over trouble shooting the follow-through position.
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So, if you remember the follow-through position is this waste height or this last parallel in the follow-through.
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And there's a variety of things that we like to look for, but there's some common things that we tend to not see.
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First one would be, if you remember that we're trying to continue this side bend and kind of stay back behind the ball with this right shoulder continuing to go down,
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what will tend to happen is the shoulder will come more up, the hips will go more back like so.
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This is often a hip related issue, and you can easily take some of the pressure off of your hip and make it less demanding.
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If you reviewed the foot flare and how much you have that less foot turn towards the target,
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because that will make it so that you don't have to kind of go to an end range emotion and be strong in that position.
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The next one that I tend to see would be the hands being too high or going up like so, as opposed to working a little bit more around you on that functional swing plane.
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So, if I draw that impact line and it looks like your club is going way inside out, there's a good chance you're hitting blocks, you're hitting big hooks.
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And what that one comes from is a little bit more of the body standing straight up like so, so this posture gets very vertical.
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And then when I side bend, I've now added a couple shallows, and so that gets the club swinging way out around me as opposed to a little bit more down the target line.
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The opposite to that would be the hands going too low.
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So the hands going more down around in a cross like so.
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Now if you naturally swing way up high, it'll feel good to go low and vice versa.
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If you swing low, it'll feel pretty good to go high.
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But if you're overdoing one of them too much, then it can cause problems.
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If you're overdoing the hands coming too low, it's usually a result of the hands kind of flipping around and releasing more like this as opposed to releasing out.
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Or it could be that that right shoulder has gotten very high on top of the golf ball like so.
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That's a little bit more of the rare one, but it tends to happen with this last piece, which is one of the biggest ones that I see, which is the elbows not closing or not getting closer.
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If you remember from impact to follow through, those elbows should kind of be squeezing together or getting closer during that period.
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Some tour pros get anywhere down around seven inches between the center of their elbows, which is not very much at all.
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Many amateurs, those elbows are going wider and they'll be a foot and a half apart like so.
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So that one is usually a result of either a transition air not having the club come from the proper path or release air, not having the club square the club face with the arm.
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The arm is kind of extending away from you and so pulling it across actually gets the face pointed in the direction of the target, but makes you susceptible to hitting it weak low compression and tending to hit it a little bit more of a flare off to the right.
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So there's the major issues that we see with the follow through position that position right there either going high.
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Going low, getting narrow, getting forward, any of those problems will cause you a little bit more contact issues, but it's really a symptom of some of the other things that should have already happened.
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So I'll usually direct you in the direction of not just focusing on that, but also looking at either the release or transition.
