Follow Through Arm Extension

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This drill is hands in club out. So this drill was actually inspired by a

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student of mine where we were working on the release pattern and he described

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it

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as kind of the opposite of that classic description of the takeaway where

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frequently they would talk about in the takeaway in order to get your core to

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engage to have your your hands work inside but the club stay outside your

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hands kind of like so. So just like the one-piece takeaway going this way if

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you

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have a really solid release pattern what you'll tend to see is the club will

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stay outside of your hands as you go into the follow through. So what'll happen

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is

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it'll look kind of like this and then the rotation of the pivot is what gets it

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pointing in the direction of the target but this is one of the feelings why a

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lot of golfers will feel like they're swinging out to right field as opposed

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to having the club work dead in line with the hands. So if you see yourself on

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the face on camera and you tend to see a lot of that where you tend to see kind

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of those hands working out and the forearms really looking like they have a

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lot of roll or doing it from the down the line if you see a lot of that then

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what would happen frequently what happens when you have that pattern of

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kind of getting more of the club face closing by this wrist roll not having

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ulnar and motorcycle quite as much what'll happen is your body will have to

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stall and kind of freeze in order to accommodate that. So if you were to do

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that release and you were to continue rotating what you would see from the

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down the line if you did that release but you continued rotating you would see

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that the club would be very much to the left at chaff parallel checkpoint. So

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this

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is a simple little drill where basically you're gonna position an alignment rod

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somewhere down the target line I haven't figured out it's a little different

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for

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everybody but it seems to be about halfway between target line and stance

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line depending on the length of the club but basically what you're gonna do is

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you're gonna work on having your hands work to the left as you're extending

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your

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arms out but the club is gonna stay out to the right. If I was to do more of a

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flip here you would see that I would have my hands out in the same line as the

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club. So from the down the line it would look something like this where

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basically stand a little closer. So as my body pivots and turns the club will

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rotate but the club will be pointing slightly out to the right and then what

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would happen is in the full swing as I continued rotating my body the club

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would

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disappear but this gives kind of the look and the appearance of that hands left

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Now if you're using alignment rods you can take a swim noodle and put it on top

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so that you don't damage your club. I wouldn't recommend doing this in full

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swings but again in the 9 to 3 this is perfectly safe and you would basically

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just make sure that the club works to the outside of the of the shaft up until

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about arms parallel. So if you're doing even shorter than 9 to 3 you can you

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can

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use it as a real checkpoint where you actually don't even hit this thing but

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if you're hitting it with any force I think it's gonna be a challenge to stop

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it before then. So I usually use this as kind of a training station so go into

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the station make 10 reps there and then try to do a rep with the ball out in

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front of you. But this will force more of that body rotation and just arm

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extension

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a little bit of the motorcycle it kind of forces you to get a few of these

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things right. Now if you find that when you start doing this the ball starts

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launching way off to the right so you're trying to get it out there and it's

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going more like that so you're hitting it way off to the right. What that means

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is that you're probably using this as your dominant squaring mechanism and you

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have to get used to having a little bit more of that shaft rotation if you're

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going to have more of a body pivot. If you want to just work on your stall and

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work on your tempo and have your upper body be more on top of the ball and kind

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of govern it that way and just play that flip that's absolutely no problem but

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if you want to work on getting more body rotation smoothing out that flat spot

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getting rid of that stall flip pattern then you're gonna have to get used to

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the hands being a little bit more inside or the club outside the hands

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similar to the way that they describe the takeaway is what we're going to see

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in

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the follow through.