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Fix Your Early Extension
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An "overset" of the wrists is a common swing flaw; it can arise due to misguided training or may be attributed to a few of the well-intentioned (but misleading) golf adages related to the wrists. Unfortunately, this relatively subtle action can lead to a number of compensations in the downswing, such as casting and/or "early-extension".
Thankfully, to heighten our awareness for this pattern, all we need is a simple closet hanger; this should allow us to avoid "maxing out" the amount of radial deviation that occurs in the backswing, while still mindfully increasing the extension in the trail wrist.
Overall, this should help create a backswing that is more conducive to the efficient (and powerful) "pelvis-torso-club" transition sequence and subsequent "tour" release. Players who improve upon this motion should notice more tension/load in the core and hips during both the backswing & downswing, along with improved timing and consistency.
Playlists: Fix Your Cast, Fix Your Early Extension, Train Your Release
Tags: Poor Contact, Not Straight Enough, Not Enough Distance, Early Extension, Cast, Backswing, Transition, Release, Drill, Intermediate
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It's true that it's anti-overset with the hanger.
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So we're going to use a hanger to help heighten the awareness of what's going on with
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our wrist.
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This is designed for golfers who tend to really overset the wrist, maybe they practice
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with a swing guide or they had the classic thought of trying to maximally hinge this up
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as much as possible.
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The problem is if I overset the wrist and get it as maximally hinge as I can here, then
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what'll typically happen is one of the first things to fire will then be the wrist
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in transition.
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So I get more of this arm-dobman and vertical kind of casting pattern that causes me to
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have to stand up away from the ground so I can start this little cascade that causes a
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lot of contact problems.
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So what we're going to do here is we're going to hold a hanger.
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You can either use something like the actual golf hanger or just a simple hanger you
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would get it targeted or Walmart.
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And now what we're going to do is as we bring the club back, as I hinge my wrist, I will
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feel the hanger slide on the wrist.
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So I can feel it changing position as I bring it up vertically like this.
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So what we're going to do is we're going to pre-set a little bit there and then we're
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going to concentrate on not letting the hanger come up like this.
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We're going to try to keep it the same and let the wrist set more by going into extension
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of the trail wrist rather than hinging or radial deviation of the lead wrist.
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So got the hanger connected there, keeping it about the same and I'm going to practice
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kind of keeping it the same there through transition.
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I can have a little bit of play this way but I don't want to have very much movement
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that way.
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Now the depending on the thickness of the hanger, you can actually hit balls working on
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this and because it's more of a transition thing, I probably wouldn't really do nine to
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three.
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So I probably started 10 to two and worked from 10 to two to full swings.
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So I'm going to hold the hanger underneath just like so and then I'm going to bring the
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club up and I'm just going to pay attention to where that set is there at what it
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feels like at about 90 degrees and now I'm going to try and feel like I end the backswing
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more with hip and body movement as opposed to really overloading the wrist.
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Typically this becomes a timing issue for a lot of golfers because they tend to really
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overload the wrist as the last segment that gets loaded and that starts this whole cascade
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of it's gotten overloaded and now I have to let it out pretty quickly.
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Okay so I'm going to bring it up to about my 10 o'clock position and now I'm just going
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to freeze the wrist in that position as I finish the rest of the swing.
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So I'm going to bring it up.
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Rist isn't allowed to set anymore.
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Now I'm getting the rest of the set more from a little body movement.
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This will help me feel ending the backswing with my body instead of ending the backswing
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with my wrist.
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I can also do this in a little shorter version where I'm going to bring it back just
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going to pre-set it there and now I'm going to do more of a 10 to 2 so I'm going to bring
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it up and just release it there.
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Now in that version I'm not really going to feel anything out in maximally stretch at the
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top of the swing when I'm doing more from the 10 to 2 all the way up to the full swing.
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I'll tend to feel the stretch or the trigger for the ending of the swing more in my
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hips and core.
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If you look at face on video and you have a really often times an over swing but if you have
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a lot of wrist set kind of like this it's typically coming from over doing this motion
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and not enough of this motion using a hanger can help heighten your awareness and help
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you change that pattern.
