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This drill is Extend-Turn-Tilt.

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So Extend-Turn-Tilt is a drill that I will use to help people refine their

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pivot, especially

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if they have an issue with either not having enough extension or not having

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enough tilt.

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If you don't have enough extension, then in the backswing it will tend to look

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like your

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upper body shifts off the ball.

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And in the follow-through it will tend to look like your chest stays pointing

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more down.

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If you don't have enough tilt, then it will tend to look like you're early

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extending

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or you're losing more of your shoulder plane at the top of the swing, or you're

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standing

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up in the follow-through.

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So Extend-Turn-Tilt is a really easy way to get a reference either of where we

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want to

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be at follow-through position or where we want to be at the top of the swing.

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So with the follow-through position, we're going to get this bracing feel, and

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we're

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going to walk through it in the order of Extend-Turn-Tilt.

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So let's say I'm going to get set up at a ball, that way I'm going to have the

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reference

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of where I am in space, so good ball position.

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Now I'm going to, for the follow-through position, I'm going to lean backward

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from my hips and

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from my upper back, but I'm going to make sure that my core stays braced.

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So I don't want to be leaning backward in my lower back, kind of like this.

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I want to lean from my hips or tuck my hips, and I want to lean from my upper

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back or chest.

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So I'm leaning back about 30 degrees.

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Now I'm going to turn and face the target, and then I'm going to turn or tilt

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down towards

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the ball.

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Now the last thing I like to do is then set the arms where they would be, so

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squaring

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up the club face or getting a little bit more rotation.

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So let's do that again.

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So I'm going to set up, I'm going to extend, I'm going to turn, and then I'm

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going to tilt.

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And this is roughly where I want to get to into my bracing position or into my

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follow-through.

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Kind of there, I caught that a little thin because I didn't quite have enough

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tilt.

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So what I do is after I have golfers get this reference, now the goal is to get

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back there

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in one movement, and that one movement is going to have more of this kind of

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blend of

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rotating while staying on a spine angle.

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It usually doesn't feel quite as dramatic as when we do that step-by-step,

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extend, turn

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and tilt, but it's going to turn into more of a feeling of either being more

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side bent,

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if that's the one you're struggling with, or for a lot of golfers being more

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extended

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in the hips or upper body staying more centered.

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A lot of golfers who struggle with this get the upper body a little bit more

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forward like

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this.

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Classically, if you get your, if you lack that extension through the ball, you

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will get overly

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active with the arms because if your chest stays pointing down towards the

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ground as

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the arms try to swing up, the only way your arms are going to get above your

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chest height

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is by bending the arms or the shoulders.

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And so it's this extension move that helps keep the arms straight and keeps

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everything

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flowing on the way through.

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That extension again is happening from the hips, as well as the upper back, but

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hopefully

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not doing a ton of extension in the lower back.

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You want your core to stay active or engaged.

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Once I have that feeling, then I'll tend to work it into more of a kind of nine

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to three

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or 10 to two where I feel that that extension move is what brings the club

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through.

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So similar to it, for some golfers who struggle with the L to I drill, it's

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this upper body

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extension that they're lacking because if I do one where I'll do one, I'll do

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two, I'll

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do one where I lack the extension and you'll see that the arms tend to scoop a

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little bit

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more on the way through and now I'll do one where I lack the side bend and you

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'll tend

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to see I have to like throw those arms a little bit earlier to get down to the

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ball.

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So if you have a lot of arm action down to the ball, it could be that you don't

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have

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a really good solid bracing position and if you're losing that, it's because of

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the

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one of those two positions.

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I also use this extended tilt for the backswing.

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Now the key here is with the follow through, I'm leaning back about 30 degrees.

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With the backswing, I'm just going to stand so that I'm vertical, but then the

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operation

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is going to be the same.

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I'm going to turn and I'm going to tilt.

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And for a lot of golfers who tend to kind of have more of that staying flex

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forward and

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turning back and picking up the arms, they're going to feel more, wow, my chest

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is more

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up, my back is facing the target, I've really turned my hips, they're going to

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feel more

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of this full body turn in the backswing.

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So if you're struggling with your pivot, a really quick recalibration can be

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this extend

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turn, whichever direction we're working and then tilt so that the shoulder

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closest to

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the ball is pointing down at it.

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That will give you two references to help you work on your pivot and the upper

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body staying

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center while turning through on the right angle.

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So try that if you're having a lot of excessive upper body movement, which is

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affecting your

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low point control or the smoothest of your release.

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So we'll do combo.

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So backswing, follow through.

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So now I'm going to try and connect those two, which will help me feel a little

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bit

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more centered all the way around, kind of like that.