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Extend - Turn - Tilt

When building a body position reference, I often use the drill "Extend, Turn, Tilt" to get people into a repeatable body position. This sequence can be helpful for golfers who:

  • Early extend
  • Lose posture in the backswing
  • Flat shoulder plane
  • Forward lunge
  • Arm dominant release

This drill is also really helpful for beginning golfers who are dialing in their basic pivot!

Tags: Poor Contact, Early Extension, Standing Up, Drill

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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 pivot, especially

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

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

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body shifts off the ball and in the follow-through it will tend to look like your chest

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stays pointing more down.

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

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losing more of your shoulder plane at the top of the swing or you're standing up in the

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follow-through.

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So extend turn tilt is a really easy way to get a reference either of where we 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 kind of get this bracing feel and 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 reference

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of where I am in space.

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So good ball position.

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Now I'm going to follow through position.

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I'm going to lean backward from my hips and from my upper back.

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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 back

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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 down

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towards the ball.

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

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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.

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I'm going to extend.

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

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

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through.

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Kind of there.

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I caught that a little thing because I didn't quite have enough tilt.

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So what I do is after I have golfers get this reference.

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Now the goal is to get back there in one movement and that one movement is going to have

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more of this kind of blend of rotating while staying on a spine angle.

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Usually it doesn't feel quite as dramatic as when we do that step by step extend

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turn tilt.

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But it's going to turn into more of a feeling of either being more side bent if that's

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the one you're struggling with or for a lot of golfers being more extended in the hips

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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 forward

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like this.

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

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active with the arms because if you're chest stays pointing down towards the ground

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as the arms try to swing up.

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The only way your arms are going to get above your chest height is by bending the arms

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or the shoulders.

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And so it's this extension move that helps keep the arms straight and keeps 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 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 9 to 3 or

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10 to 2 where I feel that that extension move is what brings the club through.

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

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

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

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

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good solid bracing position and if you're losing that it's because of one of those two positions.

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I also use this extension tilt for the back swing.

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

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swing I'm just going to stand so that I'm vertical but then the operation is going to be

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the same.

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I'm going to turn and I'm going to tilt and for a lot of golfers you tend to kind of

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more of that staying flex forward and turning back and picking up the arms that they're

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going to feel more wow my chest is more up my back is facing the target I've really turned

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my hips you're going to feel more of this full body turn in the back swing.

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So if you're struggling with your pivot a really quick recalibration can be this extend turn

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whichever direction we're working and then tilt so that the shoulder closest to the ball

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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 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 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 back swing follow through so now I'm going to try and connect those two which will

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help me feel a little bit more centered all the way around.

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Kind of like that.

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