Follow Through Position
- Maintain Spine Angle
- Side Tilt
- Spine Extension, hip extension
- Arm extension/Elbow closing
The follow through position is the “end of the swing” and by that I mean, it’s when you are done with all the critical movements and the rest of it is just a way to absorb force and have a gentle landing. What takes the club up from here is the speed that you have applied through the ball. Contact issues can arrive for golfers who try to force a finish position.
The follow through position has a couple really critical things to monitor. The right side bend is going to continue from impact. It is not until after this position that you should start to stand up out of your side bend. This is what gives the appearance of maintaining a spine angle. In addition, the spine will be extending and the pelvis will be posterior tilting, tucking, or extending. The reverse crunch continues, but the extension of the mid spine creates the look of a reverse C. The critical component is to make sure that you are using your hips to initiate the extension and not the lower back. This piece creates a stable plafform for your arms to accelerate away from through impact. It is like pulling the hand back to snap a towel and will help create speed in the release when we get there.
The last piece of this follow through checkpoint is learning to extend the arms without collapsing the wrists. Some schools of thought refer to the angle of the wrists as the flying wedge and is a key component to controling the apex. The consistent pattern that I see between impact and follow through is a consistent narrowing of the elbows. The elbows at this point should be as close together as you can get them without collapsing your shoulder blades, this involves both straighting and a rotation of the left forearm. If you do it with the right arm, then the bottom of the swing will tend to move backward.
- Maintain Spine Angle
- Side Tilt
- Spine Extension, hip extension
- Arm extension/Elbow closing
The follow through position is the “end of the swing” and by that I mean, it’s when you are done with all the critical movements and the rest of it is just a way to absorb force and have a gentle landing. What takes the club up from here is the speed that you have applied through the ball. Contact issues can arrive for golfers who try to force a finish position.
The follow through position has a couple really critical things to monitor. The right side bend is going to continue from impact. It is not until after this position that you should start to stand up out of your side bend. This is what gives the appearance of maintaining a spine angle. In addition, the spine will be extending and the pelvis will be posterior tilting, tucking, or extending. The reverse crunch continues, but the extension of the mid spine creates the look of a reverse C. The critical component is to make sure that you are using your hips to initiate the extension and not the lower back. This piece creates a stable plafform for your arms to accelerate away from through impact. It is like pulling the hand back to snap a towel and will help create speed in the release when we get there.
The last piece of this follow through checkpoint is learning to extend the arms without collapsing the wrists. Some schools of thought refer to the angle of the wrists as the flying wedge and is a key component to controling the apex. The consistent pattern that I see between impact and follow through is a consistent narrowing of the elbows. The elbows at this point should be as close together as you can get them without collapsing your shoulder blades, this involves both straighting and a rotation of the left forearm. If you do it with the right arm, then the bottom of the swing will tend to move backward.
Video Transcript
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In this concept video, we're going to talk about the follow-through position.
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Now the follow-through position is roughly going to be when the club is
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parallel to the
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target line or to the ground in the follow-through or after you've hit the golf
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ball.
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So somewhere kind of right out in there.
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Just like impact builds off of the movements before it, the follow-through
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position builds
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off of what you're trying to do with impact.
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So if you remember those six keys of weight left, spine turn, side bent forward
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bent, elbow
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in, hands ahead, right wrist, left wrist, all that stuff, we're going to
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continue building
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off of that.
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Now it's a little bit simpler than impact.
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What we're going to try to do are focus on three key factors here.
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So from impact position, we are going to continue side bending or letting that
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right shoulder
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continue down towards the golf ball.
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Many golfers will tend to let that right shoulder come up through impact.
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That can be a sign of a poor release.
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The second key factor is while this right shoulder is going down, that upper
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body is
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not going forward, but it's actually staying over the golf ball as the hips
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continue to
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slide a little bit forward.
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So it'll end up looking kind of like that.
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And then the third piece is that the elbows are going to be continuously
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getting closer
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together from impact until you finish your release.
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Getting your elbows very narrow helps continue to basically release the energy
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that you built
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up during transition.
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The other thing that it does is, or I should say, one of the things that I look
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for on 3D
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is something called arc width, which is looking at the distance between the
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grip and your
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chest or your sternum.
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And what the best players in the world do is that continues to increase a
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couple inches
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between impact and this follow through position.
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So continued side bend, upper body staying back, arms extending.
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Those are kind of your big keys once you get to that follow through position.
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Because after follow through position, it doesn't really matter whether you
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have kind
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of a classic finish, like so, or you had kind of a Arnold Palmer Tommy Gainey.
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So classic finish versus changing the direction with that left arm and having
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that kind of
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Arnold Palmer Tommy Gainey movement, they'll look very similar to Steve Elking
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ton or a classic
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swinger at this last follow through position or this last parallel.
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- Maintain Spine Angle
- Side Tilt
- Spine Extension, hip extension
- Arm extension/Elbow closing
The follow through position is the “end of the swing” and by that I mean, it’s when you are done with all the critical movements and the rest of it is just a way to absorb force and have a gentle landing. What takes the club up from here is the speed that you have applied through the ball. Contact issues can arrive for golfers who try to force a finish position.
The follow through position has a couple really critical things to monitor. The right side bend is going to continue from impact. It is not until after this position that you should start to stand up out of your side bend. This is what gives the appearance of maintaining a spine angle. In addition, the spine will be extending and the pelvis will be posterior tilting, tucking, or extending. The reverse crunch continues, but the extension of the mid spine creates the look of a reverse C. The critical component is to make sure that you are using your hips to initiate the extension and not the lower back. This piece creates a stable plafform for your arms to accelerate away from through impact. It is like pulling the hand back to snap a towel and will help create speed in the release when we get there.
The last piece of this follow through checkpoint is learning to extend the arms without collapsing the wrists. Some schools of thought refer to the angle of the wrists as the flying wedge and is a key component to controling the apex. The consistent pattern that I see between impact and follow through is a consistent narrowing of the elbows. The elbows at this point should be as close together as you can get them without collapsing your shoulder blades, this involves both straighting and a rotation of the left forearm. If you do it with the right arm, then the bottom of the swing will tend to move backward.
- Maintain Spine Angle
- Side Tilt
- Spine Extension, hip extension
- Arm extension/Elbow closing
The follow through position is the “end of the swing” and by that I mean, it’s when you are done with all the critical movements and the rest of it is just a way to absorb force and have a gentle landing. What takes the club up from here is the speed that you have applied through the ball. Contact issues can arrive for golfers who try to force a finish position.
The follow through position has a couple really critical things to monitor. The right side bend is going to continue from impact. It is not until after this position that you should start to stand up out of your side bend. This is what gives the appearance of maintaining a spine angle. In addition, the spine will be extending and the pelvis will be posterior tilting, tucking, or extending. The reverse crunch continues, but the extension of the mid spine creates the look of a reverse C. The critical component is to make sure that you are using your hips to initiate the extension and not the lower back. This piece creates a stable plafform for your arms to accelerate away from through impact. It is like pulling the hand back to snap a towel and will help create speed in the release when we get there.
The last piece of this follow through checkpoint is learning to extend the arms without collapsing the wrists. Some schools of thought refer to the angle of the wrists as the flying wedge and is a key component to controling the apex. The consistent pattern that I see between impact and follow through is a consistent narrowing of the elbows. The elbows at this point should be as close together as you can get them without collapsing your shoulder blades, this involves both straighting and a rotation of the left forearm. If you do it with the right arm, then the bottom of the swing will tend to move backward.
Video Transcript
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.660
In this concept video, we're going to talk about the follow-through position.
2
00:00:04.660 --> 00:00:09.300
Now the follow-through position is roughly going to be when the club is
3
00:00:09.300 --> 00:00:10.920
parallel to the
4
00:00:10.920 --> 00:00:15.560
target line or to the ground in the follow-through or after you've hit the golf
5
00:00:15.560 --> 00:00:16.080
ball.
6
00:00:16.080 --> 00:00:19.760
So somewhere kind of right out in there.
7
00:00:19.760 --> 00:00:23.440
Just like impact builds off of the movements before it, the follow-through
8
00:00:23.440 --> 00:00:24.340
position builds
9
00:00:24.340 --> 00:00:26.360
off of what you're trying to do with impact.
10
00:00:26.360 --> 00:00:32.090
So if you remember those six keys of weight left, spine turn, side bent forward
11
00:00:32.090 --> 00:00:33.020
bent, elbow
12
00:00:33.020 --> 00:00:38.610
in, hands ahead, right wrist, left wrist, all that stuff, we're going to
13
00:00:38.610 --> 00:00:39.820
continue building
14
00:00:39.820 --> 00:00:40.820
off of that.
15
00:00:40.820 --> 00:00:43.480
Now it's a little bit simpler than impact.
16
00:00:43.480 --> 00:00:48.160
What we're going to try to do are focus on three key factors here.
17
00:00:48.160 --> 00:00:53.500
So from impact position, we are going to continue side bending or letting that
18
00:00:53.500 --> 00:00:54.340
right shoulder
19
00:00:54.340 --> 00:00:57.800
continue down towards the golf ball.
20
00:00:57.800 --> 00:01:01.620
Many golfers will tend to let that right shoulder come up through impact.
21
00:01:01.620 --> 00:01:04.320
That can be a sign of a poor release.
22
00:01:04.320 --> 00:01:07.860
The second key factor is while this right shoulder is going down, that upper
23
00:01:07.860 --> 00:01:08.180
body is
24
00:01:08.180 --> 00:01:13.530
not going forward, but it's actually staying over the golf ball as the hips
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00:01:13.530 --> 00:01:14.420
continue to
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00:01:14.420 --> 00:01:16.300
slide a little bit forward.
27
00:01:16.300 --> 00:01:20.580
So it'll end up looking kind of like that.
28
00:01:20.580 --> 00:01:25.220
And then the third piece is that the elbows are going to be continuously
29
00:01:25.220 --> 00:01:26.180
getting closer
30
00:01:26.180 --> 00:01:30.780
together from impact until you finish your release.
31
00:01:30.780 --> 00:01:35.880
Getting your elbows very narrow helps continue to basically release the energy
32
00:01:35.880 --> 00:01:36.700
that you built
33
00:01:36.700 --> 00:01:38.300
up during transition.
34
00:01:38.300 --> 00:01:42.420
The other thing that it does is, or I should say, one of the things that I look
35
00:01:42.420 --> 00:01:43.540
for on 3D
36
00:01:43.540 --> 00:01:46.600
is something called arc width, which is looking at the distance between the
37
00:01:46.600 --> 00:01:47.260
grip and your
38
00:01:47.260 --> 00:01:49.140
chest or your sternum.
39
00:01:49.140 --> 00:01:54.300
And what the best players in the world do is that continues to increase a
40
00:01:54.300 --> 00:01:55.460
couple inches
41
00:01:55.460 --> 00:01:58.140
between impact and this follow through position.
42
00:01:58.140 --> 00:02:04.700
So continued side bend, upper body staying back, arms extending.
43
00:02:04.700 --> 00:02:09.100
Those are kind of your big keys once you get to that follow through position.
44
00:02:09.100 --> 00:02:14.420
Because after follow through position, it doesn't really matter whether you
45
00:02:14.420 --> 00:02:15.140
have kind
46
00:02:15.140 --> 00:02:22.180
of a classic finish, like so, or you had kind of a Arnold Palmer Tommy Gainey.
47
00:02:22.180 --> 00:02:27.110
So classic finish versus changing the direction with that left arm and having
48
00:02:27.110 --> 00:02:27.740
that kind of
49
00:02:27.740 --> 00:02:32.820
Arnold Palmer Tommy Gainey movement, they'll look very similar to Steve Elking
50
00:02:32.820 --> 00:02:33.860
ton or a classic
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00:02:33.860 --> 00:02:37.140
swinger at this last follow through position or this last parallel.
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