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Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.

Improve Early Extension with the Iron Man Golf Swing Drill

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Identify how early extension affects your swing and ball contact
  • Feel the correct positioning of your chest relative to the golf ball
  • Practice maintaining proper body alignment for better impact

Learn the Iron Man golf swing drill to address early extension in your swing. This at-home exercise will help you maintain proper body alignment and improve your contact with the ball.

Video Transcript
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All right, this is a good at-home drill for you to do to work on your early

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extension. It's called your Iron Man golf swing. So I'm a big fan of some of

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the

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comic book movies. Iron Man's probably my favorite. He's got this bright

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shining

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lights glowing away from his chest. So you're gonna take your hands and you're

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gonna make the little Iron Man signal and you're gonna make your back swing

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focusing on this Iron Man movement pointing along the target line kind of

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back behind you. And then the important thing for you early extenders is when

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you come down you want to make sure that that Iron Man signal is pointing out

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in

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front of the golf ball on the target line. Maybe three or four feet out in

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front just like so where you would be at impact. If you early extend what will

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happen is your hips will move forward and your chest or your upper body will

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be pointed way out into the horizon. So you got to make sure that your chest

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stays covering the golf ball. If Iron Man were hitting the golf ball he would

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know exactly where his chest was pointing and it would be a great little

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feedback

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tool. So you can practice this at home. You could potentially practice it with

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hitting little nine to three shots but by putting your hands here kind of

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locks your shoulders from doing it so that your body has to make the full

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movement. So I recommend this as a home drill as opposed to a range drill.
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Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.

Improve Early Extension with the Iron Man Golf Swing Drill

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Identify how early extension affects your swing and ball contact
  • Feel the correct positioning of your chest relative to the golf ball
  • Practice maintaining proper body alignment for better impact

Learn the Iron Man golf swing drill to address early extension in your swing. This at-home exercise will help you maintain proper body alignment and improve your contact with the ball.

Video Transcript
WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.000
All right, this is a good at-home drill for you to do to work on your early

2
00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:09.240
extension. It's called your Iron Man golf swing. So I'm a big fan of some of

3
00:00:09.240 --> 00:00:09.320
the

4
00:00:09.320 --> 00:00:12.500
comic book movies. Iron Man's probably my favorite. He's got this bright

5
00:00:12.500 --> 00:00:12.960
shining

6
00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:17.180
lights glowing away from his chest. So you're gonna take your hands and you're

7
00:00:17.180 --> 00:00:21.360
gonna make the little Iron Man signal and you're gonna make your back swing

8
00:00:21.360 --> 00:00:25.600
focusing on this Iron Man movement pointing along the target line kind of

9
00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:29.700
back behind you. And then the important thing for you early extenders is when

10
00:00:29.700 --> 00:00:35.750
you come down you want to make sure that that Iron Man signal is pointing out

11
00:00:35.750 --> 00:00:36.020
in

12
00:00:36.020 --> 00:00:39.040
front of the golf ball on the target line. Maybe three or four feet out in

13
00:00:39.040 --> 00:00:44.480
front just like so where you would be at impact. If you early extend what will

14
00:00:44.480 --> 00:00:48.480
happen is your hips will move forward and your chest or your upper body will

15
00:00:48.480 --> 00:00:53.480
be pointed way out into the horizon. So you got to make sure that your chest

16
00:00:53.480 --> 00:00:58.040
stays covering the golf ball. If Iron Man were hitting the golf ball he would

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00:00:58.040 --> 00:01:00.780
know exactly where his chest was pointing and it would be a great little

18
00:01:00.780 --> 00:01:01.100
feedback

19
00:01:01.100 --> 00:01:06.180
tool. So you can practice this at home. You could potentially practice it with

20
00:01:06.180 --> 00:01:11.300
hitting little nine to three shots but by putting your hands here kind of

21
00:01:11.300 --> 00:01:14.420
locks your shoulders from doing it so that your body has to make the full

22
00:01:14.420 --> 00:01:17.820
movement. So I recommend this as a home drill as opposed to a range drill.
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