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L to I

Golf Follow Through Drill: Master the L to I

This golf follow through drill uses the L to I motion to improve extension through the ball. Learn how to unhinge your wrists and avoid folding your arms too early for more consistent contact.

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Develop better arm extension for a smoother follow through
  • Understand the importance of maintaining a straight line in your finish
  • Recognize and avoid common pitfalls like rehinging and chicken winging
Tyler Ferrell. Golf Digest Best Teachers in California, 2026-27. The only person named to both Golf Digest's Best Young Teachers in America and Best Golf Fitness Professionals lists. Author of The Stock Tour Swing.
Video Transcript
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This drill is L to I. I had a question about the famous L to L swing. A lot of

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instructors

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will start you with this L to L look. You'll notice that I don't have one of

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these on the

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site. I'm not a huge fan of it because I think it emphasizes the rehinge on the

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follow through.

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I tend to see on 3D that a lot of amateur golfers start rehinging well before

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Torpros, especially

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with the driver or the longer clubs like the three would. So for the purpose of

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working

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past the release, so let's say we've done some 9 to 3 training and we've gotten

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good

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at going here, I like doing L to I or what I call chest height to waist height.

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So basically

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making a little bit more of a 3/4 swing, but still finishing in that good 9 to

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3 finish.

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That arm extension wrist unhinging and staying wide on the follow through I

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think is much

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more important than trying to emphasize this rehinge on the follow through. So

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when you're

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working on contacting you want to start bridging from your release drills a

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little bit closer

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to full swing, I'm fine with making a little bit longer backswing. So getting

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that good

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kind of L look and feel. But on the way through, I want to be able to still get

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that focus

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on that really good arm extension. You'll see that if you tend to kind of

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chicken wing

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or rehinge, you won't be able to stop in that follow through position. So we'll

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call

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it kind of an eye because it's everything in a straight line like so. You won't

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be able

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to finish in that good straight line finish if you're rehinging and kind of

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focusing on

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pulling in with the arms as opposed to letting you go out with the club. So we

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'll demonstrate

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still kind of like this and then wide in that follow through.
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Tyler Ferrell. Golf Digest Best Teachers in California, 2026-27. The only person named to both Golf Digest's Best Young Teachers in America and Best Golf Fitness Professionals lists. Author of The Stock Tour Swing.

L to I

Golf Follow Through Drill: Master the L to I

This golf follow through drill uses the L to I motion to improve extension through the ball. Learn how to unhinge your wrists and avoid folding your arms too early for more consistent contact.

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Develop better arm extension for a smoother follow through
  • Understand the importance of maintaining a straight line in your finish
  • Recognize and avoid common pitfalls like rehinging and chicken winging
Video Transcript
WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.880
This drill is L to I. I had a question about the famous L to L swing. A lot of

2
00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:10.600
instructors

3
00:00:10.600 --> 00:00:17.570
will start you with this L to L look. You'll notice that I don't have one of

4
00:00:17.570 --> 00:00:18.000
these on the

5
00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:23.600
site. I'm not a huge fan of it because I think it emphasizes the rehinge on the

6
00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:24.480
follow through.

7
00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:32.200
I tend to see on 3D that a lot of amateur golfers start rehinging well before

8
00:00:32.200 --> 00:00:33.800
Torpros, especially

9
00:00:33.800 --> 00:00:39.230
with the driver or the longer clubs like the three would. So for the purpose of

10
00:00:39.230 --> 00:00:39.640
working

11
00:00:39.640 --> 00:00:44.250
past the release, so let's say we've done some 9 to 3 training and we've gotten

12
00:00:44.250 --> 00:00:44.640
good

13
00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:51.950
at going here, I like doing L to I or what I call chest height to waist height.

14
00:00:51.950 --> 00:00:52.840
So basically

15
00:00:52.840 --> 00:01:00.190
making a little bit more of a 3/4 swing, but still finishing in that good 9 to

16
00:01:00.190 --> 00:01:01.320
3 finish.

17
00:01:01.320 --> 00:01:05.940
That arm extension wrist unhinging and staying wide on the follow through I

18
00:01:05.940 --> 00:01:06.840
think is much

19
00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:13.500
more important than trying to emphasize this rehinge on the follow through. So

20
00:01:13.500 --> 00:01:15.720
when you're

21
00:01:15.720 --> 00:01:20.280
working on contacting you want to start bridging from your release drills a

22
00:01:20.280 --> 00:01:21.280
little bit closer

23
00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:27.230
to full swing, I'm fine with making a little bit longer backswing. So getting

24
00:01:27.230 --> 00:01:27.720
that good

25
00:01:27.720 --> 00:01:36.250
kind of L look and feel. But on the way through, I want to be able to still get

26
00:01:36.250 --> 00:01:37.000
that focus

27
00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:41.540
on that really good arm extension. You'll see that if you tend to kind of

28
00:01:41.540 --> 00:01:42.320
chicken wing

29
00:01:42.320 --> 00:01:47.920
or rehinge, you won't be able to stop in that follow through position. So we'll

30
00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:48.120
call

31
00:01:48.120 --> 00:01:52.880
it kind of an eye because it's everything in a straight line like so. You won't

32
00:01:52.880 --> 00:01:53.000
be able

33
00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:58.670
to finish in that good straight line finish if you're rehinging and kind of

34
00:01:58.670 --> 00:01:59.640
focusing on

35
00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:04.340
pulling in with the arms as opposed to letting you go out with the club. So we

36
00:02:04.340 --> 00:02:08.720
'll demonstrate

37
00:02:08.720 --> 00:02:14.040
still kind of like this and then wide in that follow through.
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