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 Your Follow Through with the Push Ball Drill

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Understand the key checkpoints for achieving a solid impact position
  • Feel how your body rotation contributes to a more effective follow through
  • Recognize the importance of maintaining club contact during your swing

Learn how to transition smoothly from impact to follow through using the push ball drill. This exercise helps you maintain proper club contact while extending your arms for better shot accuracy.

Video Transcript
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This is my view of the pushball drill. The pushball drill is a great drill for

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going from impact to follow through. So if we just refresh what that's gonna be

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.

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So impact position, most of my weights on my lead foot, shoulders are kind of

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tilted and rotated, right arm is gonna be slightly bent, lead arms pretty

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straight,

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left wrist is neutral, right wrist is cut. So that's kind of those checkpoints

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for you. Now during the release my body is gonna continue rotating as my arms

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extend. So this follow through position is going to be basically the end of my

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swing or when my arms have reached their kind of furthest point away from me.

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So

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the pushball drill is literally practicing going from those two movements.

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So I'm gonna get in my setup position, then I'm going to rotate to impact and

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now from impact I'm gonna go ahead and I'm going to extend my arms and kind of

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push or throw the ball. You'll feel or you'll see that the club stays low to

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the ground as my arms extend. Now this is a nine iron. The more loft you have

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the

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harder it's going to be. But one other little key to this is you have to make

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sure that the club is actually in contact with the golf ball when you go to

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push.

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Otherwise when you go to push let's say I'm back here when I go to push the

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ball

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we'll just kind of slide up the face. So that was an exaggeration. The other

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thing that this catches is if I try to use just my hands to release the club.

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So

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if I'm in this good impact position and I just kind of use my hands you'll see

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that the ball just slides up the face. So pushball drill is a great drill from

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going from setup position to impact position and then you can train it with

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little nine to three and moving on to full swings.

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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 Your Follow Through with the Push Ball Drill

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Understand the key checkpoints for achieving a solid impact position
  • Feel how your body rotation contributes to a more effective follow through
  • Recognize the importance of maintaining club contact during your swing

Learn how to transition smoothly from impact to follow through using the push ball drill. This exercise helps you maintain proper club contact while extending your arms for better shot accuracy.

Video Transcript
WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.200
This is my view of the pushball drill. The pushball drill is a great drill for

2
00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:10.520
going from impact to follow through. So if we just refresh what that's gonna be

3
00:00:10.520 --> 00:00:10.520
.

4
00:00:10.520 --> 00:00:15.380
So impact position, most of my weights on my lead foot, shoulders are kind of

5
00:00:15.380 --> 00:00:19.320
tilted and rotated, right arm is gonna be slightly bent, lead arms pretty

6
00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:19.680
straight,

7
00:00:19.680 --> 00:00:23.640
left wrist is neutral, right wrist is cut. So that's kind of those checkpoints

8
00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:29.600
for you. Now during the release my body is gonna continue rotating as my arms

9
00:00:29.600 --> 00:00:34.460
extend. So this follow through position is going to be basically the end of my

10
00:00:34.460 --> 00:00:38.360
swing or when my arms have reached their kind of furthest point away from me.

11
00:00:38.360 --> 00:00:39.360
So

12
00:00:39.360 --> 00:00:43.440
the pushball drill is literally practicing going from those two movements.

13
00:00:43.440 --> 00:00:49.640
So I'm gonna get in my setup position, then I'm going to rotate to impact and

14
00:00:49.640 --> 00:00:56.160
now from impact I'm gonna go ahead and I'm going to extend my arms and kind of

15
00:00:56.160 --> 00:01:00.720
push or throw the ball. You'll feel or you'll see that the club stays low to

16
00:01:00.720 --> 00:01:06.270
the ground as my arms extend. Now this is a nine iron. The more loft you have

17
00:01:06.270 --> 00:01:06.880
the

18
00:01:06.880 --> 00:01:12.960
harder it's going to be. But one other little key to this is you have to make

19
00:01:12.960 --> 00:01:17.320
sure that the club is actually in contact with the golf ball when you go to

20
00:01:17.320 --> 00:01:18.160
push.

21
00:01:18.160 --> 00:01:24.680
Otherwise when you go to push let's say I'm back here when I go to push the

22
00:01:24.680 --> 00:01:24.840
ball

23
00:01:24.840 --> 00:01:28.800
we'll just kind of slide up the face. So that was an exaggeration. The other

24
00:01:28.800 --> 00:01:34.220
thing that this catches is if I try to use just my hands to release the club.

25
00:01:34.220 --> 00:01:34.320
So

26
00:01:34.320 --> 00:01:38.640
if I'm in this good impact position and I just kind of use my hands you'll see

27
00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:42.600
that the ball just slides up the face. So pushball drill is a great drill from

28
00:01:42.600 --> 00:01:46.560
going from setup position to impact position and then you can train it with

29
00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:50.640
little nine to three and moving on to full swings.

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