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This drill is the Swing Extender Release Drill.

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So as a general, really simple training tool, I'd love to work on the release

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and getting

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some shaft lean with a little bit of feedback.

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So we're going to take an alignment stick and you're going to hold it on the

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bottom

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of your stick.

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If you're doing this at home and you have a training club, I recommend just

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taking some

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tape and taping it on the bottom so that it stays almost like a ribbed grip in

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line with

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the leading edge, just kind of like this.

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But if you're just practicing with your regular clubs, then you can just hold

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it in place.

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You want it to stick out a couple feet out to the side.

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So the downside to this is most of the time when we get set up, the club is

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going to be

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pointing at my body and this stick would be impaling me.

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It would be in my body.

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So if I do this correctly, it does force me to have my hands set up a little

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bit more

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forward than I normally would.

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But the benefits of the drill are far exceed the annoyance of not being able to

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get in

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my normal setup position.

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Because a lot of golfers, if I had to categorize the Tour Release versus more

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of a amateur scoop

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style release, it would come down to shaft lean and you can see if I don't have

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shaft

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lean with this, then I'm going to hit myself in the side.

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So I'm going to work primarily on nine to threes.

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And you'll see that this stays off of me.

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I keep a good amount of space as I get to my follow through position.

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I'm not going to be able to swing past parallel or it would hit me.

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So I'm mostly going to do this in nine to threes or L to I.

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So I can do a little bit bigger backswing.

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But you'll see that sometimes that one hits me in that follow through if I have

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too much

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speed down at the release.

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So it's a good challenge to work on.

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Let's talk through a couple common problems that I'll see with this.

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Aside from the obvious ones.

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So the obvious one would be basically if I use all arms, then I'm going to feel

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this

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hit me probably before or right at impact.

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So rule number one is if it's going to hit you, I want it to hit you way after

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impact,

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not down at the bottom.

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So then there's two things that I see golfers commonly do to try to cheat the

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game.

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One would be they're going to slide a lot.

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So you'll still hit yourself, but this allows me to kind of scoop and still

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make solid contact,

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but shift the low point forward.

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So if I need to, I'm going to put some type of awareness or some type of object

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just to

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make sure that I'm not sliding in order to get solid contact.

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The second thing will be lack of extension.

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So and by extension, I mean extension of the spine.

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A lot of golfers that I give this to will tend to really round the back kind of

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like

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this in order to create that extra space.

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So it will have kind of a throwing look more like this where yeah, I was able

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to keep the

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club off my body, but I did so by sacrificing my pivot.

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So kind of more like that.

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So when you're doing this drill, I want to make sure that we're getting into a

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good follow

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through position.

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I want to make sure that it's not hitting me, but I'm still finishing in a good

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bracing

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position where my, my chest is up and extended inside till kind of like this,

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not down here

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just holding it off with the arms.

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I'm holding it ahead of me.

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I'm not holding it off of me by artificially creating the distance, especially

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I'm not

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holding it off with my shoulder blades.

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I'm holding it off more with my wrists and forearms, not going into a flip

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style release.

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So we can dig into more of the details when we go into the single arms, but

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this is a

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good, just general feel.

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If you're working on getting out of more of a flip style release, this gives

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immediate

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and instant feedback.

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And as you work through it, you can develop your own feels to help you create

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more consistent

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solid shaft lean.

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So I challenge my students to get as much distance or at least be able to hit

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this 100, 120 yards

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without having it hit them.

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That's a really good, that's a sign that you've got some good speed from your

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body and not

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getting all of your speed from your arms and your hands.