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Shaft Through Belt Loops

Take an alignment rod and place it through your belt loops. Practice SLOW downswings where you swing above the shaft sticking out the trail side of your belt loops. If you early extend, you will likely hit the shaft with your arms.

Tags: Drill, Intermediate

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Okay, this drill is shaft through belt loops and it's another drill to help you with your early extension pattern

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What you're gonna do is you're gonna take an old shaft or one of those alignment sticks and stick it through the front belt loops

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So that it's kind of sticking out to your sides just like so

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If you take your backswing and you early extend what will happen is this stick is gonna get in the way of the path that my club wants to travel on

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If you keep your hips back in your chest stays down

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You'll actually have plenty of room for your arms to swing through without actually hitting the shaft

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Do this at slow motion first?

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I'd recommend never taking kind of a full crack at it with this just because the risk reward isn't really worth it

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But for

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slower tempo swings

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This is a great

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Tool for learning how to overcome the early extension pattern because the feedback is so severe

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Nobody likes the feeling of having their hands or the club strike this shaft

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So work at it very slowly

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Use the butt fingerprint you can use you can combine this with some of the other drills to kind of get a spatial awareness of where your hands need to go

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But this is one of my favorite drills for helping overcome

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Especially feel golfers

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That overcoming the early extension pattern so give it a try

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It should help you learn where your pelvis and your upper body need to be during the downswing

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