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Keys To Transition
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Many golfers launch their trail leg in toward the golf ball. This creates a feeling of power and a method of shallowness, but it often causes good players to struggle with an overly rightward grip through impact. This movement of the grip frequently causes blocks and hooks and is usually a support for a steeper arm movement.
Playlists: Pivot Drills, Keys To Transition, Trail Leg Understanding, Fix Your Hook
Tags: Poor Contact, Draw vs Fade, Transition, Release, Drill, Intermediate
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This video is trail egg back 45. So this video or this drill is to help you with your early extension pattern.
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Many golfers have a pattern where their lower body is moving in towards the golf ball and that can be a
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complement to a steeper arm movement and more of a flip style release which the early extension pattern serves a purpose of
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helping you shallow it out and avoid hitting it fat. But it can linger when golfers start working on a little bit better
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release pattern and what can happen is that early extension by itself can cause the hand path to work too far
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out to the right and cause a little bit more of a roll-style internal rotation style release pattern down to the bottom.
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So it can cause some unneeded inconsistency. It's great for a lot of golfers to work on.
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So to what we're going to do in this drill is we're going to focus specifically on the role of the right hip
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because some people actually as their shifting weight that's when the majority of the early
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extension happens and then they're able to post up around the left leg but they've kind of already
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started that pattern. So to use the trail leg properly I have a few videos on kind of pushing the
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the leg away from you or pushing the ground back in that direction. If you keep the foot
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planted then what ends up happening is the hip is going to move backward 45. In fact with golfers
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who have this pattern what I'll do is I'll go up to the top of the swing and then I'll take the golf club
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and I'll place it right here on the point of their hip or just below the bony part of the pelvis
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and I'll push it back 45 and then have them rotate through. So it ends up looking like the weight shift is
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going like this but you can see that as I'm moving back this way I can still have a bit of a rotation.
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So if you don't have someone to push on your hip which likely you don't you can use a pool noodle
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and a couple of lime instincts or a chair. This is similar to the wall or the butt finger print concept.
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So if I go up to the to set this up properly I want the foam or the pool noodle to be about
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a hands width away. I don't want to be right up against it although this one is soft enough that I can
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push up against it but if it's a firm object I have to make sure that I have a little bit of space.
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Then what I'm going to do is I'm going to go up to the top of my swing and I'm going to
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push that right hip basically in a 30 or 45 degree angle back that way. So if I'm hitting it at
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these flags I'm pushing it back towards those other flags over there. That will help create the space
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for my arms to stay in front of my chest and require my upper body to continue rotating on the
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way through. What happens with a lot of golfers when they first do this as they just push the hips back
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and then stall the body and just kind of throw the hands. You have to make sure that when you do this
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and you push that hip back that your body continues its rotation. So you can do this with half shots and
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full swings up against and then go ahead and step away from it and try to duplicate the same
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feeling when you don't have the support there. So don't overdo the drill just for the sake of doing
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the drill. Use it to get a feeling and then try to apply that feeling with a golf wall. So I'm just
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off the pool noodle here. I'm going to do a little 9 to 3 first so I'm going to go up. I'm going to push
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back and then I'm going to rotate and do a good release. So I felt like I had a little extra space maybe
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then what I was doing during warm-ups. You may feel like it's a completely different amount of space
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and like the weight distribution towards your heels and less in towards your toe. You may feel
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close to the ground. There's lots of different feels that you may develop from this. Now I'm going
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to try to do it in one fluid motion. Not bad. Lost it a little bit. I felt that I was on the
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stick instead of foam roller. It's using what kind of little sensations can disrupt your pattern.
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And now we'll try it in more of a full swing style action.
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So pushing into that hip didn't quite get the release to come around but had my start line just
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club-based got left and you bit open. So now that I've got the feeling of that hip going backward,
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I'm going to try and duplicate that feeling without the pool noodle. So we'll do a 9 to 3
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style first. So feeling like that hip went back and then turned and executed good release with it.
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And then we'll try it in more of a full swing pattern. Really emphasizing that transition of the right hip.
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Now what some of you may find is that if you shift too much into that back hip,
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like if your hip goes way far back in your back swing, then you can't go back any more in the
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downswing. So you want to make sure that when you make your pivot, you're more towards the center
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of your foot so that you have the room to let this hip work a little bit more back that way as
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you're shifting into that left mid foot. So if you struggle with more of your trail leg early
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extension and the early extension happening really early in the downswing, this is the drill for you
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to correct that lower body weight shift right leg push dysfunctional pattern.
