A drill to cure early extension

Early Extension is one of the most common swing faults.  It can cause heavy shots, thin shots, pushed shots, hooked shots, high ball flight and inconsistency.  If you suffer from early extension, try the drill in this video.

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Hi Robin Symes here. One of the most common faults in golf is early extension. Early extension is when in the [inaudible 00:00:09] swing the hips will work towards the golf ball; the chest and head will work away from the golf ball. As the fault says “extending your body early.” As a result your arms and club will get behind your body resulting in general inconsistency. You can also hit push shots, hook shots, heavy shots, thin shots with a general lack of compression on the golf ball. Do you think this is you? Try this simple drill; take a driver, pressing the grip end across your chest in your driver address position, place the golf ball in a similar position to what you would if you were hitting a normal shot with your driver. Then simply learn to rotate your body, maintaining your posture angles so you can point the golf club head at the ball. I want you to lead the movement, lead the rotation with your hips.

Simply you’re learning to rotate to impact maintaining your posture angles. If you’d early extend, your hips would work towards the golf ball, head work away from the golf ball. Simply you couldn’t get the club head pointing at the ball. So repeat the exercise with a little bit of rhythm, the same rhythm you would hit a shot with. A small rotation in your backswing. Once you’ve got a feeling for that you can go ahead and hit some shots, feeling the same rotation to impact leading from the lower body, maintaining your posture angles. So simple drill for anybody struggling with the fault of early extending.