Does this look like you?
If it is you need to learn how to stop
standing up through impact. So you're
standing up through impact or more
commonly known as early extension. So
what does that look like anyway. If i'm
set up over a ball here if I was to draw
a line down my butt line there.
As I make my swing as I come down
through the impact typically the pelvis
and the hips move forward.
I get away from that line
and I hit the ball from there and
usually that results in my hands and
arms get a lot higher. I need more wrists
involved to flip at the ball.
Less power, less consistency and a whole
other range of problems. Now important to
know standing up through impact or early
extension it's a reaction to something else you're
doing wrong in the swing. I'm always
azed when i ask someone i look at a
swing and i say
what do you think you're doing wrong and
they say
i'm performing early extension well
the early extension is not the issue it
is a result of something else happening
in the golf swing now there's two main
reasons you're early extending now the
first one
is an open club face so and this starts
as early as the takeaway right from the
get-go
if i go back
this face that toe is more up to the sky
face is really open if i continue that
way in my back swing on the downswing
your body knows this your brain's very
aware of it and typically what will
happen is you'll stand up out of your
posture you'll come across steep to give
yourself room
to hit across the ball
and try and curve it back around towards
the target so an open club face is one
of the main reasons not the only one
i'll go through the other one in a
second it's something that i've
struggled with
i'm going to show you how to fix it so
to fix your open face again it starts
right from your grips if you're set up
with your grip
and you've got the the grip of this club
more in your palm
and you're only saying
maybe showing one knuckle on your lead
hand that's a very weak grip
your right hand will typically be
more on on top of the grip like this
and that'll result in a lot of
open face shots so you can see here
the face will come through open
so what i'd like to see you do right
from the start get this grip
more in your fingers
more over like this
and preferably two knuckles showing on
that lead hand if you can
and then with your trail hand have it
more underneath
you don't want it too strong but you
certainly don't want it very weak
and that will enable you to
come through
and square up that club face a lot
easier so with a square a club face
right from the start in your takeaway
you should be able to
get somewhere around there with that
face is more in line with my spine angle
and the face is more pointing down this
way that is a lot more square
if you can do that
it will keep it square throughout the
swing and you'll be a better chance of
staying down more through impact
instead of standing up
now the other common reason why you're
standing up this is something i've
battled with but managed to work through
it and works fantastically well now my
problem
and a very common one that you might do
is sliding now i'll show you from this
angle first actually
now sliding in the back swing i'm
specifically want to talk about first
so if i'm set up here this right hip
and my head my upper body will move
too far this way
okay that's sliding the back swing now
what happens when you do that
this is extremely important
when you slide
what it does is
it takes away that space
that space that i need
to get that club shallow and a lot more
on the inside on the downswing so
typically what happens
if you slide and don't rotate enough in
the backswing
on the downswing
your pelvis and your hips will stand up
give yourself room
to drop the club more on the inside
hit the golf ball
very very common
so sliding is a real killer in your
golson particularly that back swing now
the other thing that sliding does for
a typical sort of more of an average
sort of player maybe a higher
handicapper when they slide like this
typically they'll
come down steeper over the top
to give themselves that space that's
been taken away here
and cut across the golf ball so that's
the other thing that happens
you'll either early extend
like this and try and get the inside
path or you'll just simply
go over the top
so the very first thing you need to do
and i'm going to assume you've fixed up
your grip you've got a square club face
you need to get more hip depth
and get that trail hip working back in
your back swing so this is what it looks
like from this angle
i'll just draw a line down the back
there
as you make your backswing i want you to
feel like this trail hip moves back this
way away from the golf ball not this way
and not this way but back away from the
golf ball when you do that
you create hip depth
and when you create depth
look at all this extra space i've got
here
to be able to come through
on the inside and that will encourage
you to not stand up through impact so
from face on
watch this trail hip
i want it to move
back it's rotating
but it's rotating and more of a centered
turn and it's moving back
creating depth
i'm getting space
space for the hands and arms to come
through to impact now on the downswing
typically if you're someone that's been
sliding or you had that weak grip
sometimes
what will happen also
you'll have a tendency if you've slid
this way as you start down
this lead shoulder will come up really
quickly like that
or if you've slid your hips too far this
way
the lead hip and the lead shoulder will
go up really quickly it'll cause you to
lose these angles with your wrists and
you hit a lot of fat shots
as you're standing up through impact so
it looks something like that that lead
shoulder lead hip
will go up really quickly
now if you fix your grip
sometimes that will just disappear you
won't do that anymore again
if you get more hip depth quite often
your lead shoulder and that will work
the way it should function which i'm
going to show you in just a moment
however
you may need to feel i'll show you from
this angle actually
the exact opposite to make this whole
thing blend together so the exact
opposite of
lead shoulder and lead hip going up
quickly
is lead shoulder lead hit going down now
so as we go up here i'm going to go lead
shoulder lead hip
down
now you'll notice as soon as i do that
i obviously get lower to the ground look
what happens to my wrist angles i can
maintain those wrist angles a lot easier
from here
here
and then through
a lot more balanced golf swing you can
maintain your angles from this
this angle here
we've got our hip depth we go down lead
shoulder lead hip and then through
much easier to stay in your posture
and will stop you standing up through
impact okay
let's have a look at one again
hip depth
lead shoulder lead hip down
and through
now it's important when you're working
on this you don't just take this
information go straight out to the golf
course
and try and just make swings at
percent and hit the golf ball because
what you'll find is it just won't work
you need to really
build into this and build some muscle
memory
through each piece of the swing so we've
got our grip right
we want to get that hip depth so this is
how i want you to practice
you're going to get your hip depth there
and you're going to go to here
and you're going to practice that over
and over as much as you have to
and you're just going to do it slowly
and then build up to doing really slow
shots
doing little pump drills so you'll just
go here
we've got depth
left shoulder down left hip down
down
and you can start hitting one you don't
have to hit this at full full speed in
fact
i don't recommend it
you need to build it up slowly piece by
piece
not hitting balls is a great way to do
it
i'm just going to be going hip depth
lead shoulder lead hip down
and then swing
the more you do that the more you'll
find you'll be able to
maintain that posture
you won't have a need
to stand your body up like that
there'll be no desire the body will know
this the body won't want to do this
because you've got a square club face
you've already got that hip depth here
and if you get that lead shoulder and
that lead hip
down that first part of the downswing
you'll find it easier to maintain those
wrist angles
and swing through
now this will work
irons drivers hybrid -wood wood
whatever you've got
works for every club in the bag
i want you to drop me a comment down
below if you
you've tried this before
has it worked for you
i think this is a really powerful move
i've personally been doing this recently
with particularly with this left
shoulder lead hip low
it's transforming my ball striking i'm
hitting a lot of push draws
i'm making solid contact right through
the bag just by getting that depth and
that little move there
the whole swing is flowing together
so leave me a comment down below i want
to get your feedback on that there's a
video coming up you need to watch it's
talking about
how the shoulders move in the golf swing
and how they don't turn as much as you
think so make sure you watch it i'll see
you on it
