Why You Need This: In this video, "Eliminate Early Extension!," you'll discover how to keep more of your lag and compress the ball.

Extending your club early kills your golf swing...

And is caused by standing up out of your posture too early.

As you come out of your posture, it's natural to cast your club just to make contact with the ball.

The problem is that you're destroying your lag and giving up tons of distance!

In the video, you'll learn about the two swing moves you need to focus on to eliminate your early extension...

• prevent sliding your hips too far towards the target, and
• start allowing your hips to rotate more

And you'll get a few super easy drills to help get rid of your early extension once and for all.

First, you'll see me demonstrate what your swing should look like.

During your backswing, you should start to slightly squat down (very slightly -- make sure you don't overdo it).

And as you near contact with the ball, you should start to come up.

This will help you "cover" the golf ball and hit with plenty of forward shaft lean.

Even through contact, your shoulders will stay in posture.

You'll eventually stand up out of your posture, but you should do this after you make contact with the ball.

Remember, standing up out of your posture before you make contact is what's causing you to extend the club early.

Next, you'll see how your hips can cause you to extend the club early.

If your hips slide forward towards the target too much, it's extremely difficult to rotate your hips properly.

Here's how to stop your hips from sliding too far forward...

As you start your downswing, make sure your lead leg is angled out and allow your hip to turn behind your body.

Once you've stopped sliding your hips too far forward, focus on rotating your hips more.

Getting more hip rotation will allow you to eliminate your early extension and hit the ball with more forward shaft lean.

Work through these moves in slow motion before you practice hitting balls.

Watch this video now to eliminate early extension...

And learn how to rotate your hips for more ball compression!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 5:13

Video Transcription:

Hey guys, welcome back. Early extension, it’s a big killer of a lot of golf swings. As we start to come up too early, our hips move forward, we’re standing up out of our posture. Now we’ve got to start to cast to reach this golf ball.

If you’re looking me, my hips slide forward, I can’t reach the golf ball and I’m going to have to start to cast and flip the club a little bit too much instead of compressing that golf ball, to be able to reach it in general.

There’s two main things we’re going to talk about with this, one of them has to do with your hips, and then the other one has to do with your rotation. We’ll get to both of these so you can get rid of that early extension once and for all. I’ve got some super easy drills that you can do.

Let’s go ahead and get started.

All right, so your rotation as you’re coming through here and your hips are the majority of what’s going on with early extension. If I do this correctly, what I’d like to have happen is I’ll be nice and tall here at address. My chest is going to be nice and high.

As I go into the backswing, my hips and legs are going to start to bend. You’ll start to see some bend between my right leg and my torso. My chest is getting a little closer to the ground.

I’m going to start to come up out of that as I hit the golf ball, but then even in my release you can see my shoulders are still in the posture. I’ve stayed nice and through my posture, and I can really what’s called cover this golf ball.

I’m going to be able to really compress it, get a lot of forward shaft lean, and keep my posture all the way through the shot. That’s the ideal way of that happening.

Now you will extend, you will stand up out of your shot, but it’s happening after the ball. After I make contact, my shoulders are still in posture here and then as I come on through, now you can see my lower body and my upper body have extended and they’re nice and tall in the finish.

When we’re doing this early, that’s what’s called early extension. That means it’s happening in the downswing, instead of in the follow through. Let’s talk about the number one thing that causes this, and it’s going to make a lot of sense for you guys.

Whenever my hips slide forward like this, now I can’t really rotate my hips very easily, because my hip socket itself, my lower leg’s kind of angled back. That femur, that bone is kind of jamming into my hip socket, and I really can’t rotate very easily if my hips slide forward.

So the number one thing we’ve got to focus on here, is that as I start my downswing, I’m going to go ahead and make sure that this upper leg is angled out.

Then as I come through, I’m letting my hip turn back behind my body. That allows me to rotate, and you’ll see now I can stay on top of this golf ball, cover the golf ball, and stay in my posture.

If we’re looking at it from this angle, again, I’m going to go to the top of the backswing here. My first move down I’m letting this upper leg kind of angle out.

Then I’m clearing those hips behind me, they’re rotating back almost toward the camera a little bit. The feeling’s going to be toward the camera, and now I can stay down in my posture.

It’s that angle of the leg, if I start to slide this way I’m going to tend to stand up. When I do that sliding and standing up, I can’t rotate. So I want my hip to do this type of motion, move back, and then I’m going to be able to rotate.

So it’s that sliding and rotating together that’s really going to help you out. If you look at your posture, for those of you guys who are early extending, not only are you sliding forward but you’re also limiting your rotation at impact.

You probably look like this, where your hips aren’t very open. We want to look more along the lines of this, where my hips are open and I’m coming through that shot.

Now the last piece of this is we do need to extend. We need to extend after we’re coming through contact, and let me show the proper way to do that, and then we’ll put it all together and I’ll hit a couple shots for you.

When I make my downswing, my lower legs, excuse me, my upper legs, my lower body is going to be flexing into the ground, almost like I’m ready to jump up. You’re going to see an angle between that and my torso.

So as I start down, I wan to have a flex in my lower body, and then as I come through contact my lower body is going to be extending and I’m going to be fully extended as I come through the shot.

If we look at it from this angle, I’m flexing in the downswing, then I’m extending. This is losing that angle after contact. If you’re early extending you’re doing that before contact.

So number one, I’ve got to get rid of that slide. I’ve got to watch myself on camera, make sure that I’m not bumping my hips. I’ve got to get that hip to turn back, with the upper leg kind of facing out that direction.

Number two, I’ve now got to let my hips go ahead and rotate more. So if I’m looking from this way, I’m going to let my hips rotate out of the way.

Number three, I’m going to bend my legs as I start down, as I come on through those are going to extend and I’ll be nice and tall. My body is fully extended as I go through the shot here. That’s going to be in the follow through.

Put those three pieces together, work them in slow motion. A lot of pausing drills, probably 100 repetitions getting them correct in slow motion. Then I can throw all three pieces together and go ahead hit some nice, clean shots staying in my posture.

There we go, nice and solid. Did well, stayed in the posture. Hips did pretty good. Work on those drills guys, you’re going to get rid of that early extension and you’re going to start compressing the golf ball.

See you all soon.