Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "The #1 Reason You Don't Stay Down Through Impact | So Easy To Fix"

In today's lesson...

TSG Instructor Michael Derr explains how frustrating it was for him when he struggled with early extension (or losing posture) in the downswing...

...and gives a super simple fix that can eliminate the issue if YOU struggle with the same problem.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Michael Derr    

Video Duration: 8:15

Video Transcription:

So if you're watching this video, it most likely means you're struggling with early extension or you're struggling to stay down in the shot, stay down, getting forward, shuffling being able to release. You see all the pros in this beautiful sideburn position coming up through the ball beautifully. And it's getting a little bit frustrating. And I can definitely sympathize with this because early on, when I first started playing, I struggled hard with early extension.

And whenever I got it out of my swing, it made an enormous difference in my ball striking. So what I want to do is I want to go over one of the simplest fixes I've seen for early extension that I can't tell you how many times a player has been able to eliminate, if not all of it. Most of it with just this one simple thing, and it's almost so simple that it seems a little bit silly to even do a whole video about it.

But sometimes the simple things can make the biggest difference in the golf swing. So what this is going to entail is very, very, like I said, very simple is the height of our setup in the backswing or in the backswing in the downswing. So is if you followed any of my videos here on top, you golf, you know that I love to explain things in extremes and that's what we're going to do.

So I'm going to go and just go with the main problem that I see with players getting early extension into impact. And the main problem I see is basically we're getting into what we call an athletic setup, which is going to be bent knees kind of in a squat, almost like we're doing a squat in the gym and we're set up almost in a squat position.

There's a lot of different variables of this where maybe I'm leaned over a little bit more maybe my knees are bent a little bit more. But the main issue here is we're too low. We are out of position in the setup, and the setup is one of the biggest predictors of early extension. I have maybe seen it one or two times with all of my students, whether they be in-person or online, where they've set up poorly and didn't early extend it would have to be a severe compensation and they were definitely not good ball strikers yet.

So very important to make sure that we understand that setup is going to be the key for this simple simple adjustment for eliminating early extension. So by setting up in this position, what we're essentially doing is setting up very low and we're not really leaving any more room to shallow the club bed and gain a little bit of covering in transition.

So covering the ball would be making sure we're getting a little bit lower in transition. So if we're already down here the only place for us to really go is up in the swing. And this is the most common thing. I see that athletic stance set up. And then coming up through the shot so I'll see if I can do one here.

It is almost intuitive when I'm set up incorrectly to stand up through the shot so I can kind of square it up and again, remember, I probably hit that one pretty straight because I used to do this all the time when I figured out how to time it up. But I can tell you, you get under any kind of pressure if you're not having a good day, this just completely ruins the entire the entire experience of being out on the golf course.

Because when you're early, extending any miss can happen. And if you're anything like me, the snap hook is a huge one. So what we're going to do is explain this in extremes. If I am standing straight up, down, straight up and down, just as tall as I can stand, let's just say I set up as tall as I can, like if I was just standing straight up and down, waiting in line or anything like that, just standing up as tall as I possibly can.

If you're going to see again, this is a very extreme example I can only stand up so tall. It's like it reached the ball. So this is as tall as I can stand up. So I can guarantee you I'm not going to early extend in the swing because I don't have anywhere to extend to I've taken all of the variables out of this.

So I'm going to go and make a swing here. This is going to feels this feels very, very difficult. But again, I'm going to get a straight up and down as I can and we're going to make a swing. So you can see there that I actually had the lower to go down and hit that ball. Very, very weird thing.

But like I said, extreme examples are sometimes the easiest to see. Now, the other example, as you can probably guess, is if I got down as low as I possibly can, if I'm going to try to actually hit this shot, well, I'm going to have to do something in order to get this flow that on the ball. And that's most likely going to be to try to early extend.

So obviously that wasn't good. It's a very difficult thing. But as you can see, from the extremes, when I was taller, it led me to get down into my shot, stay down through the shot. Very, very important and again, this is a very simple fix because all you really have to do is change your setup in order to give yourself the chance to eliminate this early extension.

So one of the best things that we can do is when we're setting up, we learn how to hinge over from our hips correctly, which would be just making sure that our legs are going to feel like they're almost straight up and down. So what I have players do is I have them stand with their legs straight up and down, and I have locked their knees completely out.

Then from there, we barely barely relax the knees. This is going to be really nice tall legs from here. My legs don't change at all. And I'm going to hinge over just slightly till my shoulders are going to be just over my toes. This is just kind of a general rule of thumb for the setup. Now, if I can stay here, this is going to give me a nice, tall, neutral setup.

Now, when I go in to the top of the swing, if I can maintain my height here then it's going to be a lot more intuitive for me to go down and into the shot. So let me go ahead. I'm going to walk my knees straight out, barely relax and lean over just a little bit. Now I'm in a nice tall legged setup and I'm nice and away from the ball.

So now I have the ability to not early extend in the shot so not hit perfectly, but definitely not too bad. I kind of threw off my face control a little bit there doing those other demonstrations. But you know, 200 total distance with a seven iron is not too bad, especially since we didn't really extend. That's another thing with not really extending.

You can get so much more energy into the ball so if we have this basic understanding of saying, Hey, I get taller in my setup, I'm going to at least leave room for myself, not to early extend, but if I get low in my setup, the only thing I'm going to want to do most of the time is early extend so that I can create some room to hit the shot.

So what we want to do is get into that really, really nice set up position get comfortable with that and almost even feel like we're lowering a little bit in transition so that we can start eliminating that early extension now there we go, about 197 with a seven iron. I'm really happy with that. And a little bit of a push draw is still going to be a really good shot.

Now, I know because of my setup, I left myself room to make sure that I didn't have the ability to early extend on purpose. There are still some other pieces in place the setup is going to be the first one. The second one is making sure that we are shallowing out the club correctly and squaring it up so that we can be low enough to stay down through the shot.

Now I can guarantee you, you can start to get work on this and it's going to help out a ton. Having the information, the setup, and understanding that we want to square everything up so that we can stay down vitally vitally important. It's going to help you out a ton. But if I was able to help you work through through this by seeing your swing with my own eyes, we'd be able to get this at lightning fast speed.

So if you possibly interested in working with me, I highly recommend you check out our unlimited reviews program by clicking on the button below this video. That'll take you to a section. You can sign up with me directly if my spots are already sold out because they tend to sell out very quickly. Make sure you join the waiting list so you get notified next time spots open up.

And I would be very excited to help you work on eliminating that early extension. And any other falls that may be happening in your swing. And like I said, if I can see it with my own two eyes, we can get to work right away on the thing that you need to work on the most. So I look forward to possibly working with you and we'll see you here soon.