Justin Rose takes us through using the ground to help solve early extension.
Early Extension often happens when the hips slide towards the ball instead of rotating around the spine. By using the ground forces to engage your legs and push into the earth, you’re more likely to rotate your hips rather than slide them forward.
As you push into the ground you’ll feel a sense of “anchoring” yourself which helps maintain your spine angle and prevents your torso from moving vertically too early. This allows the hips to rotate around the spine in the proper sequence without getting too “upright.”
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Rylan Denney
Justin Rose has one of the best swings on tour. And one thing he does particularly well is create space in the down swing. Listen to how he achieves this. His explanation and thought process might surprise you. Once I’m at the top of my back swing, I can feel like I’m really pushing my left toes into the end of my shoes and that kind of ground reaction force I’m getting from that. So, top of the swing, pushing left, kicking forward with my foot. That’s actually going to push my left hip backwards. Again, creating the space that I need to have the hands close to my body and be able to turn left and be very passive with the club face through the ball. As soon as I’m thrusting, my hands are now jammed up. If I’m trying to hit the back of the ball, I’m super jammed up. Or the only other option I’ve got is hips are thrusting, arms are thrusting out. I’m cutting across the ball. Typically going to hit a big high cut. So again, so so important that we don’t thrust, that we have the room to come through the ball with the club traveling slightly from the inside that we can make good solid Contact.
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Love this!
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No matter what I do I cant get the face closed. I also have a few degree right to left across the ball along with the open face. I can barely get the club path straight with practice but the club face isn’t responding to anything I do.l and staying open about 8 degrees to the right.
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It not only deals with the golf swing but also deals with the biggest golf swing myths, the mental game, how to practice to reach your potential and the mindsets of the greatest players in history.
Unbelievably great book but it does make woke people angry because even though the author doesn't get political, he shows how most golfers have the wrong mental approach which is a lot like the woke crowd today.
I have never read a better, more thought provoking golf book. Oh, and the author explains how and why anybody with just decent flexibility can build a tour quality golf swing in just 6 months.
You listening JT?
This is along the lines of what my local PGA pro said – first move in the downswing is the lead glute moves straight back. My pro never mentioned the bit about pushing the toes of the left foot into the front of the shoe, so I tried that today. Didn’t go well for me. But, focusing more on “left glute straight back” and not letting it become a “spin” where my right side moves out towards the ball did help a great deal. So, in the end this was extremely helpful.
He early extends in this video. It’s not much, but it’s there.