Golf’s Best Ball Striking Drill-This Has helped 1,000s of Golfers

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In this golf lesson, Eric Cogorno demonstrates the exact golf drills he used to help his student reduce his handicap by 5 shots in under a month. Eric explains that keeping the arms straight and the elbows close together to create width, proper rotation and side bend in the golf swing helps guarantee better and more consistent ball striking with your irons.

⏱️ 0:00 – Introduction: How to reduce a handicap by 5 shots in a year
🎯 0:25 – The fundamental issue: Creating wide arc vs narrow follow-through in the golf swing
💪 1:25 – First drill: Push butt of club away from body through impact
🔧 3:53 – Arm mechanics: Straighten right arm and keep elbows together
⚙️ 5:59 – Body rotation: Turn fully toward target for consistent contact
🏋️ 8:22 – Extension in the follow through: Hips forward, chest up, head back positioning
🎪 12:03 – Side bend in the golf swing: Maintaining distance to ground through impact
📚 14:17 – Four-phase golf practice routine from no backswing to full swing
🎨 16:58 – Clubface management: Controlling ball flight direction during practice
🏆 17:45 – Results and wrap-up of the golf lesson

This detailed golf lesson demonstrates the fundamental importance of proper follow-through mechanics and provides a strategic method to achieve better ball striking with irons. Eric reveals how to compress your irons by focusing on four essential components: pushing the club away, body rotation, extension, and side bend in the golf swing. A straight left arm in golf swing combined with proper body positioning eliminate inconsistent contact and dramatically improve ball striking. These fundamental corrections using proven golf drills help golfers reduce handicap effectively through systematic practice.

What You’ll Learn:
• How to create proper width in the follow-through by pushing the butt of golf club away from the body
• The four essential components for consistent iron contact and compression
• Body rotation techniques that allow arms to stay extended through impact
• How to extend with hips forward and chest up in the follow through
• Side bend in the golf swing to maintain consistent ground contact
• Four-phase practice routine progressing from no backswing to full swing
• Clubface management techniques to control ball flight direction

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All right, guys. In today’s video, I’m going to share with you a lesson I gave to a recent student of mine who came in to see me and said, “Eric, I want to take lessons from you. I’ve been trying to improve my swing. I’m not getting anywhere, but I would give anything to be able to cut my handicap down by five shots by the end of the year.” Said, “Cut my handicap in five by the end of the year.” And not only were we able to do that, we were able to take five shots off his score in less than one month by doing the exact drill that I’m going to show you in today’s video. It’s really all about how to get through the ball properly. There’s like one move that has four little micro parts that I’m going to guide you through step by step how to do each one of them. I’m also going to give you the exact drill and routine that I gave him to do throughout that month that really helped him. And really the thing that he struggled with was overall consistency of his ball striking with his irons. And we looked at his swing on video and we can see very clearly he had an issue that a lot of students have. See, most golfers that come see me who struggle with consistency struggle with what I would consider to be the number one non-negotiable in a golf swing, which is to be able to get width or a long wide arc in the follow through. You see, we’ll show some good ball strikers here on the screen. And pretty much every good ball striker I’ve ever seen who’s very consistent has the ability to get the butt of the club pushed far away from them into the follow through. Now, in order to do that, I’m going to guide you through what you need to do bodywise and what my students struggled with to be able to do that. But first things first, right, that long arc on the way through. What you want to be able to feel, and what I explained to my student, is through impact from about hip high to hip high, you want to feel as though you’re pushing the butt of the club as far away from your body as you can get it without your upper body going with it. And we’ll show you good ball striker after good ball striker after good ball striker doing it. Now, in order to have the butt of the club pushed far away from you like this, you have to get your body motion turned and extended. Turned and extended, which I’ll talk through, but how we started, and I want you to start like this as well. I’ve got an eight iron. I said, first things first, let’s hit some little shots about hip high, hip high, feeling like we’re pushing the butt of the club farther away from you into the follow through. So, I want you to try this. And this is what we did. Sort of like a little punch shot. push the butt of the club away. And just when I first do that motion, I probably hit that shot say about a hundred yards or so. That’s where we started. My student who I was working with and maybe like you had one of those non-negotiable issues, which was that instead of having a wider follow through arms and butt of the club farther away, he had a narrow follow through, which was the butt of the club very close to him. I see this all day long. There’s a direct correlation with how good you hit the ball and how straight your arms are through the shot. Right? If the butt of the club is very close to you, we’re going to struggle. You notice when the butt of the club gets close to me, my arms bend a lot and the club head is lifting away from the ground. This will be like tops and fins and no divots. What we’ll see the best players do is the club head’s traveling down, right, and away from us. I’m able to consistently strike the ground at or in front of the ball by pushing those arms away. So, first things first, pushing the arms away on the way through. Just a little half one. And that’s going to start to get you that consistent, repeatable, solid contact like that. Like my student, I probably hit that about 120 yards or so. Just a little chip shot. Now, in order to push the butt of the club away, before we go to the body motions, just speaking about the arms, obviously how straight or bent your arms are going to play a big role. You can see clearly when I bend my arms, where’s the butt of the club? Closer to me or farther? Closer. When I straighten my arms, it’s farther or closer? Farther. Right. So, in order to be able to push the butt of the club away from you, you need to be extending your arms through impact. Your left arm should already be reasonably straight. So that’s staying straightish. But your right arm is going to be bent some. It’s that right arm that should be straightening as you’re pushing the butt of the club away. One more like this. So pushing the butt of the club away, feeling the arm straightening through the ball. And these should just be hitting some really solid low to mid-flight punch shots to start with. One of the things one of my good coaching friends, Steve Saraki, talks about to help with this is the distance between your elbows. So, as I’m swinging, he says, “Hey, it’s set up.” Let’s say your elbows are Yeah. 4 in apart. One of the cues you can have is on the way back, feel like you keep them 4 in apart, so the same distance through the ball, feel like you keep them the same, or even squeeze them a little closer together. and keep squeezing your elbows closer will help you keep the arms straighter, which will help you push the butt of the club away. So, it’s arms straight through the ball, squeezing the elbows together. These are all very, very crispy, solid, mid-flighted shots. And this is where I start with my student. Hey, step one, and this this is you if you’re inconsistent, we can’t have a narrowing of the arc. I’ve seen less than a handful of players ever narrow their arc like this and be pretty good ball strikers. I’ve seen I don’t know tens of thousands widen the arc, push away and be very good. We do that by straightening the arm and squeezing squeezing the elbows together. Now, as I’m doing this, and I want you to try this with me kind of in terms of how the body motions work. In order to do that through the ball, you need to do two things. Number one, you have to rotate. And number two, you have to extend. Starting with rotation, if you take your setup and keep your belt buckle and shirt buttons pointed at the golf ball and don’t rotate towards the target at all, try and push the butt of the club away and see how far you can go physically. I can go about right there, about 45 past impact. Now, if I didn’t turn my body from here and I kept swinging the club, I wouldn’t be able to keep my arms straight. I’d have to fold them. And if I fold the arms, where’s the butt of the club? closer to me or farther away. Closer. Narrow. Bad. Now, if I go from here and I allow my body to turn, belt buckle and shirt button towards the target. Try this with me. Now, I’m able to keep my arm straighter much longer. So, number one on the screen, push the butt of the club away. Number two, in order to do that, you have to rotate. To start with, what I told my student was, hey, let’s push the butt of the club away. But let’s make sure when we get into our finish that we have our body fully turned. That means the knees, the hips, and the shoulders are all fully square to the target. And he said, “Well, Eric, if I’m thinking about that and I’m already past the ball, what does that have to do? The ball’s already gone.” I said, “Great question. You might be thinking this yourself. In fact, by giving your brain a clear destination like get to here, if you rotate to this point and you push the butt of the club away, you had to have rotated earlier. You had to have started the motion earlier. So, by focusing on where we go, we can actually change the motion not only through impact, but also right away at the start of the down swing. So, part two with this, as we’re pushing the butt of the club away, right, we’re squeezing the elbows closer. I’m going to make sure my body gets fully turned towards the target. So when I get done, I’m still doing these half swings. When I get done, I’m going to have my belt buckle and shirt buttons all the way at the target. So the elbows feel squeezed close, right? Notice my body’s fully turn the buttock close pushed away. My body’s fully at the target. Knees, hips, chest, and shoulders. No rotation, no width. No rotation. You have to narrow, right? Not good. inconsistent. Look at these players on the screen. Look at Xander Shaw, right? Look at Tommy Fleetwood. Look at these great ball strikers who are consistently pushing the butt of the club away and how much rotation they have through the ball. Start with that. The second piece I said is extension. Now, extension from this angle from down the line is the hips pushing forward and the rib cage and chest going up. Now, if I extend like this, let’s split screen them, but I take this extension from face on and I turn my body towards the target, that looks like a normal follow through. If I didn’t have this extension through the ball, it would look like this. Hips back, chest forward. Here’s the problem with that. Try that with me. Take your setup. Now, in the follow through, keep your chest down, keep your hips back, and let your head go forward, and try and keep your arms straight. I can probably get to about there physically. Now, if I stayed in this position, I’m exaggerating, obviously. If I stayed here, I’d have to fold my arms up, right, to continue swinging. Now, what if from there, I allow myself to extend, push my hips forward, rib cage and chest up, head back. Now, all of a sudden, I can keep my arm straight seemingly forever, right? So, the extension allows you to keep the arm straight, to have the width on the way through, to have the arms pushing away. So, we can have the club head traveling down, creating speed through the ball, compressing the ball. I have to have some extension. Now, am I extending at the ball like this with no rotation? Of course not. Right? We said step two, we’ll have that on the screen. Step one was push the arms and butter the club away. What was step two? Rotate. So, now as I’m rotating, I’m also extending. That means my hips are going to push forward and my rib cage and chest are up towards the sky. So, I’m pushing the butt of the club away. I’m turning and I’m extending, and that’s going to continue to produce these really solid consistent strikes. My student who was have being way too narrow through the ball and was way inconsistent, we literally lowered his his score, right, by over five shots in under one month by just doing this drill. Pushing the butt of the club away, body’s fully turned. I’m extended. Now, you can feel extension from having your hips push forward, right? Lower body feels. Notice as my hips push forward, my belt buckle is the closest thing to the target. My belt buckle’s closer than my chest or my head. You don’t see any good ball strikers with their hips back like this. Let’s show some good ball strikers up there. Xander, right, Tommy. Look at this. On the way through, hips fully push forward. rib cage and chest up. Head stays back over the golf ball. So, I’m feeling the elbows squeeze together, pushing away almost like I’m pushing a weight away from me. My upper body is back, resisting that with my hips forward. I’m not pushing my arms away with my head back and weight back. My hips are forward, right? Rib cage and chest up, head back. That gives me the ability to push the club away. Push the butt of the club away. Arm straight. body’s turned and extended. There’s another really solid iron strike. Now, the last part, right, of this puzzle, and like this is what my student asked me as well, is, “Hey, I thought I wasn’t supposed to extend or early extend or stay down.” Said another another true thing, right? There’s a lot to talk about here. This is why these micro things are important. I said, “Well, while you’re extending or standing up, how do I like get down to the ball?” And the answer to that is side bend or tilt. So the fourth little part of this big four, as I’m pushing the butt of the club away, my body’s rotating, my body’s extending. But how I get down to the ball is through side bend. This is how from the down the line angle, you draw that line up your body. You’ll see like Max Hom or some of these really good players, they’re able to maintain their body’s distance to the ground the whole way through. Right? If you want to be a consistent ball striker, you have to be able to do that. You do that with shoulder down. What that means is as I’m pushing the butt of the club away, as my body’s turning, hips are forward extended. I’m in some side tilt. My right shoulder is closer than my left. I feel like I’m in a little right side oblique crunch. And I’m feeling that all the way through the ball all the way into my finish. So I’m pushing the butt of the club away, rotating, extending, and side bending. Another really solid iron strike. And look, there’s four parts there, but there are four parts we need to do. It’s all really in one motion through the golf ball, and they all work together simultaneously. You’ll see all good ball strikers doing this. So feel the same thing. Elbow squeezing. Push that butt of the club away. Body fully turned towards the target. Hips are fully pushed up over my ankle. Right. Chest is up. Shoulder down. Rib cage and chest up. Shoulder down. Push the buttock away. Chest up. Shoulder down. And this is just a really repeatable motion to be able to make sure you hit the ball consistently solid over and over again. Why risk injury when you can protect your body and your game at the same time? That’s where victory insoles make all the difference. Victory insoles feature advanced shock absorption technology that actually reduces impact forces traveling through your body with every swing you make. So, the big things that I noticed with the Victory insoles is just how I feel so much better. I have less lower back pain. My knees feel better. My hips feel much better with these in compared to the lack of insoles that I had before. Get the solid base you need with Victory. Use my link in the description for a 20% discount. Okay, so the practice routine that I gave my student of like, what do you actually do with this? I said, look, there’s really four phases that I want you to do these four parts through. Phase one and how I’d like you to start is with no back swing. Now, a lot of students aren’t sure how to do this in the beginning, so don’t be uh too hard on yourself, but you need to learn how to do this without moving the club back and only moving forward towards the target. I want you to get in that same follow-through position where these arms are about parallel to the ground. So, you need to feel from here the butt of the club pushing away, right? The body turned, the body extended, and the shoulder down. Can you just get into that finish position with no back swing? We’ll put the text on the screen here. It’s like level one, no back swing. I would do that for a couple reps. I said once you have that down, right, keep doing that. But level two is now take the club back to about parallel to the ground. So just adding a little back swing in. Swing through. Make sure the club head clips the mat and get into that same follow-through position. But of club pushed away, body turned, extended, and shoulder down. So a couple reps, no back swing. and then start to do it with the club about parallel to the ground just to get a sense of what that feels like. Just do it slow to do the same thing. So I took the club what felt like to me about parallel to the ground pushed into my follow through. I hit that ball maybe 50 60 yards. Okay. So couple with no back swing, couple with that maybe two or three reps of each and I said, “What do we do next?” Right? We go a little longer. Now we go back to about left arm parallel to the ground. Make sure you clip the mat. Push the butt of the club away. Get into that same follow through. Always swinging to about arms parallel to the ground. So now this is about halfway back and do the same thing in your father. Hold your finish and make sure you got all those parts. I hit that about 100 110. You want to say, okay, did I push my arms away? Was my body fully rotated? Did I extend and shoulder down? And that’s four things, but that’s the only four. That’s not like next month there’s going to be a new set of four and a new set of four. This is the whole this is the whole book. Level three, arms parallel to the ground. And then level four, once you can do that, go into a pretty full back swing, right? But still stop at that arms parallel on the follow through, feeling the same thing. So pretty full back swing, maybe just short of full. And then still stop in the follow through at that same position. That’s the step-by-step practice routine my student did about three days a week to drop those five shots off his score in under one month. All right, guys. Quick add-on. If you’re doing the drill and you’re struggling with direction, either curving too far to the right or too far to the left. I don’t want that to stop you from doing this. So, just a quick easy add-on, just manage the club face a bit through the ball to change the amount of curve. Like my student was doing this a little bit in the beginning and hitting some fades to the right. I said, “Hey, let’s just allow a little bit more active club face rotation through the ball.” He did that. It instantly fixed that. Took it right out of the course. Worked right away. If you’re hitting the ball and it’s curving too far to the left, you can feel a little bit of the opposite. Just actively don’t allow that club face to rotate as much through. If you’re getting some hooks to the left when you’re doing this, you should be able to do the same feel. And same things through the ball, but just have the toe stay a little bit behind the heel as you’re doing it. And that should straighten out any hooks you’re having. So, the drill’s so good. I don’t want a little bit of direction issues to stop you. Just manage the club face a little bit as needed through the ball. All right, guys. Guys, hopefully you like today’s video. It’s one of my favorite drills of all time. I do this with so many of my students and they see really, really good results with the consistency of their ball striking. If you want to see more on this, we’re going to link one of my favorite videos we ever did similar topics with a bit more detail. Watch that one next. If you want to work with me, coach you wherever you are in the world, go to kornogolf.com. Would love to work with you there. Thank you guys for watching. Hey guys, if you want to see more on how to get this follow-through move, watch this video next.