The Easiest Way To Stop Standing Up In The Golf Swing

Struggling with standing up during your golf swing? In this video, Eric Cogorno and JT Thomas reveal the easiest way to fix early extension and improve ball striking—by focusing on your trail arm and wrist mechanics. Learn how to stay down through impact, create solid contact, and swing like the pros. This simple fix can dramatically improve consistency and control.

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hey guys Eric Agorno and JT Thomas here with Performance Golf in today’s video one of the most requested ones how to stay down and why a lot of golfers struggle with staying down through impact jt we see this all the time golfers will come in this might be you if you’re watching this where you know they’re in a reasonable setup position but then during the down swing through the golf ball they look something like this right stood straight up gotten farther away from the ground early extension right all that bad stuff yeah poor contact poor contact say what this leads to the standing up if you’re someone who’s inconsistent you don’t hit it solid day in and day out probably lack of club face control early extension standing up would be a big one now we’ve done videos on how to fix this and there’s different ways to do it with like what your body feels like but I think today’s video is pretty cool in that we’re actually talking about how to fix it by focusing on the trail arm motion and like almost reverse engineering being able to stay down and JT if we looked at any good golfer let’s say like a Max Home is one I like to look at right if we pull Max Home up from down the line and we put him on the screen and any really good golfer right we would see at impact they would look maybe something like this they still have some inclination to the ground they have some rotation some side bend they’re certainly not in this sort of position right so how in the heck can we get to that spot and in terms of the trail arm yeah right would you say that most golfers who struggle and they stand up get the trail arm too bent or too long too soon definitely too long too soon so too straight too soon is a big reason why we see people stand up right why would you stay down with their club too long you’re going to hurt yourself yeah so if I made a down swing right and we see this all the time let’s say from the top of the swing JT if I were to really straighten my right arm too soon that club’s going to lengthen out and hit way behind the golf ball yes so the standing up is actually more like what would you say like a reaction a reaction for sure yeah a reaction to the right arm lengthening so that I actually miss the ground on the way through yeah and try to hit the ball your brain understands hey I’m trying to hit this ball here the way that I’m swinging down the anticipation is you know I’m going to hit two feet behind the ball so I better move out of the way yeah pretty smart yeah to hopefully hit between my feet so if my right arm’s lengthening too much I’m going to stand up automatically if that’s true that means the opposite the opposite of that’s also true right in that if I’m able to keep my trail arm more bent and and my trail wrist a little more bent I have to stay down more to be able to get to the ball if you come over here JT I think a fun example we show the students sometimes absolutely i always ask JT I’m like “Hey do you trust me enough to have this club here like this?” But let’s say JT was like the ground right right and I held the club and the club head’s really close to his chest now watch as I bend my trail arm what happens to the club does it get closer to him the ground or farther away yeah farther away gets farther away the more bent my right arm is and the more bent my right wrist is the club head gets farther away and then back right if I were to lengthen my right arm all of a sudden right we get really close to that ground and stand up as a reaction yeah and if we pull that max home up and we look at any good ball striker certainly if we just freeze frame them at impact their trail arm is not dead straight definitely not always bent always bent they’ve got some bend to it got some bend to the trail wrist and then the body’s still in posture yeah hey guys if you’re watching today’s video and you enjoy the tips but you really want to take your game to a whole another level my friends here at Performance Golf are hosting beautiful two-day immersive golf schools with the best golf coaches in the world all around the United States you know I find a lot of golfers come in to see us and they’re really not able to identify and fix their real root cause and usually there’s like four or five main swing issues we have but finding the real one main root flaw that can domino effect and fix all the rest of the pieces of really the thing that makes or breaks someone’s improvement so if you want to make like one or two years worth of improvements in two days I highly recommend you check out my friends at Performance Golf these golf schools down below click the link down there see if there’s still a spot left in a location that works for you could be the thing that transforms your game look forward to you having an awesome experience so from a feel perspective we’re going to do a little drill with a with a club head cover in a second but to start with I think it’s a nice thing to have some feels for what impact should feel like i give lessons all the time i’m sure you do too where I ask you and maybe you try this at home pose what you believe a good impact would look like and then I get these blank stairs and they freeze and they don’t know what to do and I didn’t either in the beginning right to be fair but if we don’t really know what it’s supposed to feel like to get through a good impact the odds of getting there are certainly lower pretty low right and so if I went from my setup and if we pulled a good golfer up we can use Maxoma or me if I say so myself and put me at setup and then at impact so we can look at the difference between the two here’s what my setup looks like okay normal posture right arm’s not locked straight but it’s fairly straight right my right wrist is pretty flat but if I get into a good impact position my right arm is most certainly more bent my right wrist is more bent back obviously the handle’s forward and if anything I’m going to feel like my body is getting a little closer to the ball yes not getting farther away right we have to make up that ground that that arm is bending right that’s really important to to understand right we’re bending the arm to use our body to make up that ground make up the ground that the Yeah okay so whatever distance or amount that I’m bending my right arm my body’s got to make up for that yes so now I feel what that feels like now if you’re used to standing up simply staying in your posture it’s going to feel like you are pretty significantly closer to the ground right maybe like kissing the turf okay if you’re used to standing up so you’ll see good players if you draw a line on their head you know most good players will be lower at impact than they were at setup yes would you agree with that for sure so if we’re taller at impact than we were at setup to even just maintain normal height we’re going to have to feel like we go down but then Eric if I go down closer to the ball how do I not hit the ball fat right arm bent right wrist bent exactly right so I’m going to hit one i’ve got a seven iron here and this we would do with any iron any shot I’m hitting right all clubs all clubs so I’m going to feel like what that impact feels like feel my right arm bent my right wrist bent right arm bent right wrist bent and I feel like you know I’m turning my body here a little bit with that as well let me go ahead and hit one out with that same sort of feel right arm feels more bent right wrist feels more bent on the way down and through that’s about as crispy as I could that does sound good and so solid contact right ball first ground second with the trail arm being bent so if you’ve been trying to fix standing up and you’ve been unsuccessful for whatever reason maybe part of what we need to do is just a different strategy right we’re trying to fix this a different way compared to normal now in terms of fixing the standing up too I think it’s important to note when we’re doing this a lot of players will come in and they’ll say “Okay I’m trying to stay down stay down stay down.” And they feel like maybe just their chest stays down yes and their chest is at the ball would you say JT it’d be better as they’re feeling the trail arm and wrist bent to feel like the right side of the body down yes the trail side of body down that’s a really important distinguish um to to for us to make is that we don’t want the chest to be down we want the right side of us to be down the left side will actually be pulling up and again that’s how we’re managing that arm being bent staying down the length of the club um it’s really important more like this right so that’s a good point it’s almost like my trail side like rib cage or oblique is almost pointed down towards the ball if we pull that max homa back up again yes and my chest is now it’s not up rep meaning like farther from the ground but it’s out meaning at the target correct so it’s almost like right side down chest out y as I’m feeling that so when you’re coming through here don’t do this chest down it’s right side maybe right rib cage down right arm and wrist bent so I’m going to take my setup one more time jt I’m going to feel that impact right arm bent right wrist bent have you heard that yet okay right side of the body feels like probably like a little oblique crunch definitely like oblique crunch with my right side of my body at the ball and that should look pretty good again if that’s new that is going to feel like you are very low to the ground yeah really and that’s okay yeah so hitting actually a couple thin doing this drill would be uh would be half correct it would be a really big deal to actually do that that means that you would be you know bending your right arm that means that you would be bending your right wrist but you would still be standing up some right yeah yeah yeah and so you would be incentivized to actually stay down to hit the ball well so that’s sort of what we’re trying to do versus before you were incentivized to stand up yes so we want to incentivize our brain to help us stay down so a couple thins so almost the worst thing here you know you didn’t do it right if you hit fat exactly if you hit fat okay so thins would be That’s a great point thins would be great trail arm and wrist bent feeling that right rib cage kind of right chest all that down and forward a little bit okay so if anything a little thin i’m gonna go for pure JT yeah sounds good if not pure we’ll we’ll take a little thin same feels trail arm feeling bent right wrist bent back trail side through i hit that one about as solid as I can i definitely feel like compared to normal too when I get this trail side correct I do feel a little more tilted over even even kind of through my finish like you’re keeping from this side your right rib cage feels closer to the ground for longer when I’m standing up my right rib cage is farther from the ground for longer it’s really comboing those two things and then we brought a head cover in right just I think to add a little bit of a feel yeah for sure when you’re doing this drill if I’m able to pop the head cover you can use a tea even for this if you don’t have one right something underneath the trailer i’m get a little sweat on this bad boy for you good but if I’m able to keep that underneath it just helps me gain a feel yes right helps me gain a feel when I’m coming down of having to keep that trail arm and that trail wrist bent so this here I’m trying to kind of keep this in the whole swing the whole swing yeah you want it a little bit lower too that’s a big key you don’t want it so up in there because you want your you want that tricep on your body right if that if that thing comes off you want it to you want it you want it to come out you want to make it hard on yourself almost more mid rib cate or mid bicep than all the way up yes okay yeah I thought I’d have an easy day here Jess she’s uh making a little hard okay let’s give her heck let’s see it so a little bit lower on the arm i’m going to feel the right arm right wrist bent kind of trail rib cage down and through there’s my fin yeah great exactly yeah okay gotcha so that’s a good example there we’re like okay I kept the trail arm and wrist more bent but I’ve got to feel more of that rib cage down as I come through yes i like that that’s an important note a little lower is harder than if I had that all the way up yeah so maybe start a little higher and then build our way down yes i love that so if you guys are struggling with standing up and you’re not able to fix it you’ve been trying to fix it for a long time trying to reverse engineer it with the trail arm is important more bent trail arm trail wrist right side down rib cage down not chest down yes okay really good stuff if you want to work with pros like JT performance golf has awesome golf schools all around the country there’ll be a link down below go do that that in-person coaching can make a huge difference highly recommend we’ll put that down below any questions as always leave a comment thank you guys for watching