Trying To Fix Early Extension Is Killing Your Swing! ❌
5 golfers recommended it · 2025–2026
Explainer · Intermediate
Explains why fixating on early extension backfires, with hip checks and a chair drill.
Why golfers recommend it
- Check hips vs line
- AMG video might help, chair drill
- Dumping hips out steepens swing
- Recommends video on fundamentals general
- Stand closer drill, clear lead side
Summaries are written by AI from what golfers said about the video.
5 comments from Reddit
u/throwaway1045820872 2025 · r/GolfSwing · in “Stuck during downswing”
Absolutely do not do the drill in this video. It doesn’t matter that it is Tiger Woods himself. Maybe he was using this as some exaggerated feel for him specifically, but this video is so bad that Athletic Motion Golf did a video specifically to call it out. ▶ this video
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u/ArseneWankerer 2026 · r/GolfSwing · in “Early Extension 😖”
▶ this video Dumping your ass out like that steepens your swing.
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u/TacticalYeeter 2025 · r/GolfSwing · in “Help with early extension”
▶ this video ▶ this video Good drill is stand closer to the ball than you like and learn to move the left side out of the way so you don’t shank it. Titleist/TPI have a lot of videos about how to pressure the ground in a way that helps clear the lead side. Sort of pushing away from the ball with the left foot
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u/GolfExplained 2025 · r/GolfSwing · in “Did I fix early extension in one range session?”
If you're not sure how to tell if you're early extending I'd probably advise not worrying about it. You draw a vertical line like in the video, then watch and see if you come off of it and stay off of it during the entire swing. If the hips travel toward the ball and you don't get the left hip onto the line then you're having some amount of thrust or what they call early extension. You don't keep the hips back, you …
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u/Efficient-Mind-2213 2025 · r/GolfSwing · in “Driver swing analysis”
Understandable. Early extension is a difficult habit to correct. This video from AMG might help. Practice the hip motion at home with a chair or wall and no club. Then try it slowly with wedges or short irons and work your way up. Just bunt / chip the ball out there as you start. You will need to feel from the top that the left hip "surfs the line" from right big toe to left heel (you can even put a club down …
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