Your RELEASE is Costing You DISTANCE! (Here's How The Pros Do It) 🏌️♂️
8 golfers recommended it · ✓ 1 said it fixed their problem · 2025–2026
Explainer · Intermediate
Explains how the release affects distance, with hold-off release drills and face control in the backswing.
Why golfers recommend it
- Holding off release drills
- Release non-existent, linked video
- Path and face advice with video
- Video helped me a lot with release
- Great release breakdown
- Several arm swing videos
Summaries are written by AI from what golfers said about the video.
8 comments from Reddit
u/ThatsMrRoman 2026 · r/GolfSwing · in “How to stop push/slice”
[preview.redd.it] You never release the club. It’s still very open even after impact. ▶ this video
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u/sandydandycandy 2025 · r/GolfSwing · in “50 hcp. Distance issues”
Honestly not too terrible! You can cut that handicap in half in no time with that swing. Main issue that 100% affect your distance is your lack of release, which causes a chicken wing (a chicken wing is when that left arm comes off your body in the follow through and points out.) You have this becuase you hold the face and angles in your hands forevever, which will kill your speed and distance. It's easier to watch …
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u/JamAndJelly35 2025 · r/GolfSwing · in “I can't get rid of early extension! Any advise? Thanks”
Your release is just too high and not left enough. Here is a great breakdown: ▶ this video
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u/TacticalYeeter 2025 · r/GolfSwing · in “I feel like I was hitting the ball ok, but I went to the range yesterday and the result was abysmal. Is there”
For most it would be good from the top. Some guys can do it late but then it needs to be faster. Watch this: ▶ this video And: ▶ this video Both pros, different rotation timing. But, the key part is, both doing it. Meanwhile amateurs are trying to not do it and in many cases have convinced themselves they shouldn't have arm rotation.
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u/Illustrious-Ratio213 2025 · r/GolfSwing · in “Roast my driver swing”
Your path looks fine, if anything too inside maybe but you check by drawing a line from the hosel of the club diagonally up through the bottom of your elbow. Path should trace this line. I'm sure the slice is because your face is open as you drag the club through. Flattening the left wrist should work to square it or just make sure your arms are super relaxed so they can kind of roll over (be careful not to flp your …
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u/GolfExplained 2026 · r/GolfSwing · in “Why can’t I break 100?”
You're holding off your release and swiping the arms across yourself. ▶ this video Some good drills in here
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u/CptBadAss2016 2026 · r/GolfSwing · in “Why does my driver swing look so slow on the way down? It’s losing me distance (carry about 230)”
You're all body, no arms. You wipe the lead arm across your chest in the backswing, then spin the chest in the downswing. The "lead arm across the chest" is the key error here. The arms should work up and down in the swing, while the body turn is what carries them in a circle. In the downswing you have to fire your arms/hands down (and not out) and let your wrists release. With the driver in particular you're not …
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u/glm409 2026 · r/GolfSwing · in “Beginner - wrist turn help”
You are fanning your clubface open on your backswing, which is something you don't want to do, since you will have to figure out how to get it closed on the downswing. Here's a couple of videos that might help. ▶ this video ▶ this video
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