Early Extension
What is actually happening
Your body isn't making a mistake here. It's solving a problem. On the way down, your arms need room to deliver the club. When that room isn't there, your hips push toward the ball to create it. Your trail leg straightens, your hips rise, and your head pulls back away from the ball. By impact, the posture you built at address is gone and your hands are left to save the shot on their own.
What it costs you
This is the classic two-way miss. When your hands are late, the face stays open and the ball blocks right. When they hurry, it hooks. And because the save is a little different every time, your contact never settles down either. You flush one and catch the next one thin. Early extension also breeds other faults. The flip and the chicken wing are usually just the price of standing up.
Keep the flex in your trail knee and keep your rear end back, like it's resting on a fence post behind you, while everything else turns through. Hips stay down. Chest stays over the ball.
Wall Drill
Take your posture with your rear end lightly touching a wall, or the back of a couch, and make slow swings to an imaginary ball. Here's the detail most people miss: your glutes should trade places on the wall. Going back, the trail side holds the contact. Coming down, the lead side takes over as your hip clears behind you. If your body leaves the wall entirely, that was early extension, and you just felt it happen. Spend ten minutes a day on slow reps for a few weeks. This is a pattern you're rewiring, not a tip you're trying. Then film a swing down the line and watch your head hold its level through the strike.
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