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Extension is really how the arms swing around the body. In the next section, you
will learn how the body rotates with the arms, they kind of work together as a team.
One could not exist without the other. The purpose of extension is to drive
the ball into the ground. To do this you must learn how to extend your arms
properly. There are three things that make us hit down on the ball.
 | Hips 40 degrees open |
| More weight on left foot than right |
| Hands in front of the ball. |
In this section, we will deal with the hands in front of the ball at impact.
There are six stages of extension.
- Take-away
- Lift
- Drop
- Impact
- Follow-through
- Finish
| The Take-away starts with a shoulder turn. Nothing other than the
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| From here the arms Lift as the shoulders continue to turn,
leave the left foot on the ground.
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| From the top, the arms simply Drop as the hips turn forward.
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| Continue to turn the hips and drive the ball into the ground.
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Notice how the hands are in front of the ball at Impact.
| The arms then continue to extend toward the target, Follow-through.
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| The golf swing is really over at the Follow-through, but you
should Finish the swing anyway.
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Keep the hands high, it's a good sign of the proper Follow-through.
Watch out for some common errors:
| Too much backswing.
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| Way too much backswing.
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| This is why you do not scoop the ball into the air, you should
crash it into the ground!
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| Scooping creates the dreaded double chicken wing!
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