If you are being told to stop standing up in golf downswing and you need an early extension fix, this golf lesson from Todd Kolb is just what you need!
Learn how to maintain hip hinge in the golf swing and keep good golf posture by creating an easy to repeat golf swing for seniors!
It’s gotta be one of the most frustrating tips your buddies give you.
“Stop standing up in your golf swing. That’s why you keep topping the golf ball.”
Are they right?
Yeah, probably.
But if it were that easy to stop standing up mid-swing, you would have fixed the problem by now.
A lot of golfers struggle to fix this bad habit simply because they don’t understand why it’s happening in the first place.
If you want it to stop, you’ve got to fix the issue that makes your body instinctively stand up.
In today’s golf lesson, you’ll learn why this keeps happening, and you’ll get a three-point checklist to make sure it never happens again.
Watch the video and finally stop topping the ball.
It’s incredible how fast we can fix our faults just by learning how to work with our bodies instead of fighting against them.
That’s why I created the Vertical Line Swing system.
Traditional instruction tells us we’ve got to make crazy demands of our bodies in order to play a great game.
A lot of deep twisting, raw power, tension, and restriction…
…things that might be possible for young professionals but don’t make a lot of sense for the rest of us.
My swing technique sets your body up for success.
It’s the only swing designed with the average golfer in mind.
And it’s the reason thousands of casual golfers are playing the best game of their lives, even in their retirement years.
Discover what the Vertical Line Swing can do for your golf game:
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24 Comments
My problem is not finishing my swing and therefore hitting at the ball. This has been going on forever. No problem with my practice swing. HCP has fluctuated between 9 & 16. My drives are 220 to 250 depending on finishing or not. Also can't hit down and take divot, but am a scooper. I have watched your videos for years. Thank you. Ed from Marco Island, FL.
You always have great tips, game changers
I notice I stand up when I try to add loft to the hit.
This has been a problem for me forever. I hope this will help. Georgetown Texas
Hi Todd I'm Raybo from Malaysia,thanks for your simple explanation as usual.I had improved and stay consistent thanks again
I really enjoy your classes. Thanks so much. I am Xavier from Toronto – Canada
Excellent video, i think a slight squat towards the end of my back swing, everything goes slightly down, you simply can't thrust hips towards the ball and stand up
Hello, Todd, from Tucson, AZ. Boy did I need this lesson! Topping had become my usual shot result, so much so that I was genuinely ready to give up the game. Flared toes, check. Hip hinge, check. Head tilt, check. More solid shots, check. (And I'm re-reading The Bad Lie, and loving the VLS.)
Awesome tips! I just realized the other day that I had been flaring both feet out and wondered if I should be. I have been hitting more solid, so now I know. Fantastic, and I'm off to play later today so will incorporate all 3 tips.
Hi Marc from UK, I've just tried that with feet being straight no hip turn then turned my feet out and felt and looked so different, can't wait to try it on Thursday ty
Todd, great video as always. Can I make a request, please? Can you do a video of grip and what you would consider best of strong, weak, or neutral
Thanks
I’m a Brit, always easy to take in. Keeping it simple is always good.
Good advice. This is always a problem for me as someone who will be 82 in June even though I have played for 60 years. But I think there are two or three more things it might be helpful to add. One, the tendency to kick the right or trail knee in toward the ball rather than having it fold up alongside the left knee defeats correct turning and causes standing up and early extension, and even shanks. Two, solid contact requires the hips to move toward the target and weight to shift onto the lead leg, exactly as you do in your swing. I find that if I can do that, which is something I am working on even now, the shift imparts some momentum to the pelvis, the core, that helps it to turn toward the target. Getting that weight on to the left or lead side seems to be just a slight "falling" move (some call it a bump) not the result of a hard push with the right or trail leg. Pushing with the trail leg actually keeps weight on that side and impedes an easy turn. Three, while a good hip/pelvis turn on the backswing as you show is needed, it also can increase the tendency to swing the arms too far behind one, and that makes it hard to turn toward the target on the downswing. It's often unconscious. The PGA Tour Super Store where I go to use the practice bays just installed cameras that show what you are doing on every swing. It's really embarrassing. I may have this mental image of how I am swinging, like a pro of course, but there is that somewhat overweight old guy with left arm too folded against the chest, left arm not as straight as I wanted it to be, hands and arms beating the hip turn causing more of a wristy early release than I thought, and half my weight still on my trail leg. Argh. I have to work and work to make the arms and hands stay out from my chest on the backswing. That can make it seem as if you are starting the club way to the outside, but when you turn the pelvis and chest back it puts the arms and hands right in the correct position above your shoulder. From there it is easier to shift weight to the left and allow (not force) the hips to turn toward the target, the right or trail knee to fold up next to the left knee, and the right foot to come up on the toe instead of remaining flat or near flat on the ground. P.S. Am from Rockville, Maryland
Great Tip. I"m from Richmond, VA. I have that issue of standing up constantly. Thanks.
Awesome.;. Bill Wilson/Nixa MO.
Excellent video. Thank you!
The main reason why Jack Nicklaus tilted his head to the right was because he was left-eye-dominant. It didn't really have anything to do with rotation. It just helped him see the ball better.
Hi from Ohio. Thanks for tip. Will it work for 3 wood also?
Jack turned his head to the right NOT the left. He was left eye dominate and this was his tick to start the swing. It kept him down and me too as a left dominate player. Your other comments of instruction are good but my personal find is that if i tilt left i will hit thin shots…
Thank you for the tips on how to stay down. Now im just any ordinary 10 year old. But sure enough this will help someone as young as me.
Gary Montgomery, Vancouver, WA. I'm reading your great book "The Bad Lie". On page 38-39 you talk of lead ear high then rotating your chin towards the trail foot. You allude to this in this standing up video. How do you rotate your head to get the lead ear high, yet rotate your chin to the trail foot which would tend to make the lead ear lower?
Realy enjoy your instructions, I would like your thoughts on when I can hit a 48 degree wedge 120 yards comfortably, but don’t hit my driver past 230 yards ? Is there something fundamentally that I am missing ?
regards Pete , Newcastle Aust
Genius! 66 in Michigan loves this common sense advice.
I heard that wrist snap is great to add more power to the ball striking. As the club comes downward where do you start the wrist uncocking/snapping when the club is around your right leg and parallel to the ground or past your right leg?