Loss of spine angle, or posture, or early extension all mean the same thing for golfers – standing up too much during your down swing. This results in a lack of body rotation through impact, meaning you aren’t hitting the ball as far as you could, difficulty in controlling the club face, meaning you aren’t as accurate as you could be and inconsistent strikes from the club face, meaning a variation in shot trajectory. This video looks at the cause of standing up through impact, the correct position to work on achieving and a range drill to help you improve your movement and positions.

With this golf swing video tip, Natalie Adams from Smash Factor golf coaching helps you to stop scooping through impact and improve the compression you can achieve on the golf ball with a better wrist position, specifically in your trail hand. If you use your trail hand and lose the angle that you create in it too early in your down swing, then moving through impact and achieving a solid and centred strike becomes very difficult. So stop scooping through impact with this easy to follow drill and learn to improve your lead and trail wrist angles so that you lead through impact with your hands first and compress the golf ball for much better golf shots.