Jason Day Golf Swing Extension

Jason Day just won the first round of the FedEx Cup Playoffs of the Barclays this past weekend with a blazing final round of 62. So congratulations to Jason Day and if you've found yourself struggling with getting a lot of good extension through the hitting area or trying to figure out a solution on how to do so or maybe even battled with that little bit with a chicken wing problem, then you want to pay close attention to today's review because I'm going to show you guys a great way to start building some tour-level extension just like Jason Day. Let's go ahead and get started.

                Okay everyone, so we are going to be focusing in on getting you some extension in your golf swing much like Jason Day.  Now we have done a lot of analysis on him as of late and this is one of those areas that a lot of golfers struggle with at home is "How do I get extension and how do I overcome a lot of that chicken wing kind of appearance to the hitting area." So the first thing I want you to understand is what is causing a lot of that to happen. What's causing your hands to work left rather quickly and not get that extension and what's causing my chicken wing?

                Well, think of it this way. If you were to take your trail shoulder and you were to push it across your center.  So if you were to take this trail shoulder and just go ahead and push towards your center to where your trail shoulder would end up pretty much where the logo of Jason Day's shirt is right now. That would number one, that would rotate your shoulders open and it would turn your shoulders very level to the ground. Okay, so that would be one of the common mistakes or one of the common things you would see in your own swing if you have a lot of trail shoulder push is that if you were looking at your golf swing from a down-the-line perspective, I know we have a face-on view today, but if you looked at it from a down-the-line perspective you would see that your hands work left and around your body very, very quickly. So you wouldn't see your club extending out in front of you for a very long time, you would see that your hands work left and that could also attribute to the chicken wing part of the golf swing as well.

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                Now, that's the main culprit that we see for the swing path starting to change. There's a lot of big trail shoulder push, lots of trail arm push. Now, what causes the big chicken wing? Well, that is going to be you pushing your trail arm across your center more than anything else. And what I mean there is if you were to actually dead lock your chest, hold it very still, and you can hold the golf club and you were just to push your trail arm across your center — your center being your spine area, your sternum, whatever you want to use as a center point — and you just kept pushing this all the way across you, your lead arm is eventually going to break. Okay so that is what is going to give you the appearance to the hitting area. If you want to see exactly how your own extension measures up against tour-level benchmarks, the AI swing analyzer can break this down frame by frame.

                So what do we want to do to correct that? Well, the biggest thing that I want you to understand is that we got to eliminate the trail side from doing any sort of excessive pushing through the hitting area. And you're going to hear me talk about a video in particular quite a bit, Chuck and myself, we talk a lot about "Five Minutes to a Perfect Release" and in step four in that video, when I'm going to get to that here in a minute. Step four talks to you about how to reach underneath and grab the golf club properly. 

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