5 Essential Golf Follow-Through Drills for Better Accuracy & Swing Consistency
A golfer’s follow-through can tell us a lot about the efficiency of their swing.
When the follow-through is in the wrong direction, at an incorrect speed, or even unbalanced, we know there are issues that will impact distance and accuracy.
Golf swing follow through thoughts are great to have on the course. Practicing golf swing follow through drills will give you some direction on where the club should be after impact, and maybe even help you fix things like a slice or a chicken wing!
Here are our five favorite golf swing follow-through drills.
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1. What do you want to improve in your full swing?
5 Effective Drills to Perfect Your Golf Follow-Through
Two Club Follow-Through Drill
The two-club follow-through drill is about as simple as it gets, but it allows you to really learn what it feels like to accelerate towards your finish.
For this drill, set up with two golf clubs in your hands. You’ll grip them together so you can take as close to a normal grip as possible. Swing both clubs in a relaxed way, without attempting to hit a golf ball.
You’ll focus on feel and balance as you swing.
When you finish, you should feel both clubs completely behind you, pointing towards the ground.
This drill will help you feel the momentum needed to reach a full finish. When you switch back to a single club, it should be much easier to feel the way the golf club moves through and accelerates to your finish position.
Swing Path Follow-Through Drill
This swing path follow-through drill can help you understand the direction the club should be traveling after impact. The first part of this process is to visualize the swing path as an arc, like a hula hoop.
First, determine if your issue is too much out-to-in in your golf swing or too much in-to-out.
To do the drill, you are going to basically preset the follow-through. So you will put the club where it should be just after impact, swing all the way back, and match that position when you swing through.
We use preset drills with HackMotion quite a bit to get the proper hinge in the wrists. However, this drill essentially has you preset the follow-through and then match it up.
You don’t need to hit a ball when doing the drill, but because of its effectiveness, you may want to consider adding this one to your pre-shot routine.
Squeeze the Knees
The squeeze-the-knees drill makes it easier to have a balanced finish and proper weight transfer.
If you’re falling back in your swing or falling forward, it could be path-related. You can break this drill down into three different parts.
The first part is to work on taking swings until you can get your back foot (trail leg) on it’s its toe at the end of the swing. You may need to take slower or shorter swings to achieve this, but the first step is to be able to do it.
Next, work on squeezing the knees together as you swing through. This will ensure the hip gets through impact and the lower body is released.
Finally, when you get to the full finish, make sure the club is behind your head, drawing a line across the back of your ears.
Use the steps of this drill to work on your follow through position and get it into a perfect spot.
1. What do you want to improve in your full swing?
Fix Your Slice Follow-Through Drill
For this follow-through drill, you will want to wear your HackMotion. We know that a common cause of a slice is an open clubface at impact.
The wrists control the clubface; this drill will help you get the wrists in the right position through impact.
Set up to a golf ball with your alignment parallel to the target. Then, move to the right about 4-5 inches without twisting the body. Now the ball should be outside your lead foot pinky toe – it moves well forward in your stance.
The goal of the drill is to hit the ball at 40% speed and focus on releasing the toe and extending toward the target line. Once you can do it, keep increasing the speed.
Do this drill a few more times until you have the feeling down, and then switch to hitting a ball with the golf ball back in the right position.
You may want to have this same mindset of the ball being far ahead, but don’t actually put it there.
Extend out towards the target as part of the drill. Now that you have this drill down, wear your HackMotion and take a look at the session data and how it is impacted when you release the clubhead as part of your follow-through.
Drill to Cover the Golf Ball
This drill is a good option for both impact and follow-through. For this, you will use your pitching wedge and place the ball just a bit forward of center in your stance. The goal is to practice finishing your swing with weight transfer without taking a backswing.
Stand at address and recreate the impact and follow-through. You’ll have an easier time getting your wrists into a more flexed position and feeling how your weight needs to transfer through the golf ball.
Simulate impact by positioning your hips open and achieving some forward shaft lean. The ball should get pushed out of the way, and you should be able to do this without losing balance.
Repeat this drill 5 to 10 times, and then hit a shot. Can you reach that same position when you take a full backswing? How about when you add a golf ball and hit it?
For most golfers, it’s harder to get to this position, but that could indicate improper weight transfer in the backswing or an incorrect wrist position at the top of the swing.
Final Thoughts
The follow through drills are good to practice, but our favorite thing about these drills is the way they can help you clearly identify the issues your golf swing may have. Most follow through problems deal with improper wrist action, poor weight transfer and incorrect swing path.
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