This Finally Fixes Standing Up In The Golf Swing 

One of your BEST videos yet! Right side bend through impact is absolutely one of the key moves to becoming a scratch player. Every good player does this. They watch their initial ball flight with a tilted view. You even mentioned the second most important key to scratch. Wrist positions. Knuckles down on your left hand = right wrist back. Hold your hands out like you’re gripping a club. Now, bow your left wrist. Notice how the right wrist bends back. Now, do it again. Bend your right wrist back. Notice how the left wrist bows. The point is…. You can “feel” this with either hand during your swing. The results are the same. Side note… Both hands should feel cocked “down”, through impact. I honestly think that these 2 things(right side bend, and wrist conditions) are the differences between mid-handicap players, and scratch players.

People who stand up are essentially playing tug-of-war with the inertia of the club instead of actually "swinging" it. It's often caused by a player trying to hit the ball as hard and far as they possibly can. Most people never discover they can actually hit the ball just as far with much less effort but greater efficiency. Everyone always wants to hit the ball as far as possible but learning to hit the ball efficiently sends the ball just as far with far less effort. An excellent drill is learning to hit a 7 or 8 iron just over 100 yards and then slowly increase the distance the ball goes until you reach your normal carry. Everyone loves a lazy and efficient golf swing but rarely do people attempt to learn how to do it. With efficiency comes confidence and with confidence comes competence and the goal in golf is to become "confidently competent." Excellent video Eric!

Eric, your lessons are not only awesome, and I needed exactly this one, but I admire the way your teaching evolves with techniques such as "opposites" and "exaggeration". Most youtube teaching content is regurgitation which is often good stuff, but you really work hard to take it to the next level and I truly thank you for that.

The fluid motion and precision in the golf swing showcased in this video are eye-catching. I aspire to develop such technical prowess in my own swing. This video has fueled my determination to become a better golfer. Thank you for providing such a fantastic source of motivation!

OK Eric another light bulb video...outstanding instruction. SO resolving the issue of the lowering and digging into the ground concern of your student is exactly my concern. This right arm and wrist bent back making up for the lowering feel is a very very helpful idea. So would it be right to say that this feels like i am FLATENNING the bottom of the arc ? Feels more like a longer "scrape" across the turf?

Can you do this same thing but with a driver? My issue is standing up with the driver and I don't stand up with the irons at all

Was trying to figure this out for the life of me. Thanks you from a fifth year golfer!!!

A great one Eric! I literally advise golfers who ask about the swing, if your trail arm is extending early in the downswing, you are doing it WRONG. This is the #1 (all other positions correct) that will determine a more successful swing. Bent trail arm at impact MEANS you will have to bend (stay) down through impact to get to the ball. Thanks again.

I have been trying to figure out why I kept hitting toe shots on my wedges. Not only did this video clue me in, but it made me change the way I'm moving my right shoulder. Just tried it at the range tonight. This has fixed a bunch of issues. Thank you! You're an exceptional coach.

Great video! I would always top the ball and I thought it was because I was looking up and not keeping my head down. This video made me realize that I was standing up straight doing the down swing.

This is just the lesson I need. Thank you so much for all your coaching and instruction, Eric. GOLD

Great explanation and video to show us this. I totally struggle with this standing up and can’t wait to try this drill at the range.

What a GREAT EXPLANATION on this…You answered so many questions here. Thank you! ⛳️👍🇺🇸🙏

Outstanding visual explanation and demo of that drill to keep that side bend through impact and finish! Awesome can’t wait to do that drill !

J’attaque dès demain!!! Moi qui ai tendance à être étriqué au moment de la frappe et souvent revenir « par dessus », cette vidéo me paraît très très adaptée pour moi. A l’attaque !! Merci!!!

👍Fantastic way to explain it. This video got suggested when I was searching for : a fix for "standing" in my swing. Looking forward to checking out your other vids.

You are an awesome teacher, just what I needed. Thank you for doing what you do so we’ll. God bless

Awesome video, that side bend head lowering tip was something really cool I have never thought about

Thanks. I will try this tomorrow Eric

THANK YOU ERIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT EXPLANATION.............AND RESULTS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've struggled with this problem for decades. I can't wait to try this drill. And the whole side bend, right shoulder/hip movement was explained perfectly. Great lesson!

needed this today. got a bad early extension & have been making it work. need to work on this for a while to permanently get rid of it. thank you

Once again, an outstanding drill/feel Mr Cogorno..! Cheers, William

Eric - Great topic. I get a bit tall during the down swing and thin shots or pulls start happening. As @HolyGrailOfGolf stated below, simply slowing down can correct this, and I can play that way, though I love it as a drill to remind me where I need to be.

Another great tip Eric and thanks for sharing. I just shared your video with my son.

I have video of my swing from last year and even 3 years ago and I pop up during downswing. I’ve always complained on inconsistent contact. I will work on this!

This is my problem for sure! Irons and Driver - EXCELLENT! MY THANKS!

Excellent video. I've had this problem forever (and didn't realize it until the last couple years). Managed to play respectably due to reasonable strength and decent hand eye coordination. Now that I understand what to do, I'm old and inflexible. Getting that side bend is very tough. This tip/drill is great because it seems like it's taking the mechanics of trying to create the side bend out of the equation just by forcing you to "go down and get the ball". Can't wait to try it!

Great video Eric - Would love to hear about shoulder drills to help with driver also.

Good description of the combination of lowering the head and turning the shoulders. I've been thinking of Lee Trevino a lot in this regard, perhaps the best visual of increasing bend and turning the right shoulder under. Understanding it is one thing, doing it is another!

Terrific lesson! And thanks for the "exercise plan"; 30+ swings a day (or more) emphasizing right side down and chest towards target.

This is the greatest tip I’ve ever seen. Thank you 🙏

This is a great drill that definitely helped me, as almost all of Eric's videos do. Another thing that helped was standing more upright at setup, then working down towards the ball. Most people bend the wrong way or have too much bend at setup and then they inevitably stand up through the ball. You should start tall, stay tall through the backswing, then bend down/use side bend like Eric talks about, to get down to the ball and really compress it.

Very good details Eric. Thank you

Another excellent instruction, especially if viewed with other recent ones like your Tilt Tilt and Turn one. I don't think many players, me included, stand up intentionally. In some ways, it is in part a reaction to the centrifugal force created by the downswing. It may be surprising, but according to a centrifugal force calculator I looked up, a 275 gram iron club head on a 37 inch shaft swung at 92 mph will have a force of 111.27 foot-pounds. So it is understandable that there can be a natural tendency for the body to resist the centrifugal force by pulling back and standing up. Maintaining the spine angle while turning is of course easier for someone young and flexible than for an 82 year old senior like me, even though I'm in good condition and have played for over 60 years. It can also be a lot to keep all the various elements in mind during the swing, namely to tilt and turn, maintain posture, plus to begin shifting one's weight on to the lead leg early, before the end of the backswing, and let the hips shift toward the target, and to swing up with the left or lead shoulder. Done right, it works, so your advice is great. But it's also pretty easy to hit fat if you don't do all these things. Two other observations. My clubs were actually built for someone else and are a half inch long. Would it be right to think that this could also influence one to stand up? Second, in one of your other excellent videos, you told the client/student he was standing too close to the ball and you had him address the ball, then you held the club head in place while telling him to back up several inches and keep his weight on the balls of his feet. Once you pointed this out, I watched several pros who produce videos as they swing and noticed that they do in fact tend to lean a bit further forward than I have been doing. It makes total sense that if you are standing too close to the ball, you will stand up during the downswing to avoid hitting behind the ball. You can of course stand too far from the ball. As you showed that student, there is a correct distance that will allow you to hold your spine angle, your posture, while making good contact.

The sound of your club hitting the ball is so crisp!!

Phenomenal details showing what the body does Eric!! Would the feeling of skipping a rock or throwing a baseball underhand be another way to get a proper feeling.

Eric a wonderful lesson. Will try tomorrow at range at Rumanza Multan. Thank you sir

Thank you. I should watch this before playing or practicing to get better.

Dang, that’s good stuff, Eric!! That’s definitely a bad habit I slip into now and then. Thank you!!

Excellent video, will make sure to do this on my next range session.

Great stuff! Thanks 🙏

I like it. I tell my daughters boyfriend the same thing when his swing gets off. He strikes he ball very good but when he has those 5 bad swings a round he stands up on the swing with little shoulder tilt.

Great video, thanks!!

Thank you extremely informative

I’ve been standing up in my downswing for what feels like decades….this is a great drill, makes so much sense…thanks Eric! Can’t wait to use this in my practice sessions

Great drill. No problem doing this with shortened grip. I struggle with normal grip. Bent arm and holding angles at impact seems great for players who have flexibility and are able to rotate well through impact. What about seniors who may have less less flexibility and rotation and who probably release angles a bit earlier?

Will definitely give this a go. Can't for my life stop standing up and flipping at it regardless how good my shaft and face angles are.

This is my Achilles heel right now. my right foot won't rotate during impact and stuck there way more than it should be. Will hit 100 balls with your drill going forward! Thank you!!!

Eric, great instruction as usual. Could you do a video combining these ideas with your long arc follow through drill? A golfer might stay level but must also not stay in torso flexion too long or let the chest hub wander forward at impact or too much after impact. This combination chest rotation, chest extension, and braking through impact is what I see you and the pros do. A video with your take on it would be sweet!

Clever drill Eric- Very informative session. Be good-Russ

Thank you

As one of the best 80 yr old golfers currently in the world today I agree with you

The cure for the unfolding lawnchair. A plague in my game for many years. These feels are the best I’ve heard, by the way. Thank you!

So good!

Cant wait to try this!

Ive touched on this once before. If you start tall you have no choice but to go down. It's the hover also from what I started seeing. Especially tiger on iron shot he will waggle above the ball alot of others do but it's a part of the waggle. Also I think a good drill for the through the ball is go to impact and just flick the ball out there maybe 10-20 yards just to straighten your arms 45 degrees out in front

Thank You

Very good Eric.

good tip Eric, trying this.

This makes too much sense. I can’t believe I never thought of this before myself.

so, if youre closer to the ball what's happened to the extra (spare) length compared to setup? Has it been replaced by the shaft lean? ah, you answered this later in the video!

Fred Couples stands up.

Any differences at the range incorporating this exaggeration with driver?

That explains why it never felt comfortable when I had a choke down shot the past 50 years of playing. Getting that right side bend hurts a bit but that’s the ticket to hit solid shots. I use a drill where I hold a club in my left hand pointing down and then try to hit a short chip only using the right hand only. You are forced to have side bend and your left shoulder will have the tilt as the pros. A proper left hip clearing is automatic.

Haha omg I'm a perfect example of that move. Im completely straight at impact, didnt even realise. Too focus on other flaws lol

Can cutting your clubs shorter help as well for this case ?

Does this same motion apply to driver swings?

Hey Eric, would this also help force you to release the club? I struggle with both standing up and holding on too long resulting in a lot of thin or weak shots blocked to the right.

Good video Eric and very helpful. PS- trend today is for shorter videos - 5 minutes at most. If same points were made in a shorter time frame, more viewers might be attracted to your very good teachings.

I have the opposite problem where my head raises and I sort of stand up on my backswing. I try the drill Tiger does where you squat and get low on the back swing but not sure if that's the solution

Again when you look at all 3 from the behind view, you can see how all 3 have the right knee, hip, shoulder aligned. When you get to that position the everything else takes care of itself. Don't get why instructors don't teach from that position back. Then you follow thru from there and you get the weight forward,sidebend, plane ,compression.

Just have such an upright posture with good rounded, stacked shoulders, and upright turn that you have to go down to the ball to get it. Bend over at address, stand up during the swing. Stand up at address, bend over during the swing.

You going back to Florida soon?

Some players like Bryson D prefers a more upright stance and a steeper swing. It's hard to argue there's only one way to strike a ball considering Bryson is probably a top 5 in the world player.

You may have already done it but I need a video about not leaning behind the ball with the driver

Wanna get down? Simple. Ur trail knee needs to go down. Exaggerating that was a eureka moment for me.

I would have thought standing up at the top of the backswing was more of a problem

Unfortunately there is never a fix that is one size fits all thing. I admit I tend to rise up in my downswing and sometimes I top the ball and sometimes I miss it entirely. But when I focus on not rising up during the backswing...meaning trying to keep my body from moving upward during the downswing, I usually end of driving the club into the ground about 1 to 3 inches behind the ball and totally blowing the shot. What is the fix for that?

I’m trying this…..and find sometimes I end up hitting a shank

Hi Eric I’m so great full for your video. Exactly my issue. I’m 66 and recently back to golf after many years raising kids and working on a career. So desk work and sedentary lifestyle featured. In my playing days, say 30 years ago, I was a high teens player. These days when I start my round I tend to play pretty well for 9 holes. By hole 10 my back is screaming and I start standing. Toping and hooking becomes the norm. Take yesterday for example. 18 front 9, 10 pts back 9. This is week in week out. Today is a recovery day with lost of painkillers. No way I could keep posture no matter how hard I try. Please help!

Most people think address is impact

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Did you just fix my swing?? 😅🎉

Standing up is your bodies natural way of counterbalancing. It's perfectly normal to stand up and that doesn't have to be a problem. Most of us spend way too much time trying to learn unnatural body movements, when we should be focusing on learning ways to hit the ball straight using natural movements.

Thinning is my miss, taking this lesson to range today 🫡

I dont need no stinking drills! Practice, you talking about practice?