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A lot of golfers grew up hearing the same advice: keep the head down, stay down through impact, and extend the arms as far as possible toward the target. The idea was that more extension meant a longer, lower path through the ball and more power.

Here's the catch. Reaching the arms all the way out pulls the upper body — torso, spine, head — forward with them. Once that much forward lean has happened, getting the club back up into a tall finish becomes a fight. Instead of folding naturally and rising up over the shoulder, the arms get yanked back around and in low, leaving the finish wide and deep.

Two long-time students ran into this not long ago. Both had worked for years on getting up into a clean finish, and both kept ending up a little too wide despite all that work. When the swings were broken down side by side, the cause was identical for both: over-extension through the ball.

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