Why You Need This: In this video, you're gonna find out how to get some nice forward shaft lean and great lag in the downswing...

There's a popular drill for this that you may have seen before...

But a lot of people are leaving out a key part, destroying the potential speed you've built up.

You'll discover the missing piece...

And also learn exactly what the wrists are doing in the downswing.

Plus, you'll get the usual step-by-step drills so you can ingrain all the key movements into your swing.

Watch this video now to add lag to your downswing for longer shots and that awesome feel of compression!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 4:37

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, welcome back. Today I’ve got a really good video for you.

It’s going to talk about how we can get that nice forward shaft lean, how we get some lag in the downswing, and then how we can get a lot of speed out of that lag so you start hitting the ball father, start compressing that ball a lot better.

There’s a really good drill that you may have seen before, but there’s a big piece that most people are leaving out that’s going to make this really, really bad if we do it this way.

I’m going to go over the drill you may have seen, and then also another piece that’s going to ensure that you can do this correctly to get speed and to hit the ball nice and crisp. So first before we get into that, let’s talk about what do the wrists do when we’re trying to get lag in the golf swing.

As I’m coming into the downswing, and let’s keep my hands flat here, as I’m starting into the downswing, my right wrist is going to be angled back. So my knuckles are back toward my elbow, that’s called wrist extension.

My thumb is also kind of pulled up toward my elbow, if you imagine pulling my thumb up this way. That’s my lag position as I’m coming through.

As I square up to the ball, my right hand is now going to be, the palm of my hand is going to be facing down toward the ball. I don’t want to have that hand open like this, I’d be blocking out to the right.

That’s what I see a lot of people do, time and time again. As I do this correctly, as I’m coming into contact, knuckles back, my palm is toward the ground, I’ve got this nice angle of lag.

Now left hand’s going to match that. So if I have my left hand, this would be extension, this would be flexion, now I can see the palm of my hand, the back of my hand or the logo of my glove would be down toward the ground, and those two are going to work together.

This is your lag position as you’re coming into contact here. One thing I really want to be positive of as I’m coming into contact, is that my hips are starting to open up a little bit.

That’s going to give me room to get that forward shaft lean and lag, you’ll also notice how your left arm is getting kind of tight to your chest for those of you who are scooping the club a little bit, look how my arm starts to bow out, that chicken wing starts to bow out away from my arm, and I have more space coming through there.

I want to have this nice forward shaft lean as I’m coming through, wrist angled back. A good way that you can practice this, you can angle your right hand back, and you can put your left hand on top of that.

As I come through there, now I’m starting to feel that tightness in my left side, hips opening up, and I’ve got that forward shaft lean angle. That’s really good, but one thing that’s absolutely going to 100 percent make sure that this does not work, and we flip every time, is if we try to hold onto these angles.

This is what the common-sense kind of thing, this is what I tried to do when I was first learning how to get forward shaft lean, and it makes a lot of sense, but it just doesn’t work.

I try to get this forward lean angle and then hold on all the way through contact, this is the big piece that a lot of people are missing when they’re talking about lag and forward shaft lean. I want to make sure that I get speed out of my lag, and I release that lag as I’m coming through.

So as I have some lag and forward shaft lean, now as I come 45° past, I have to let go of that lag. I don’t hold on to this, or my club never accelerates, I’m just dragging it through. I’ve got to let go of that lag.

What I want you to do with this hand drill, go ahead and stand up out of your chair right now, work through some repetitions. Hands flat and together, as you start down, now we have lag forward shaft lean.

Hips are opening, nice and tight on the left side, connected, and then as you come through, now your hands and wrists are going to release 45° out in front. So my hips, my shoulders, I’m starting to get some separation here now because I’m letting that go, they’re going to be pointing straight out in front.

Do about 100 repetitions just pausing. Position number one, position number two letting that go, then I want you to swing with just your hands. We’re going to do about 50 reps like that. So 100 pausing, and then swinging, that’s 100 total.

Then we’re going to grab the club, we’re going to do the same thing here. I’m going to go position number one, lag, position number two I’m going to go to contact.

I’m going to add another piece into there, making sure that face is nice and square to the target, I don’t want that to be wide open. Position number three, release.

Now you can see those wrist angles are gone, that means, see that club really starts to whip through contact when I let it release that way. So we’re going to do about 100 repetitions with the club going nice and slow.

Then finally, we’re going to put all three of those together, and make a nice, full swing, nice and rhythmatic, and I’ll try to get a nice amount of forward shaft lean lag on this one.

There we go, so hit that nice and solid, good lag, good forward shaft lean, but I let it go to let the club accelerate. Good luck to you guys, work hard. I’ll see you all soon.