Why You Need This:

In this video we will cover how to feel the extremes of Lag and how we can use those extremes to get the right amount of Lag for your swing. Keep up the hard work on the reps!

What's Covered: We will perform reps on feeling the opposite extremes of Lag in the golf swing and discuss how knowing those feelings can help us to generate more swing power. We will also hit shots feeling those extremes and video our swing to make sure we're getting the results we feel.

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 8:14

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, and welcome back. We’re on the Level 2 test, we’re ready to kick it up a notch. We’re going to get lag all the way throughout the swing, ingrain that, and we’re going to start to hit some golf balls as we’re doing this too.

So in Level 1 in the lag test, we talked about how I wanted to go ahead and make sure that in the downswing I’m increasing my lag as I’m starting down. I’m going to max out about halfway in my downswing.

I’m going to make sure my left wrist is flat, I’m going to make sure this angle between my club and my left forearm as it’s parallel to the ground is 65° or less, that’s going to be in the general ballpark. You may max out a little bit later, some players do a little bit early, well that’s fine. We’re just looking for a god check point there.

Once we’ve made it through those Level 1 tests, we’re ready to move to Level 2 which is going to be later on in the downswing. So let’s go ahead pause at Level 1, 65° or less, and then as I’m coming into the downswing even more, I want to be starting to let go of lag, but I don’t want to let go of it too soon. As my club is about parallel with the ground, I want my left hand to be roughly in front of my right leg.

I’m going to be pausing in that video, I’m going to be pausing here halfway down, and then pausing as my left hand gets in front of my right leg, and my club shaft should be roughly parallel with the ground.

Now at this point, we should see a little bit of bow in our left wrist, so if we’re looking at it from this way, a bow in your left wrist is going to look like that. It’s also going to be slightly closing the face as you’re doing that, that’s completely fine.

We should see the something happening in the right wrist, where I’m actually turning my right wrist where it’s got my knuckles are kind of going back to my elbow, that’s completely fine as I’m doing this.

So piece number one we’re here. If you haven’t done Level 1 test, done all the drills, go back and do that first. Piece number two I’m here, now I’ve got my left wrist slightly bowed, my right wrist is knuckles back. Then as I’m going to release that, I’m letting that go.

So I don’t want to just hang onto my lag forever, I want to go ahead and be increasing that to here, and then I’m letting that go as I’m coming through contact. So I’m going to do another 3,000 reps.

Again, I know these reps sound crazy, but that’s what it takes to really build in from an anatomy standpoint, to build in the neurological awareness or the muscle memory is what most people call that, to be able to do this with speed time and time again.

So it takes a lot of reps, break it up over several days, several weeks, even a month, completely fine. If you feel like you get tired after doing 100 reps, break it down and do 100 reps a day for a month, and you’ll be well through this, and 30 days from now, let me tell you, you’ll be glad that you did so.

After we’ve done that, we’re going to pause in those positions, let’s go ahead and go back again. I’m going to go halfway down I’m going to pause, go through my checkpoints. Parallel with the ground I’m going to pause, then I want to go ahead and let myself release that lag as I’m coming on through and feel the club whipping on through there.

A few repetitions pausing, the I’m going to try to recreate that same feeling with a full swing. So I’m going to come down, there we go, I’m going to do a couple of those, or maybe I want to go 50 percent speed, but basically a fluid swing, taking all the pauses out of there. Then I’m going to go ahead if I’m on the driving range, I’m going to throw a couple balls down, I’m going to hit a few, and I’m going to videotape again.

So we need to be videotaping every single practice session to make sure we are getting it right. Once we get it right, it looks good on video, then we can go ahead and then just get the reps in, we don’t have to videotape every swing or anything like that.

But get I right on video first, then we repeat the reps, keep on working through it, add in that parallel piece at the bottom, and you guys are really going to be compressing the golf ball.

God luck, and I’ll see you all in Level 3 after you complete the drills.