Why You Need This:

• In this video, you’ll learn how to get insane lag in golf.

Many players struggle to create and maintain their lag in the swing.

I’m going to show you how to fix it.

You’ll see exactly how to build more lag in your backswing…

And you’ll learn how to transition into the downswing with tons of lag.

So if you’re looking to add more lag in your swing, then you’ll love this video.

In addition to learning how lag is created in the swing, you’ll also be introduced to a great training aid called the Impact Snap.

This aid does an incredible job at preventing you from casting the club.

As the name implies, the Impact Snap makes a snap sound as you release your lag.

I demonstrate how to use the Impact Snap and show you the key checkpoints that you need to shoot for.

Later in the video, you’ll get tips on how to release all your built up lag.

You want forward shaft lean as you make contact with the ball.

Note that because of forward shaft lean, Tour pros deloft the clubface angle by around 30%.

Your goal should be to make contact with forward shaft lean as well.

That’s key because if you can hit with more forward shaft lean, then you’ll start hitting more powerful, penetrating shots.

Watch this video now to put an insane amount of lag in your swing!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 9:15

Video Transcription:

Hey guys, welcome back. I’ve got a great video for you today. This is an awesome training aid, I really enjoy this.

For people that tend to cast in the swing, they’re losing that lag early in the downswing, casting that club out.

Maybe you don’t have very much forward shaft lean, and when you get to the ball your club shaft is actually leaning backwards instead of leaning forwards and really compressing and getting the nice solid strike on that golf ball that feels like.

We want to feel like that golf ball’s really sticking to the face, almost like it’s suctioned cupped to the face as we’re coming through contact, and ten just explodes off the face to get a lot of distance.

Well, this is the best training aid that I have found, it’s called the Impact Snap. I didn’t invent this training aid, but I think it’s absolutely fantastic, and I really like it for those of you out there who struggle flipping, casting, not getting enough lag.

So I’m going to walk through exactly how to use this. I’m going to give you a complete guide on what I would do to use this and some drills that you can do to practice.

Let’s start out by talking about some lag, here. When I’m coming in my downswing, there’s a couple things that need to happen for lag.

Number one, I want to feel like as I start my downswing, I’m actually increasing the angle. So my angle is increasing with my wrist as I’m starting the downswing.

That means I don’t want to get all the way fully wrist set. I don’t want to pick up the club really quickly, and then feel like it’s fully maxed out, I’m going tend to cast as I start down.

I want to feel like I’m saving that up as I’m starting my downswing, and I’m actually increasing that angle. Look how my right elbow tucks in, got my wrist is cupped up, and it’s nice and flat.

One of the mistakes that I’ll see people making sometimes, is they want to cup this wrist like this, and I get a bend in my left wrist instead of keeping it nice and flat. I want to keep it flat.

Your wrist can only go – so if I hold my arm straight out parallel with the ground -- my wrist can only go about this far. A little bit past 90 with my wrist nice and flat. That’s all the lag or the sharpest angle that you’re going to get.

The rest of the angle that you’re seeing from there, and I’ll go ahead and pause halfway down, this is straight up and down. Watch what happens when I flatten out that club, now all of a sudden it appears to be a much sharper angle.

So that’s happening, that’s what we call The Move in our Top Speed Golf System. What we’re doing is we’re actually shallowing that club out as we’re getting lag, elbow goes in to my right side, and then from there, I’m really letting that get some forward shaft lean through contact.

So from face-on, again, increasing the angle of lag, club is flattening, left wrist is bowed, a little bit bowed, or flat is good also. Right elbow in, from there, I’m clearing my body out of the way.

I’ve got to let these hips go, I’ve got to let these shoulders open, feel like they’re clearing out of the way so that I can get that forward shaft lean, and I can the loft off this club.

The more loft I take off -- Tour pros usually take off about 30 percent of the loft on the club at impact, the more loft I take off, the more penetrating, the more compression, and the more solid the ball is going to feel.

Now let’s go over the Impact Snap and talk about how to do this. Actually, before we do that, let’s talk about one last piece there.

I’m getting to my maximum lag as I’m about halfway down. We call this the max lag position, left arm’s about parallel with the ground. From there, I am releasing everything out in front. So now you’ll see that if you look at my club, it’s splitting my forearms for the very first time there.

As we back that up, the club’s bunch of lag, releasing, releasing, releasing, and then that gets in the maximum release, then I come on up to my good, full follow through.

So I’m releasing this club, even though I have tons of forward shaft lean, even though I have tons of lag back here, I’m letting that lag go to get the speed into the ball. I’ve got to let that go to get the speed.

Let’s take out my Impact Snap again. Let’s walk through all these positions just talking about the exact same things. This forces you to really feel the good positions.

So I’m going to grip this, you’ll notice that the logo is on the top, the red logo, that goes facing up. There’s a little ball that sticks out to the right, and then I’m going to take my normal grip, or what I would feel like is my normal grip.

This is kind of a square grip here, so it’s not going to be exactly like your normal club. If you open up your hand, you’ll feel that the bottom of your fingers fit really nicely into the corner of the grip so the bottom of my fingers fit nicely in the corner.

My index fingers, if I was shooting a gun, is going to feel like it’s flat like the bottom of this impact snap would be almost like a trigger.

So the corners at the base of my fingers, I have almost a trigger finger there at the side, or the bottom of this grip, and then I’m going to go ahead and grip this all the way down at the end of this.

Now as I go to the top of the swing, again, I want to feel like I’m increasing lag. So as I start down, I’m increasing lag. From here, this yellow ball is nowhere near my hand.

So it’s going to be really far away from my hand, my left wrist is bowed. If I’m looking at this Impact Snap logo, this would be pointing right back to my body.

So let me see if I can get a good camera angle here, we can see this. Let’s imagine I’m hitting it towards you guys with the camera. If I’m starting my downswing, if this is pointing back down to my body, I’m doing it wrong.

I want to have this left wrist bowed, and that’s pointing on out in front of me. If I come back over the ball here, as I start down, and I’m going to go into a lot of detail here, because I know I get a lot of questions on this, and I like to really go into a lot of detail here to answer any questions that we have.

So bear with me, might get a little long-winded. This is going to be slightly bowed. This Impact Snap, the red logo there is pointing slightly out.

At that point, my elbow, my right elbow, is in to my side, pretty close to my slide. Now from here, as I come through contact – again I’m letting my hips clear out of the way, letting my body clear out of the way – as I get through contact, my wrist is going to be bowed forward.

It’s actually bowed down, down like this. This would be up, down, so my thumb’s going down to the ground, and then slightly bowed forward that when I do that, this ball, this yellow ball is in on the back of my forearm.

See how that’s on the back of my forearm? If I was to cast, let’s go to that same position and I was going to cast or flip, that ball shoots out to the right side of my arms.

So if I flip, that ball’s on this side. If I do it correctly, and this is a bit exaggerated, so don’t worry about it being exaggerated, this is slightly exaggerated, this is going to be on the back of my forearm.

If I wanted to really exaggerate that, then as I come on through, I’m going to have so much forward shaft lean and rotate the hands so much that that ball can pop through the inside of my forearm.

Now that’s going to be really exaggerated. For those of you who hit a big slice, you really lose a lot of distance, that’s what I want you guys to work on first, really get that to go through the inside of the forearm. So that’s going to help you there.

Now the last piece is how we release this club. We talked about how halfway down we’re in maximum lag. As we come on through, we’re releasing that.

You can hear that ball, there’s a metal ball inside this Impact Snap. What you’re going to do, let that fall to the bottom of the grip. As you set up, you can go ahead and let that fall as you go to the top. You’re going to pause here.

From this position, just like we talked about, we’re flattening out the grip. So pause here, we’re flattening out, I don’t want this club to be straight up and down, it’s going to be flattened out like we talk about in The Move in the System.

Then that ball is going to fall to the bottom. From there, I’m going to snap that club, clearing my hips, letting my arms go, going straight for the straight-line release like we talk about in the Top Speed Golf System.

Letting that club release through impact, and I’m going to have this ball hit against the back of my forearm at the same that ball inside the grip hits.

So I’m going to go to the top, get my good lab position, then from there, I’m letting everything rotate on through. After I’ve done that a few times, I can go ahead and swing all the way on through to a good, full finish.

That’s going to get you the sensation of not only having lag, but releasing that lag and getting the speed from the club coming through contact.

So watch this video a couple times, I know I put a lot of information in there. Work on this, and what I want you to do is, once you get your impact snap, work through these drills, lag position, pausing at impact, pausing in the release.

Check the positions, make sure your body’s opening. Make sure you’re getting lag and losing it correctly. Do about 100 reps of that.

Next, we’re going to do a hundred reps letting that fire, just through there. I’m going to check to make sure this ball’s on the back of my forearm, check to make sure I’m into my straight-line release like we talk about in the System.

Then from there, I’m going halfway down, I’m going to do the same thing, come all the way on through to the finish, facing the target, one nice fluid swing.

Once I’ve done it with Impact Snap, then I’m going to go ahead and I’ll show you guys a slow-motion video, getting some good lag here. Then I’m going to go ahead and take it to the course, and I’m going to get the same feeling hitting some golf balls.

There we go, guys. Work on that lag, you’re going to hit it really far, good power, good speed, let that stuff go through impact and you’re going to be able to whip that club. I’ll see you guys soon.