Why You Need This: If you've ever wondered how to get more lag in golf...

...you're not alone!

I'm sure you've tried tons of things to achieve those crazy lag angles you see with the guys on TV.

But I'd bet you're still not quite seeing the results you want.

Why not?

Because there are (at least) 2 crucial, sort of "secret" moves the pros make...

...that you probably never realized had anything to do with creating that huge lag angle.

Watch this video now to discover these 2 secret moves, and then you'll be able to show all your buddies how to get more lag in golf!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 7:04

Video Transcription:

Hi, guys. Welcome back. I’ve got a great lag video for you, and you may be wondering why we’re shooting from the down the line view.

If we’re shooting from this angle, we really can’t see lag, so why would we be looking at it from this way? I’ve got two really crucial moves that are happening to get lag when we’re looking from that angle.

I’m going to go over those in just one second. It’s not all about just creating an angle that we can see from face on.

So first, I’ve got a good little drill I want you to do. If you’re in your living room right now, if you’re at your office, I won’t tell your boss.

Pick up a club right now, or a pencil, or whatever you got handy, and try to create the biggest angle you can in your left wrist while keeping this nice and flat.

If we’re looking from this angle, that would be about like that. Seen from this angle that would be nice and flat there. That would be what’s called radial deviation, that would be part of what’s creating lag.

You’ll see there even if I’m pretty flexible, I can’t get much past 90° when I’m doing that. If you’re super flexible you may be able to get a little bit more, if you’re not very flexible, you may be able to get right at 90°, that’s about all you can get. That’s part of lag.

The second part of lag is what’s called your right wrist would be in what’s called extension. The wrist being out. That would be this motion there, looks something like that.

So still, that’s not a very sharp angle, why do you see these Tour pros that look like they have an angle like this, like a Sergio Garcia.

The reason for that, and when I see people try to crate that a lot of times, is they’ll be trying to create that angle this way and the club is almost slipping down between the thumb and the forefingers.

If you ever try to create lag, if we’re looking at it from this direction, your club almost slips down in between the hands like that, and it almost rolls down instead of our thumb being on top this way, you’re struggling with that. I’m going to explain why that is.

If we’re looking from face on again, let’s do the same thing. I’m going to turn here sideways. I’m going to get as much radial deviation as I can, thumb moving upward.

I’m going to get my right wrist on there really nice, angled back slightly. Then all I’m going to do now is I’m going to flatten that out.

Look how that changes the appearance of what that looks like on the camera. That looks like a very sharp angle, this doesn’t look like a very sharp angle.

When I’m creating lag in the golf swing, that’s what you’re going to see. As I start my downswing, you’re going to see something like this. But if I straighten that up, that’s almost 90°. I’m probably 80°, somewhere around in that ballpark. That’s the big piece of it, the first big piece of it.

When I’m creating lag in the downswing, I have to shallow out this club. That’s what we go over in The Move section in the Top Speed Golf System.

We talk about how almost pretty much you can take every single Major winner from 2000, we took all 39-40 of them, we researched their swings.

You can take every one of those guys and they’re all shallowing out this club as they’re starting in the transition, and then releasing as their hands turn back in to the left, that’s going to accelerate this club squarely into the ball with a lot of speed. That’s the first piece.

What I want you to try, is as you’re coming down with some lag, get this club to flatten out a little bit and get your wrist, your right wrist to turn back what would be extension as much you can.

Do that in your living room, right there. You’re going to see how that’s appearance of a very sharp angle when you’re coming from face on. That’s the first piece, that’s the first secret that I see people struggle with in lag.

The second one is a scientific thing, it’s called conservation of angular momentum. Sounds really fancy, it’s a really simple idea. We don’t have to memorize all these fancy formulas and that kind of stuff.

If my body, my arms and hands are rotating around a circle, I’m going to tend to keep this same angle. If you took a fan, a ceiling fan, tie a string to your ceiling fan if you want to try this out.

Turn that ceiling fan on, the ceiling fan blade is going to be turning around at a constant speed around a circle. Then that string is going to come in a constant angle as it whips around there.

It’s going to be at an angle like this, somewhere in this kind of range, and it’s going to keep on going, and that angle’s going to stay pretty constant the entire way around, doesn’t change very much.

But when you turn that ceiling fan off, or if you were to go up there and grab that ceiling fan with your hand, and stop that main blade in its tracks, you would see that string whip on past it.

So the reason that happens, is you have momentum as you’re swinging this club down. Tons of momentum built up in this club head in your downswing.

As we decelerate our hands, or slow down our body, that’s going to want that club to whip on past. It wants to keep that momentum and it wants to keep on accelerating.

There’s enough force there that there’s nothing you could do in your hands and arms to be able to stop that force.

So when we’re doing this, when you come down to impact, when we talk about the straight-line release, that point that’s 45° out in front, my hips and shoulders have to be going to that point out in front as I release this club.

If my hips stall out, and they stay back here, and I try to hit the wall, all that momentum’s built up and I’m going to flip.

I have to get my hips and shoulders to keep on rotating through so that when they do decelerate up here, that’s in time for this momentum to be released on out in front.

That’s what all the pros are doing. The pro’s club does flip, it just happens out in front of the golf ball. If this was impact, their club would be releasing out there.

If we take that same angle and we take it down to a golf ball, now we’re doing the same thing. That angle is releasing on out in front of the golf ball.

So now what I’m going to do is I’m going to make a couple slow-motion swings, and I want you to notice those two things.

Number one, in the transition my club is going to be shallowing out. Number two, when you’re looking from face on video, my hips are going to continue rotating until you see those above 45° in front, then my hips slow down.

Do a little drill here, where as you’re at impact, I want you to pause and I want your hips to be open about 45° toward our straight-line release in the Top Speed Golf System. Then let that come on through.

You’re going to pause, you’re going to come down again. Pause again, and then we’re going to go ahead and try to swing on through, recreating that same feeling.

Do about 20 or 30 reps, shallowing this club out, left wrist nice and flat, getting that club to almost even a little bit bowed there would be fine.

Do 20 or 30 reps doing that, and then we’re going to take those same 20 and 30 reps, this is a first check point. The second check point, shallow and now I’m looking at my hips, they are open, that looks really good.

I’m going to do that 20 or 30 times to get that feeling of coming through contact, then I can go ahead do another 20 or 30 swings full speed, but just a practice swing.

So let’s go ahead and put these together, I’ll show you a couple slow motion videos, and you’ll be able to see this in some good detail.