Why You Need This: Find out how to blast your shots in this special lag video, "Increase Golf Swing Lag Like This Top Speed Golf Co-Founder."

I bet you've been trying to get more and more lag in your swing.

Well, I don't blame you.

We all know it is a key to playing really good (and fun!) golf.

So, I've got a special treat for you in this video.

Most of you don't know our Top Speed Golf Co-Founder Josh Eaton.

Even though you don't see him as much as me, he's the real brains behind the tech stuff.

He makes all the magic happen on the website.

But he isn't just a whiz on the computer, he's also an avid golfer.

Let's take a look at how he creates huge amounts of lag in the golf swing, and find out how you can too!

P.S. Let Josh know what you think about his swing. He's been working hard on it!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 6:45

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, and welcome back to Top Speed Golf. I’ve got a special treat for you today, we’ve got one of our own, this is Josh Eaton, we’re going to do a little before and after here.

He’s actually a co-owner of Top Speed Golf. He’s the guy behind the scenes that makes the website work, does all the hard work, and basically lets me take all the credit for it. Great guy, really been working hard on his swing, and making some good improvements here as of lately.

We’re going to talk about how you can improve your lag, how you can get your straight line release farther out in front so that you’re getting those clean, crisp compressed shots, and how you can do this as quickly as possible. So some good tips to implement these things in your game.

If that sounds good to you, let’s go ahead and get started.

All right guys, so let’s take a look at Josh’s swing. If we look at the video here on the left, we’ll notice he’s got a nice, wide takeaway, getting a pretty good shoulder turn, really a nice looking backswing at the top position.

Now this is the before video, he’s doing a lot of things right here. What we’ll start to notice a difference in though, and for those of you who’ve been watching The Move series, so I released a video today which was video number two in The Move series which is how to compress the heck out of the golf ball.

We talked about really a position that’s going to get you, or a motion that’s going to get you a lot more forward shaft lean and a lot more lag.

We’ll notice in this video how the left wrist is just slightly cupped here, and he’s got a decent amount of lag, a pretty good amount of lag there.

But as we continue down to the bottom of the swing, we’ll notice that he starts to get rid of this just a little bit early.

So if we pause when the hand is just in front of, excuse me, the left hand is in front of the right leg, the right thigh, we’ll see that he’s lost a little bit of his lag. As we continue on through here, we’ll see that he releases the club a little bit early.

So those of you that follow the straight line release, we know we want this club to split the forearms for the very first time about 45° in front, which would be somewhere out in here.

He’s releasing the club a little bit early in front of the golf ball, when you don’t release the club late enough, it gets tough to get enough forward shaft lean and it gets tough to have that nice, smooth compression on the golf ball as you’re coming on through.

If we can get that club to release a little bit farther in front, it makes it easier to get good, solid hit shots and well-compressed shots.

Let’s go back here, we’re going to pause the video when the left hand’s in front of the right leg. Now he worked on a couple things here, but the main thing he worked on was the video from The Move, squaring that face up early, bowing those wrists, he’s making a little bit of a half swing.

I think this is a great way to work on your swing when you’re not really comfortable with the motion. What we’re going to see here, little shorter backswing. He’s almost getting the same distance.

I bet he was hitting these little half backswing shots almost 10-15 yards shorter than a full swing all the way to the top, because he’s hitting the ball really nice and solid.

But notice how his left wrist starts to bow there. Let’s actually go back to where that same position in the video on the left. We can see how this left wrist is starting to bow a little bit

If we go a little farther down, let’s actually get where we can very first see the club head. A little tough to see, the club head is a little bit open there. You’ll notice here how that club head is already starting to shut down.

The earlier you square the face with this move that we go over in The Move series, the earlier you bow that left wrist to shut the face, the less you have to close the face later in the swing.

It’s kind of like pre-squaring up the club to make it really easy to get the club to release and not have to worry about kind of timing up the rotation of the face. So that’s really nice.

Then as we continue down in the swing, we’re going to pause at the same point here, now when his left hand is in front of his right thigh, and we’ll see just how much lag he’s picked up.

As we start to go here, this is the same point in the swing, look at that sharp angle, almost a little above parallel with the ground. Then here he’s lost that a little bit. Then we’ll go on through to when he gets in his straight line release on the video on the left.

We can see that’s about a foot and a half or so in front of where the ball was. This on on the right, another video for those of you that are All Access Members, it will really help you out with this.

There’s a video called the Pet the Grass Drill, that’s video 1.4 in the straight line release, and we talk about having the palm of the right hand kind of facing down to the ground.

If he was to open up his fingers, the palm of the right hand would kind of feel like it’s here facing down toward the turf, and that’s really going to allow him to maintain this angle too.

We’ll also notice like we talked about in The Move video, look how the left wrist here is almost a little cupped. We’ll see the left wrist here in the same position in the swing, is bowed down to the ground.

Look how much more forward shaft lean he’s got, he’s really going to compress that golf ball a lot easier from that position. Then if we go on through to the straight line release, we’ll see that he’s basically nailing that here.

Even though it’s a half swing, he’s getting 90 percent of his distance, and he’s really working on these moves, he’s going to be able to take it back up to a full speed swing, and then he’s going to crank it up there another 15-20 yards farther, which would be great.

We can see the difference there in when he was releasing the club. So that’s really nice.

Those are the three videos that I would work on, or excuse me, the two videos I’d work on. Then I’d add one more that I’ve had a lot of people have success with when they’re working on getting more lag.

That’s video number 1.2 in the lag section. What we’re going to do in this video is in the downswing – let’s go ahead and take it all the way to about half way down – what we’re going to do is we’re going to keep that club pointing behind the ball as late in the downswing as we can.

So even though he’s right about here, well into the downswing at this point, if we drew a line from the shaft of this club it’s still pointing almost behind the ball. We’ll go one more frame back. There we go. Now we’re pointing behind the ball.

We’re going to try to keep that club pointing behind the ball as late as we can in the downswing. That’s really going to help us to have a big angle of lag, and to get that lag angle a lot easier.

One thing to keep in mind as you’re watching The Move video, and you guys are pairing that up with the video, the stick behind the ball drill, that’s 1.2 in the lag section, just because the club is pointing behind the ball doesn’t mean that it cannot flatten out.

We don’t want this club straight up and down, he’s actually flattening that shaft to where the club shaft at this point would actually be pointing somewhere out here outside of the golf ball.

Really good improvement Josh. I know he’d appreciate it, he’s been working hard on the game. Why don’t you guys post some comments on what you think about Josh’s swing, and some great improvements he’s done. I think he would appreciate that, and we’d all appreciate that too.

He puts a lot of hard work in on the site, and there wouldn’t be a site without him. Anything you can say to Josh would be great, I know he’d appreciate it, and we look forward to seeing you guys very soon.