Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "Learn to Lag the Easy Way - Understanding the Shaft in Transition"

In today’s video, Michael Derr will join me…

…and he’ll go over a downswing move that’ll add tons of lag to your swing with the help of an easy drill.

In fact, players of all skill levels were able to use this drill successfully…

…because it makes visualizing lag much easier!

Ready to discover this revolutionary way to get tons of lag in your swing?

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    Michael Derr    

Video Duration: 5:09

Video Transcription:

Clay: Hey, it's great to have you here today. I'm joined with top speed golf certified instructor, Michael Durr. We're talking about lag and he had a great point, a really good drill that I liked a lot on getting lag. He's had some great success with his students and we just wanted to share it with you. So what's your favorite lag drill?

Michael: 

I think it's more of a, it's, it's a drill slash. It also teaches you how to understand how it works in the swing. Um, let me grab a alignment stick here. Uh, so if you understand the extension of the club, it's, it makes it a lot easier to understand a lot of things in the swing. So lag, uh, definitely a very, very easy one to visualize.

So when I'm working with my online students. Uh, this is, if they ever ask me, you know, any kind of detail on lag, this is what we go over. And this is a very, very easy way to see it. So, because it just makes it as simple as understanding the extension of the club in relationship to your lead arm. So, um, what we start doing to learn lag is we take a little half backswing and we understand that in transition, which is when we stop going back and we start going forward, basically when we transition in from the backswing to the downswing, what we simply want to do.

And this is so easy is we want that stick to move away from the arm. So the most common mistake I see with this is players will get the stick to move away from the arm, but when they transition, that stick starts coming back towards the arm. We actually just want to see that stick move away from the arm in transition.

So if you think about taking a little half backswing, and as my hands are going down to the ball, because this is almost kind of a little counterintuitive to especially players that flip at the ball, if I take that stick and move it away from my arm in transition, that's me. lagging the club. Now, that's very easy to see in the half swing, but that's why we use the reference point between the stick and the arm at the top of the swing.

Because now we don't have to worry about what direction it's going. We just want it to move away from the arm. So when I go to the top of the swing and I transition, if I can just get that stick to move away from my arm and transition, then that gives me a perfect lag move. And if we train it in the half swing and feel it in the half swing, you just literally do the same thing in a half swing.

As you would a full swing. 

Clay: Yeah, I like that a lot too, because what's really going on there from the entire body. So go, just do the backswing piece again. The half backswing? Yeah, half backswing and then pause. So what should be happening in the body here is as he shifts to the left, his body should open up while the upper body, so his hips, his torso, all that is going to be opening toward the target and the weight is going to the left.

But his shoulders and the arms are staying kind of lagging behind. So the lower body is in the way, this is lagging behind. Well, the best way to do that is to create a little more space between this angle. So he's naturally, you know, it's like almost intuitively, if you said increase the space in that, it's real difficult to do without moving your weight shift.

Michael: Players almost do this intuitively because you start your downswing, but if you're moving the stick away from your arm in transition. Then everything starts to, basically, you're allowing this to lag, which would be the point of lag, lag behind you, building lag.

Clay: So I almost visualized, like, go, go do that again, pause at the backswing.

So if I took this belt buckle here, and I said, okay, go ahead and shift your weight to the left and open your hips, it's almost like this is opening. Or if I had this belt buckle, I'm pulling it, or this belt loop, I'm pulling it this way, as he shifts to the left, go ahead and do that one more time. So it's almost like weight shifts, and I'm pulling it that way, and the club's lagging behind, that naturally gets that big angle.

Michael: And I think... Like we just talked about, you're probably going to do that anyways. It happens so much, so often, if you, if just understanding that, I see it all the time.

Even, um, I have all players of all levels that, I mean, crazy flip the club, but when they start learning the stick away from the arm, almost like we said, almost intuitively, the body starts to work ahead of the club, which is what we want to have happen.

 

Clay: Yeah, I love that. I think that's great. All the question. This is a great drill. I really like it. I don't know if I'm doing it right. I look at my swing on video and I can't tell if it's exactly what it's supposed to look like. Well, the best thing there, even better than watching these videos, which are great, but I'm not going to lie.

It's better to have a coach that knows exactly what you should be doing to see your swing and give you the perfect recommendation of how to tie it all together. And then repeat that process. You get better and better and you're hitting it fantastic. Well, that's exactly what Michael does in his online swing review program.

He can become your personal coach, you guys work together, you send him your video, he tells you the exact way to do the drill. He can mention some small things in there that'll make a world of difference that are very very simple to do to make it effortless, right? And the only way that he can do that is by being able to see your swing and that's exactly what this program is.

So if you want to sign up to work with Mike on his swing reviews, he's got a few spots open right now. He usually only releases those once a month, maybe once every two months. So you want to take advantage of it. Uh, these spots won't last very long. So click the button below this video. If you do go to that page and they're already sold out, I apologize for that.

I can't emphasize enough. Make sure you get on his waiting list. A lot of times when he opens spots, it'll just go to the waiting list. They'll already sell out from there. So you want to be on that waiting list. That way you don't miss out next time. If they are sold out this time, best of luck. Thanks for doing the video with me, Michael, and sharing your lag drill.

I know I know you're going to love it.