Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "Never Do This One Thing When Trying To Get More Lag"

In today's lesson...

Professor Q will show you the extremely common wrist move...

...that could be crushing your ability to get lag the right way.

Plus, you'll find out the exact way you SHOULD be creating lag...

...so you can release the club at the right time and with a square club face.

Are you ready for that light bulb moment about how you should be creating lag in your swing?

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Quentin Patterson    

Video Duration: 10:10

Video Transcription:

We all want lag in this swing, but unfortunately I see a lot of golfers going about it in the wrong way. That actually makes you worse if you're trying to get lag in this way. So in this video, I'm gonna go over the proper way to get lag and what you really don't want to do if you're, if you're trying to get lag.

But first, let's understand exactly what lag is because I do think there are some differing opinions. I have seen a lot of in. That say, don't try to get lag, but really we need to try to get lag, but we just need to go about it in the right way. And I think most instructors would agree with my definition of what lag is.

I just think that some instructors have a little bit of a definition, different definition of what it is. So to me, what lag is is just the clubhead trailing the hands. It's just that's all it is. Right? So at address this club that's in front of my hands, it's neither trailing or ahead of my hands. This would be past my hands, right?

And this would be behind my. Trailing my hands, that would be lack. So when we look at tour players, what we're going to see is as they bring this club up to the top, they're going to gradually h this hinge this club and load it up and get it behind their hands. And what you see a lot of tour players do is even in the downswing, they get it more behind their hands.

I would say the majority of tour players are doing. This kind of motion as they're coming down. And that's the look that a lot of people are chasing. And we'll talk about what we don't want to do when, when we're doing that. And then from this lead arm parallel position, that's typically where we're gonna see the sharpest angle between that lead arm, the shaft, where that club is lagging behind the most.

And then from there, that club head is gonna start to catch up with the hands, but it's still, we still want it to lag behind the hands by the time we get to contact where the hands are going to be ahead of the golf ball. We're gonna have some shuffling, and then we're gonna release that club out in front.

This is where we've lost all of our lag. This is what we called the straight line release position at Toby Golf. And then after that is where the club ed passes the hands and now the club's kind of ahead of the hands after that, right? So that's really what lag is. You will see some players that bring this club up and then they don't really lag it much more as they come down to this position.

They. Keep it constant all the way to there. Dustin Johnson would be one of those players. We'll understand why that is here in a moment, and then as they come into contact, you'll see it gradually catches up, but you're gonna see that, that the club doesn't start catching up when you look at players until that lead arm is parallel to the ground.

Right with every single player, whether they are lagging it behind more as they're coming down, we're kind of keeping it constant. As they're coming down, the angle doesn't start to get bigger. They don't start to lose any of that lag until that lead arm parallel position. Some players it's later, like Sergio, it's a little bit later, Ben Hogan a little bit later.

But most players are gonna see, it's almost right at that lead arm parallel position in the down. So that's really what lag means. So now that we understand that, now we can go into the wrong way to get lag and the right way to get lag. So what we all wanna understand first is some wrist positions, right?

So this first one here is radial deviation. That is the thumbs pointing back up at you. That thumbs up. The opposite of that would be owner deviation. The thumbs going out away from you. You don't really need to know that right now, but just wanted to give you the opposite. And then we have wrist extension, and then we have wrist flexion, right?

So when I see players struggle with lag, what they're doing, or when I see players struggle with getting lag, but also doing it in the right way, what they'll do is they will cup their wrist to be able to create that lag. So I have a little test to kind of show you exactly what, what, what I'm talking about here.

So if you hold this club out in front of you, what I want you to do is put your. Cup it. Cup your lead wrist as much as you can. So get a lot of cup in there, extend it back, and then go into radial as much as you can. So basically cup it and then try to put your arm straight out in front of you. Then try to put it as close to you as you can.

So you can see there, I can get it, I don't know, six inches or so from my cap. Alright, from the, from the edge of the bill of my cap there. So now do the, , I want you to actually flex your lead wrist and then try to do the same thing. So I'm gonna flex my wrist and now I'm gonna try to do that same thing.

Well look arms straight out in front of me. I'm, I'm trying my hardest to get this to any closer to my cap, but look, I can't, so that's where LAD comes from in the wrong way. People are, Cupping their wrist a ton as they're coming down to try to get that angle, to create that angle. Now I can create a sharper angle coming down, but the problem is, is that if I cup my wrist a ton, that opens up the club face.

So imagine if I go up to the top here and I come down and that face is wide open. Well, I've gotta get this club face back to square somehow. So what I'm gonna do to do that is I'm gonna lose all my lag. I'm gonna throw the club cuz releasing your lag is a way to square up the face, right? So imagine if I had this face wide.

And I came into contact with lots of Shaline. Well, look at that club face. It's why I'm gonna hit the ball so far, right? It's not even funny. You're like, no house is safe if I'm doing that right. So what people will do, what I see golfers do is they'll get right here and then it's gonna be a stand up and early release of the club.

The club's basically passing in front of the hands, close to where the golf ball is. Very, very difficult to control that. And not to mention you're not gonna compress the ball very much. You're gonna struggle with your ground contact for shots, shots later off the ground. Cause it's gonna tend to one hit the ground before the ball when you do that.

So these are all things that we just don't want to do. And the golf swing, it just makes it a lot harder to play golf. You look at your swing, you're like, you love all this lag that you're getting, but unfortunately it's just making you worse because you don't have any control of, of what's going. . Now, I know people might say, Hey, there's some tour players that have a cupped wrist at the top, and there absolutely are.

One that comes to mind is Freddy Couples. Well, Freddy Couples has a long swing, right? He gets his hands way up there and when he is coming down, he has lots of time to kind of undo that cupping of of the wrist. And you can see he actually does that. When he gets up here, it's cupped. And then when he is coming down, he starts to kind of flatten out that wrist and he gets that club face in a good position by the time he comes down here.

If you have a longer swing and you're cupping your wrist and you're getting lots of lag, and you're able to get that club face in a good. You know, by the time it's parallel to the ground, then great. That's what Freddie Couples is doing. It works for him. It can work for you too. The issue with that is I just don't see a lot of recreational golfers that have a swing that's anywhere near the length of Freddie couples, nor do they have the ability to do what Freddie Couples does.

And I would imagine, I've never talked to Freddie about this, I haven't had the luxury of having a conversation with him about it, but I would venture to guess that he doesn't even know he's doing that. He just does it. Um, cuz it just feels natural to him. I don't recommend trying to groove that kind of thing into your swing cause it's just, you're just making things a little bit harder on yourself.

So if I'm not cupping my wrist right, where the heck does that crazy angle of lag come from? Well, it comes from three things. So one we've already talked about and that's, that's, that's that radial deviation. So we'll do kind of a split side by side, show the face on and the down line. But if I'm coming down and I got my.

Flattened out here. So it's not, it's not extended. It's not extended back or flex, right? It's in a nice flat position and I go into radial as much as I possibly can. You can see I can create a little bit less than a 90 degree angle with my club there. Well, if I do that and then I do the second thing, which is shallowing out the club.

Now look, I'm shallowing out the club. Now look, that angle has gotten smaller, right? The third thing is the change in direction of your. So if my hands are going this way, the club is trailing behind my hands and then I change direction of my hands, well, this club head's gonna have momentum that's also gonna create lags.

So if I put those three things together, I have maximum radio deviation, right? So that that's maximum thumbs up. I have shallowing of the club. I'm getting this club to shallow out nicely as I'm coming down and I am. I am getting a good change of direction in my swing. I'll show you. I can get a crazy almost Sergio esque, uh, angle of lag as I'm coming down.

So I'm just gonna go here, have this nice and flattened out. And that's one thing Sergio does really well. That's why he has a crazy angle. He shallows the club a ton more than about any other player, um, on the tour. So if we watch that there, so you can see how I'm creating a pretty cra I would imagine that looks, I mean, I feel like that's almost hitting my back shoulder.

and my l uh, wrist is staying flat as I'm doing this, and I'm just creating a change of direction there. So that's really how we want to create lag in the swing. So if you're working on your lag, make sure that you aren't doing it like this, that is going to be an issue. Now, I love making these videos because I know it can help a lot of golfers, but my favorite thing to do is to work with golfers one-on-one in my unlimited swing review program.

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