Why You Need This: Today you'll discover "The Secret to Lag in the Golf Swing"

After watching all the pros, you probably already know that you need to create lag in the downswing...

...but how the heck do you do it?

You've probably had an instructor tell you what you need to do to get lag...

...but you may not have been told what it is that you need to "feel" to generate it.

Today you're going to learn the secrets held in your fingers to FINALLY create a ton of lag...

...and then release it for that extra whip of power!

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 7:29

Video Transcription:

Clay Ballard: Now we all want to have tons of lag. You see basically every single pro golfer out there with this crazy angle of lag and then hitting it with tons of speed, tons of forward shaft lean coming through contact. How in the heck do they do that, and why are my hands marked up like this?

Well, a lot of times in the golf swing we’re talking about what’s happening with the club, but we’re not talking about what you actually feel.

In this video, I’m going to talk about exactly what you need to feel in your hands to create lag. The red is the bad things that you don’t want to feel, the green is the good things, I’m going to walk you through it step by step so that you know for sure how to create lag once and for all.

Let’s go ahead and get started.

All right, so let’s start with the right hand. Now you’ll notice there’s two red markers on there, this right thumb and my right index finger.

If I’m looking at where I grip this club, you’ll notice that the red markings are farthest away from the butt-end of the club. When I swing, it’s very easy to lose this lag pushing on the end or this side of the grip here.

So as soon as I start my downswing, what feels natural and the reason that you’re probably losing lag right now, is that as soon as I start down, if I push with my right thumb and right index finger, that feels like I’m doing a lot. I’m moving this club a lot.

It feels like it’s very powerful. But in reality, when I look at it from the down the line view, as I push with this right index finger, that’s what starts to kick this club a little bit steep.

So if you’re a little bit steep that’s where you’re actually putting pressure into the club, too much pressure into the club, too early.

Also with this right thumb, as I start to push away from the target, that kicks the club out and again, it feels like I’m doing tons and tons of effort.

It feels like I’m putting a lot of power into the club, but all I’m really doing is losing club head speed. I’m burning up that club head speed too early.

So the right index finger and this right thumb, I want to feel like they’re completely passive as I start my downswing.

Now the second piece, this yellow here in the middle of my right hand, my right middle finger, that one I want to use sparingly.

If you’re going to feel some pressure in your right hand, and as you’re right-handed you’re probably going to, I want to feel it mostly in these middle two fingers, my middle finger and my ring finger there, but I even want to use the right middle finger sparingly.

So that’s not on this side of the club. See if I really can’t push this club, my hand is on it this way, I can’t push this club out with that middle finger. It’s only this index finger and the thumb that can push that club out.

So if I’m casting it, there’s no way to cast this club unless it’s coming from one of these two red fingers. The middle finger I want to use sparingly, though.

What I should feel is this ring finger in the right hand. I want to feel like as I go to the top of the swing, it’s almost dragging this club out this way.

So I almost feel like I’m taking my middle finger and dragging it across the grip like this, and that pulls it out to give me a lot of whip.

Now when I do that, that’s going to allow me to create some lag, I feel like I’m going this way. As my body opens, my club is moving that way, and I have this big, sharp angle. I feel most the sensation, again, from that green finger just dragging the club out.

Now once I get about half-way down, that’s when the real magic happens. That’s when these left three fingers realy kick in and this is what creates a ton of club head speed.

So as I start my downswing, now I’ve got all this lag built up, but it doesn’t do me any good if I just hold on to it all the way trough contact. I’m not going to get that whip of speed at the bottom.

The speed comes from taking this grip when it’s kind of parallel to the ground here, and you can imagine when my club is parallel to the ground, my hands are already in front of my right leg. The club head’s way back here.

Now what I want to do is I want to take this grip, or where my bottom three fingers are there on the grip, I want to take that club that’s now parallel with the ground and I want to make it vertical with the ground as quickly as possible.

What that’s going to do, is that’s going to kick this club and push it forward or pull it forward if you want to call it that, whip it forward 90°. It’s going to happen in a very short period of time.

It’s going to happen from when my hands are in front of my right leg here, to when my hands are in front of my left leg, it’s going to be vertical.

It’s those bottom three fingers that are making that happen. I want to feel like I’m taking this grip and I’m almost popping the end of this grip off. If this shaft was any weaker, if it wasn’t as strong as it is, the steel wasn’t as strong, I would feel like I just snapped that off.

Like I’m going to take this grip and just pop it, and the grip is going to snap into two pieces. That pressure is coming from these bottom three fingers turning back up.

So if you imagine I have a golf club or a fishing pole in my left hand, I have these three fingers now, when I pull down that’s going to whip that forward. That’s going to cast this club and casting is good as long as it’s at the bottom of the swing.

So to recap the big points here. The red fingers are the only ones that can cast and cause you to lose lag here. I want to use this pinky finger to drag it across the club.

Then from there, once I get this lag it does me no good unless I get rid of it. I’ve got to take those bottom three fingers and let that really rip off the club.

Let me go ahead and hit one and I’ve got one more piece that’s incredibly important to making all this happen.

Oh, man! I cannot hit one any better than that. That was a really nice, solid shot. But I mentioned that there’s one more piece to this. It’s not just about the lag and release where you put pressure in the hands.

That’s a big key to it, but there’s another piece that’s just as important if not more important. That’s loading up in the backswing. You see, if I don’t load up properly, my body can’t create this power.

The most common thing that I hear is players telling me, I’m not flexible enough. I’m too tight. I don’t feel like I can control it when I really load up my body, I just don’t know how to do it properly.

Well, there’s actually some tricks to being able to do that the right way. It actually comes from your lower body. If I use my lower body correctly, then my upper body can turn. The more I load up, the more effortless speed that I have.

Now that’s what I call the Power Turn in the Top Speed Golf System. Once you’ve finished this video, you start to feel how you’re going to get lag better in the club, that’s half the puzzle.

Now go over to the Top Speed Golf System, go ahead and click the Instruction tab at the top of the home page when you’re logged in. Go to the Top Speed Golf System, then go to the Power Turn section.

Start working through those videos. When you put the Power Turn, and you start to learn how to use the lower body specifically in the right way to really load up, and you start getting this lag and releasing the club, that’s what makes the golf so easy.

If I can load, I can lag and release the club properly like we talked about here. That’s what makes swings look so effortless.

That’s what makes the club head speed seem like it’s almost impossible to get that high and looking that smooth. That’s exactly what we want to do.

So, now that you’ve got started with The Lag section, go to the Power Turn, work through those drills, and I can’t wait to share you the secrets that are going to make it so much fun to play golf.

I’ll see you in the Power Turn.