Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "This Lag Drill Will FINALLY Get You That EFFORTLESS Power In Your Golf Swing"

I'm sure you've heard people talk about an "effortless swing" or "easy distance"...

...and I'm sure that sounds great...

...but how do you get to a point where you can make this happen with your swing?

In today's lesson, Top Speed Golf instructor, Michael Derr shows you the perfect drill for increasing the efficiency of your ball striking...

...so you'll be able to swing much faster through contact with less effort!

Pay close attention to how you can use your hands to make the club feel weightless in your transition...

...and you'll be generating easy power in no time!

You'll have a huge advantage when your playing partners have to work twice as hard to get the same amount of distance.

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Michael Derr    

Video Duration: 9:40

Video Transcription:

So you wanna swing easier and hit it further. I'm sure you probably hear this all the time, that, uh, we want to have the effortless power in the swing. Now I can tell you one thing from just tons of personal experience, if you execute things correctly, like what we're gonna go over in this video, that is absolutely attainable.

And it, it's more or less just understanding the key principles of UN of how we're gonna transfer energy into the ball, which is efficiency. Getting the club head to enter into the ball correctly from the right angle, also with some easy speed. That's one of the things I'm gonna show you in this video, is one of my favorite, uh, my favorite drills.

For building lag in the swing. So what lag is going to do, um, and uh, just so that we have a very clear understanding of this, it's gonna do two things. It's not only gonna get us more speed, more energy that we can put into the ball, it also sets us up to attack the ball at the correct angle. So if I take the club back, and we're gonna do some drills here parallel to the ground.

And I just go straight to the ball without any lag. It's very difficult for me to compress this ball. Now if I just throw in just a little bit of lag, now I can get on top of that ball no problem. And I can see this beautiful angle coming down into the ball. It doesn't take much, but if it executed correctly, and even if you wanted to get a little bit more lag, we can put even more efficiency into the ball.

So this is what we're gonna get started. This drill on how to build lag in the swing, and it's, um, something I call the float load. And we can do, we're gonna start off this with half swings, get the, get the motion, and then put it all the way up into the full swing. If you follow this and you execute the feel, the sensation, we're gonna go over here.

Is guaranteed gonna give you more speed through the ball with less effort. So what we're gonna talk about first is how we build lag in the swing, which is gonna be a very simple concept if we take this club parallel to the to the ground, and we have the extension of this club so that you can see this done with an alignment stick all the time.

I can actually even grab an alignment stick here so that we have a very, very clear look at. . So have you've seen any of other lag videos? I always like to make sure that we understand this concept first. When we go into this parallel position, the extension of the stick needs to move away from my arm in transition.

That means when the hands stop going back and start going forward, this stick needs to move away from the arm. So if my hands don't go forward, the stick is going to go down. As my hands go forward, the stick is going to go down. That's going to be lag. That's a wrist set lag in transition. The club is lagging behind the.

Very important to understand that concept. Now, the float load is the feel that we're going to do to get this la So what I want you to do is I want you to stand straight up and down. and what, what we're gonna do is we're going to just like you have when you were a kid where you were like maybe swinging a baseball bat or a club or anything, and you're gonna feel this club get weightless in your hands.

So what I want you to do is lift the club up. You can feel the weight of it. Then I want you to kind of let the club float up in the air. Go ahead and throw the club head up in the air a little bit. And allow the hand to come down. You'll feel at some point this club's gonna feel weightless in your hand.

This is what we call the float load. The club's floating in transition. You can see I have no almost nothing. I can actually just put the tips of my fingers on this club and the club gets weightless. That's the sensation we're gonna use here. It's the flow load again. It's one of my. Drills. And uh, I tell you every time I do this, I end up absolutely just pounding the ball because I'm feeling like I'm swinging really easy, but the club head is just flying through there.

So what we're gonna do, first and foremost, we're gonna, we don't even need a ball at first. We're gonna take this club parallel to the ground. I want you to do that same thing we were doing with the one hands there is. I want you to feel the weight of the club head there. Then I want you to go ahead and throw the club up into, Well, the and, but I don't want your hands to move.

We're just gonna throw the club up into the air and we're just gonna do that a few times. Now when you throw that club up into the air, I want you to get a good feel for how that club's gonna go up in the air. A good thing to do at this point, just say a little extra bonus, is maybe curl the knuckles down a little bit to square that club face, kind of getting that, those knuckles to curl.

But we're gonna throw that club up into the air and then once you see that club start to go up in the air, I want you to unturn your body and allow the hands to go forward just a little bit. So we're gonna throw it up and. So throw it up in the air and turn, and we're gonna get a good feel for, as that club is going up in the air, we're gonna unturn our body.

That's the float load. If you're doing this correctly, the club will feel weightless in transition. That'll mean at some point here, if I throw this up, I almost feel like I don't feel the weight of the club until I kind of stop. So right here, when I'm demonstrating it, I don't feel the weight until now, until I stop there.

It almost feels like there's nothing back there that's gonna be the sensation. So we throw the club. Throw the club up and move forward, then I want you to start from the ground. Take the club up, throw it up, move forward. Take the club up till it's about parallel to the ground all in one motion. Now up and move forward, we can take some nice little easy swings and then all of a sudden we can start feeling that weightless transition.

And if you have that wait list transition, that club will lag behind you. Now what I want you to do is get a, get a ball involved here and hit some very nice, easy. First and foremost, feeling the float in the backswing, feeling the weightness weightlessness in the backswing. So we're gonna take a nice little easy swing here.

Just a nice little chip shot. Again. This one flew 10 yards right here. That's all we need. And we're gonna feel that weightlessness. So in that transition, I felt almost nothing. Now you could even there, I already could feel that I could easily move through that ball so much faster. So what we're gonna do now, once I got a good feel for that transfer, I'm gonna start putting a little bit more energy into this ball.

But I'm not going to feel anything different in transition. I feel want, still wanna feel that float load, um, in transition. So I want to feel that club being nice and light once that club is nice and light. I'm just gonna fire through with the. And allow everything to take care of itself.

So there I really didn't feel like I did much to it. I just kind of unturned a little faster. You can see that total distance was 1 31. Well, with the eight iron, it is just unbelievable how much energy you can transfer into this ball. Uh, when you allow this efficiency starts to take over, the risk can really, really add some juice into the swing, but they have to be done correctly.

Very important. So now what we're gonna do, Is, I'm gonna put a little bit more speed into this with a half swing and just cut. Again, this is not even full. I'm not trying to kill this ball or anything. I'm just going to allow myself to just make kind of a normal speed swing. So the first one was a easy chip shot.

That one I just tried to put a little bit of speed in. This would be kind of like what I would do on the course for like normal speed. with a little bit of the float load. So I'm gonna feel like I go parallel. You might go a little bit further than that, but I want you to always kind of feel like the club is parallel and floating around parallel to the ground, or maybe right around waist height level.

So just a nice little easy swing. Okay, tugged it just a little bit, but still a ton of energy in that ball. So that total distance right there, that's only like maybe like 10 yards or no, 10 feet left of the target there. So not too bad whatsoever. One 60. Total distance with an eight iron that is just absolutely pounded.

And that was a half swing. Like I said, when I shoot these, uh, these um, lag videos, I just tell myself all the time, I need to just keep working on this because it is just incredible. Because when you can swing easier and get that kind of efficiency, it becomes way easier. Cuz if I can swing easy and hit it farther, it's gonna be, I'm gonna be able to beat the player that swings hard.

Uh, so every single time, so let's just say for instance, if you're swinging easier and hitting it past your. You're, they're, you're gonna beat them every single time because they're having to work twice as hard to hit it the same distance. It's just very, very cool. So now what we're gonna do here is transfer this into the full swing.

Now we know when this club's parallel to the ground, that stick was moving away from the arm and transition. So I'm getting that float load when I go to the top of the swing, I still want that stick to move away from my arm in the float load. So I'm gonna feel like I start to unturn. But that club, I'm gonna allow that club to float.

I'm gonna feel. Nice effortless transition in transit. I still want to feel that weightlessness. If we don't feel the weightlessness, then we're gonna have a really hard time from the top of the swing, making sure we make the correct move. So just nice, easy feel from the top. Yeah, nice. Easy swing and all I'm gonna be feeling here is that nice weightlessness in transition

now. There we go. Wow, man, that felt fantastic. So that's 1 94 total distance with an eight iron. That's absolutely destroyed. And I, I, I promise you, I did not feel like I hit that, like crazy hard. I stepped on it maybe just a little bit more than a practice swing because like I could kind of feel that, that club loading, but that's just ridiculous energy transfer into the ball and it's only, you know, maybe about six feet right at the target, which is just.

Like just incredible. So you can see if you can get that easy speed, um, and you can transfer it in there, you can swing easier and hit it further. So if you, imagine if you're playing with your buddies or you're playing against in a tournament and you're swinging easy and hitting it 150 yards and your player has, you're playing partner or your competitor hits, it has to work twice as hard to hit at the same.

You're just gonna eat their lunch every single day because you're gonna have to work less hard, you're gonna be more efficient, and you're just gonna absolutely beat 'em up. And it's also one of those things where you get done with your round of golf, you might not be nearly as worn out because you're just easy swinging, destroying the ball around the course.

So I can guarantee you one thing, if you get this sensation of the float load, you're gonna get a ton more speed in the swing. There's obviously a couple other things you wanna make sure you're doing, like getting the club in the right spot on the downswing, coming into the ball from the right angles and whatnot.

But this is going to absolutely change the game when it comes to getting some lag in transition Now. Here's the deal, if I could actually see you with my own two eyes and I could actually help you work through any of those little things that might be cluttering up your way to allow this to work on the course.

So kind of cutting through the cl clutter so we can just cut to the chase and getting this onto the course as quickly as possible. Uh, we'd be able to work on that right away. So if you're seeing this video right now, that means I actually have some spots available in my unlimited reviews group where we work one-on-one on online.

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