Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "You Can't Help But Have Lag When You Do This"

Ever feel like there’s a missing key to getting lag & shaft lean into your swing?

It actually boils down to one thing… “momentum.”

You’ll be shocked that this little-known secret not only allows you to get the lag & shaft lean you’ve been dreaming of…

…it’ll also help you compress the golf ball!

Trust me, this video is a real eye-opener…

Ready to discover the secret behind an extraordinary swing?

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 12:08

Video Transcription:

All right, so in this video, I'm going to talk about how to have a tremendous amount of lag late in the downswing where it matters the most, and to finally get these hands leading in front of the golf ball, this lead wrist bowed toward the impact, and to get wrist angles and conditions that are completely elusive to 99% of the golfers, including myself for years and years.

It wasn't until recently that I finally figured it out. The most important thing that hinges on lag, shaft lean, compressing the golf ball, all that comes down to one thing, and it's momentum. Let me get into that here in a second. So first, let's talk about what the best players in the world are doing. As they're making a downswing, in the downswing, when their hands are in front of their right leg, they have this big angle on the club.

As they move through contact, their body opens up, and their hands are in front of the golf ball at impact. You'll often see this lead wrist pretty bowed. And then from there, they get into what I call the straight line release, which means that the club will very first split their forearms out in front.

So to do this, you have to have the right momentum moving through the golf ball and you have to have the right wrist angles and wrist set to be able to do that. And what's happening here, what most players are doing is they're getting to the top of the swing. They set their club very early. And then hammer on it hard from the start of the downswing.

Well, as my body rips open very hard, as I throw this club very hard, all my angles of lag get shot out. I don't have anything left through impact. And when my hands are in front of my right leg, usually I see players with their club shaft like this. that. When they're at impact, I see them with the club shaft straight up and down.

The ball rolls up the face and loses all kinds of consistency, compression, solid contact. It's just kind of a, a glancing blow versus the pros being here at impact. And the straight line release is happening at the golf ball instead of the straight line release happening. well through the golf ball. Well, here's a drill.

It's going to knock out all of that for you. What I want you to do is make a little half back swing with no wrist set at all. So we're going to go very little wrist set. And then as you start your downswing, I want to feel like this club is straight. So it's casting out. It almost has no lag. That would be here.

If I was at the ball, it's way wide like this. So the club's really wide. And then as you rotate your body open, I want you to feel like you get into this position where the hands are in front. Now what happens here is, because the club is casted out or doesn't have any lag in it, as you rotate your body open, it's going to naturally start to lag back.

The opposite of that would be me picking the club up with my hands and arms, I have tons of lag in my backswing, and then I throw it out in the downswing. This is the opposite, no picking it up with the hands and arms in the backswing, and it lags in the downswing. So you're going to feel like, in relationship to your body, your club head is going this way as your body is opening up.

I know it's a crazy feeling, it's really going to feel odd to you, but that's what it's going to feel like as it opens up. It would look something like this. No wrist set, as I turn through, my hands are increasing the angle. Lead wrist bowing, right wrist is angled back. So I'll do that a few times. There's my downswing.

As I come through, I'm going to feel like my wrist stays bowed and my club head stays under my hands. Now, if you do this correctly, you can take a nine iron like I have here today, and it's going to come out low like a laser, and it's going to be one of the most solid shots you've hit. One little key area or one key thing to keep in mind while you're doing this, I'll get to it in a second, but first let me go ahead and hit one.

So wide as I rotate open. And then the club head stays below my hands as I'm coming through. Let's go ahead and give it a shot here. All right. That is low, low, low. So a little 58 yard shot is not going to go far when you're doing this, but it's going to launch incredibly low. So for a nine iron, the vertical launch angle or the angle that the ball leaves the ground is usually going to be somewhere in the ballpark of.

20 degrees, low twenties, something like that would be good. That one launched at 8. 9 degrees. And in fact, if I look at my dynamic loft or how much loft there was on the club at impact, if I go and look at my table here, it was 13. 7 degrees of dynamic loft. Now that may not mean a lot to someone, but your nine iron has about 40 degrees of loft on it naturally.

That means by doing the drill the way I did it there, I took from 40 degrees aloft all the way down to 13, right? So it's really, really de lofted. Basically means I have so much lag through contact. It's unbelievable. So again, I'm gonna go ahead and do that again. No wrist set, open the body as the hands lead the way.

And then the club head in the follow through stays below the hands here. It doesn't flip back up past the hands. Let's give it another shot.

Yeah, very low. Again, that one launched at 8. 3 again. These are not going to be really hard hit. Again, that one flew 55 yards with a nine iron. That's as hard as I can hit it doing this drill. Now here's the key to this. I don't want to be uppercutting the ball. What I mean by that is I don't want to feel like I'm doing this.

And hitting up on the ball this way. I want to feel like I'm hitting down on the ball and still getting a little bit of a divot or brushing the turf in front of the golf ball. So it's not a top spin upstroke. It's here lagging, getting down. And then my hands are staying, or my club head is staying below my hands.

So let's try that out again. And that may be as solid of a shot as I've ever hit in my life. It's perfectly compressed. The carry on that was 70 yards. That's the most I'm going to get out of this. I'd recommend starting out like 20 or 30 yards. The ball hit really low on this impact screen. So if we're looking on the screen, um, let's walk off how many feet I am away.

I'm about 15 feet. The ball hit below waist high on this impact screen. So you get a sense of how low that's coming out. If I go back and look at my launch monitor again, and I pull up the table. I'm looking at my dynamic loft of 14. 2. So I hit three shots, 13. 7, 13. 9, 14. 2. That's taking almost 30 degrees of loft off this club, which means that my club shaft.

is leaning forward as I hit this ball 30 degrees. That is an extreme amount. You're never going to do that much in a real shot. We're trying to exaggerate it as much as possible and then gradually work into a real swing. So do that for 30 or 40 reps until that ball is just coming out low. I also don't want you to feel like you're brushing us across the ball.

Like I'm holding off on this and it's just swiping across it. I want you to feel like as my, I get shaffling, my club is going through the golf ball and it'd be a nice little draw. You can see how all those shots drew from right to left. So basically I'm feeling like as my club comes through the ball, as I go past impact, my clubhead is going to release on the outside of the ball.

If you hit a slice, your clubhead is glancing and it's releasing on the inside of the golf ball. So basically my golf ball here, the club moves to the left across it. As I release with a draw, it moves to the right, to the outside of it. That's how you hit a draw. If I move it squarely through it, it's going to be a straight shot.

So no wrist set. Increase in the angle, hands stay below my, or the club head stays below my hands. And the most important thing, I'm hitting some turf. I don't want to feel like I'm uppercutting or drop kicking the shot. Let's go again. A little thin on that one. So that's one that I redo. I didn't get quite as much turf.

I tried to swing a little too hard. Yes, it launched it very low. I compressed it. It went 87 yards. This is a little too much. Let's go back off of it a little bit. And make sure that I'll get a little more turf as I'm hitting this. There we go. Perfect. Again, waist tie. One hit the screen 69 yards launched at 13.

9, just really compressing it. So once you get the feel for that again, 2030 shots, we're just going to build that up a little bit bigger. Let's go half swings. Now halfway back, very little reset. As I make a full swing, my body opens. I'm increasing the lag shaft lane. And then as I come through, I'm feeling like my club head stays below my hands as long as possible.

Now, if you're going kind of half backswing to have fall through, it's probably going to be level with your arms. Let's go ahead and give that a whirl.

There we go. Nice and solid. 131 yards with a nine iron. Really felt like I extended through that and the club lagged behind my hands the whole way. Again, not a glancing blow. If you're messing this up, there's two things that could be happening. One, I'm uppercutting the ball. That's going to be a glancing blow.

I need to get that divot. I need to get through the ball. Number two, I could be glancing across the golf ball rather than feeling like I'm hitting the golf ball and letting my club release out to the right of it. Now let's go three quarter swing back to here, really wide clubhead trailing behind. And then I'm going to be here where I feel like my arms and the club are in a straight extension with each other.

I'm not going to let this club fold back up, or I could be breaking down my angles, scooping through impact. This will keep a lot of compression on it. Let's give it a whirl. There we go. 157, nice and solid. I'd like to hit a little more turf, so this time I'll make a full swing, again, very little wrist set as I go back.

You feel like you're John Rahm, maybe. Club really high in the air, lagging, lagging, lagging through impact. And then it doesn't really set as you're coming on through, it feels like it's very long and extended. So this is almost a full swing here. And you'll notice as I get to that full swing, even though I feel like I'm here, it's naturally going to start to hinge back up as I come on through.

161 yards with a 9 iron. I don't think I can do any better than that. Now, finally, it's going to be a full swing. The only difference here in a full swing, I get a little more risk out of the top and I go ahead and let this relax and fold up in the fall through. I don't have to hold everything straight.

Let's try this out.

There we go. As good as I can hit a nine iron, 170 yards carry. Doesn't matter how far it is. It's about the compression. So whatever speed you're at, you're going to be hitting it a lot farther than you're used to using this technique. Now there's still one thing you have to do if you want to permanently get lag in your golf swing.

So you're going to go out there and you're going to do the drills from this video. You're going to hit it pretty daggone good, and you're going to forget about it. Sure enough, a few weeks rolls by. And you start to revert back to when you had less lag for the thousands and thousands of reps that we've done previous to this video.

Now, if you want to bake it in forever, you have to have a system that you follow. If you're a member of top speed golf, go to the instruction tab, top speed golf system, and go to the lag section. Now in level one, we're going to lay the foundation. You're going to hit some fantastic shots. You're going to have tons of lag.

It's all going to be feeling really good, but you still have to think about it every once in a while to make sure that you keep your lag and level two, you don't have to think about it quite as much. And by the time you get to level three, it's permanently in your golf swing. You just complete the drills exactly as I lay them out.

And you don't have to ever think about lag again after you get to level three. It's just going to be part of your swing DNA. If you want to think about it that way. Now, the very first step is to go to level one and just complete one video. It's all you have to do today. Go there right now, complete one video, and you'll be on your way to playing great golf for the rest of the time that you play golf period.

So I want you to have this fantastic swing. Start right now, level one. I'll see you there.