Lag Drill - Lesson by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer
Lag Drill - Lesson by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer

In this video golf tip PGA golf professional Pete Styles and Matt Fryer share with you the process of improving your iron striking by creating a greater degree of lag into the golf ball impact area utilizing an L to L feet together golf drill. We aim to hold more lag towards the impact area. This coupled with driving the body towards the target should create a much greater degree of lag and therefore improved ball striking which will be most noticeable when using your irons.

Matt I think there's a term us golf coaches possibly like to overuse occasionally in can sometimes baffle the golfer even further reading or watching articles and videos and that's the idea of lag. It is probably a buzzword in the industry like to talk about creating lag using lag releasing lag. Golfers some time straight over their head give me a quick brief definition of how you lag. Yeah so lag is actually created when we get the club moving from one direction to another and it creates an angle between the lead arm and the club itself. So obviously we have a back swing and we have a downswing so as we go here we'll see someone you know your Sergio Garcia would be a really good aspect of that someone who creates a tremendous amount of lag in the downswing and like I say it's this angle that is created between the lead arm and the club here. So if a golfer doesn't use any wrist hinge or wrist cock they would be here no lag? As they add the wrist hinge wrist cock here in particularly in that transition that's where they will create it? Exactly. So what's the fault that's going to go off as how where they're maybe not using lag in the right fashion? OK so it's that it's spent I like to say spent a little bit too early in the downswing so as we see in transition to downswing it's created then when it's starting to come down this angle is lost very quickly so this angle between the lead forearm got to be 90 degrees and you feel you know you look at it you may have heard like the L. term so it looks like a letter L. What we're looking for is something where it's going to be held and then it's spent down and then created a little bit again into the post-impact. So you're talking about using the lag in the bottom half of the swing instead of releasing early which is the common bad shot.

OK so we know and this is we know why we need it give me a drill for how the amateur club golfer can get more lag and hold it the right way. OK so what we're going to do is going to place our feet very close together and you take your normal grip and from here we're going to make our back swing and what we want to see is sort of swing back to our lead across just 90 degrees horizontal to the floor. Then what we're looking for now I could say is this angle that's been created up here so it's the L. Then what we're going to try and do is swing down to where our hands are going to be level with the golf ball but we want to see now that we've still maintained this position. So would be going down and we would have been to the bit if you know where we've still got this L shape. So that would say like I'm about to hit the ball but the club still a long way away? Exactly that play and then from here I'd lose it so I go through and actually spend that angle and then as I come through I'm going to create it into my follow through that you'll see him more in the forward on camera looks like. So here down and in and hold it and head and throw and I've got that same another L shape that is shall we call it the L drill as you go through so we're looking that we can create 2 L positions as we go through not that we're going down and by the time the hands are level I've lost all the angles I created in my back swing. So if I gave you a little demo of that now me what we should do for getting you know some lag in the swing a really nice crisp strike.

Very clean contact nice little piece of turf just after the golf ball that was good. I'm amazed by how far that went with a short swing. Yeah because we're getting some club head speed we need to use lag in the right way and unload it at the right time to create maximum amount of club head speed. If we're losing its early in the downswing you've got you know you've lost everything that you created already on the down swing so the club head speed would be used there but also the ball is it so we want to hold the club head speed release the club at the course a whipping feeling. Yeah exactly you know you look at players like Ernie Els looks like you swings it super slow. Yeah his club head speed is like I think it's 94 miles an hour with a 6 iron exceedingly fast but he looks like he's giving it a bit of a pat but he's using these angles at the correct time to generate the most speed he can as opposed to if he were to just there. He is not going to create any speed in any good strike. So these good lag drills that Matt has talked us through would be ideal for golfers that feel like they are trying to hit really hard but don't get the distance they think they should because they're possibly mistiming using the lag in the wrong way. We also noticed when you've got a fantastic impact. So anyone fatting the golf ball and thinning a golf ball they could be using lag in the wrong way to go fat not using it in the right way and scooping up and going thin so if you're struggling with a strike and you're struggling with a lack of distance following these drills might be a much better way for you to gain the lag he used to like in the right way release it for better strike and longer iron shots.

2018-11-09

In this video golf tip PGA golf professional Pete Styles and Matt Fryer share with you the process of improving your iron striking by creating a greater degree of lag into the golf ball impact area utilizing an L to L feet together golf drill. We aim to hold more lag towards the impact area. This coupled with driving the body towards the target should create a much greater degree of lag and therefore improved ball striking which will be most noticeable when using your irons.

Matt I think there's a term us golf coaches possibly like to overuse occasionally in can sometimes baffle the golfer even further reading or watching articles and videos and that's the idea of lag. It is probably a buzzword in the industry like to talk about creating lag using lag releasing lag. Golfers some time straight over their head give me a quick brief definition of how you lag. Yeah so lag is actually created when we get the club moving from one direction to another and it creates an angle between the lead arm and the club itself. So obviously we have a back swing and we have a downswing so as we go here we'll see someone you know your Sergio Garcia would be a really good aspect of that someone who creates a tremendous amount of lag in the downswing and like I say it's this angle that is created between the lead arm and the club here. So if a golfer doesn't use any wrist hinge or wrist cock they would be here no lag? As they add the wrist hinge wrist cock here in particularly in that transition that's where they will create it? Exactly. So what's the fault that's going to go off as how where they're maybe not using lag in the right fashion? OK so it's that it's spent I like to say spent a little bit too early in the downswing so as we see in transition to downswing it's created then when it's starting to come down this angle is lost very quickly so this angle between the lead forearm got to be 90 degrees and you feel you know you look at it you may have heard like the L. term so it looks like a letter L. What we're looking for is something where it's going to be held and then it's spent down and then created a little bit again into the post-impact. So you're talking about using the lag in the bottom half of the swing instead of releasing early which is the common bad shot.

OK so we know and this is we know why we need it give me a drill for how the amateur club golfer can get more lag and hold it the right way. OK so what we're going to do is going to place our feet very close together and you take your normal grip and from here we're going to make our back swing and what we want to see is sort of swing back to our lead across just 90 degrees horizontal to the floor. Then what we're looking for now I could say is this angle that's been created up here so it's the L. Then what we're going to try and do is swing down to where our hands are going to be level with the golf ball but we want to see now that we've still maintained this position. So would be going down and we would have been to the bit if you know where we've still got this L shape. So that would say like I'm about to hit the ball but the club still a long way away? Exactly that play and then from here I'd lose it so I go through and actually spend that angle and then as I come through I'm going to create it into my follow through that you'll see him more in the forward on camera looks like. So here down and in and hold it and head and throw and I've got that same another L shape that is shall we call it the L drill as you go through so we're looking that we can create 2 L positions as we go through not that we're going down and by the time the hands are level I've lost all the angles I created in my back swing. So if I gave you a little demo of that now me what we should do for getting you know some lag in the swing a really nice crisp strike.

Very clean contact nice little piece of turf just after the golf ball that was good. I'm amazed by how far that went with a short swing. Yeah because we're getting some club head speed we need to use lag in the right way and unload it at the right time to create maximum amount of club head speed. If we're losing its early in the downswing you've got you know you've lost everything that you created already on the down swing so the club head speed would be used there but also the ball is it so we want to hold the club head speed release the club at the course a whipping feeling. Yeah exactly you know you look at players like Ernie Els looks like you swings it super slow. Yeah his club head speed is like I think it's 94 miles an hour with a 6 iron exceedingly fast but he looks like he's giving it a bit of a pat but he's using these angles at the correct time to generate the most speed he can as opposed to if he were to just there. He is not going to create any speed in any good strike. So these good lag drills that Matt has talked us through would be ideal for golfers that feel like they are trying to hit really hard but don't get the distance they think they should because they're possibly mistiming using the lag in the wrong way. We also noticed when you've got a fantastic impact. So anyone fatting the golf ball and thinning a golf ball they could be using lag in the wrong way to go fat not using it in the right way and scooping up and going thin so if you're struggling with a strike and you're struggling with a lack of distance following these drills might be a much better way for you to gain the lag he used to like in the right way release it for better strike and longer iron shots.