What Lag Looks Like During The Golf Swing (Video) - by Peter Finch
What Lag Looks Like During The Golf Swing (Video) - by Peter Finch

We need to understand what a lag looks like throughout the downswing, and throughout the whole swing. It's very easy to point to positions and to stop at certain positions and say this is where the wrist should be. This is what you should be looking like. But then to actually produce it during a golf shot is quite hard. This club is moving upwards of a hundred miles an hour with some players. So to control wrist position and to check it half way through a downswing, it's often very, very difficult. Now there are a number of drills that you can use. This is one that you can use with your practice swings. If you can put the alignment stick all the way down to your shaft as well, it is something you can use while you're hitting shots. But then make sure it's a very thin alignment stick and a club that you don't like too much.

But to give you a visualization of what you should be looking like in a drill that you can use throughout the swing is get an alignment stick and just bring it. So it's pretty much half way down the club. So you've got I’d say about the grips with the alignment stick sticking at the top end here. You can actually get the specific attachments for this, specific drill attachments for this, but this is very simple to use on a practice swing. It’s getting yourself setup and try to take your grip as normally as possible but obviously it's going to feel weird if you kind of grip it into the side of the club. So just using that grip length just ahead. Now as you get setup here what you want to be doing is putting the club down and just seeing where it contacts the belt buckle. So you can see here it’s contacting my belt buckle just where the yellow mark is on the alignment stick. So I'm getting setup, a yellow point on my belt buckle. As I move away I am going to be turning on to the top of the swing and trying to get as much hinge in my wrists as possible, so a normal full backswing position. And you'll notice here how the alignment stick is pointing out directly behind me. Now as I move down the sensation that I want to be getting is that, that alignment stick is pointing out and beyond the ball. So here where my hands are pointing straight down at the point of impact, my alignment stick and my shaft is pointing out towards the target. As my lag unleashes and as it unwinds as my wrists are uncocked all of a sudden this alignment stick is pointing outside my left hip. So I’ve gone from a point where it’s pointing up towards my body away from the target, towards the target and then beyond my left hip. Using a drill like this will give you the sensation of what a lag should like, yes. But also what it should feel like within the swing, because if you are doing this at full pace, it's easy enough to get those feelings. It's easy enough to get those sensations. But what you don't want to be doing is constantly stopping throughout the whole swing. It’s much easier to use something like this to get the sensation and to get you used to extra lag without stopping and pausing throughout the entire swing. 2016-08-26

We need to understand what a lag looks like throughout the downswing, and throughout the whole swing. It's very easy to point to positions and to stop at certain positions and say this is where the wrist should be. This is what you should be looking like. But then to actually produce it during a golf shot is quite hard. This club is moving upwards of a hundred miles an hour with some players. So to control wrist position and to check it half way through a downswing, it's often very, very difficult. Now there are a number of drills that you can use. This is one that you can use with your practice swings. If you can put the alignment stick all the way down to your shaft as well, it is something you can use while you're hitting shots. But then make sure it's a very thin alignment stick and a club that you don't like too much.

But to give you a visualization of what you should be looking like in a drill that you can use throughout the swing is get an alignment stick and just bring it. So it's pretty much half way down the club. So you've got I’d say about the grips with the alignment stick sticking at the top end here. You can actually get the specific attachments for this, specific drill attachments for this, but this is very simple to use on a practice swing. It’s getting yourself setup and try to take your grip as normally as possible but obviously it's going to feel weird if you kind of grip it into the side of the club. So just using that grip length just ahead. Now as you get setup here what you want to be doing is putting the club down and just seeing where it contacts the belt buckle.

So you can see here it’s contacting my belt buckle just where the yellow mark is on the alignment stick. So I'm getting setup, a yellow point on my belt buckle. As I move away I am going to be turning on to the top of the swing and trying to get as much hinge in my wrists as possible, so a normal full backswing position. And you'll notice here how the alignment stick is pointing out directly behind me. Now as I move down the sensation that I want to be getting is that, that alignment stick is pointing out and beyond the ball. So here where my hands are pointing straight down at the point of impact, my alignment stick and my shaft is pointing out towards the target. As my lag unleashes and as it unwinds as my wrists are uncocked all of a sudden this alignment stick is pointing outside my left hip.

So I’ve gone from a point where it’s pointing up towards my body away from the target, towards the target and then beyond my left hip. Using a drill like this will give you the sensation of what a lag should like, yes. But also what it should feel like within the swing, because if you are doing this at full pace, it's easy enough to get those feelings. It's easy enough to get those sensations. But what you don't want to be doing is constantly stopping throughout the whole swing. It’s much easier to use something like this to get the sensation and to get you used to extra lag without stopping and pausing throughout the entire swing.