The Mysterious Lag In The Golf Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles
The Mysterious Lag In The Golf Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles

Again as we strive to simplify the golf swing for a lot of golfers who’ve got too many confusing complicated swing thoughts going on, we've got to look at what's happening during the downswing enough. We've got these good setup, we've got these nice turn back; what's going to happen during the downswing in a way that we can maximize the power. Why the golfers on TV are able to hit the ball so hard with what looks to be a simple golf swing. Yeah, we as amateur golfers struggle to generate the power.

The issue could be in lag. So, what is lag, you know some of you think it's a mysterious turn that the guys on the TV talk about, but you're not sure what it means. So, if I setup to this ball I don’t have any lag here. As I swing up to the top of the back swing I create lag, simply meaning the angle of the shaft and the angle of my lead arm are now different, so this is degrees of lag. So, during the backswing the club will quite naturally hinge up into a good position to create lag. If you're very stiff and straight on the backswing you're not creating any lag there is no lag for the downswing you're going to struggle with power. So, most golfers as they cock their wrist into the backswing will create degrees of lag, so if that’s the lag angle, that’s what we’re talking about. Now that’s lag on the backswing. We also want to see an amount or degrees of like coming into the downswing because you could consider lag as effectively power, it's potential power that’s stored up ready to use at the right point. So, we set it here, we store it here, we bring it down towards the golf ball and then we release it. Now a golfer that releases the lag angle at the right time will be classed as quite an efficient player, quite a powerful player and one of those players that appears to hit the golf ball a long way without really looking like they’re trying particularly hard. On the flipside of that is a golfer that’s very inefficient. It looks like they’re trying to battle the golf ball but never really gets any real distance. They’re probably using their lag in the wrong place or effectively wasting the potential power, wasting the lag, so if we’re swing up to the top with lag and then they’re releasing the lag too early and hitting all the way through without a lag. So it can sound like quite a complicated term, but if we’re trying to make your golf swing as simple as possible and also as efficient and powerful as possible, we need to create lag, hold on to lag and release the lag all at the right time and the lag is one of the reasons why golfers at the best, the best golfers in the world or golfers at the top of their game can make an efficient also simple looking golf swing make very, very powerful swings. 2016-10-13

Again as we strive to simplify the golf swing for a lot of golfers who’ve got too many confusing complicated swing thoughts going on, we've got to look at what's happening during the downswing enough. We've got these good setup, we've got these nice turn back; what's going to happen during the downswing in a way that we can maximize the power. Why the golfers on TV are able to hit the ball so hard with what looks to be a simple golf swing. Yeah, we as amateur golfers struggle to generate the power.

The issue could be in lag. So, what is lag, you know some of you think it's a mysterious turn that the guys on the TV talk about, but you're not sure what it means. So, if I setup to this ball I don’t have any lag here. As I swing up to the top of the back swing I create lag, simply meaning the angle of the shaft and the angle of my lead arm are now different, so this is degrees of lag. So, during the backswing the club will quite naturally hinge up into a good position to create lag. If you're very stiff and straight on the backswing you're not creating any lag there is no lag for the downswing you're going to struggle with power.

So, most golfers as they cock their wrist into the backswing will create degrees of lag, so if that’s the lag angle, that’s what we’re talking about. Now that’s lag on the backswing. We also want to see an amount or degrees of like coming into the downswing because you could consider lag as effectively power, it's potential power that’s stored up ready to use at the right point.

So, we set it here, we store it here, we bring it down towards the golf ball and then we release it. Now a golfer that releases the lag angle at the right time will be classed as quite an efficient player, quite a powerful player and one of those players that appears to hit the golf ball a long way without really looking like they’re trying particularly hard. On the flipside of that is a golfer that’s very inefficient. It looks like they’re trying to battle the golf ball but never really gets any real distance. They’re probably using their lag in the wrong place or effectively wasting the potential power, wasting the lag, so if we’re swing up to the top with lag and then they’re releasing the lag too early and hitting all the way through without a lag.

So it can sound like quite a complicated term, but if we’re trying to make your golf swing as simple as possible and also as efficient and powerful as possible, we need to create lag, hold on to lag and release the lag all at the right time and the lag is one of the reasons why golfers at the best, the best golfers in the world or golfers at the top of their game can make an efficient also simple looking golf swing make very, very powerful swings.