Understanding The Concept Of Lag In A Golf Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles
Understanding The Concept Of Lag In A Golf Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles

For a golfer to get maximum distance on any of their shots, we've got to have all the different components of the swing working in unison. Now one of the areas I feel a lot golfers loose out on a bit of power is decide there that they're not lagging and then releasing the golf club correctly. So the idea of the lag and the release is that we maximize power right down here at the golf ball. So to start with this drill, I'm just going to hit that ball only using my lag. Literally no other effort is going to go into this shot apart from using my wrist from here to here. Which would be the lag that we could create in the golf downswing and release that we could create.

So just using the lag, I can hit that ball maybe 55, 60 yards something like that. Now that on its own isn't a massive deal of distance, but if you are loosing that much distance because you weren't correctly using this it would seem like a huge amount of distance. So if you're currently hitting your mid-irons around about 100, 120 yards because you're doing everything you can to hit the ball as hard as you can with your arms and your body, but you are not correctly using the L-shape and the lag; then my 55 yards is probably the bit that you're missing. If we added my 55 yards back onto everything you're doing then there's massive potential increases in power and then you know whole increase in the benefit of playing the game better that you can hit a lot more short irons rather than hit a lot of long irons. So as a golfer we need to well understand how during the backswing we create width, we create L-shape. We hold on to the L-shape and then we release it at the bottom. And it's the releasing it at the bottom that a lot of golfers miss out on. If I create the L-shape, but then I use it very early I've got nothing left to really hit the golf ball with. Likewise if I create my L-shape, and hold on through all the way down, and don't use it at all then it didn't go to any use. I lost the power that I could have generated. It's a really good exercise for you to understand and feel what the lag and what the power is like using this L-shape is to do exactly what I did. Tee a few balls up, take a mid iron, and just hit them with your hands. So no body involved in this, hands back, flick through. Hands back, flick through. And you will feel you can probably generate 30, 40 even 50 yards just using that. Then incorporate that in your whole full swing and you'll find more distance on all your golf shots. 2016-10-19

For a golfer to get maximum distance on any of their shots, we've got to have all the different components of the swing working in unison. Now one of the areas I feel a lot golfers loose out on a bit of power is decide there that they're not lagging and then releasing the golf club correctly. So the idea of the lag and the release is that we maximize power right down here at the golf ball. So to start with this drill, I'm just going to hit that ball only using my lag. Literally no other effort is going to go into this shot apart from using my wrist from here to here. Which would be the lag that we could create in the golf downswing and release that we could create.

So just using the lag, I can hit that ball maybe 55, 60 yards something like that. Now that on its own isn't a massive deal of distance, but if you are loosing that much distance because you weren't correctly using this it would seem like a huge amount of distance. So if you're currently hitting your mid-irons around about 100, 120 yards because you're doing everything you can to hit the ball as hard as you can with your arms and your body, but you are not correctly using the L-shape and the lag; then my 55 yards is probably the bit that you're missing.

If we added my 55 yards back onto everything you're doing then there's massive potential increases in power and then you know whole increase in the benefit of playing the game better that you can hit a lot more short irons rather than hit a lot of long irons. So as a golfer we need to well understand how during the backswing we create width, we create L-shape. We hold on to the L-shape and then we release it at the bottom. And it's the releasing it at the bottom that a lot of golfers miss out on. If I create the L-shape, but then I use it very early I've got nothing left to really hit the golf ball with.

Likewise if I create my L-shape, and hold on through all the way down, and don't use it at all then it didn't go to any use. I lost the power that I could have generated. It's a really good exercise for you to understand and feel what the lag and what the power is like using this L-shape is to do exactly what I did. Tee a few balls up, take a mid iron, and just hit them with your hands. So no body involved in this, hands back, flick through. Hands back, flick through. And you will feel you can probably generate 30, 40 even 50 yards just using that. Then incorporate that in your whole full swing and you'll find more distance on all your golf shots.