Using Your Wrists To Create A Pure Strike – by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer
Using Your Wrists To Create A Pure Strike – by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer

In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer show you how to create the desired amount of lag to better strike your golf shots by utilizing a split handed drill. This will create a feeling of maintaining a greater degree of lag and being able to maintain and hold that greater degree of lag all the way through the downswing and into impact.

One of the greatest joys in the game of golf has to be striking that all beautifully cleanly getting in that nice ball turf contact would you agree. Absolutely it is a great great feeling that when you experience it you want more of it, and certainly when you watch good players listen to good players go down to a driving range in a tournament and just see them striking that ball purely off the turf. The sound is there the feeling is that the ball flight is their club golfers can get more of that if they create a better impact position by creating more lag down into impact wouldn't you agree. Yes it's one of the terms I think that you know you hear talked about in the golf club bag in your fore ball. I saw a video on how to create more lag and I think understanding what lag is in why we need it and what how we're going to use it in the golf swing is our starting point and then what we're going to create when we get it. So first point there tell me about lag. What is lag? So lag if I would just to turn to the face on camera here is we've created our grip and we move the call backwards and we see that the her wrists are starting to hinge and we get to the top of the back swing. What we're going to see now is an angle created between the lead arm and the golf club shaft. Here we can see it looks something if I were to put it down to where my lead arm is horizontal looks something very similar to the lateral thats showed me less like less like would be something there and that was solely coming through the use of my wrist, and so if I've not got any change in my wrists we can say that there's no lag, and what we'll tend to see generally with you know you're a beginner golfer or your higher handicap a golfer. They may create some on the way back but then they tend to lose it very early in this casting motion. We hear a lot of and straight away we get into this position and the club is going to meet the ground a little bit too early and bottom out too early. So how much is ideally say 90 degrees itself? Yeah I'd look for 90 degrees as a you know rule of thumb if we could create 90 degrees each time that would be a good position to get into.

How much lag should I then hold Matt? I'm coming down towards the golf ball this way again we want to try and create it for people who are used you know losing too early. If we could try and see that we held 90 into the golf ball into this position where the hands now level with the middle of your chest if we can help 90 degrees that would be you know more than we've ever had and then we'd use it down into the golf ball. The point of impact is very little like it's not like I'm hitting it from this position and holding it and then releasing it like that it's like going to include increased club head speed. Yeah definitely a bit like cracking the whip almost if we were to you know have no like in the whip if we just held our wrist was we were using a whip it would be very tame if we think of a good whip crack. We really involve those wrists and it's just at that last minute we spend the angle that we've created and that's where it's all process the ball so far with what looks like a smooth action to crack the whip. Exactly yeah they have a very quick release of the hands and that angle that they've created sounds good. Now give me a drill for this but how do you get a drill for more lag. OK so going just turning onto the face on camera here what I'd like to do is get a split handed drill going here. I like to see my people start with the hands in a bit of a baseball grip, and what we are actually going to do is go very light on the right hand grip and what going to do swing back, and as we're doing this I want the core of the shaft to the hand to move the shaft halfway up the shaft here, and as we can see now as I've done that I've created a massive amount of lag through here, and then what I'm going to do is try now keep my right hand in that position and swing down and see that I've got 2 hands separated and I do it and what I do is have some pumping feelings that is creating this and holding that position.

Instead if I were to let my hand slide back down again I'll lose it too early and I get this throwing position so I'd slide it up and hold it and point and I get the angle that we'd like to see to create some lag if I were to throw my right hand like we'd see from the top of a lot of amateurs when we get this one in from here I've lost all that angle. So a couple of swings are in here and pump, pump and pump so I can really feel this angle I've created then I just have a couple of shots. If I were to hit one now I'd again trying just feel that I was creating this angle and then once I'd go through a trying again and create this same angle on the opposite side. So I'd be what I call it the L. to L. drill with my students. So be the 1st L. half way back after you've had some pumps and then create another L. on the way through. Effectively releasing the lag through at the right time yes here it releases the lag right exactly. Go ahead and flip one of them over Matt. OK so I'll have a few feelings of this holding the lag and then just try and create that last little L. What's really positive about that actually is the way you struck the ground because I heard there and we saw there how you hit the ball and then you hit the turf. Is that a good benefit of having the lag there that massive better strike. Massive, massive benefit is going to be that pure strike and also that was a very slow 3 quarter 9 iron for me and it's flown about 120 yards so by using the lag correctly and unloading at the right time. I've achieved quite a lot of distance from such a small slow swing. OK so if we were to look at a golfer who struggles with distance struggles with strike and doesn't feel like they're a efficient at cracking the whip. I think lag could be the issue there I think it could be the lack of lag the early release of the lag and utilizing the drill that's given us there of a split handed exercise in this pumping exercise creating more like I feel positive would give you a better strike longer straighter shots and a much more efficient usage of your golf swing by having better lag.

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In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer show you how to create the desired amount of lag to better strike your golf shots by utilizing a split handed drill. This will create a feeling of maintaining a greater degree of lag and being able to maintain and hold that greater degree of lag all the way through the downswing and into impact.

One of the greatest joys in the game of golf has to be striking that all beautifully cleanly getting in that nice ball turf contact would you agree. Absolutely it is a great great feeling that when you experience it you want more of it, and certainly when you watch good players listen to good players go down to a driving range in a tournament and just see them striking that ball purely off the turf. The sound is there the feeling is that the ball flight is their club golfers can get more of that if they create a better impact position by creating more lag down into impact wouldn't you agree. Yes it's one of the terms I think that you know you hear talked about in the golf club bag in your fore ball. I saw a video on how to create more lag and I think understanding what lag is in why we need it and what how we're going to use it in the golf swing is our starting point and then what we're going to create when we get it. So first point there tell me about lag. What is lag? So lag if I would just to turn to the face on camera here is we've created our grip and we move the call backwards and we see that the her wrists are starting to hinge and we get to the top of the back swing. What we're going to see now is an angle created between the lead arm and the golf club shaft. Here we can see it looks something if I were to put it down to where my lead arm is horizontal looks something very similar to the lateral thats showed me less like less like would be something there and that was solely coming through the use of my wrist, and so if I've not got any change in my wrists we can say that there's no lag, and what we'll tend to see generally with you know you're a beginner golfer or your higher handicap a golfer. They may create some on the way back but then they tend to lose it very early in this casting motion. We hear a lot of and straight away we get into this position and the club is going to meet the ground a little bit too early and bottom out too early. So how much is ideally say 90 degrees itself? Yeah I'd look for 90 degrees as a you know rule of thumb if we could create 90 degrees each time that would be a good position to get into.

How much lag should I then hold Matt? I'm coming down towards the golf ball this way again we want to try and create it for people who are used you know losing too early. If we could try and see that we held 90 into the golf ball into this position where the hands now level with the middle of your chest if we can help 90 degrees that would be you know more than we've ever had and then we'd use it down into the golf ball. The point of impact is very little like it's not like I'm hitting it from this position and holding it and then releasing it like that it's like going to include increased club head speed. Yeah definitely a bit like cracking the whip almost if we were to you know have no like in the whip if we just held our wrist was we were using a whip it would be very tame if we think of a good whip crack. We really involve those wrists and it's just at that last minute we spend the angle that we've created and that's where it's all process the ball so far with what looks like a smooth action to crack the whip. Exactly yeah they have a very quick release of the hands and that angle that they've created sounds good. Now give me a drill for this but how do you get a drill for more lag. OK so going just turning onto the face on camera here what I'd like to do is get a split handed drill going here. I like to see my people start with the hands in a bit of a baseball grip, and what we are actually going to do is go very light on the right hand grip and what going to do swing back, and as we're doing this I want the core of the shaft to the hand to move the shaft halfway up the shaft here, and as we can see now as I've done that I've created a massive amount of lag through here, and then what I'm going to do is try now keep my right hand in that position and swing down and see that I've got 2 hands separated and I do it and what I do is have some pumping feelings that is creating this and holding that position.

Instead if I were to let my hand slide back down again I'll lose it too early and I get this throwing position so I'd slide it up and hold it and point and I get the angle that we'd like to see to create some lag if I were to throw my right hand like we'd see from the top of a lot of amateurs when we get this one in from here I've lost all that angle. So a couple of swings are in here and pump, pump and pump so I can really feel this angle I've created then I just have a couple of shots. If I were to hit one now I'd again trying just feel that I was creating this angle and then once I'd go through a trying again and create this same angle on the opposite side. So I'd be what I call it the L. to L. drill with my students. So be the 1st L. half way back after you've had some pumps and then create another L. on the way through. Effectively releasing the lag through at the right time yes here it releases the lag right exactly. Go ahead and flip one of them over Matt. OK so I'll have a few feelings of this holding the lag and then just try and create that last little L. What's really positive about that actually is the way you struck the ground because I heard there and we saw there how you hit the ball and then you hit the turf. Is that a good benefit of having the lag there that massive better strike. Massive, massive benefit is going to be that pure strike and also that was a very slow 3 quarter 9 iron for me and it's flown about 120 yards so by using the lag correctly and unloading at the right time. I've achieved quite a lot of distance from such a small slow swing. OK so if we were to look at a golfer who struggles with distance struggles with strike and doesn't feel like they're a efficient at cracking the whip. I think lag could be the issue there I think it could be the lack of lag the early release of the lag and utilizing the drill that's given us there of a split handed exercise in this pumping exercise creating more like I feel positive would give you a better strike longer straighter shots and a much more efficient usage of your golf swing by having better lag.