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

In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will show you how to create more lag in your golf swing by using an L to L golf swing drill, that will help you hold 90° of lag angle. This coupled with a desire to drive your body weight forwards towards the target should result in a better impact position and improved iron shots.

1. So one of the words that's quite a buzz word in golf that we see quite a lot of people searching for is creating some lag in the golf swing Pete and just give us a quick understanding of what lag is firstly and why we're searching for it. I think lag is a term that's associated with good players good players create lag good players hold lag good players use lag to generate distance. I think that's one of the things that happens if you don't have any lag you can suddenly hit the ball but it doesn't go as far as your playing partners as far as your mates as far as the tour players who are creating lag. So like is an understanding that there's a difference between the left arm or the lead arm and the shaft. So in the setup position I would say there's very little or no lag here yet now as I move this back away from the golf ball this way I start without much lag and then as I go higher and higher and higher I start to create an angle here between the shaft of my left arm and I would create a lag. So what would tend to happen on the way down would be something where it's lost generally would you say? Yeah I think sometimes it because of golf the amateur golfer releases that lag to really into that position and from here my arms are straight I don't really have much left to hit the golf ball as I come into the ball was a bit of an early release a scoop and I have that same whip effect that I would like.

OK so if we were going to try and create this position that we see here and we're trying to get into here could you give us a drill give us a feeling that we're going to create here to get this angle that we see created between lead arm and the shaft. Absolutely I think the first thing to make sure is that you are creating lag in the first place. Stand yourself in front of a mirror look to create that L shape position as we did there together Matt, and once we've got that L shape position we can and think about pumping and it's very much a pumping exercise. So I've got my lag a my L shape and I'm up to the top and as I pull down I want to feel like I keep my lag to hear trying to avoid hitting your hand, and then I've got this L shaped it's almost a feeling that from the front on view my left arm is back to impact position and my shaft is being held so if you are almost sort of pumping in your hands towards the ball now there you get this feeling of it creating a little bit more wouldn't you know the wrist so the angles are actually increasing and then from there you'd what release into the ball on the on from this position. Turn the body down and release through and you know what that feels quite powerful the more you hold that back my body obviously wants to turn in your pulling that club back and I feel like I'm getting more and more power effectively coiling the spring or well like pulling back on the crossbow almost pulling back creating the power waiting to release it at the last second.

Excellent if you were going to hit one with this drill how would you do it? Would it be a case where you rehearse a few times and then it's or is it just a straight hit? What I like to see for a lot of golfers down the driving range is actually have the ball teed up helps golfers with a better striking option. So we don't want to punish you for a bad strike here so we get the ball teed up we take something like a 7 iron and we do a few little rehearsals with the pumping mechanism before we actually hit. A good idea when you're hitting them is to try and hit low not high. High would often imply that we released early so from a good address position turning nicely to the top pulling the golf club down from here a releasing mechanism pops the ball up into the air I'm going to hold hold and this is the pumping action there. So it's two pumps and a hit so a good address position we've got hold hold and hit and you can see the hit came out really low but I found really great. Thank you I did take a divot even though the ball was on a peg going to actually broken the tee in half their decision for a much down strike and I feel comping exercise really enables me to encourage more of a downwards hit into the ball and taking the divot fizzing the ball out nice, and because I think the mistake from people doesn't maintain lag the early release here turns into a little bit of a lean back and upward strike no divot tight shots weak shots. Excellent and fantastic drill there to create that mush sought after lag so give it a go we're looking for a couple of umps off the tee peg when we're hitting to give us some confidence with the strike and then from there we should see some far better iron strikes as we're going through our golf swing.

2018-11-13

In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will show you how to create more lag in your golf swing by using an L to L golf swing drill, that will help you hold 90° of lag angle. This coupled with a desire to drive your body weight forwards towards the target should result in a better impact position and improved iron shots.

1. So one of the words that's quite a buzz word in golf that we see quite a lot of people searching for is creating some lag in the golf swing Pete and just give us a quick understanding of what lag is firstly and why we're searching for it. I think lag is a term that's associated with good players good players create lag good players hold lag good players use lag to generate distance. I think that's one of the things that happens if you don't have any lag you can suddenly hit the ball but it doesn't go as far as your playing partners as far as your mates as far as the tour players who are creating lag. So like is an understanding that there's a difference between the left arm or the lead arm and the shaft. So in the setup position I would say there's very little or no lag here yet now as I move this back away from the golf ball this way I start without much lag and then as I go higher and higher and higher I start to create an angle here between the shaft of my left arm and I would create a lag. So what would tend to happen on the way down would be something where it's lost generally would you say? Yeah I think sometimes it because of golf the amateur golfer releases that lag to really into that position and from here my arms are straight I don't really have much left to hit the golf ball as I come into the ball was a bit of an early release a scoop and I have that same whip effect that I would like.

OK so if we were going to try and create this position that we see here and we're trying to get into here could you give us a drill give us a feeling that we're going to create here to get this angle that we see created between lead arm and the shaft. Absolutely I think the first thing to make sure is that you are creating lag in the first place. Stand yourself in front of a mirror look to create that L shape position as we did there together Matt, and once we've got that L shape position we can and think about pumping and it's very much a pumping exercise. So I've got my lag a my L shape and I'm up to the top and as I pull down I want to feel like I keep my lag to hear trying to avoid hitting your hand, and then I've got this L shaped it's almost a feeling that from the front on view my left arm is back to impact position and my shaft is being held so if you are almost sort of pumping in your hands towards the ball now there you get this feeling of it creating a little bit more wouldn't you know the wrist so the angles are actually increasing and then from there you'd what release into the ball on the on from this position. Turn the body down and release through and you know what that feels quite powerful the more you hold that back my body obviously wants to turn in your pulling that club back and I feel like I'm getting more and more power effectively coiling the spring or well like pulling back on the crossbow almost pulling back creating the power waiting to release it at the last second.

Excellent if you were going to hit one with this drill how would you do it? Would it be a case where you rehearse a few times and then it's or is it just a straight hit? What I like to see for a lot of golfers down the driving range is actually have the ball teed up helps golfers with a better striking option. So we don't want to punish you for a bad strike here so we get the ball teed up we take something like a 7 iron and we do a few little rehearsals with the pumping mechanism before we actually hit. A good idea when you're hitting them is to try and hit low not high. High would often imply that we released early so from a good address position turning nicely to the top pulling the golf club down from here a releasing mechanism pops the ball up into the air I'm going to hold hold and this is the pumping action there. So it's two pumps and a hit so a good address position we've got hold hold and hit and you can see the hit came out really low but I found really great. Thank you I did take a divot even though the ball was on a peg going to actually broken the tee in half their decision for a much down strike and I feel comping exercise really enables me to encourage more of a downwards hit into the ball and taking the divot fizzing the ball out nice, and because I think the mistake from people doesn't maintain lag the early release here turns into a little bit of a lean back and upward strike no divot tight shots weak shots. Excellent and fantastic drill there to create that mush sought after lag so give it a go we're looking for a couple of umps off the tee peg when we're hitting to give us some confidence with the strike and then from there we should see some far better iron strikes as we're going through our golf swing.