Letting Your Golf Release Happen (Video) - by Pete Styles
Letting Your Golf Release Happen (Video) - by Pete Styles

If we’re going to use our releasing of the golf club through the impact area efficiently to generate the most power and a straight as golf shots as possible. There are a couple of things that need to happen in the back swing and in the set up to make sure we get ourselves into a good position. So the first thing here is going to be during the back swing we want a nice full shoulder rotation. If you only make a very short shoulder rotation, you never really get the golf club set far enough back to create lag, to hit the ball hard enough. So we want to find that the shoulders make a good rotation coming back. That sets the golf club into a really good position at the top of the back swing. And really for a full shoulder turn, aim for 90 degrees shoulder rotation, turning back, creating 90 degrees that will allow a full shoulder release on the down swing. So a big shoulder rotation to the top. The next thing that’s going to help us in the down swing is the transition of the hips. So from the top, we drive the hips across to the left hand side. That creates a good transition; it also puts the body weight back into the right place moving back towards the left side, then we can think about the lag.

Now the lag we would class as the angle between the shaft and the left forearm. Any angle here that we we’ve got, we class that as lag. So during the backswing, we set some lag, we create lag in the back swing. Now we want to hold on to that lag for a decent portion of the down swing and then release the lag at the important point. If we either don’t create any lag, or get rid of the lag too early, we’ll find it very difficult to release the club through the impact phase. So we’re going to have a full shoulder rotation, a good drive of the hips, a good holding onto the lag, now in a great position to create the releasing on the way through. If we don’t turn the shoulders, don’t bump the hips, don’t create the lag, its going to be impossible to do the correct releasing that we need. So remember you want to release the club as well through the golf ball, you’re going to have to set the club into a good position for the backswing and downswing to enable that release to happen correctly. 2015-11-05

If we’re going to use our releasing of the golf club through the impact area efficiently to generate the most power and a straight as golf shots as possible. There are a couple of things that need to happen in the back swing and in the set up to make sure we get ourselves into a good position. So the first thing here is going to be during the back swing we want a nice full shoulder rotation. If you only make a very short shoulder rotation, you never really get the golf club set far enough back to create lag, to hit the ball hard enough. So we want to find that the shoulders make a good rotation coming back. That sets the golf club into a really good position at the top of the back swing. And really for a full shoulder turn, aim for 90 degrees shoulder rotation, turning back, creating 90 degrees that will allow a full shoulder release on the down swing. So a big shoulder rotation to the top. The next thing that’s going to help us in the down swing is the transition of the hips. So from the top, we drive the hips across to the left hand side. That creates a good transition; it also puts the body weight back into the right place moving back towards the left side, then we can think about the lag.

Now the lag we would class as the angle between the shaft and the left forearm. Any angle here that we we’ve got, we class that as lag. So during the backswing, we set some lag, we create lag in the back swing. Now we want to hold on to that lag for a decent portion of the down swing and then release the lag at the important point. If we either don’t create any lag, or get rid of the lag too early, we’ll find it very difficult to release the club through the impact phase. So we’re going to have a full shoulder rotation, a good drive of the hips, a good holding onto the lag, now in a great position to create the releasing on the way through. If we don’t turn the shoulders, don’t bump the hips, don’t create the lag, its going to be impossible to do the correct releasing that we need. So remember you want to release the club as well through the golf ball, you’re going to have to set the club into a good position for the backswing and downswing to enable that release to happen correctly.