Lag

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Arms are good drills to practice if the ball is going right with little or a bunch of slice. If you are hitting the ball thin or too low on the clubface. Also, if you want some effortless power then have a go at lag.

Lag (302)

Yet another foreign feeling was lag. Rotary Swing terms this “effortless power”.

This may be a challenge to reproduce. The quickest way to get a feel for this is to return to The Drill with loose wrists. Pay particular attention to the force created by the weight of the club-head on the backswing. As you complete the backswing to shaft parallel. Can you feel the weight of the club-head trying to go up past parallel? If you allow the club head weight to continue to propel the club head upwards after you have paused your arms, you can feel lag. It is even more pronounced if you immediately descend when reaching club parallel.The looser the wrists the higher the club will go past parallel. The angle of the shaft with the wrists defines the amount of lag in the swing. This is creating lag.

Once you have found lag in the backswing. Maintaining it in the downswing is another challenge. Typically, our initial thought on the downswing is to leverage our wrists and hands to propel the club at the ball. This thought almost always erases the lag in our swing. However, swinging with lag seems is such a leap of faith. How could we ever feel any kind of control over something that feels so dynamic? My first attempts at swinging with lag on the course were incredibly hard. Every thought and body part wanted to do anything but create lag.

This is partly why many of the concepts of the swing require focus on generating swing movements that depend on weight, on the lower body, on firm elbows, and loose wrists. In the end these elements of the swing are trying to support and encourage lag!

One challenge in lag is squaring the club face at impact. If you add too much lag. It may be more than you can handle and will test your ability to speed up your sequencing. Yes, there is such a thing as too much lag. If it is too much lag, then temper it a bit. You need to find your controllable limit.

Again, other sports have lag only it is termed differently: whip, pop, flick. For example: throwing a ball with speed uses lag at the elbow.

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