(golf club whipping) (golf club whipping) – So there we go. Nice, smooth swing. 195 total carry distance
with a seven iron. Players ask me all the time, "How do you hit it so far with looks what looks
like so little effort?" Well, the answer is very simple. The answer is we can get very easy speed through getting proper
lag in the down swing. And then of course, unloading that lag. Now, the big hiccup that
you're probably getting into when you're working on lag, is a ton of different things. There's things where, "Hey, I can get lag but my wrist cups a lot," or "I can get try to get
lag in my practice swings but I end up casting it." Well, if you understand how
this works the proper way it becomes much more simple.
So I'm very excited to share a drill that I do with a lot of my online students that shows you exactly how
lag works in a short swing. The thing is, lag works exactly the same in a short swing, as it does a full swing. And if you understand it in a short swing it becomes much more easy
to see in the full swing. So let's go over the short swing first. And what's great about doing a short swing and doing anything like this, and what I really like
to do when I'm teaching is making sure we have
very solid reference points and very certain levels.
Things that we can tangibly see in our mind while we're
working on our swing. And one of those big
things when we're working on lag, is understanding
where the club head is in our hands, and then something else
in relationship to those. So that may seem a little bit difficult but stick with me here. It becomes very simple, very quickly. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put a line right on my hips. So we can think about
this being our belt line, and we're gonna learn
lag from a half swing so that we can put it into a full swing.
So what we're gonna do is we're gonna take this club halfway back. So hands are gonna stay
just below the belt line. And what we're gonna do is
we're gonna come forward and we're going to lag the club. If we think about our
waistline, the club head, and the hands, and we
think about how this works, we're gonna think as the hands go forward, we're going to get this club
head to go above the belt line. That's gonna be the sensation. Now let me show you what happens when the hands don't move forward and I'm lagging the club. If my hands are here and
they don't move forward, the club is going to go up into the air.
You can see, I can do this
while curling my knuckles down. I can do this while cupping. Ideally, we wanna curl those knuckles down while getting this lag so that we can come in with a square face, like we talk about in the
move section on the course. But if we get the club head to go up, then it's easy to see.
Where we don't see this is when the hands are about
parallel or the hands are here, and we move the hands forward, because what appears to happen is the club head
doesn't do anything at all. So that's some of the trickery in our mind that we don't see. So you can see here, if my hands don't move forward, we can see the club head go up. If my hands do move forward, we don't see that club
head move very much. That's the subtlety of lag, and that's one of the big starters that I'm having a ton of
success with my students on where they're getting
the sensation of lag in the downswing. So we can utilize understanding
where the hands are, where the club head
is, and how that works. So now that we understand
how this is gonna work. So we have our waist, our
line on our belt line. We've got our club head here. We know this club head is going to go above the belt line as
the hands are going forward.
We're gonna be getting this
little lag move in the swing. Once we have that sensation, now we can start throwing
that into some swings. So I highly recommend starting with some dry swings here first. Go up to the top, as
the hands come forward, get that club head to feel like
it stays above the belt line as we unturn. (golf club thudding)
And you're gonna see that we can start to develop some room to get some forward traveling,
get that easy speed, there's a lot of great
things that happen from this, but we're gonna focus in on the lag.
So we're gonna go here as
the hands come forward, the club head's going
to feel like it goes up. (golf club thudding)
And now the good sensation is
feeling like this club head stays above the belt
line as long as it can. You'll see if you don't hold it, that club will kind of
naturally want to unload into the ball. So let's hit a little shot like this where I'm gonna get the club head to feel like it's going
above the belt line as the hands are going forward. (golf club thudding) So we can see there, nice lag on the downswing and compression. Now the cool part about this
is now we've got a good grasp on how we lag the club in a half swing. This is exactly how it
happens in the full swing. So all we have to remember
here is that position. When we get into that, the
hands parallel to the ground, and when we come up to
the top of the swing, we're gonna think about
that same position.
As the hands are gonna go forward, this move that we have with the wrists where the knuckles are curling
down and we're lagging, we're gonna do that same move at the top of the swing
as the hands go forward. So just like in the half
swing as the hands go forward, at the top of the swing
as the hands go forward, that's when we get the
lag on the down swing. That is such a big deal I can't even describe
understanding that visual. I'm gonna go over that one more time so we have a very clear visual for this. We are going to curl those
knuckles down, lag the club, so the club head's gonna go above the belt as the hands go forward. When we go up to the top of the swing we have that same move. As the hands go forward that club head is going to go up. So again, if I don't move
my hands, club head goes up. If I go to the top of my swing, if I don't move my hands,
club head's gonna go up.
And in this case, because we're at the top of the swing, it's gonna go more down. So as you can see from
the down the line view, this is going to be curling down. So you can see that club face squaring up, then up at the top of the swing it's going to be squaring
up, same exact move. Now let's do one more little half swing, and then we'll show you how we
do it here in the full swing.
I'm gonna have to get that sensation that the club head's
staying above the belt. (golf club thudding) Okay. Nice little
compressed draw right there. Very, very nice. Had a lot of lag, got a lot
of energy into that ball. So that ball carried a
hundred something yards and I barely swung at it at all because of the lag that
we can put into it. Now just a quick bonus, just 'cause I'm thinking
about it here real quick. It's also a great shot to learn
while you're training this, you can see you can hit really
low nice shots outta trees if you need to. But if you do this next move correctly, you're gonna be in the
trees a lot, lot less. So we're gonna take that same sensation, hands moving forward. We're gonna go up to the top of the swing, had that club lag nice at the top just like we did in the half swing.
Now that we have a good
understanding for it and utilize that nice,
easy speed it gives us. (golf club thudding) So as you can see right there I tugged that one just a little bit but 209 carry distance, 228. That was absolutely pounded. I tell you what, when I start working on and I'm doing instruction on lag it's unbelievable how
much my numbers go up. I should probably work on
this a lot more myself, but that speed is just ridiculous. That's a lot more than I normally try to hit this club on the course, but I'm telling you when
I'm doing this right now, I can feel how that lag is
releasing into the ball. And I'm telling you, once you
get a good sensation for this, you're gonna feel the same thing. I see this with students every single day when they send me an
email and they're like, "Wow, I can't believe how much
further I'm hitting the ball because of how much energy
this transfers into." So let's go ahead and
try this one more time, see if we can get a nice straight one.
(golf club thudding) Now there we go. Started right on my target
line, drew just a little bit, and that's probably gonna be
10-20 feet left of my target. That's gonna be really good, especially from 204 carry
distance, 220 total yardage. It just doesn't get much better than that. And the great thing about it
is once you start feeling it, it's hard to unfeel it and
you can get right into it. But now remember, getting that lag is just the first piece of the equation. If we are not shallowing
the club out correctly while lagging the club and
squaring it up at the bottom, that speed is gonna be sent
in the wrong direction. So it's gonna be vitally important to make sure that we are getting
this move down correctly. Well I've got a great bonus for you. Head instructor and owner Clay Ballard has a great lesson called
the anti-roll method, that shows you exactly how
to do those two things. So we do wanna shallow the club, we do wanna square it up, but we want to do so
with that lag sensation.
So if you couple up the understanding that we talked about in this lesson with the anti-roll method, you will have the recipe
of everything you need to hit really solid, crisp
shots, just like this. And the great part about it again, it feels and looks effortless, and you're gonna love how
it comes off the club face. So you can see that entire lesson by clicking on the link that pops up in the preview that we're gonna play at the end of this video. That's gonna pop up in the I card. If you don't see that, that's okay, you can click on the link
in the description below, and we'll see it here
in the anti-roll method. – Here's the bottom line. If you've been taught to roll the club in the early down swing, that
causes the shaft to get steep, and that steep club
causes all your problems. 'Cause you to hit it way
behind the big hitters, and way inconsistent with
your quality of strikes.
So you're in the tall grass, and the trees, and the
hazards all day long. Now the great news is this. There's really only two
pieces that you need to know to fix all these problems. The first one is we need
to learn the proper way to square up the club face. Instead of rolling the
forearms and getting steep, there's another way that the pros do this. Once you learn this right way
to square up the club face, then you can shallow out from the inside and everything starts to fit together. Now I'm gonna teach you this right now in what I call the anti-roll method. You may also hear this
called the motorcycle move, or the tour twist, but let's walk through
exactly how to do that.
Now, what I want you to do is go ahead and go kind of in the last
parallel in the down swing. So here I want my hips to
go ahead and be opening up. I want my club to be
parallel with the ground, and I want my hands to be
in front of my right thigh. Now, when I take my grip, you're gonna notice that when I do this, the club face is basically
straight up and down. So if I'm looking at it from this angle, you'll see the face is
straight up and down, and my logo of my glove is
pointed out in front of me. Now, from there..