- Welcome back to sunny Naples, Florida.
Adam Bazalgette, two-time PGA Teacher of the Year Award
winner down here, back to talk to you
about how to get lag in your irons,
specifically how to get lag down at impact
to really smash those irons, we all want to do that.
Let's check it out.
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Okay, so lagging and smashing those irons,
getting a lot of distance out of the irons,
everyone would love to do that.
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Now, there's a couple of areas where you could look at lag.
We're going to look at one specifically today.
One of them, and a very crucial one,
is the storing of energy in the loading of the wrist,
creates a lot of speed.
That's not so much what we're going to focus on today.
I've got other content on that.
Today we're going to look specific to irons on impact lag.
I'll show you what I mean by that
in a closeup here, in just a moment.
If you can master this, though,
it is just a big breakthrough for you,
in terms of not only distance on your irons,
but also hitting them solidly.
Let's have a closeup look.
Okay, so let's talk about this impact loft.
Golf clubs have approximately a 3 degree difference.
This is a 6 iron, this is an 8 iron.
Until you get to the very short irons and wedges,
and it expands to about 4 degrees.
But 3 to 4 degrees is about it.
Now, I'm telling you, data shows
from TrackMan and FlightScope, this is a confirmed fact,
that the best players in the world,
as an average on their mid to short irons,
deloft 6 to 8, even 9, degrees,
and that is at least two clubs worth.
So I want you to picture it this way,
if that's my 8 iron and that's my 6 iron,
done correctly, I will produce 6 iron loft with my 8 iron.
Do you see how that is?
Now, I'm going to show you how to do that here
in just a second.
But if you're not doing that,
you are not going to crush those irons the way the pros do.
You have to be able to do that, not just to hit it further,
but to really hit it solidly and compress it.
So remember, you're trying to knock
two clubs worth of loft off at impact.
Let's have a look at how you might do that.
Okay, so now that you've seen what we're trying to do,
we're trying to knock a couple of clubs loft off there,
how are you going to be able to do that?
Now, it isn't that difficult.
At least, it isn't in principal.
I'm going to show it to you here in a second.
I used to think when I got my first video camera,
30 years ago or so, and was really working on my swing,
that these were just like
mythical mystery moves people made.
They're really not.
So let me show you how you do this.
Obviously, a ball that goes higher is more up in the air,
and a ball that's lower is nearer the ground, right,
more pointed towards the ground, anybody would know that.
So take the club, and if you have a club at the house,
do this, and just point the face at the ground.
At the ground is less loft.
Now, I see that the club's aimed way left,
but just practice pointing the club at the ground.
You may have to fiddle a little bit with your grip,
in order to get a grip
that's comfortable for you to do that.
Once you've pointed the club down,
then you start to see how
I've got to have my hands forward a bit
to keep the club pointed at the target at the same time.
So this is down, this is at the target and down.
Now, you've just got to memorize that feel.
There's nothing more to it than that, it's simple geometry.
Now, once you've practiced that to where you can feel it,
as I often recommend, start on a little scale
and play around a little bit.
This is my 8 iron, so I'm going to set up
for a small shot here and I'm going to try to mimic
this facedown, hands forward feel.
And that was a very, very low little punch shot.
By the way, when you do that little drill,
if you're finishing up here with the club high,
you probably haven't done it properly.
You should finish, much as I did on that scale,
where the club is low
and the wrist is turned down a little bit,
you can see a little bit of that bow.
Let me show you again.
That's the sort of look you want.
Now, I'm not saying I'd want to deal off the club
that much when I hit a normal iron,
but that's the kind of thing that I need to rehearse
and practice on a small scale,
until I can do it on a bigger scale.
A couple of other things, you've got to use your core
and your middle, once the speed's there,
to create this kind of support for the hands.
If your lower body isn't doing anything,
it's highly unlikely you're going to be able
to keep your hands that much forward.
We've got a lot more information about that
on our other videos.
And again, that other aspect of lag
I touched on at the beginning,
where the club loads and lags,
we've got more information on that.
That is very helpful in setting the table for this,
but today's subject is really that lag
to crush those irons at impact.
Hope this helps you.
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