- Welcome, Adam Bazalgette back here
in beautiful Naples Florida, at the club at Mediterra.
Two-Time PGA Teacher of The Year award winner,
down here, wanna talk to you today about a critical subject,
how to create more lag in your golf swing.
It really changes the way you play the game,
if you can do this, stay tuned.
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So, very important subject,
how to create more lag in your golf swing.
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So how do you crate more lag in your golf swing?
Let me just start with a little premise,
I've been lucky enough to be around some of the games
top teachers in many instances over my life,
one of the people is Jim McLean.
I've been at some of his presentations to golf teachers,
and believe me there is nobody that's done more research
on the game and the swing,
or likely has a more encyclopedic knowledge
of golfers than him.
And one of the things he's told us is that,
in all his research, meaning filming every player,
that's every played at Doral in the tournament,
and that's hundreds of them over the 15-20 years
he's been there, maybe longer than that.
One of the things, and there's only a few,
that have stood out as 100% true in all cases,
this is unusual, is that every single player
they've ever filmed, if you look at the midway back,
and then compare it with midway down, in every case,
the club not only is closer to the body,
but the wrist angle is increased.
So this is a critical premise because,
you don't wanna think, hey how to just hold my angle,
that is not a lithe enough sort of principle,
and honestly in all my teaching,
over the 30 or so years I've been teaching,
I haven't seen people have much success with that.
Much rather would you stride to discover the feeling,
of how to create loading in the golf club,
how to create a whip-like mechanism,
and how to deliver a real snap and a pop at the bottom.
If you can get good at that,
then when you see a still photograph of yourself,
you'll have sustained some lag in your swing.
Let me show you a little closeup of how
you might discover this feel.
So this is the best way I know to start to feel this
in a small embryonic way, and the key is,
you're gonna feel that this isn't something
you have to manufacture, this is something that
happens naturally, if you let it happen.
I've taken my grip with just my thumb and fingers,
palm is off the club here,
so I really have no control over the club,
so you'll see it's a natural reaction.
And I get a little bit of motion back and forth.
And what you'll notice as I do that,
assuming I just change direction with a flow,
I don't stop at the end of the mini backswing,
is the club naturally bend back and sort of lag,
as a towel or a whip would when you change direction.
And you'll start to feel how you don't have to create
lag artificially and learn something with your wrist,
you just have to soften up,
and let the weight of the club respond to your motion.
Again you've gotta stay in motion for this to work,
but once you've felt it, you can start to duplicate it,
with a normal grip, and I'll show you that.
Okay so I encourage you don't just watch that,
take a club out and practice that
if you're at home or it's in the evening,
grab a club, you won't break anything doing this.
And once you get good at this, that I just showed you,
you'll have the feel.
The next step of course is to do it in a more normal grip,
and start to hit balls with it.
And believe me, I really, really encourage you,
do it on a small light-scale to get the feeling,
don't just dive in there and try to,
stick this thing in like it's a finished product.
So first thing I'm gonna feel is with a normal grip,
extra light grip pressure in this instance,
to help me feel it, and it's not just light grip pressure,
it's relaxed wrists.
Believe me you can shake someones hand reasonably firmly,
and still have relaxed wrists.
Relaxed wrists is the key with moderate grip pressure,
and star to feel this two-way motion.
Now ideally, we showed you with the hand,
your core is gonna be absolute genesis of this movement,
so as the club's going back,
your core is gonna change direction,
that pulls your arms in this direction,
and from there you'll see the lag.
So remember this is the real genesis of the motion,
when you start to do it.
And then simply, this is a seven iron,
start chipping a few balls a short distance.
And just chip some balls like that,
and pay attention to what you feel,
don't just think about it, pay attention.
Am I sensing a certain sense to poke at the ball?
Or to seize up?
Compare your practice motion, with your golf ball motion.
You can see the patience and kind of, freedom that that has.
You cannot over practice this, I promise you.
Now certainly once you start doing it
on a bigger, harder scale, hey at speed your grip pressure
is gonna increase a little bit,
but you wanna try to keep that magical loose wrist feeling,
well you don't wanna keep it you have to keep it,
if you're gonna be able to do this.
Certainly again your wrist might firm up
a little at the bottom, but in this area,
they've gotta be responsive.
This is such a great thing to get in the habit of doing,
and it really sets you up to create speed in your swing,
and create good sequencing between the body and the club.
So I hope this helps you a little bit,
start to develop some lag the correct way.
Well I hope you find that helpful as a starting point,
for how to create lag in your golf swing.
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