Lag in the golf swing: Is it good or bad? (Better golf in 10 minutes)

Hack It Out Golf

Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner

Sports, Education, Golf

4.6 • 489 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Welcome to "Better Golf in 10 Minutes!". This is a weekly series that will cover all facets of game improvement. Every Monday we will help you lower your scores in 10 minutes. Even though these episodes are bite-sized nuggets, they are jam packed with info that will help you play better golf!

Today we are chatting about lag in the golf swing.

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0:00.0	Better golf in 10 minutes with team Hack It Out. I want to talk lag today gentlemen, the idea of
0:06.9	pulling that club down with your hands, keeping angle in your hands that keeps the club up
0:13.1	behind you for a longer period of time to increase distance. This is a term I've had a long
0:19.5	fight with over my years as a coach. As soon as things
0:23.5	started to become measured, it was very clear that this term is very dangerous. And I still do
0:28.6	videos now to this day where I tell people to just be careful with this term. And I always get
0:34.3	the group ball, but that's casting. It's not casting.
0:38.4	It's not casting.
0:40.4	Lag.
0:43.3	Issues with it.
0:45.0	Let's explain the issues with lag.
0:49.3	So, okay, when people try to lag the club more on the way down, so leave the club up,
0:53.7	what they end up doing is they end up extending their lead wrist a lot because the easiest way to leave the club up there is to extend lead risk.
0:58.1	So people who don't know what extend lead wrist means, think cut lead wrist.
1:02.2	Is that a term that might hit more people?
1:04.0	I'm happy with that.
1:04.9	So the lead wrist is angled kind of away from the lead arm, not DJ.
1:10.5	That was bowed or inflection.
1:12.9	It's extending.
1:13.9	It's cut.
1:15.0	And what happens if you cut the lead risks a lot, extend it as you try to get this lag,
1:19.8	is the club race gets loads of loft on it.
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