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This video is breaking down the look of lag.

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So a lot of golfers are looking for more distance

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and lag is frequently been attributed to one of those things

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that if you have it, you're going to hit the ball

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plenty far and if you don't have it,

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you're going to hit the ball really short.

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Lag typically refers to the angle from the face-selling

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camera between the club shaft and the forearm.

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So if you're not aware, someone who kind of looks like that

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doesn't have very much lag and then someone who looks

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like that.

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All right, kind of exaggerating.

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But someone who looks a little bit more like that still

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has that angle between their arms and the club.

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They're going to have more lag.

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They're going to release it better.

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All those things are going to contribute

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to more speed and more power.

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I'm going to cover the two major areas where you can develop

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lag and I'm going to dispel a few misses

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far as what movements create lag.

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First and foremost, lag is not created by hinging the wrist

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or going into radial deviation.

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So if you think that pulling back this way

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is how you're going to create lag, you are kind of barking

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up the wrong tree.

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And hopefully this video will help clarify the two major areas

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where you can actually gain lag.

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So the two major areas are going to be body sequencing

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and then the movement of the wrist and forearms.

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So first thing let's talk about is body sequencing.

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This is one of the big contributors to lag.

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And you'll see that it relates to what we're

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going to talk about in the second half, which

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is more of the arms and hands and how they can either

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help create lag or remove the look of lag.

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But body sequencing is one of the big ones.

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In fact, lag is actually not really this angle.

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It's more of a delay in time.

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Like my computer is lagging.

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The video is lagging.

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Lagging basically means delaying the action of the arms

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and hands.

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We're delaying the movement of the club

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going out towards the golf ball.

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So how do I do that?

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How do I sequence the body?

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We have lots of videos in transition that cover how

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to use your legs against the ground.

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But know that the more that you delay the timing

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in the arms, you're going to have to move something out.

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So in order to delay the timing in the arms,

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you're going to use your legs.

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You're going to use your core.

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Then you're going to use your ribcage.

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You're going to use your shoulders.

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And then finally, you're going to use your arms.

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That will look something like this where the lower body

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goes first.

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Then the core.

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And then the shoulders.

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And now I'm already down here.

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And I haven't done a whole lot with my arms.

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How could I not have lags since I had some angles up here

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at the top?

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So the simple thing would be if I use my arms or I

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use my hands and arms before I use my body,

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that's going to tend to cause that look of loss of lag.

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I'm just going to dramatically take down your speed.

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The metaphor that I kind of like is throwing a wall.

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So throwing a ball is one where sequencing

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has a big effect in how well I'm going to be able to create speed.

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So if we just took the arm, you could see that I'm

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getting this loaded position.

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And then I'm going to use my shoulder.

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I'm going to use my elbow.

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And then I'm going to use my wrist kind of at the end.

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So that ends up looking something like that.

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Now I could get in that same loaded position,

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use those same three points or three parts.

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But I'm going to use them into a different order.

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And this is actually more challenging than it looks.

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I'm going to use my wrist first.

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Then I'm going to use my elbow.

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And then I'm going to use my shoulder and my body.

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So it's going to look kind of like that.

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And you'll see it takes a lot of effort

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to produce very little speed.

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So golfers who don't have lag, don't have very good sequencing.

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tend to have effortless or sorry, powerless effort,

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where golfers who have this great look of lag

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tend to produce that effortless power.

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Now the last piece or the second piece,

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because we covered sequencing.

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We want to work from the ground up or from the core up,

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however you like to look at it.

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We're going the second piece is going to be the movement

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of the arms and hands.

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So I already highlighted the beginning

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that lag has nothing to do with hinging this way.

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In fact, looking at 3D, one thing that I can tell you

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is that very few professional golfers

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have any real measurable increase in radial deviation

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of the lead hand during the downswing.

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It's not really going this way during transition,

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even if it looks like it from the face on view.

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Part of the reason is because most of them

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are going to be doing some sort of face closing

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with the motorcycle.

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And if you're doing the motorcycle,

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it is very hard to flex the wrist and increase

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radial deviation, in fact, borderline impossible.

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But what I do see is during transition,

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I will tend to see a pretty big increase.

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Ten some guys up to 15 degrees of increased extension

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of that trail wrist.

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So as they start down, if I was to extend that trail wrist,

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it looks from the face on view, like I've increased the angle

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on, like I've hinged this way.

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But what's really happened is this wrist

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is just rotated, it hasn't really increased that hinge.

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So one, getting this trail wrist to extend

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and kind of work in like so is going to produce the look

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of lag where getting it to flex and straighten out

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is going to reduce the look of lag.

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So that's movement number one is looking at this flexion

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extension, not radial and all their deviation.

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Movement number two is going to look at this pronation

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supination, which is not technically a wrist movement,

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kind of whole forearm, but it definitely relates

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to the look of lag.

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If I'm going to sequence and produce a lot of my speed

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with rotation of the body, then this club actually

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has to be more behind me.

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So one way I could look at lag is if this is the club

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straight out in front of me, hinging moves it away

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from neutral up and down.

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But if I was to rotate, pronate supinate,

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or I guess pronate that trail wrist anyway,

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I'm going to move the club away from neutral this way

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in more of a rotational capacity.

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That's pretty much like if I exaggerated,

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I'm trying to get the club well behind me,

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even though my hands stay kind of out in front of me.

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The more that I have the club behind me like so,

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then it's going to take body rotation to get that out

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in front of me.

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So that is going to now produce a much bigger look of lag

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compared to if I have the club straight out in front of me.

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Like so, now I'm going to have some lag

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because my body stay closed.

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But if I kept the club in front of me

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and I rotated my body, the club would come with it.

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So it relates to that sequencing movement

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because the more that I'm able to rotate the forms,

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get the club behind me in kind of this arm shallowing movement,

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the more that I'm able to sequence and go with my body.

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The body tends to have some bigger muscles

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so that allows me to create a lot more speed.

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It tends to delay the timing of when my arms get involved.

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And if I do the motorcycle to kind of start squaring

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the club face early, all these things are going to match up

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in a kind of on-plane look with a club face that's slightly closed

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and in a good athletic position for racing

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and from the face-on camera, really getting that good look

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of a delivery position, good look of lag

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so that I can go through my release movements

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get really good ground contact.

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So if you're struggling with lag,

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know that the movements that I teach in this program

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ultimately help develop a golf swing that creates a lot of lag

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as a look of lag.

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It's just understanding the details of each of the key movements

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and key phases and which ones to apply to your game at the right time.

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If you're unsure of what you should be working on,

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feel free to submit your swing.

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We'll do a video analysis and help get you back on track.

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Otherwise, you can always just ask questions through email

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and we'll help guide you as best as we're capable.