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In this video, we're going to take a look at a downswing lag checkpoint to make

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sure

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that you're maximizing power and helping improve your low point control.

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So lag is one of those concepts that I find many golfers are still confused

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about how

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to get it.

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We see it on video, but everybody, a lot of golfers, when they try to create it

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, they

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don't actually make any improvement on video, right?

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So they're trying to get into this position here, and when they think about

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either holding

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the wrist up or back like this, it still gets behind them just like this.

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So as a rough lag checkpoint, here's what we're going to do.

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We're going to train delivery position.

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So I'm going to put the club in front of my belly button, or just behind my

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belly button

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so that the grip is even with my belly button just like this.

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And compared to my shoulder, the edge of my trail hand or my right hand is in

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front of

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the shoulder, just like this.

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Now I'm going to bend forward, and I'm going to turn my hips towards the target

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.

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So in this position, I've roughly got the butt end of the club, even with, or

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if I'm

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exaggerating it a little bit past the ball, just like this, but the club is

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inside my

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hands and about parallel to the ground.

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Most of you lose your downswing lag because this arm gets way behind you just

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like this,

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and so you're forced to lunge in front, but the combination of the body getting

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in front

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requires the arms to get wide too soon.

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If the body stays more centered, then the arms can get in front of your body,

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create

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that lag, but still control a really nice shallow low, shallow ground contact,

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but they'll

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bottom the swing far enough forward.

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Okay, so we're going to get into this delivery position just like this.

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And then for the drill, what we're going to do is we're just going to get used

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to applying

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the end of the swing.

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So from here, we're going to turn our body to impact, and we're just going to

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extend

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those arms through just to get used to hitting the golf ball from this position

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.

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Most of you are going to want to cheat on this.

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Most of you are going to want to throw this behind you like this.

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So when you start here, you'll take it back and you'll kind of get behind you

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just like

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this.

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I would recommend either using a mirror or a camera so that you can make sure

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that you're

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not cheating that way.

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So arms in front just like this, and then I'm going to release the club through

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So in the next part of the video, we'll take a look at it from the GoPro or my

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perspective

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so that you'll be able to imagine and visualize where we want to get these arms

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a little bit

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easier.

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Okay, so now looking at the lag checkpoint, I'm basically getting into this

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delivery position

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where my hand is in front of my shoulder, not back here, and the butt end of

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the club,

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you'll see from the camera is pretty much in line with the golf ball.

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From here, because I'm right, I dominant it looks like I'm a little bit ahead

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of it,

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but I know from face on, it's pretty close to in line.

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So if you are used to the club being parallel back here, you can see how much

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more room I

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have to kind of like scoop it on the way through versus if I'm here, when I go

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to release,

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it's going to tend to strike much further forward.

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You can see how that angle of the tack and the low point is going to move

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dramatically

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depending on that delivery position.

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So now the delivery and go drill, I'm going to preset this position, and then

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from here,

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I'm just going to turn my body and extend my arms, and you'll see that the club

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is going

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to make pretty good ground contact.

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So I'm setting up in this delivery position from here, I'm just going to turn

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and extend,

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and I'm going to make sure that I don't bring the club back so then I can do my

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normal

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scoop pattern.

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Once you've figured out that delivery position, then it's just a matter of

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going up to the

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top of the swing and using your body to pump the club down into that position

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instead of

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pulling so much with my arms.

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When I tend to pull down with my arms, I'm going to also tend to release the

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angle a little

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bit early.

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So the combination of feeling like the leg is created by setting the club

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behind you instead

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of up and then getting the elbow more in front into this delivery position will

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help

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you overcome getting into kind of this, the classic amateur position where the

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arms get

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behind the body, release all the angles and the body has to lunge forward.

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It's one of the recipes for low point behind the ball, not a lot of compression

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, not a

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lot of club enemies.