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In the video, we're going to take a look at a down swing lag checkpoint to make sure that

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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 about how

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to get it.

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

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don't actually make any improvement on video.

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

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

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button 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 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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So in this position, I've roughly got the button to the club, even with or if I'm exaggerating

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it a little bit past the ball, just like this.

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But the club is inside my hands and about parallel to the ground.

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Most of you lose your down swing lag because this arm gets way behind you just like this.

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And so you're forced to lunge in front, but the combination of the body getting 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 that lag, but still control a really nice shallow ground contact, but though bottom

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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 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 extend those

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

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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 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 that

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you're not cheating that way.

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So arms in front just like this.

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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 perspective

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

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bit easier.

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

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where my hand is in front of my shoulder, not back here.

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And the butt end of the club, you'll see from the camera is pretty much in line with

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the golf ball from here because I'm right, I dominant it looks like I'm a little bit ahead

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of it 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 more room

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

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

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of 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 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 behind you instead

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

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overcome getting into kind of this the classic amateur position where the arms get

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

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

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a lot of fun.