Best Drill for maintaining lag

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Tball88

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I have a problem with losing lag on my swing and sometimes getting a leakage hook. What do you guys recommend for keeping lag(impact bag, dragging the mop). Any help is appreciated, THanks
 
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Jim Kobylinski

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Just tie your golf towel around the hosel of your club and take gentle swings with it. If you can't feel PP#3 from that, you have issues lol
 
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I disagree. If you practice with a golf towel around the hosel, you won't feel the club at all when you take the towel off. To best feel the clubhead, you should swing the grip end of your club/a shaft with no head on it. After you do this for a minute or two, pick up your club and it will feel like it weighs 10 pounds.
 
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horton

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quote:Originally posted by brianman

Grip the club normally.

Take the right thumb off of the club and point it at the target.

Hit it.
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Brian --- Is Lag Pressure applied at PP#3 constant or variable? If it is a variable pressure, how does it vary throughout the downswing?
 
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FL-John

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I would think the drill works because one must keep the lag loaded or really lose control of the club....when most of us begin to lose the lag, we compensate by feeling/adding pressure from the right thumb to try and stop the throwaway....without the right thumb on the club, we must store and hold the lag or be ready for the club to flop around coming into impact (especially if there is throwaway or if we lose the lag on PP#3).

FL-John
 
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glfnaz

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I post very little here, but I've got to say that the above drill from Brian sounds like a winner. Thanks.
 
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efnef

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quote:Originally posted by glfnaz

I post very little here, but I've got to say that the above drill from Brian sounds like a winner. Thanks.
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Yup. A very famous champion used to practice with both his right thumb and trigger finger (forefinger) straight.
 
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FL-John

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Brian:

I would think it helps slicers for a few reasons:

(1) They can monitor their right thumb to see the direction of the downswing....if their thumb starts pointing AT or LEFT of the target, they can assume they were coming outside in. If the thumb on the downswing points to the right or down the angle of approach, they will know their hands/club are coming into the ball the proper way...HELL, they can use their thumb to point at the plane line to ingrain the feeling of taking the club and thrusting towards the plane line

(2) It will also help slicers as they will know immediately (by loss of club control) that they have casted. Better than a laser guide as hey can feel and know when and when they do not cast or have throwaway!

FL-John
 
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craig

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Also by taking the thumbs of the club it release tension in the wrists, allowing the wrists to roll stoping stering which causes sliceing
 
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corky05

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You couldn't push the right hand through the inside aft quadrant of the ball and laintain lag if the club was on an outside - in path.
 
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DDL

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Without the right thumb exerting pressure on the club, one can drag the sweetspot onplane via the right index finger, thus closing the clubface by impact.
 
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8cork

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Just wanted to thank Brian for the drill, I have been fighting a problem with pull hooks, straightening my right wrist at contact, and this drill has worked wonders. I hit a bucket of balls at the range doing the drill, and it really ingrained the feeling of lag pressure. I could even feel the club loading on pp 3 at the top.
Thanks again Brian
 
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