First Move Down

[golf4fun]

The sequence of movements that help me drop into the slot on the downswing and helps maintain lag is this. Move your bent right knee towards the ball which shifts weight back onto the left foot thereby dropping the right shoulder DOWN. Now you are in a position to swing through the ball releasing energy to the ball by rotating the right forearm over the left.

 

[tgmer]

Whether this is correct? Please comment.

I was playing a short 18 holes today and really want to experience the lag. What I did was at the top:
- drop the right shoulder down but no power, no movement from the arms and hands,
- then feeling the left chest and arm, pulling from the left side
- hands pretty loose, no pressure and want to feel the flat left wrist
- the shot was pretty straight, some draw and hook
- but after impact, can't really feel the bent right wrist, somehow at finish it has turned over

Is the above the right way to practise on? I found that once power is used from the arm, everhthing can happen and that must not be right.
Thanks.

 

[Curtis]

I'm not a teaching pro like some of the posters on here. I wouldn't recommend trying to drop anything or hold anything off. Let your body swing your arms and let your hands swing the club. Without getting into a long mind-boggling technical explanation, take a tension free grip with the handle of the club running along the root of your fingers of your left hand not diagonally. Keep the spoke (left arm) attached to the hub (shoulders). Don't swing your arms independently from your body. When your body stops, your arms should stop. As you shift your weight to your front foot to start the downswing, you should feel the club flatten dramatically if your wrist and forearms are nice and soft. Make sure you keep the relationship between your left arm and left shoulder. Let your body unwind and you will feel explosive power. The clubhead will feel heavy like a 5 pound sledgehammer and the golf ball will feel very light like a ping-pong ball. If the golf ball feels like a bowling ball at impact, you're doing something wrong.