Help!.... Weighted club slowed me down!

[T_Dog]

A few of years ago I bought one of those weighted clubs in an attempt to increase my distance.

I swung it 50 times a day for a number of months. This was during the winter period, so I wasn’t playing any golf.

When spring finally came, I couldn’t wait to get to the course to see how far I would hit it.

My first few drives were well short of where they had been the previous season, but I just told myself that the ground was now softer and the ball simply wasn’t running as far.

However, when I played the first par 3 that excuse was shot to shit, I came up 20 yards short of the green with the same club I had used in the autumn. I teed up 4 more balls but the result was the same.

I was horrified, I had swung that freakng thing thousands of times and this was my reward.

I consulted a friend of mine regarding the matter, he videoed my swing and pointed out that I had lost nearly all of my lag. I wasn’t casting the club from the top, but as soon as the shaft got past vertical in the downswing, the angle between my left forearm and club diminished rapidly.

Is there any way I can regain my lag?

My friend suggested using a swing fan, will that help?

 

[spktho]

May be a case of hanging on to the weighted club too tight and having the forearm muscles strengthen in that pattern not allowing the wrists to hinge.

Other people on here will probably have better suggestions, but I would think that you now have to retrain your wrists to hinge properly by using a regular club and making pitch swings with lag. Then build up to full swings making sure that you use your pivot.

 

[Bigwill]

A few of years ago I bought one of those weighted clubs in an attempt to increase my distance.

I swung it 50 times a day for a number of months. This was during the winter period, so I wasn’t playing any golf.

When spring finally came, I couldn’t wait to get to the course to see how far I would hit it.

My first few drives were well short of where they had been the previous season, but I just told myself that the ground was now softer and the ball simply wasn’t running as far.

However, when I played the first par 3 that excuse was shot to shit, I came up 20 yards short of the green with the same club I had used in the autumn. I teed up 4 more balls but the result was the same.

I was horrified, I had swung that freakng thing thousands of times and this was my reward.

I consulted a friend of mine regarding the matter, he videoed my swing and pointed out that I had lost nearly all of my lag. I wasn’t casting the club from the top, but as soon as the shaft got past vertical in the downswing, the angle between my left forearm and club diminished rapidly.

Is there any way I can regain my lag?

My friend suggested using a swing fan, will that help?

I had the opposite experience as you. I picked up yardage, swinging a momentus as hard as I could, despite modern thinking on speed production. I never did swing it as much as 50 times a day, though. You'd want to keep your rep range a lot lower than that, I would think. A lot of people don't recommend swinging something that is more than 5 to 10 percent heavier than a club, or it will slow you down, as well as messing up your swing mechanics.

As far as the swing fan, I know that several professional longdrive professionals use and endorse it.

 

[Biffer]

In my case, the swing fan definitely works. When I don't use it, my swing speed drops and I lose about 15 to 20 yards off my driver distance. I try to swing the fan about once a day for 25 reps.