So yesterday was day 7 of my Chelsea Piers beginner golf training. For three days I had been working on consciously creating "lag' in my swing and have hit at the indoor range a few times.
As soon as I stepped up, the only thing on my mind was, hold the angle (aka Lag) Again result was immediate. Now I had the instructor there to see me and he noticed a difference as well AND even said I'm getting better distance now.
When we went into woods, I was doing better as well, though still need work. The student next to me was talking about the driver and I said that before you get to the driver, you should work on 5 and then 3 wood. I demonstrated why, set up with the driver and actually hooked it a little , landing just before the 200yrd net. He thought it was pretty good. My second shot, started just a tad right and then curved left and then straight, hitting the 200 yard net. He was like WOW and I was just shocked, first time I broke 200 yards and hit a draw. Wish I had a video for that. Fortunatly the other student was able to get me hitting a 7i, which I was hitting well all afternoon.
I explained to the instructor what I was doing differently and he understood and it really has to do with swing plane and approach. By , holding the angle from my backswing in the downswing, I'm actually 1. keeping the club more on plane 2. Because my body is turning first, I'm getting more torque, and hitting farther 3. Hitting more down and less fat
Again I need to make this instinctual but this has definitly helped me. As was discussed in a recent post, my focus was on maintaining lag and this has shown the most consistency, in fact i've started hooking the ball now. The argument was that lag does nothing. Well thinking about lag helped me and I'm hitting farther. I'm sure this isn't a unique case, but I will agree that Lag isn't the cause but more like a corequisite which helps other important mechanics function. But until It's second nature, I'll be thinking a lot about lag.
Day 7 and the teacher wants him to lag?