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PGA Tours: The Golf Swing Lag Technique

Golf club lag describes the trailing or following condition of the golf club in the downswing. A lagging golf club helps to keep the golf club accelerating steadily.
In this video golf instruction lesson from top PGA golf instructor Lawrie Montague will show you a simple way to create more lag in your golf swing.
Many amateur golfers over-accelerate the golf club leading to many problems like fat golf shots and thin shots.
Over-acceleration occurs when the golf club head accelerates too soon in the downswing leading to the golf club slowing down rapidly as it strikes the golf ball leading to much shorter distance and inconsistency.

 

 

 

The Reason Why You Can’t Lower Your Golf Score in Competition and What You Can Do About It

 

 

There’s something really interesting that happens to dedicated, serious golfers as they go about developing and improving their game. At some point of time many reach a stage of progress sometimes described as “arrested development” where they essentially reach an impasse with their golf performances and stop improving.

This level has been described many ways by sports coaches such as; plateauing, levelling out, or becoming stale etc.

Every time you come off the golf course after completing a round, your golf scores reflect your aptitude and attitude for creating your golf score. For many golfers it becomes more of a physical and psychological battle than a round of golf with their golf game taking control of them leaving them defeated, frustrated and unhappy.

I think it’s one of the most fascinating aspects of golf performance psychology because it doesn’t seem to matter what improvement strategy the golfer takes, they discover yet another way to produce less than desirable scores. In-fact over the years I have met golfers who have been in this frustrating and unsettling place for literally years.

Golfer’s that reach this arrested development level will quite often change their equipment, change their golf instructor or even change their sport in an effort to change this condition. Quite often a change in equipment or instructor might do the trick but I have found that the problem has a lot more to do with how you go about improving your game rather than simply changing a brand of golf club.

The way many advanced golfers practice tends to be based mostly on improving the golf swing performance to improve their golf scores which ends up being the limiting factor in improving their performances on the golf course.

It’s like saying that the tyres on a racing car is the only factor that determines whether the driver will win the race or not, without considering all the other performance factors in the race car, like fuel for instance. Tyres are very important on a racing car but they won’t do you much good if you run out of fuel before the end of the race.

So determining exactly what you need to work on to improve your golf scores should be you starting point. If you were going to practice your golf skills on the practice range for five hours what skills would get the most attention? In other words, how much time would you allocate to each skill set and why?

· Full Swing – Technique Training

· Full Swing – Target Training

· Putting Skills – Long and Short

· Chipping, Pitching and Lob Skills

· Sand Skills – Short and Long

· Full Swing – Trouble Shots

· Short-Game – Trouble Shots

Study the skill sets above and rate each skill set in order of its importance to you right now in improving your golf scores on the golf course. Consider the makeup of your round and determine which skills have the greatest effect on your golf scores.

When you go about improving your golf skills you need to know whether the skills that you’re focusing on will actually make a difference to your bottom line golf score. It’s not uncommon for advanced golfers to be working on the wrong golf skills, particularly when they’re in the arrested development phase.

You need to find a simple way to measure your golf skill routine to determine which of the golf skills need more of your focus. It’s not unusual to hear a golfer describe themselves as a bad putter, but is the golfer a bad putter because they are missing putts that are outside of the makeable range? What is the makeable range? Well, you will discover when you test your putting skills that you will make a high percentage of the putts you attempt from 3 feet (85-95%) of the hole and almost half as many from six feet (45-55%) of the hole and almost half as many again from ten feet (15-25%) of the hole and so on.

So the question you might need to ask yourself is this; “am I a bad putter because I’m trying to hole my putts for par from outside ten feet of the hole because I don’t realise that from this distance I would actually only make 15 to 25 percent (1 to 2 out of 10) of them?”

Should the question really be re-framed to something like this; “what percentage of my chip and pitch shots around the green finish within six feet of the hole?”

I bet you that if you get a high percentage of your chip and pitch shots within six feet of the hole that you will make more putts and your putting average will improve. This illustration is the same for other skills as well.

If you consider yourself a bad driver of the ball and you hit say 40 percent or less of the fairways that you attempt to hit when you use a driver, is it possible that by testing your driver skill on the driving range to a set of targets that are placed twenty yards apart at 200 yards that you achieve a forty percent success rate (4 out of 10 shots) with a driver and a sixty five percent success rate when you use a three wood, however when you set the targets on the range at twenty five yards apart you now can achieve sixty percent success rate with your driver.

So whenever you play a hole that has a fairway twenty yards wide at your driving distance you will take a three wood from the tee instead of your driver. If the fairway is twenty five yards wide you can confidently take your driver and swing away confidently.

By measuring your different skill sets in this manner you can accurately determine which skills need more of your attention and which need less. Every golfer uses a formula for producing their golf scores and by measuring the elements that make up your golf score you can change the formula so that you break free from your arrested development and go on to produce better and more consistent rounds of golf.

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Bunker Training DVD

Bunker Training DVD

A hundred bucks says my new bunker-blasting DVD can turn those patches of pure hell into a day at the beach and have you playing in the sand like a big-money pro.

You know the patches I mean. Those sandy monsters lying there in wait between you and the green. Each one ready to eat your ball for breakfast.

Yeah, I’m talking about bunkers. And if you’re like most golfers you hate the things. You figure they’re only there to catch the poor golfer and hold him prisoner while he adds stroke after stroke to his score trying to escape.

There was a reason bunkers used to be called “sand traps”.

Yet, if you watch the top pros you’ll see that a lot of them seem to prefer being in a bunker. Often, they appear to deliberately hit toward them.

So if sand is that bad, why don’t they do everything they can to avoid it?

Well, it’s simple, really.

Hitting from a greenside bunker can put you closer to the hole.

And that takes a lot of the pressure off the approach shot.

That is, of course, if you know how to hit out of the bunker. And that’s where my new DVD comes in.

It’s called “The Bunker”. And if it doesn’t help you hit out of the sand better than you ever dreamed possible, I’ll not only refund every cent you paid, I’ll send you my check for $100.

Not only that, my new DVD will soon have you playing strategically… occasionally using the bunker to get closer to the hole just like the pros. You’ll slash your handicap and amaze your golfing buddies with your newfound sand skills.

Now, you have to figure if I’m going to go out on a limb and guarantee to send you $100 if the DVD doesn’t have you doing all this, it must be pretty good.

Well, it is.

In fact, this is by far the best video we’ve ever done. In fact, I’d go so far as to say it just may be the most useful golf video I’ve ever seen.

The graphics are great! They add to the instruction without getting in the way like the graphics on some sports events on TV. The camera work and editing are superb…you can follow every move perfectly. Heck, they even managed to make me look good.

Naturally, I’m a little prejudiced. So I think you ought to judge for yourself. To do that, just…

 
 
Of course, all of that doesn’t add up to a hill of beans if I can’t show you how to hit out of the sand. Oh, I’ll do that…I guarantee it. But I’ll also teach you something even more important…

Just getting out of the bunker isn’t good enough.

 

Here’s what you’ll learn in my Bunker DVD

Sure, it’s impressive when you explode out of the bunker on your first swing. But what’s even more so is when that swing helps you actually put the ball where you want it to be.
My new DVD will teach you how to do both. I guarantee it.
In practically no time, you’ll be hitting perfect shots out of the sand…onto the green…and close to the hole. With total confidence and absolute control. Instead of sculling or blading the ball, you’ll put it precisely where you want it.
And you’ll be using the bunker strategically…instead of trying to avoid it.
What do I mean by “practically no time”? Friend, I’m talking about…Immediate improvement!
That’s right. You won’t have to wait weeks to see results . You’ll see them on your first swing.
All you have to do is spend 45 minutes watching the DVD and follow my instructions.
Naturally, the more you practice the better your bunker shot will get. Just like anything else in golf or in life.
And pretty soon, you may find yourself actually liking the challenge of the bunker. Just like I do.
Confessions of a Sand Man…

I guess I’ve always had a soft spot for bunkers. You might even call it a “bunker mentality.”

You see, I grew up in Southwest Florida and started playing golf there. That’s pretty sandy country. And on the courses we played, it seemed like there were seven bunkers for every hole. So I learned how to play in sand pretty early.

Besides, you don’t mind sand so much when you know the other hazard might have an alligator in it!

I spent a lot of my practice time working on my bunker shot and when I became a teaching pro, I passed on what I’d learned to my students. After a while I got to be known as the go-to-guy for folks having trouble with their sand shots.

Recently, I decided it was high time to put everything I know about bunker shots into a video. This one.