GOLF: Why Trying To Create Lag Is Destroying Your Golf Game Eric Cogorno Golf

Why Trying To Create LagIs Destroying Your Golf Game

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Let’s talk about lag and why trying to create lag is often a really, really bad thing for your golf game. We’ve done some other videos on wrist conditions, but we’re going to dive a little deeper into this and why it’s bad.

When I’m talking about lag, I’m referring to the angle between my left arm and the club. Lag is that we would want that angle to be narrow – the more narrow the better.

This concept of lag being a good thing really started with golf teachers and professionals and people watching good golfers on video and camera from face-on, two dimensional video. There is no scientific basis behind it. We associate that look with good ball striking because a lot of good players have that look.

Literally over half the people I talk to will tell me they don’t have enough lag. But, when people try to create lag and get that angle more narrow, they do it through adding wrist hinge. They will hinge the wrist up.

So why is that a problem? The more I hinge my wrist up, the more extension it adds or “cup”. Why is the cup a problem? If all else was equal, and I cupped my left wrist anywhere in my swing during my backswing, at the top of my swing in transition and at impact it would make the club face more open and add more loft.

If I come down in my downswing and my club face is open and I have more loft, is that ball going to go really far and straight or is that ball probably going to go high and short and to the right?

As soon as you and your brain see a club face that's to open it has too much loft, what do you think you are going to do to try and make that functional? During your follow through you're going to flip. Nine out of 10 of you have a flip because your club face is open. Your club face is open because your wrist got cupped. Your wrist got cupped because you hinge. You hinge because you want lag. Literally all of your golf problems might be because you're trying to get more lag!

The next part is in terms of width or how narrow you are. You think this narrow angle coming down is the key to solid contact and hitting the ball really high and far. But, you being too narrow is killing you. Imagine if you're swinging a club and the pattern of the club head sort of works like a “V”. It comes down very vertical. It has a very sharp low point and then it works its way back up. Compare that to a swing where the club head works a little bit more wide. If your club head comes down into the ball from a wider circle and the flat spot is longer, you have much more margin of error.

So those are the two key reasons trying to create lag is destroying your golf game, Some of you guys are going to not like the idea because it goes against what you think. (Even though I'm right about this one!)

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GOLF: Why Trying To Create Lag Is Destroying Your Golf Game
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