How to Avoid the Wrong Type of Lag

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Coach Clay Ballard from TopSpeedGolf explains why many amateurs make their swings worse by trying to add more lag and how to get lag the correct way.

He uses HackMotion wrist data to compare and explain the differences. Check out the video below:

Why Too Open Club Face is Bad?

Open club face leads to common swing faults:

• Player tries to add lag and keeps the club face open for too long
• Open club face would lead to pushing the ball so the player needs to make adaptations.
• The player is subconsciously reacting to the club face and creating common swing faults:
  • Swinging to the left (out-to-in path) and thus slicing the ball
  • Keeping his weight on the back foot and losing power
  • Trying to square the club face at the last moment with a weak flip

Once you fix the club face, a lot of the other problems will fix themselves because they happen subconsciously as reactions to the club face.

How to Fix Club Face

So how to fix this open club face?

You need to understand how the club face is opened and closed. The open club face is caused by too much lead wrist extension (cupping).

Now look at the comparison of 2 swing positions:

• IMAGE 1: club face is square during downswing, it is pointing in the direction of the ball – result of the lead wrist being flatter or even slightly flexed (bowed).
• IMAGE 2: club face is too open, it is pointing up in the sky – result of the lead wrist being too extended (cupped).

If you have a lot of wrist extension it is impossible to consistently remove it right before impact.

Using Hackmotion Wrist Sensor we have been measuring PGA Tour players and we consistently see that top players square the club face early by avoiding extension (cupping) of the lead wrist.

They square club face early, so they don’t have to square it late.

The goal is to gradually get into a position from which you have to do less club face manipulation leading up to the impact.

How to Learn Squaring the Face Early

To learn how to consistently square the club face you need 2 things:

1. You need to know what your lead wrist is doing throughout the swing. You need DATA!
2. You need a way to know when your wrist is in a good position. You need FEEDBACK!

With Hackmotion Sensor you can get both data and feedback.