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Originally Posted by ringin
I've been thinking about my swing and I really wish I was generating more lag to harness some extra power. Being a lefty, I look to Phil's swing quite often for inspiration and he generates an INSANE amount of lag. I definitely don't want to get the club back past parallel like he does, but I could use some drills to get that whip. I know these guys are professionals, and I don't expect to duplicate their results, but I'd like to work on this. Any thoughts or suggestions.
Take a look at what I mean... YouTube - Phil Mickelson Driver SwingVision (Face On) |
You know, by now the golf swing has been so over analyzed that we are starting to point to things which occur naturally and are giving them some special meaning where none really exists.
I blame this on the advancements in high speed photography and the high resolution at which it's presented where we can now see ultra-slow-motion views of a players' knuckle hairs moving in the wind as he swings towards the ball.
I think the "lag" is one of those things that no one really cared much about until guys like Phil and Sergio were photographed in this new nose-hair resolution and someone said, "Wow! Look at that lag!" and then set about to figure out how that could be made important enough to write articles about.
Never mind that the greatest golfers in history had no more lag in their swings than that which was normally associated with a good golf swing, or that Tiger himself has a rather ordinary lag in his. No, Phil and Sergio have unusually pronounced lags so that must mean something. Of course the fact that Phil has only three majors in an almost twenty year career and Sergio has...well...none, or that the relatively lag-less Tiger has 13 in about half that time doesn't seem to matter.
I'm sure that when the lag has been talked to death, they'll come up with something else to analyze. One day, while watching the "Biz Hub, yadda, yadda, yadda...", someone will point out that on his downswing, Bubba Boom Boom demonstrated a rather pronounced flexing of his
Obliquus capitis inferior muscle, and after they've explained to us just what that is, everyone will be on the phone to their personal trainers asking how they can get theirs to do that as well.
Your lag is YOUR LAG. Whether it's very pronounced or hardly noticeable, it is what it is and it happens naturally. Just work on the fundamentals and leave the "lag" analysis to Peter Kostis.
-JP