| Everyone wants to hit the golf ball farther and | | | | Think about it for just a second. Your thumb and index |
| straighter. So what is the answer? Create Lag! This is | | | | finger help you do most everything that you do during |
| what the good players and pros of the PGA, LPGA | | | | the day. You employ these two fingers to help you |
| and Champions Tours do to hit the golf ball so far and | | | | hold a fork, writing with a pencil or pen and many other |
| straight. | | | | things. Simply put, they are used to taking over |
| OK, create lag. What in the world is lag in the golf | | | | whatever task you are trying to do. Taking your thumb |
| swing? The easiest way that I can explain it to you | | | | and index fingers off of the golf club they cannot join |
| here is that it is pulling the golf club with your body as | | | | the action. This makes the club heavier to you and |
| opposed to pushing the golf club with your hands and | | | | allows the golf club to drop from the top of your |
| arms. | | | | backswing. This will force you to turn towards your |
| Imagine that you are holding a bucket of water. As | | | | target or use a larger range of motion, unless you |
| you try to swing the bucket of water, how will you go | | | | enjoy hitting behind the golf ball! |
| about making this happen? You will start turning your | | | | When this is done correctly you will feel the golf club |
| bigger muscles to make it happen. This will allow you | | | | placing more pressure on the straight index finger since |
| to keep the water in the bucket. If you try to use your | | | | you are now pulling the golf club. That is the feeling of |
| hands and arms to make this happen the water will | | | | lag in your golf swing that you have created. Once |
| start to come out of the bucket and get you wet! | | | | you have done this drill and are comfortable that you |
| Is there a drill that can help you create lag in the golf | | | | now understand the correct feeling of lag in a golf |
| swing? Yes there is. Pick a target and address the | | | | swing, you can curl your fingers back around the grip. |
| golf ball as you normally would. Now for a right handed | | | | However, this time I want you to make your thumb |
| golfer, take your thumb and index finger of your right | | | | and index finger touch. This allows you to get the |
| hand off of the golf club. Making your thumb and index | | | | same feeling without answering the questions on the |
| finger to look like a gun will return the best results. Do | | | | golf course from your golfing buddies about what you |
| not get lazy and let these two fingers start to curl | | | | are doing. |
| back around the grip of the golf club. This will defeat | | | | Understand the "gun grip" as I have come to call it, is |
| the purpose. | | | | legal and you can use it on the golf course. I have had |
| So now you are asking, how does making my grip into | | | | students play very good eighteen-hole rounds utilizing |
| a gun going to help me create lag in my golf swing? | | | | the gun grip to create lag in their golf swing. |