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Golf swing drills to stop early release,

this is a problem that just plagues people,

I think it's perfectly fixable.

I'll show you some ideas, the ones that I find work

for me in teaching.

Give you three reasons,

show you how the pros do it differently

by giving you three reasons

or three things you have to do to stop this

and some drills to help you out with it.

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Let's have some fun with these early release drills.

So this whole business of lag getting the club

past the ball, hitting but the ball before the ground.

Listen a lot of people find this really, really,

challenging, I don't think it needs to be that challenging,

hopefully I can help you in this video.

Not all pros do it the same, they don't all look like

they have the same amount of lag,

but there's one thing that they all do.

Let's have a quick look at a couple of players

and see what this critical, critical, variable is.

So Davis Love on the Left, Tom Watson on the right

both major championship winners.

Tom Watson eight majors for that matter,

Davis Love great lagger at the club.

You can see he's got more lag than Tom Watson there,

and certainly if we take them right around when they're

getting ready to hit it he certainly has a little bit

more than Watson, and some have even more

and some have even a little bit less.

what they all do though regardless,

they all get the handle of the golf club

right around the end of the glove there,

pass that golf ball before

the club head goes down to vertical

and meets the ground so the club handle must pass

the golf ball before the club reaches the ground.

Of course Davis does that with plenty of room to spare,

just look at that, what a great look there.

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Okay so when I give golf lessons,

I've been doing that for 30 years,

I'm pretty used to how people going about,

or the kinds of experiences they have when they try

to improve their golf swing.

I really don't see people have much success trying

to tuck their elbow in or just hold lag,

to me it's not that athletic,

it doesn't really work that well.

All the great players and I mean all of them,

to differing degrees,

just showed you a couple of players on

the video a minute ago all increase lag and store energy.

Now one of the little things I'll do during a golf lesson,

little drills if you like I'll have a student stand here

and I'll come around the front,

kind of hold the club with them

and we'll hit some little chip shots 15 yards

or something like that.

It's amazing how much tension you feel

with a lot of people, stiff solid wrists.

Listen you've got to have some grip pressure,

but that should not and cannot,

if you're gonna be good at this,

translate into stiff wrists,

so play around with this factor,

this is our number one soft wrists.

And just get it to where you can feel

the club bounce a little bit

and feel it react a bit.

You may not hit solid shots at the beginning.

I'll try a small one here,

I'm gonna go for a little more softness

than I probably want to have,

so in other words a little more bounce.

Now it wasn't quite as much bounce as I wanted,

I could feel some, solid hit though,

that was a good thing to get these things loose.

Again you can have grip pressure

and still have loose wrists,

if you're stiff and you're hitting at the ball

the kind of thing I feel with people,

so often students when I stand there

you're in trouble right away

so learn to let the lag store, that's number one.

So here's the next one,

can you get the handle passed the ball?

We showed you that at the beginning of the video,

here's a great mental picture.

Picture a light beam, you could extend it up above

the golf club but from this view

what you're trying to do is,

it won't hurt your light beam,

break that imaginary beam,

get the handle passed the ball

before you go down and hit the ball.

It really isn't difficult to do,

as we said in the previous segment though,

if you're excessively bound to trying

to make solid hits not look like a fool out,

then miss hitting a few balls,

you'll hamper yourself.

So get the handle past the imaginary beam of light

and give yourself a little time

to try to arrange solid contact and sort it out.

All right, now as we talk about lagging the club

or adding lag and getting the handle past the ball,

certainly the body plays a role in that,

this video isn't primarily about that

but let's just give it a brief touch.

I think a good image for instance,

if this was a five-pound lead bar with no club head on it,

but it had a handle on it, heavy in other words

and I had to toss this 15 or 20 yards,

you can bet I would recruit the ground

and use my core and my glutes to try

to create some energy there,

in a really natural spontaneous sort of way.

That's all we're gonna say

for this video regards body motion, it does have a roll.

Just for the sake of what we're working on though,

just let it show up as it would

if you're really playing to a target out there

with a heavy Club,

not just trying to strike something underneath you.

So I said earlier in the video,

it doesn't work too well to try

to stick your arm in or hold angle,

I mean it might work for you,

but I haven't seen experientially teaching people golf

that it works out well.

What would be a better thing?

Well that's our third thing,

when you release, release it hard,

don't try to hold angle, try to release with energy,

let's look at that.

So release head just means to me,

transferring energy to the golf club,

going from bent wrists to straight wrists

and it really comes more through the wrists

then it does if you like from the wrist.

So, a good mental image I use in golf lessons a lot,

is if you had a wet leaf stuck to the club

and you had to flick it off,

what would that look like?

You decelerate, you'd feel some pop in the golf club there.

So, let's try that on a small scale to start with

and by the way I'm going to do it

on a miniature scale here,

you just see how easily you could pop

there or there or there.

Human beings can do this,

we get so tied into the ball

and looking at it and trying to hit it,

it's hard for us to make any adjustments.

So let's try it out here,

I'm gonna give it a good hard smack here,

a good hard release of the wrist.

I really felt some energy transfer down into

the golf club there.

Now probably if I was actually playing,

I'd have a little more body motion than that,

the club may not hit the ground quite as hard as that.

I don't care for this drill though,

let's try it again, let it store

and pop the imaginary wet leaf off the golf club.

Got a lot of energy in that one,

little on the thin side, one more.

That's more like it right there, really felt some sting.

Have some fun with this at the range,

don't do it at infinitum,

back off and hit some regular shots

and then back to the drill,

you'll have this thing sorted out.

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