{"id":228961,"date":"2019-12-20T20:53:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T20:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/feel-it-in-your-fingers-golf-grip-tips\/"},"modified":"2024-10-03T08:26:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T08:26:06","slug":"feel-it-in-your-fingers-golf-grip-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/feel-it-in-your-fingers-golf-grip-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Feel it in your Fingers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Try this hands-on (and thumbs-off!) drill to get a real sense of the way encouraging \u2018lag\u2019 in your swing unlocks your potential for generating clubhead speed. – Nick Bradley<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n If you could distil the ingredients of great ball striking with an iron in your hand it would probably come down to two elements; lag and speed. You see, lag has the ability to produce a great angle of attack with an iron, complimented by the added bonus of increased clubhead speed. Hands up who doesn\u2019t want to hit it better and hit it farther?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lag is often a mystical concept in golf \u2013 many golfers have tried to create \u2018lag\u2019 or a \u2018late hit\u2019 position only to find themselves even slower through the ball than before. Lag is not a static position, in fact it\u2019s probably the least static and slow position we can have during the swing due to its dynamic forces. The moment you try to replace \u2018motion\u2019 with \u2018position\u2019 you generally kill speed! Lag is nothing more than the increasing of the club\u2019s swingweight through angular momentum. That sounds like a mouthful but essentially all this means is the wrists cock or flex a little more during the downswing due to the pulling weight of the club. All we do to lag the club is to allow this sense of \u2018heaviness\u2019 to happen through the pliability of the wrists \u2013 yes they must feel soft and receptive to a dynamic change of direction in which the club feels really heavy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n This drill is going to give you that sense of weight, change of direction and speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThumbs off thumbs on – for extra lag and speed <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Heighten the sense in your fingers<\/h4>\n\n\n\n