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Old 02-16-2009, 10:14 PM
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What Is Lag Pressure?
Originally Posted by okie View Post

....that was the first time EVER that I sustained the lag pressure on all of my full shots in a single round of golf. Experimenting with this and that I had moved away from the importance of lag pressure.

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"Lag Pressure."

Such a mysterious term!

Yet we bandy it about as jargon we think we all understand.

But we don't.

This past weekend, at the conclusion of a long and fruitful day's work, my student Collin Neeman, http://lynnblakegolf.com/gallery/sho...ry.php?cat=512 now playing the Gateway Tour in Arizona, and I were having dinner at Cuscowilla. The day's work done, we were talking about the illusive and inert 'lag pressure'.

The water glass loomed before me, and with my right forearm on the table, I placed my forefinger to its side and, using my forearm (and a bit of pivot from my seat), moved it slowly to the left side of the table. The glass resisted -- inertia -- yet my forearm advanced. And with it, the glass.

My 'on plane' forearm and the supporting pressure point (the right forefinger), felt the 'drag' of the 'lagging' glass.

"'Water Glass' lag pressure", said I.

"'Clubhead' Lag Pressure", said he.

The Golf World wants you to "Swing the Clubhead", almost always with an indiscriminate bending of the left wrist. In the words of a famous instructor, to "hit the ball with the head of your instrument".



A TGMer uses his Pivot and Arm Swing to create Clubhead Lag Pressure in his Hands. The "head of your instrument" takes care of itself.

The difference is empowering.

And is more easily demonstrated than explained.

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