The Holy Grail of Golf – How To Create Lag in the Golf Swing

Creating lag in the golf swing is the ultimate goal for most amateur golfers. I've seen students who have literally spent their entire golfing careers trying to stop casting the golf club. I even had one member of my golf forum who called himself "Clubcaster". He even started his own website that chronicled his struggles to create more lag in his golf swing. Losing lag had become a part of his identity!

If you can relate to our good old friend "Clubcaster", fear not! Hope is not lost! In fact, I GUARANTEE you that if do the swing drills I lay out here and read this article, you will rid yourself of this terrible golf swing fault once and for all!

There are a few things that cause a golfer to lose lag in his or her swing. I’m going to talk about the most common ones: spinning the shoulders, oversetting the wrists and too much tension.

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Spinning the Shoulders in the Downswing

This is perhaps the most common swing fault I see. Spinning the shoulders is simply starting the downswing by aggressively unwinding the shoulders from the top of the backswing. This rotary motion creates a great deal of centripetal force, the result of which is centrifugal force that acts on the club. This centrifugal force causes the club head to release away from the golfer and is powerful enough to over power the wrists and create club head throw away, or a casting motion.

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