Hey Thanks I will try the butt of the club pointing down trick.. and I will look up generating lag on the web.

I appreciate teh tips.

If anyone has any other tips I would appreciate it as well.

Over the years, I have tried the keeping the wrists hinged until the last second but it can results in either flipping or blading if it is not timed just right.
One thing will help also, keep your head centered over the ball with irons and behind the ball with driver, throughout your swing. What this does is promote a coiling along with wrist hinge. Wrist hinge promotes lag, its the hinging and unhinging timing that you want to work on.
By delaying the release deep into the downswing-preimpact-having the right elbow at your right pocket or a little forward of that at impact, lag will be created.

If you approach the ball from a shallow angle (club dropping behind the body) the right wrist will stay hinged, and conscious thought will not be required. To see examples of what I'm talking about look at Stuart Appleby and Retief Goosen from down the target line when their hands reach hip high:
Appleby:
http://www.golftoday.co.uk/proshop/features/images/stuart_appleby_swing_2.jpg
Goosen:
http://www.golftoday.co.uk/proshop/features/images/retief_goosen_swing_2.jpg

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I need some help or advice on how to keep my score going ?

I normally play the front 9 in 1 or 2 over or par but for some reason my score on the back 9 in 6/7 over this happens on different courses and almost every time I play, especially in competition strokes just seem to slip away. My Handicap is 5

Thank you for your help, I seem to drop the strokes around hole11-12 but pick up again 16-18 think its a mental thing about going low

there are unfortunately many many things required to create lag - assuming you have a correct grip body posture setup and a good top position - you have to create body motion in sequential order of hip turn, tip tilt, shoulder turn, shoulder tilt in the downswing before it can be created - as you learn to do this it can be the most devestating thing to hitting a ball because the timing is so hard and has to be learned - here is a way to feel it however - if you go to the top of the swing and keep your left arm compressed to your left chest and turn toward the target literally leaving the arms in position until the shaft gets to a point where the butt of the club points to the target you will feel what lag is like - its very hard to explain through words - but its as if you leave the arms behind and use body motion to get to the ball - the best training aid you can use is the swing guide which helps to understand hinge and lag

That's because you slide the hips on the downswing too much instead of rotating them. When you slide the hips, this makes it hard to rotate them properly at impact. So what happens from the front angle view is the spine gets tilted backwards and when that happens at impact, it opens up the clubface. For instance, take your normal address position with a club in your hand. Now, tilt your spine backwards about 25 degrees. When you do that, your club face opens.

That's unless you use your hands to square up the club face. So when you start the downswing with the hands, you're doing exactly that.

You want that belt buckle facing the target at impact largely because of this. I tell people that think of what you do with pitch/chip shots. On those shots you start with an open stance. Why? Because it "pre-rotates" the hips for you. In those swings you don't have enough time to rotate your hips so the belt buckle is facing the target at impact. So instead you open the stance so that the hips are where they need to be at impact.

Ever watch high handicappers chip and pitch? They usually have a square stance with their chips and pitch shots and what happens is that their hands have to flip thru the ball at impact because if they don't, they'll block everything to the right. It's the same with somebody who takes a normal golf swing and doesn't rotate their hips enough. They'll block the shot if they don't flip thru it with their hands.



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