| Have you ever had the opportunity to go zooming | | | | If you want to know how to make a lag in your golf |
| around curves in a sports car with the top down on | | | | swing, here is the secret. Learn from the apes. One |
| a beautiful spring day? You know that feeling you | | | | of the things that makes us very different from the |
| get as the car responds to your touch and you feel | | | | apes (all animals really) is the fact that we have an |
| like the vehicle is really just an extension of yourself? | | | | opposable thumb. The thumb, along with the index |
| You become the car and the car becomes you? Well, | | | | finger, allows us to do all sorts of things that the |
| that is kind of similar to how a great lag in your golf | | | | apes have much more difficulty doing. |
| swing feels. | | | | Unfortunately for us golfers, that opposable thumb |
| Every golfer, even the most green one out there on | | | | also makes us lazy. We rely on it for everything. It |
| the greens, knows that you need to be able to hit | | | | dominates us if we are not careful. So, what does |
| that tiny little ball straight and far. In fact, a great | | | | this have to do with how to make a lag in your golf |
| deal of energy is invested in straightening out the | | | | swing? Simple. Don't use that thumb for a while. |
| path of the ball, and having a successful lag in your | | | | Pretend you have only your last three fingers on |
| golf swing is the way to get that ball to follow that | | | | your right hand and hold the club with them and |
| narrow path. | | | | swing. |