How to Create a Lag in a Golf Swing

Have you ever had the opportunity to go zoomingIf you want to know how to make a lag in your golf
around curves in a sports car with the top down onswing, here is the secret. Learn from the apes. One
a beautiful spring day? You know that feeling youof the things that makes us very different from the
get as the car responds to your touch and you feelapes (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 golfapes have much more difficulty doing.
swing feels.Unfortunately for us golfers, that opposable thumb
Every golfer, even the most green one out there onalso makes us lazy. We rely on it for everything. It
the greens, knows that you need to be able to hitdominates us if we are not careful. So, what does
that tiny little ball straight and far. In fact, a greatthis have to do with how to make a lag in your golf
deal of energy is invested in straightening out theswing? Simple. Don't use that thumb for a while.
path of the ball, and having a successful lag in yourPretend you have only your last three fingers on
golf swing is the way to get that ball to follow thatyour right hand and hold the club with them and
narrow path.swing.