Danny Lee vs. Bernd Wiesberger - Get more lag
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Congrats to Bernd Wiesberger for winning the 2015 French Open and Congrats to Danny Lee for winning the 2015 Greenbriar Classic. **Are you constantly fighting with your mechanics in search of ways to produce more lag into your swing?** In this video, I'll show you how Danny Lee and Bernd Wiesberger get a ton of lag in their golf swings...but in 2 different ways. I'll show you how both players start the swing off the same way, build lag differently and then end up in the exact same spot in the hitting area!
- Stay wide into the takeaway with both arms straight.
- Only have enough wrist set at the completion of the takeaway to get the club parallel to the ground.
- Keep the wrists supple during the swing.
- Allow the weight shift to create more angle for lag.
Hey, hey, what's up everyone? This is RST instructor Chris Tyler, and we are back again with this week's tour analysis.
We've got on the left-hand side of the screen this week, we've got the French Open champion, Burnt Weisberger, and on the right-hand side of the screen, we have the 2015 Greenbrier champion, Danny Lee.
So congratulations to both these fellas on picking up some great victories this weekend.
We're going to be focusing in on clubhead speed.
I know we all want it, And I know we all want that mythical creature that everybody seems to look for and nobody can seem to find, and that's lag.
We're going to be focusing in on how both these players get a ton of lag in their golf swing, and they do it two different ways.
So if you're looking for a solution to put more clubhead speed, then you're going to want to pay close attention to this analysis.
Let's go ahead and get started.
All right, guys.
So as I said in the opener, we're going to be focusing in on that mythical creature, mythical unicorn, that people always want in the golf swing and never really can seem to find, and that's lag.
They do it just a little bit differently, And I'm going to outline a game plan here for you guys to help you get more lag and more speed in your golf swings.
And also be able to have a lot of control at the same time.
So let's go ahead and get started here taking a look at both players into their takeaway positions, and this is really kind of the jumping off point to start to build a lot of lag in your golf swing, believe it or not.
You're going to see a lot of tour players, a lot of quality, high-level players are going to stay really wide into their takeaway here.
Okay, you're going to see Danny Lee do the exact same kind of thing here.
So both players are into a completed part of their takeaway, where you see both arms nice and straight, And you're going to see just enough wrist set here to support the club to where the club shaft is parallel to the ground.
You don't see a ton of wrist set to where the club shaft is angled up like this.
That would start to get the wrists into a fully set position, and they're just like any other muscle group.
If you get your wrists fully loaded up, They, in turn, can start to throw the club or fire the club very early.
And make it very difficult for you to get lag or maintain it in the first place.
All right, so you want to, into the takeaway position, what you're looking for is to keep both arms very straight.
Okay, this is going to establish a very wide swing arc, and then just enough wrist set to where you see the club shaft parallel to the ground.
So both have very textbook-looking takeaway positions here.
All right, so let's go ahead and work up to the top of the swing here.
I'm going to go ahead and do Burnt first here.
So as he starts to work up, he's continuing to focus on rotation.
Right arm flexion starts to come in.
And here we are at the top of his golf swing, the very tippy-top here, where you can see that the club head here and the club shaft aren't to parallel.
A very good-looking golf swing as a whole here.
Where you're going to see Danny Lee do something a little bit different here.
He's going to go ahead and continue to work on rotation, adds his right arm flexion, but you're going to see his wrists get really fully loaded up up here.
So this is the top of his golf swing, where you can see the club shaft has gone a little bit, I actually prefer Burnt's method here, because what it does is it's got less moving parts to it.
It's a little bit tighter, and it's a little bit easier to control.
It doesn't mean that because Danny's allowed the club to travel a little bit further going back, is he going to have more club head speed.
There's a lot of other variables that contribute to that stuff.
But you're going to see how both players get a ton of lag in their golf swing, and they do it totally different.
So let's focus on Danny first here.
You're going to see that Danny does what we call a lot of down-cocking of the club.
You're going to see that this angle up here starts to increase right there as he starts to shift left.
So he's doing that by keeping the wrist very supple, and he's allowing the shift to help create more of an angle between the club shaft and the forearms.
So you're going to see here, as he gets the hands down to about hip height or so, a pretty good strong angle here between the club shaft and the forearms.
Okay, so very good-looking move there as far as this, you know, The The downswing, sequencing and allowing the hands and arms to create more angle there, with some suppleness of the wrist.
Where you're going to see a totally different kind of approach from what Burnt does here.
Burnt does kind of a move where we almost feel like there's like a five -pound weight wrapped around the grip of the club, and it's almost pulling your arms straight down in a sense.
Okay, not that we're trying to pull the hands down, but that's, you know, That's another big misnomer of the golf swing is that we want to pull the arms down and yank them in front of us, and in turn we're going to have all kinds of lag.
But that can actually start to get you in a race between the hands and the arms and the body.
So again, we'll just get this arrow off the screen here.
You're going to see that he doesn't make a lot of down-cock up there at the top of the swing at all.
So you can see his hands and arms are just kind of falling.
All right, it looks like they're moving quite a bit, But they're just kind of falling from that particular position, from the top of the swing while he's working to transfer and shift his weight.
So all that movement from the hands and the arms and the shoulders is really being done by mostly lower body.
If we were to stop in this position and then wind his lower body back up, you would see that he would be right back up in this same position.
All right, so that move right there is all lower body without a whole lot of down-cock in it.
So let's go ahead and look here.
So you get the hands right about belt-tight as well, and you're going to see almost the same angle that Danny has.
Okay, so you can see that both players were able to get a ton of lag in their golf swings.
And this is where they get back to the world of similarities here.
You're going to see that as he gets his hands in front of his trail thigh here, this is burnt working down here, and his hands in front of the trail thigh, you're going to see the club shaft come back to parallel to the ground.
Okay, Danny Lee, same thing here.
So you can see hands are right in front of that trail thigh.
Club shaft is now parallel to the ground.
And again, so both players have very good moves, and they get down to the hitting area to where they're getting ready to release this golf club, and they're going to have a ton of speed here.
And also, you know, they're not carrying in a boatload of lag.
That's one of the areas that a lot of people, because they know that it's potential club head speed, is sometimes they carry too much lag into the hitting area, and it's very, very difficult to get rid of.
It can actually be a double-edged sword, believe it or not.
I think that's one of the big things that we want to express along to people is that it's fun to have, and it's good for club head speed, But it also can create a lot of timing variables and make it very difficult to get rid of it.
And get the club face back to square.
A club face can come in really steep as well, and we battle that with a lot of professional players.
So let's go ahead and finish up here.
You'll see that both players take from the club shaft being parallel to the ground, and then the release through the hitting area with lots of good extension here.
Pretty much textbook extension there from Danny.
A very similar like move here from Burnt, so that's pretty much it, guys.
That's the idea is that in order to get lag, you want to establish things really early on in the swing, like we talked about getting into a good takeaway position without having a lot of wrist set.
All right, so if you've been struggling with your takeaway, I'm going to attach all these videos over here in the recommended Videos tab to the right-hand side of the player.
Just go ahead and click that recommended tab, and all those videos will pop right up.
So you want to have enough wrist set just to support the club.
If you're unsure of what that means, there's a video on the website called the Using the Wrists Effectively and Efficiently.
It kind of goes through a lot of the terminology about what the wrists do.
Also, we have the Keep the Right Arm Straight to Turn video.
That's going to help you establish more rotation and a lot more width in your golf swing.
And then we have the Down Cock and Pump Drill.
That's another good video that, remember, you don't have to overdo those things.
Those things can, if you start to try to overdo it to try to get into an area where you have this big, massive angle, that can also hurt you.
We want to have things into a world of consistency and a world of speed.
So make sure you work on that, but don't overdo it.
And then work on five minutes to a perfect release.
If you have those things in order, you will have more lag, more speed, and more control than you've ever had before, I promise you guys.
All right, so that's going to be our review this week, guys.
Again, congratulations to both these players on a job well done this weekend.
I hope everybody had a wonderful and a happy holiday weekend.
For those of you in the States, for those of you worldwide, let's make it a great day.
And I hope you guys all the best on the golf course.
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