This is one of my favorite shots.

I had been steadily losing power in my shots, so I broke down and scheduled a lesson with Joal Harding, the fine teacher at the Fox Hills Learning Center. It didn’t take her long to diagnose the major problem: I’m releasing the club way too early. The solution: develop more lag.

She gave me a couple of drills to work on:

1) The Pump Drill: Take the club back and pump downward, concentrating on maintaining the proper positions. Do this twice, then swing through on the third pump.

2) The Split Hands Drill: Make practice swings with my hands split about a foot apart on the shaft.

3) Swinging my driver with a towel tied to the hosel.

I’m gong to work diligently.

High energy Golf Channel instructor Michael Breed has his own take:

The towel on the driver seemed to work best. With the towel on, my swing looked dang near perfect when compared to a video of Bernhard Langer. But being a gadget guy, I’m wondering if there are any gadgets out there that will work to give me that feeling of lag. Any suggestions?

Here’s the swing I want to imitate. It looks to me like this would be much easier on the back, hips and knees than your typical PGA Tour torque swing.

Plus, PGA Tour dot Com has an article on how to achieve this.

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