Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles - Hi Adam Bazalgette here founder of Scratch Golf Academy here at the beautiful Club at Mediterra. Golf swing drills to stop early release, this is a problem that just plagues people, I think it's perfectly fixable. I'll show you some ideas, the ones that I find work for me in teaching. Give you three reasons, show you how the pros do it differently by giving you three reasons or three things you have to do to stop this and some drills to help you out with it. (upbeat music) Well if you're new to the channel or if you watched the videos before but haven't subscribed, I'd really appreciate it if you'd hit that red subscribe button. Helps me build a channel build momentum to bring you more free content. There's also a little bell there, if you touch that you get a notification every time we bring a new video to you, so I'd appreciate if you do that. Let's have some fun with these early release drills. So this whole business of lag getting the club past the ball, hitting but the ball before the ground. Listen a lot of people find this really, really, challenging, I don't think it needs to be that challenging, hopefully I can help you in this video. Not all pros do it the same, they don't all look like they have the same amount of lag, but there's one thing that they all do. Let's have a quick look at a couple of players and see what this critical, critical, variable is. So Davis Love on the Left, Tom Watson on the right both major championship winners. Tom Watson eight majors for that matter, Davis Love great lagger at the club. You can see he's got more lag than Tom Watson there, and certainly if we take them right around when they're getting ready to hit it he certainly has a little bit more than Watson, and some have even more and some have even a little bit less. what they all do though regardless, they all get the handle of the golf club right around the end of the glove there, pass that golf ball before the club head goes down to vertical and meets the ground so the club handle must pass the golf ball before the club reaches the ground. Of course Davis does that with plenty of room to spare, just look at that, what a great look there. I have a free three-part detailed course solid strike formula really will help you with hit your iron solidly, just go down the description box and pick it up. Okay so when I give golf lessons, I've been doing that for 30 years, I'm pretty used to how people going about, or the kinds of experiences they have when they try to improve their golf swing. I really don't see people have much success trying to tuck their elbow in or just hold lag, to me it's not that athletic, it doesn't really work that well. All the great players and I mean all of them, to differing degrees, just showed you a couple of players on the video a minute ago all increase lag and store energy. Now one of the little things I'll do during a golf lesson, little drills if you like I'll have a student stand here and I'll come around the front, kind of hold the club with them and we'll hit some little chip shots 15 yards or something like that. It's amazing how much tension you feel with a lot of people, stiff solid wrists. Listen you've got to have some grip pressure, but that should not and cannot, if you're gonna be good at this, translate into stiff wrists, so play around with this factor, this is our number one soft wrists. And just get it to where you can feel the club bounce a little bit and feel it react a bit. You may not hit solid shots at the beginning. I'll try a small one here, I'm gonna go for a little more softness than I probably want to have, so in other words a little more bounce. Now it wasn't quite as much bounce as I wanted, I could feel some, solid hit though, that was a good thing to get these things loose. Again you can have grip pressure and still have loose wrists, if you're stiff and you're hitting at the ball the kind of thing I feel with people, so often students when I stand there you're in trouble right away so learn to let the lag store, that's number one. So here's the next one, can you get the handle passed the ball? We showed you that at the beginning of the video, here's a great mental picture. Picture a light beam, you could extend it up above the golf club but from this view what you're trying to do is, it won't hurt your light beam, break that imaginary beam, get the handle passed the ball before you go down and hit the ball. It really isn't difficult to do, as we said in the previous segment though, if you're excessively bound to trying to make solid hits not look like a fool out, then miss hitting a few balls, you'll hamper yourself. So get the handle past the imaginary beam of light and give yourself a little time to try to arrange solid contact and sort it out. All right, now as we talk about lagging the club or adding lag and getting the handle past the ball, certainly the body plays a role in that, this video isn't primarily about that but let's just give it a brief touch. I think a good image for instance, if this was a five-pound lead bar with no club head on it, but it had a handle on it, heavy in other words and I had to toss this 15 or 20 yards, you can bet I would recruit the ground and use my core and my glutes to try to create some energy there, in a really natural spontaneous sort of way. That's all we're gonna say for this video regards body motion, it does have a roll. Just for the sake of what we're working on though, just let it show up as it would if you're really playing to a target out there with a heavy Club, not just trying to strike something underneath you. So I said earlier in the video, it doesn't work too well to try to stick your arm in or hold angle, I mean it might work for you, but I haven't seen experientially teaching people golf that it works out well. What would be a better thing? Well that's our third thing, when you release, release it hard, don't try to hold angle, try to release with energy, let's look at that. So release head just means to me, transferring energy to the golf club, going from bent wrists to straight wrists and it really comes more through the wrists then it does if you like from the wrist. So, a good mental image I use in golf lessons a lot, is if you had a wet leaf stuck to the club and you had to flick it off, what would that look like? You decelerate, you'd feel some pop in the golf club there. So, let's try that on a small scale to start with and by the way I'm going to do it on a miniature scale here, you just see how easily you could pop there or there or there. Human beings can do this, we get so tied into the ball and looking at it and trying to hit it, it's hard for us to make any adjustments. So let's try it out here, I'm gonna give it a good hard smack here,