WATCH: The best way to create lag in the golf swing
This week’s Impact Show explains what “lag” is in the golf swing, and how you can develop more of it to help you hit the golf ball farther.
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You hear that one all the time; I wish I could put my practice swing on the ball! We explain the huge importance of what to focus on to allow the ball to be perfectly in the way of your practice swing. Enjoy!
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Earlier this week, Mitsubishi announced the return of its iconic Whiteboard profile with the new Diamana WB shaft.
In our launch story, we offered a rundown of the key technology in the new WB — 80-ton Dialead pitch fiber, Aerospace-grade MR70 carbon fiber, Consistent Feel Design, and the Xlink Tech Resin System. To go deeper, however, we enlisted our Resident Club Junkie and bona fide shaft nut, Brian Knudson, to track down someone from Mitsubishi at the PGA Show. Fortunately, Mitsubishi’s Director of Global Aftermarket Sales, Jonathan Alongi, was on hand to answer all of BK’s questions.
Check out their discussion about the new WB, as well as the 20th anniversary of the original design, in the video above — time stamps of key points below, including a definitive answer as to how the surfboard graphic ended up on the original Whiteboard in 2004!
- :40 – Mitsubishi Japan expands to the U.S. in 2004
- :50 – “The shaft that set the standard”
- 1:12 – “The ‘board is back”
- 1:45 – WB or Whiteboard? Or both?
- 1:55 – The first iteration of the sixth generation of Diamana
- 2:10 – Incorporating key technology from a 20-year journey
- 3:10 – Modifying the tip section for more ball speed
- 3:50 – Delivering ball speed in a low-launch, low-spin shaft
- 4:20 – Drilling down on the shaft profile compared to the original Whiteboard
- 5:00 – The most impressive element of the new WB
- 5:30 – Butt, mid, tip specifications
- 6:00 – WB’s iconic graphics and the Diamana legacy — flowers, surfboard, numbering system
- 8:15 – An abundance of available weights and flexes
- 8:55 – More players going lightweight
Check out more photos and see what GolfWRXers are saying about Mitsubishi WB in the forums.
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Our Resident Club Junkie, Brian Knudson, goes through a wedge fitting with Chris Baingo, Titleist’s Club Fitting Analyst.
Get the full story on new SM10 wedges in our launch piece.
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Bob Jones
Dec 20, 2017 at 3:23 pm
A simple way to maintain lag is for the sole of the clubhead and the tip of the handle to always move in the same direction in the forward swing. The sole always moves leftward in the forward swing, but if lag is being lost, the tip has pivoted to the right. This effect is especially apparent when the club flips in the impact area. At 1:10 in the video you can clearly see the tip backing up.
Pierce says, “this is the hardest one to change,” and he’s right. Lag gets lost when the golfer hits with his/her right hand because of how powerful it feels to do that, and, well, because it just makes sense to, so we keep doing it even after we understand it’s the wrong thing to do.
ghn
Dec 20, 2017 at 1:43 pm
I do not believe that the ‘angle gets narrower’ right from the top as you say. You are being fooled by parallax because the camera is not perpendicular to the plane of the swing but is facing the player. A few minutes in front of a mirror with a club in hand will demonstrate this.
Many think that Sergio Garcia has some great amount of lag increase on his downswing because of this effect when in fact he merely has a flat downswing plane which makes the fabled ‘angle’ seem more acute.
Andrew Cooper
Dec 21, 2017 at 11:55 am
Spot on, see also Ben Hogan…the lag in the photos is an optical illusion. But it is the basis for so much of this create lag/hold the lag obsession.