How To Get Shaft Lean At Impact
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In this video we’re going to talk about shaft lean – what it is, how you get it, and how you train it in.
Everyone wants some form of lag look during the downswing. But in this video, I’m referring to the shaft more specifically at the impact position. At impact, the shaft is leaning to the left or leaning towards the target. This is one of the few commonalities of all good players.
One of the biggest misconceptions, and I even had it when I was growing up playing golf, is the idea that shaft lean or lag came from hinging the club. When I watched good players I thought those guys and girls who play really good, they take that angle and essentially they just kind of hold that angle all the way through a impact. Now I don’t know if I wasn’t very intelligent when I was younger, or just didn’t know enough to think through it, but obviously if I came down and I held that angle, the upward hinge, and I kept that hinge forever, I would never hit the golf ball.
So the first key point to understand is when you get shaft lean, you don’t get it through that angle just staying forever. That angle needs to be released to get down to the golf ball and then you’re squaring the face there through lead arm supination and/or wrist flexion. Wrist bowing at that point, that’s how you square the face.
So, how do I get my hands forward? Well, there’s two main pieces involved with that. If I wanted to have my handle move more forward or my shaft leaning forward, my left hand position would have to go from a flat or slightly extended, slightly cupped left wrist to a flat or bowed left wrist.
The same applies to the right wrist. If I were at my normal address position, my right hand is fairly flat. If I wanted to go from there to get the shaft forward, my hand needs to go towards the target, but also notice the angle in my wrist would have to become greater. My right wrist would have to get extended there.
The other way I can get my handle forward is through body rotation. So if I just held onto the club and I were to rotate, right? If I hold on to the club loosely and I just turned my body, that club is also going to go forward. So that goes along with it too. As I turn my body, my handle goes forward.
Now if you look at really good players, they do both of those things. They have their wrists in the proper plane of motion and they turn their bodies so they get the best of both worlds at their impact position.
Now in terms of hitting some shots and training that in, I would work the hands first and then start to work the body in with that.
You have to understand the information first. You combine the wrist conditions with torso rotation, and then you start to look like the best players in the world.
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