Best video out there for explaining true lag and proper release. It's took me 7 years and a lot of sifting through rubbish to develop this understanding of a proper golf swing, along with understanding the fundamentals. Wish I had watched this year's ago. Thank you
Excellent! Mike Pedersen, you ought to be the no.1 golf instructor in the world. Your lessons are clear and straightforward. I am one of your milliion believers. Thanks a lot!
Holy craaaap! "Turn down" the right hand is the best tip I ever got after I watched over 10 thousand golf videos on RUclips. I was spraying balls left and right yesterday, but today, man, the improvement on my iron play was HUGE! I could literally compress the ball. The contact sound was so crispy. The trajectory was fantastic! My 7 iron distance increased up to 30 yards to 170. The consistency was way beyond my expectation. I wish I saw this video years earlier. I could get rid of some of my casting, but definitely I got more practice to do. Thank you, man!
Mr. Mike Pedersen is an extremely generous man to divuldge this essential piece of tuition for free. This is the "secret" of the most amazing ball striking in golf. I am a club golfer and can hit a seven iron 181 yards as a result of this teaching. You are a legend Mike. I our you my gratitude forever. Nevie.
Hey guys really listen to this guy and persist! This is the key to becoming a good golfer , it's the same with the driver you just hit up instead of down. Golf teachers don't show this because they need to keep making money of you!!! This is how you hit a golf ball period. Thanks for the video
Excellent and very much appreciated information. I live in Arizona and Golf at a well known club in Scottsdale. I paid a instructor to show me some of the things you show here for free.
Getting back into golf after 10 yrs as my life has slowed down finally! Your videos along with a few others are very inspirational! Do you have a video on an easy way to remember the elements of the swing? I get lost with the intricacies...
Mike thanks for this. Great video. I have seen this before but never did understand the concept. Now I can hit irons fairway woods and downhill side hill lies and not pull or hook them. I will let you now how my next game comes out Thursday.
I love this tip and worked on it so much that I didn't realize I wasn't turning my hips. I was concentrating so much on the hands that I couldn't figure out why my left arm was bent through impact. My right hand was driving my left arm into my left hip due to lack of hip turn. I was still hitting it good but pulling a lot of shots to the left. So the only thing I would like to add is to think about the left hip pulling the left arm through impact first then the turn down.
in4par1 - Sorry for the late response. Yes the shoulder and core rotate through, but just make sure the right shoulder is not coming over the top to do it.The right shoulder needs to feel like it's going down, then out, then around. Hope that helps.
i absolutely love this tip. if i concentrate on this, it stops casting and the flipping of the wrists at impact./ seemed a little odd at first, but really smashes the ball out there. great video
Very informative! I'd like to learn more about the role of fingers and hands in holding the lag and allowing the release to happen. When starting the downswing by pulling the butt of the club, do you use your left hand or both hands?
Outstanding advice. After practicing this, I noticed much better compression, lower ball flight, better accuracy, added 10 yards to every club. Question: Mike, I had more trouble with the driver; does this also apply for the driver?
Great tips Mike. And to your point, hands coming over after release : is that keeping the chest rotation going so the hands don't flip. upper body stalls hands will not come over they'll flip. chest ending at target or left of it, better chance for hands to work together with the upper body. is that a fair assessment ?
I like this tip Mike, I hit a few very nice ones, but a quick question - when I attempted this on the range it felt very forced. Any tips on how to create loose wrists when the "screw in to the ground" forearm rotation is an active muscle tensing motion?
Mike, this piece of advice about the right hand had a huge and very positive impact on my ball striking literally over night. So thank you very much. Can you explain how that right hand action might change/stay the same for the driver as obviously, the driver swing is more of a sweep than an iron shot. I imagine, the answer is something not dis-similar but I cant quite get my head around how it should look/feel. Thanks again!
This is the best, most simplified demo of the release I've ever seen. Thanks so much for sharing. It's already increasing my distance and accuracy. Is your training aid available?
With your release after impact you say it is not a roll. But that is exactly what you show. You roll your right arm over the left.Also if you use the late release, how do you create power into the ball? Doesn't' the speed come from firing the right hand? If you maintain that right wrist angle through impact, where does the power come from? Great video,
Hey Mike! Great Video! One question. While on the driving range, I received advice to put the ball way back in my stance with all clubs; even the driver and it would help me avoid the slice. It does most of the times but what is the negative to doing this? Especially with the driver! Thanks!
My golf pro teaches this. Like Nicklaus and Couples, watch them as the right thumb and fingers come off club as they drive right hand down thru ball. I now have a penetrating draw that people look and say wow what a great natural draw! Nothing natural it takes a bit of practice but once you get that wrist thru impact position it works great.
This is an incredibly helpful tip and helped cure my recurrent bouts of shanking. When you turn the right hand down through impact, you can't help but also supinate the left wrist _ a la Hogan (try it, you'll see). This squares the clubface (as well as delofting the face) and moves the clubshaft/hosel away from the swing line.
great instruction! tried it this morning and it was a big help. I would like to purchase the "perfect release" trainer but from your website it looks like they are not available. Can you let me know where i might find one. Thanks
for a while, my friend had a compression swing for his irons and just swung his old swing with his driver..... it depends on the person and what it is that they changed.... for instance, is it just the release you worked on? are you a lower handicap who already had good hip movement and fundamentals? ..... because some people, need to get their hips and core firing "level left" and if thats what helps your iron play, like me....that also transitions to the driver.
not sure if this was answered but... The difference between 'rolling' and coming over the top is the orientation of the right hand. They are very similar, but if you look closely, when he 'rolls' is hand through impact the top of his right hand is facing away from the camera. When he 'comes over the top', the top of his right hand is facing the camera. Great video, i will have to try these tips out, hitting irons is by far the worst aspect of my game.
Please explain this move with the driver. We have to hit up on the driver and turning my right hand down delofts the driver face and I have no release. I thought you release into impact to expend the stored energy. Releasing after impact seems like your power is spent after impact. Thanks
Mike, I'm still struggling with closing of the club. When I try your move at the bottom of my swing, I swipe at the ball. Almost all of my shots are going to the right. When I can get the club closed correctly, I'm easily 10 yards longer with each club. Is this miss common if you wait too late to turn down your right hand? Thanks.
And mike drummer the power and speed comes from the body, momentum of your swing and movement through .. You can flip it fast if you hold lag but there is no control. This is the way to hit straight and far!!! Oh by the way some thing that helped me is to maybe look at the screwing action as a top spin tennis shot , you got to stick with it and golf plane , and thoroughness and all the other crap you here about flat left wrist , lag and everything all comes from this move
Hang bang might imply leaving weight on the trail foot. Never want to do that. But you want to stay behind the ball. It's almost like your body is trying to hit the ball HIGH, but your hands are trying to hit the ball low. Ascending blow with your hand even with the club head at impact.
What is the difference between the hands coming over compared to rolling over on impact, i cant see any difference even when you show it happening in your practice swing.
james....most people who practice and start learning how to release correctly and compress their irons, suddenly notice driver problems. this has been the case with many ppl i know, including myself, 9 handicap, and my friend, scratch handicap. i dont want to call the driver a "seperate" swing..... you need the same hip turn....but your head hangs back and you catch it on the up swing.... i would say, compress your irons but dont make a conscience effort to "compress" your driver. just swing.
Ha. Yeah. Hold onto the lag and watch your swing speed decrease. You can't release after your hands past the ball. You have to release before your hands get to the ball because your hands are still moving and by the time the club head hits the ball, your hands will be slightly past it and you'll get that nice compression. Most golf instructors over exaggerate and screw us up. When you release, it's like you are hammering a nail into a piece of wood. The longer the club, the sooner you need to release it. Try it for yourselves.
Fully agree, in one of jack Nicklaus teaching books he clearly states that you cannot release too early, which means you have to start hitting from the top, this holding the angle in the wrist is surely a way of being stuck in golf forever, as i play off +2 i always love looking at teaching videos, always looking for the nirvana in golf, and there ain't any, top touring pros have been playing mostly forever and they also screw up big time, so if you are not doing it for a living, just learn to enjoy it, consentrate on the putting where you have total control over.
don't disrespect the pros, for hiding their secrets to what made them pros?? they shall fear Moi NOW thanks very good tip, been a prob with that move, headed to the range now, I live in AZ also....
I read the golf swing techniques , Jοmtοnο Naha (Go ogle it) immediately after I acquired it and the next day I was at the golf field testing out the driving methods for longer range. I was surprised when I quickly hit my irons with correct divots with strong impact. I reached ten to fifteen yards more distance than the standard distance I have with my irons. Get your own now!
IMO this is not a good piece of advice. You are moving the ball to a position that is not "low point" in your golf swing. This will create a very inconsistent result.
Best video out there for explaining true lag and proper release. It's took me 7 years and a lot of sifting through rubbish to develop this understanding of a proper golf swing, along with understanding the fundamentals. Wish I had watched this year's ago. Thank you
Excellent! Mike Pedersen, you ought to be the no.1 golf instructor in the world. Your lessons are clear and straightforward. I am one of your milliion believers. Thanks a lot!
Holy craaaap! "Turn down" the right hand is the best tip I ever got after I watched over 10 thousand golf videos on RUclips. I was spraying balls left and right yesterday, but today, man, the improvement on my iron play was HUGE! I could literally compress the ball. The contact sound was so crispy. The trajectory was fantastic! My 7 iron distance increased up to 30 yards to 170. The consistency was way beyond my expectation. I wish I saw this video years earlier. I could get rid of some of my casting, but definitely I got more practice to do. Thank you, man!
Hey can you tell me more about your new swing thoughts and how you fixed your swing after watching this video?
Mr. Mike Pedersen is an extremely generous man to divuldge this essential piece of tuition for free. This is the "secret" of the most amazing ball striking in golf. I am a club golfer and can hit a seven iron 181 yards as a result of this teaching. You are a legend Mike. I our you my gratitude forever. Nevie.
Hey guys really listen to this guy and persist! This is the key to becoming a good golfer , it's the same with the driver you just hit up instead of down. Golf teachers don't show this because they need to keep making money of you!!! This is how you hit a golf ball period. Thanks for the video
I love it. Great videos...you have easily explained what a lot of teaching pro's don't or cannot properly articulate.
Mike is generous indeed in sharing his experience out of self-study.
Perfect tip to understand how to make it perfect downswing. you are my savior to break my longtime-never-get-it problem.
As far as swing video's go this is one of the better ones ive seen. Well explained and a great video. Bout to head out and give it a go. Thanks mate
Mike you are the answer to my prayers! Great tips.Love the way you explain the moves
in different words so even I CAN understand!! THANK YOU.
this turn down tip has changed my ball flight and my golfgame. thanks. never seen thip tip
Thank you! I'm a beginner and the way you explain and demonstrate techniques are very helpful. Awesome!
Best tips on RUclips ever.
This is a great video. One of the best in terms of describing proper hand action at impact.
Excellent and very much appreciated information. I live in Arizona and Golf at a well known club in Scottsdale. I paid a instructor to show me some of the things you show here for free.
Excellent video and teaching on this skill. I was very impressed with how it was presented.
This is a very interesting move, i can't wait to work on this. Never seen it explained like this before. Thanks Mike.
Getting back into golf after 10 yrs as my life has slowed down finally! Your videos along with a few others are very inspirational! Do you have a video on an easy way to remember the elements of the swing? I get lost with the intricacies...
my god, i wish i had found your vidoes earlier. you explain these points exactly as i need to be told them. brilliant,.
Mike thanks for this. Great video. I have seen this before but never did understand the concept. Now I can hit irons fairway woods and downhill side hill lies and not pull or hook them. I will let you now how my next game comes out Thursday.
I love this tip and worked on it so much that I didn't realize I wasn't turning my hips. I was concentrating so much on the hands that I couldn't figure out why my left arm was bent through impact. My right hand was driving my left arm into my left hip due to lack of hip turn. I was still hitting it good but pulling a lot of shots to the left. So the only thing I would like to add is to think about the left hip pulling the left arm through impact first then the turn down.
in4par1 - Sorry for the late response. Yes the shoulder and core rotate through, but just make sure the right shoulder is not coming over the top to do it.The right shoulder needs to feel like it's going down, then out, then around. Hope that helps.
Amazing instruction!!! I learned this a few years ago. Completely changed my game.
This is great stuff. I have been using this release w/ amazing increase distance in my irons. Thanks Mike!
i absolutely love this tip. if i concentrate on this, it stops casting and the flipping of the wrists at impact./ seemed a little odd at first, but really smashes the ball out there. great video
I appreciate the kind words Nevie.
Very informative! I'd like to learn more about the role of fingers and hands in holding the lag and allowing the release to happen. When starting the downswing by pulling the butt of the club, do you use your left hand or both hands?
Outstanding advice. After practicing this, I noticed much better compression, lower ball flight, better accuracy, added 10 yards to every club. Question: Mike, I had more trouble with the driver; does this also apply for the driver?
Great tips Mike. And to your point, hands coming over after release : is that keeping the chest rotation going so the hands don't flip. upper body stalls hands will not come over they'll flip. chest ending at target or left of it, better chance for hands to work together with the upper body. is that a fair assessment ?
I like this tip Mike, I hit a few very nice ones, but a quick question - when I attempted this on the range it felt very forced. Any tips on how to create loose wrists when the "screw in to the ground" forearm rotation is an active muscle tensing motion?
Mike, this piece of advice about the right hand had a huge and very positive impact on my ball striking literally over night. So thank you very much.
Can you explain how that right hand action might change/stay the same for the driver as obviously, the driver swing is more of a sweep than an iron shot. I imagine, the answer is something not dis-similar but I cant quite get my head around how it should look/feel.
Thanks again!
What's the name of the training aid and where can we buy it? Thank you for the tips.
This is the best, most simplified demo of the release I've ever seen.
Thanks so much for sharing. It's already increasing my distance and accuracy.
Is your training aid available?
Great great great tip used very simple way to tell love you man very useful tip
With your release after impact you say it is not a roll. But that is exactly what you show. You roll your right arm over the left.Also if you use the late release, how do you create power into the ball? Doesn't' the speed come from firing the right hand? If you maintain that right wrist angle through impact, where does the power come from? Great video,
Hey Mike! Great Video! One question. While on the driving range, I received advice to put the ball way back in my stance with all clubs; even the driver and it would help me avoid the slice. It does most of the times but what is the negative to doing this? Especially with the driver!
Thanks!
My golf pro teaches this. Like Nicklaus and Couples, watch them as the right thumb and fingers come off club as they drive right hand down thru ball. I now have a penetrating draw that people look and say wow what a great natural draw! Nothing natural it takes a bit of practice but once you get that wrist thru impact position it works great.
This is an incredibly helpful tip and helped cure my recurrent bouts of shanking. When you turn the right hand down through impact, you can't help but also supinate the left wrist _ a la Hogan (try it, you'll see). This squares the clubface (as well as delofting the face) and moves the clubshaft/hosel away from the swing line.
This turning of the right hand. Do you apply this on a driver also to avoid flipping?
great instruction! tried it this morning and it was a big help. I would like to purchase the "perfect release" trainer but from your website it looks like they are not available. Can you let me know where i might find one. Thanks
Thnx! Its clear, consistent and exact!!! Thank yoy and greetings fr Belgium!
Hi Mike does above apply to fairway woods as well.. .?
for a while, my friend had a compression swing for his irons and just swung his old swing with his driver..... it depends on the person and what it is that they changed.... for instance, is it just the release you worked on? are you a lower handicap who already had good hip movement and fundamentals? ..... because some people, need to get their hips and core firing "level left" and if thats what helps your iron play, like me....that also transitions to the driver.
not sure if this was answered but... The difference between 'rolling' and coming over the top is the orientation of the right hand. They are very similar, but if you look closely, when he 'rolls' is hand through impact the top of his right hand is facing away from the camera. When he 'comes over the top', the top of his right hand is facing the camera. Great video, i will have to try these tips out, hitting irons is by far the worst aspect of my game.
Great tips, just 1 remark about pulling the buttend, it is possible to pull the buttend towards you and you still have an early release
Does this also apply when using your driver?
Outstanding video
very informing ,thank you
where do iget the training aid in England?
great tips, thx Mike
Please explain this move with the driver. We have to hit up on the driver and turning my right hand down delofts the driver face and I have no release. I thought you release into impact to expend the stored energy. Releasing after impact seems like your power is spent after impact. Thanks
I liked the video Mike but cannot find that training aid. Can you please help?
Impact Snap
Thanks Mark. I found it and bought it!
Does it work the same for the driver or 3 wood?
Do you do the same release on a driver?
Mike, I'm still struggling with closing of the club. When I try your move at the bottom of my swing, I swipe at the ball. Almost all of my shots are going to the right. When I can get the club closed correctly, I'm easily 10 yards longer with each club. Is this miss common if you wait too late to turn down your right hand? Thanks.
Where can I find this trading aid? What is it called?
Where to get that training aid?
yes, but the release needs to happen a tad earlier with the longer clubs.
Thanks guys!
Great video
Great video!
Thanks for the tip
great video
Mike, what is the name of that training aid?
Impact Snap
thanks for the video.
I love it when I feel a "good powerful release"......
Good tips.
when I do this technique with the right hand I hook it. can anybody help?
great tip.
Thank you.
And mike drummer the power and speed comes from the body, momentum of your swing and movement through .. You can flip it fast if you hold lag but there is no control. This is the way to hit straight and far!!! Oh by the way some thing that helped me is to maybe look at the screwing action as a top spin tennis shot , you got to stick with it and golf plane , and thoroughness and all the other crap you here about flat left wrist , lag and everything all comes from this move
Pump Drill 5:14 ish ⭐
and this is the proper release for the driver....but you need to hang back a bit and catch it while the club is ascending rather than descending
hard to try.. always slice and top
Normally if i do my late release routine all i did was topping the ball.
Hang bang might imply leaving weight on the trail foot. Never want to do that. But you want to stay behind the ball. It's almost like your body is trying to hit the ball HIGH, but your hands are trying to hit the ball low. Ascending blow with your hand even with the club head at impact.
What is the difference between the hands coming over compared to rolling over on impact, i cant see any difference even when you show it happening in your practice swing.
james....most people who practice and start learning how to release correctly and compress their irons, suddenly notice driver problems. this has been the case with many ppl i know, including myself, 9 handicap, and my friend, scratch handicap. i dont want to call the driver a "seperate" swing..... you need the same hip turn....but your head hangs back and you catch it on the up swing.... i would say, compress your irons but dont make a conscience effort to "compress" your driver. just swing.
you're welcome.
Kno where it's goin
Ha. Yeah. Hold onto the lag and watch your swing speed decrease. You can't release after your hands past the ball. You have to release before your hands get to the ball because your hands are still moving and by the time the club head hits the ball, your hands will be slightly past it and you'll get that nice compression. Most golf instructors over exaggerate and screw us up. When you release, it's like you are hammering a nail into a piece of wood. The longer the club, the sooner you need to release it. Try it for yourselves.
Fully agree, in one of jack Nicklaus teaching books he clearly states that you cannot release too early, which means you have to start hitting from the top, this holding the angle in the wrist is surely a way of being stuck in golf forever, as i play off +2 i always love looking at teaching videos, always looking for the nirvana in golf, and there ain't any, top touring pros have been playing mostly forever and they also screw up big time, so if you are not doing it for a living, just learn to enjoy it, consentrate on the putting where you have total control over.
don't disrespect the pros, for hiding their secrets to what made them pros?? they shall fear Moi NOW thanks very good tip, been a prob with that move, headed to the range now, I live in AZ also....
I read the golf swing techniques , Jοmtοnο Naha (Go ogle it) immediately after I acquired it and the next day I was at the golf field testing out the driving methods for longer range. I was surprised when I quickly hit my irons with correct divots with strong impact. I reached ten to fifteen yards more distance than the standard distance I have with my irons. Get your own now!
IMO this is not a good piece of advice. You are moving the ball to a position that is not "low point" in your golf swing. This will create a very inconsistent result.
I don't think this late lag is a good tip for high handicappers, it's going to cause them to open the hands and hips and slice the ball I guarantee it
Looks painful :/ that kind of wrist action on the right wrist when compressing a ball looks like you're begging for tendonitis.
This poor fellow is lost
Don't like this tip he teaches to flip ur hands thru the hitting area u can hit it far but u don't