How do you get 107 MPH with just your upper body and I can't get over 90 with my whole body? Is this just a physical limitation ie(slower twitch muscles, arm length etc)?
I just focused on the knuckle dragging drill, getting my hands as low was possible and just by doing that everything else followed suit. Awesome drill thank you very much. Next step is to follow ur contact drill then lastly your speed drill 👍
I totally understand. Our All Access members have access to our 20 Minute Distance Fix course (among many others) where you spend 20 minutes three times per week for three weeks going through the program and the average gain is 13 mph, which equates to about 30 yards. We also offer a 365-day money-back guarantee if you're not satisfied at any time. If you're ready to purchase the membership, just use the quick link below because you can sign up in about 1 minute: topspeedgolf.com/pick-all-access-plan/ Best of luck! Nate | TSG Instructor
You probably never will:( Just like you (or me) will ever throw a 95 mph fast ball or serve a 120 mph tennis ball. Just won’t happen. You either have speed or you don’t. It’s called god given talent for the elite athletes.
Clay have you tried the feeling of pushing down with lead hand / pulling up with trail hand in transition ? Been working on this feeling and it has increased my lag by looking at video. It really loads and increases the angle in arms . It’s like a slingshot at the bottom of arch. I’m a low handicap golfer .
That should bow your lead wrist and create wrist extension in the trail hand, which is the ideal hand position for a shallow path with lag and should create good shaft lean at impact. Thanks for sharing! Play well! Nate | TSG Instructor
Great video! Thank you. I think the more accurate way to describe the "upper body/arms" swing is the the use of the wrists to create a leverage angle. If you just used the "arms" through the use of your deltoids to move the arms while keeping the wrists locked, there would be very little power.
What degree driver are you playing and what did you loft/deloft it to with the loft sleeve? One thing I haven’t seen in your videos when you talk about the lag is how to have the lag with a positive attack angle. One thing you’ll notice with players like Tiger or Cameron Champ who have great lag is the negative attack angle. This is putting more back spin on the ball and their launch angle is several degrees below what is optimal launch conditions for max carry. They are happy with 310 carry while still being able to hit it further because of their enormous club head speed. The average golfer will not have the same tour speed and ideally would have a positive attack angle of 4° to get max distance out of their driver and reduce spin. I’d love to hear your take!
Clay's driver is 9° and it's in the stock position. One of the components of lag is releasing it through the ball to gain that extra angular momentum. The difference with a driver is the ball position is moved further up in the stance, so you're still releasing that lag through impact, but it's occurring on the upswing now. We have a course for our All Access Members called the Straight-Line Release that covers this very thing. If you're ready to purchase the membership, just use the quick link below because you can sign up in about 1 minute: topspeedgolf.com/pick-all-access-plan/ Best of luck! Nate | TSG Instructor
@@TopSpeedGolf Awesome thanks for the response! Do you have any idea why Champ and Woods have a negative attack angle when the optimal attack angle for launch and spin would be 4 degrees?
@@YoungMoneyInvestments quite a few pros have a flat or neg attack angle but they have the swing speed to compensate as driver is designed for hitting up. They also have the driver and shaft set up for their swing.
Wow, picking up my lead foot during the follow through; finally got my pelvis to face the target at impact. Im falling out of position here and there, but I bet I can learn to train how to keep my composer. I've always been tight in rotating my hips, do you recommend doing this with all club swings i.e. wedges, irons, woods, and driver?
So I watched the video of Clay’s arm swing 3 or for times and still doesn’t look like 107 MPH, sorry. Not saying he doesn’t hit a big ball which he does but no way that particular arm swing sent the ball out 280-30o yards.
Jack once said he would just pull down the club from the top faster to generate more speed and not necessarily create resistance with the hips or hands but let them move naturally
Clay - John Daly turns his chest with left arm glued to his left pec and at impact, his left shoulder is 10-12" higher than his right shoulder. Same with Dustin Johnson, Cam Champ, etc. Isn't this position at impact only achieved if your downswing is powered by the chest/upperbody turning and dragging your left arm along for the ride thru impact? This is what makes these guys so consistent - turning the upper body instead of an armsy swing. I would love for you to analyze and make a video on this, because all of the long hitting PGA players are in this position at impact - left shoulder 10 - 12" higher than right shoulder. The classic guys like Snead and Hogan appear to have left shoulder 8" higher than right shoulder at impact.
Glad you liked it. Currently we don't have any partnerships anywhere. We do offer swing reviews (for an additional fee) for those who are All Access Members. If you're ready to purchase the membership, just use the quick link below because you can sign up in about 1 minute: topspeedgolf.com/pick-all-access-plan/ Best of luck! Nate | TSG Instructor
Wish you would've included a link to the monitor you mention & used. You said the name of it so fast, even after replaying a few times, I couldn't distinguish the name.
Sorry about that. It's called the PRGR launch monitor. You find this video helpful: th-cam.com/video/ciOt-b3gPqI/w-d-xo.html Play well! Nate | TSG Instructor
I have a question about the Prgr monitor. I've been using it to measure my speed without hitting a ball. Does it read the speed at the point where the ball would be hit, or is it picking up the fastest part of the swing? So if I was releasing the club early would it be reading that?
Hi, Barry - Great question. You can find this video along with the whole Double Your Lag in 30 Minutes Course at the bottom of the Home Page. You have to scroll a ways to get there. Best of luck! Nate | TSG Instructor
Haha! 😂 Our All Access Members have access to our 20 Minute Distance Fix course where you spend 20 minutes a day, 3 days a week for 3 weeks working through this course and the average gain in our pilot course was around 13mph at the end of the three weeks for this program. If you're ready to purchase the membership, just use the quick link below because you can sign up in about 1 minute: topspeedgolf.com/pick-all-access-plan/ Best of luck! Nate | TSG Instructor
I was going to say the same thing! Clay your speed has really come up, I use to see you at like 116 and you are in the upper 120s!! Not sure why my speed is low in upper 80s
Hey, thanks for the interest but Clay doesn't offer private lessons. He focuses all his time on making videos and running the business. This allows him to help as many people as possible. Robin, our Director of Instruction, does private lessons in the Orlando, FL area. If interested then follow this link: topspeedgolf.com/in-person-lessons-with-robin-rosado/. Play well! Nate | TSG Instructor
Absolutely! Our All Access members have access to our 20 Minute Distance Fix course (among many others) which is 20 minutes a day, three days a week for three weeks and the average gain was 13 mph (roughly 30 yards) in our pilot course. We also offer a 365-day money-back guarantee, so there is nothing to risk. If you're ready to purchase the membership, just use the quick link below because you can sign up in about 1 minute: topspeedgolf.com/pick-all-access-plan/ Play well! Nate | TSG Instructor
Ping doesn't release a new product if they don't think it's been improved. That being said, if I were in the market for new clubs, I'd get a professional fitting. Best of luck! Nate | TSG Instructor
Hogan firmly believed "you move your lower body, not your shoulders, letting your arms and hands follow - rotating your hips first and release at the bottom" this created a boatload of lag and power. I think I'll stick with Mr. H. Unless I missed something in your video...
Glad you can swing 107 with your arms only and 127 with arms and legs but this would be much more useful to see with an average golfer that represents the other 99.9% of golfers. Show how we can improve by using a real example of taking someone from 90 mph to 100 mph.
I think your demonstration is great but I think your tool to mesurate speed is not accurate... 107mph with no rotation is strange and the 127mph doesn't look like ... Smash factor only 1,36 with a good hit strange also ! Maybe the ball speed is good but not the club head speed.
Smash factor is just ball speed divided by clubhead speed. 173 ball speed divided by 127 clubhead speed equals 1.36 smash factor. Clay has tested many launch monitors against his Flightscope X3, GC Quad and Trackman (even these devices don't always agree on the same numbers for the same shot) and found the PRGR to only differ one mile per hour on most shots from these devices. Play well! Nate | TSG Instructor
If you click the CC button in the bottom menu and then click the settings icon (looks like a gear or cog) and then select auto-translate and select your preferred language it should work. I tested it on this video and was able to see a Korean translation. I cannot attest to its veracity, but it's there. Best of luck! Nate | TSG Instructor
one of the best videos you made Clay
Glad you think so! Play well!
Clay is a tremendous coach. He helps you hit it long and straight, if you’re into that sort of thing.
Haha! 😂 Thanks for the kind words!
Love how you are able to articulate your instructions. Thank you.
How do you get 107 MPH with just your upper body and I can't get over 90 with my whole body? Is this just a physical limitation ie(slower twitch muscles, arm length etc)?
The way he swings, he is basically creating a whip with the club.
I think he didn't get 107 at all
Great example on how to create speed. It is great when I start playing between iron and woods.
Glad you liked it!
Exactly how I teach this. Great explanations!
Great to hear!
I just focused on the knuckle dragging drill, getting my hands as low was possible and just by doing that everything else followed suit. Awesome drill thank you very much. Next step is to follow ur contact drill then lastly your speed drill 👍
Good stuff! Keep up the good work!
Clay you are a beast. I can barely reach 100mph swinging like a lunatic. I’ve tried many techniques but nothing is given me big bump in speed
I totally understand. Our All Access members have access to our 20 Minute Distance Fix course (among many others) where you spend 20 minutes three times per week for three weeks going through the program and the average gain is 13 mph, which equates to about 30 yards. We also offer a 365-day money-back guarantee if you're not satisfied at any time. If you're ready to purchase the membership, just use the quick link below because you can sign up in about 1 minute: topspeedgolf.com/pick-all-access-plan/ Best of luck! Nate | TSG Instructor
@@TopSpeedGolf - That's a serious gain. If dont mind me asking what was the avg speed for these folks in their before swing.
Here are some of the participant's stories where they discuss such things: topspeedgolf.com/20-minute-distance-fix-success-stories/
You probably never will:( Just like you (or me) will ever throw a 95 mph fast ball or serve a 120 mph tennis ball. Just won’t happen. You either have speed or you don’t. It’s called god given talent for the elite athletes.
Great teacher, thank you brother.
You are very welcome. Thanks for the kind words!
Please do a course vlog at your home course and TPC Sawgrass
Thanks for the suggestion. Will take into advisement.
Clay have you tried the feeling of pushing down with lead hand / pulling up with trail hand in transition ? Been working on this feeling and it has increased my lag by looking at video. It really loads and increases the angle in arms . It’s like a slingshot at the bottom of arch. I’m a low handicap golfer .
That should bow your lead wrist and create wrist extension in the trail hand, which is the ideal hand position for a shallow path with lag and should create good shaft lean at impact. Thanks for sharing! Play well! Nate | TSG Instructor
Great video! Thank you. I think the more accurate way to describe the "upper body/arms" swing is the the use of the wrists to create a leverage angle. If you just used the "arms" through the use of your deltoids to move the arms while keeping the wrists locked, there would be very little power.
The synchronization of both are the most difficult part of swing to be consistent even for pros
Thanks for sharing!
I can see my first few tries with this either broken golf shaft or wrist slamming into the ground two feet behind the ball lol
Haha! 😂😂😂 I hope not!
What degree driver are you playing and what did you loft/deloft it to with the loft sleeve? One thing I haven’t seen in your videos when you talk about the lag is how to have the lag with a positive attack angle. One thing you’ll notice with players like Tiger or Cameron Champ who have great lag is the negative attack angle. This is putting more back spin on the ball and their launch angle is several degrees below what is optimal launch conditions for max carry.
They are happy with 310 carry while still being able to hit it further because of their enormous club head speed. The average golfer will not have the same tour speed and ideally would have a positive attack angle of 4° to get max distance out of their driver and reduce spin. I’d love to hear your take!
Clay's driver is 9° and it's in the stock position. One of the components of lag is releasing it through the ball to gain that extra angular momentum. The difference with a driver is the ball position is moved further up in the stance, so you're still releasing that lag through impact, but it's occurring on the upswing now. We have a course for our All Access Members called the Straight-Line Release that covers this very thing. If you're ready to purchase the membership, just use the quick link below because you can sign up in about 1 minute: topspeedgolf.com/pick-all-access-plan/ Best of luck! Nate | TSG Instructor
@@TopSpeedGolf Awesome thanks for the response! Do you have any idea why Champ and Woods have a negative attack angle when the optimal attack angle for launch and spin would be 4 degrees?
@@YoungMoneyInvestments quite a few pros have a flat or neg attack angle but they have the swing speed to compensate as driver is designed for hitting up. They also have the driver and shaft set up for their swing.
Anyone who does speed training will know that 127 is CRUISING. Great video
Wow, picking up my lead foot during the follow through; finally got my pelvis to face the target at impact. Im falling out of position here and there, but I bet I can learn to train how to keep my composer. I've always been tight in rotating my hips, do you recommend doing this with all club swings i.e. wedges, irons, woods, and driver?
Yes, this works for all clubs. Best of luck!
@@TopSpeedGolf this video may have just changed my entire game. Excellent video, keep up the good work
Brilliant, once again. So much 'as usual' 😁.
Thank you so much 😀
Worked! Got from 79MPH to 83MPH.
Awesome! Keep up the good work!
I would have been interested in the club head speed at the horizontal through section when the club came off the bag.
107 mph with that swing?!. Jesus, mans a beast ha. Makes me feel 😥
Haha! 😂😂😂 You might be surprised by what you're capable of doing. Play well! Nate | TSG Instructor
107 arms only smh
107??? Ya I doubt it sorry
107 with arms.. how?
So I watched the video of Clay’s arm swing 3 or for times and still doesn’t look like 107 MPH, sorry.
Not saying he doesn’t hit a big ball which he does but no way that particular arm swing sent the ball out 280-30o yards.
Yea alot of people think using the ground is jumping they never torque the ground to turn and accelerate everything
Thanks for sharing!
Does the prgr launch monitor works for the chipping or within 50 yard?
Yes.
Good drill. I release far too early. This should help
Thats what she said!
@@davidsochanek2797 lol
Glad you liked it. Best of luck!
Jack once said he would just pull down the club from the top faster to generate more speed and not necessarily create resistance with the hips or hands but let them move naturally
He's one of the greatest ever. Thanks for sharing!
Clay - John Daly turns his chest with left arm glued to his left pec and at impact, his left shoulder is 10-12" higher than his right shoulder. Same with Dustin Johnson, Cam Champ, etc. Isn't this position at impact only achieved if your downswing is powered by the chest/upperbody turning and dragging your left arm along for the ride thru impact? This is what makes these guys so consistent - turning the upper body instead of an armsy swing. I would love for you to analyze and make a video on this, because all of the long hitting PGA players are in this position at impact - left shoulder 10 - 12" higher than right shoulder. The classic guys like Snead and Hogan appear to have left shoulder 8" higher than right shoulder at impact.
We'll take your suggestions into advisement for sure. Thanks for sharing!
Is that the Hzrdus Green shaft you r using?
Yes it is. Play well!
Another great video. Clay do you have any teaching partnerships in Canada?
Glad you liked it. Currently we don't have any partnerships anywhere. We do offer swing reviews (for an additional fee) for those who are All Access Members. If you're ready to purchase the membership, just use the quick link below because you can sign up in about 1 minute: topspeedgolf.com/pick-all-access-plan/ Best of luck! Nate | TSG Instructor
Wish you would've included a link to the monitor you mention & used. You said the name of it so fast, even after replaying a few times, I couldn't distinguish the name.
Sorry about that. It's called the PRGR launch monitor. You find this video helpful: th-cam.com/video/ciOt-b3gPqI/w-d-xo.html Play well! Nate | TSG Instructor
@@TopSpeedGolf Thank you
My pleasure!
I have a question about the Prgr monitor. I've been using it to measure my speed without hitting a ball. Does it read the speed at the point where the ball would be hit, or is it picking up the fastest part of the swing? So if I was releasing the club early would it be reading that?
It's just measuring the fastest speed the club is traveling and gives you that measurement. Best of luck! Nate | TSG Instructor
Hi Clay, where do i find the full Knuckle Dragger video on your TSG site? Thanks
Hi, Barry - Great question. You can find this video along with the whole Double Your Lag in 30 Minutes Course at the bottom of the Home Page. You have to scroll a ways to get there. Best of luck! Nate | TSG Instructor
Hello..107 mph only With arms ! ...My max is 95 with all my body ! I should cut my legs may be...
Haha! 😂 Our All Access Members have access to our 20 Minute Distance Fix course where you spend 20 minutes a day, 3 days a week for 3 weeks working through this course and the average gain in our pilot course was around 13mph at the end of the three weeks for this program. If you're ready to purchase the membership, just use the quick link below because you can sign up in about 1 minute: topspeedgolf.com/pick-all-access-plan/ Best of luck! Nate | TSG Instructor
I was going to say the same thing! Clay your speed has really come up, I use to see you at like 116 and you are in the upper 120s!! Not sure why my speed is low in upper 80s
Hi Clay do you do video lessons?
Hey, thanks for the interest but Clay doesn't offer private lessons. He focuses all his time on making videos and running the business. This allows him to help as many people as possible. Robin, our Director of Instruction, does private lessons in the Orlando, FL area. If interested then follow this link: topspeedgolf.com/in-person-lessons-with-robin-rosado/. Play well! Nate | TSG Instructor
Clay ,I get a whole lot of lag, but I can’t seem to make it draw when I try to lag.
This video may help: th-cam.com/video/_N1CGON8NDI/w-d-xo.html Best of luck! Nate | TSG Instructor
Can a senior golfer (76) still gain club head speed. A friend has a monitor and it’s a good day if I hit 90 MPH.
Absolutely! Our All Access members have access to our 20 Minute Distance Fix course (among many others) which is 20 minutes a day, three days a week for three weeks and the average gain was 13 mph (roughly 30 yards) in our pilot course. We also offer a 365-day money-back guarantee, so there is nothing to risk. If you're ready to purchase the membership, just use the quick link below because you can sign up in about 1 minute: topspeedgolf.com/pick-all-access-plan/ Play well! Nate | TSG Instructor
Who's this guy who sounds like Clay? Beard game is strong, young man!
Haha! 😂😂😂 Thanks!
great tip I hope my club speed from 120mile to 130 so love it
Thanks! Best of luck!
What do you think of the new Ping G425 range ?
Ping doesn't release a new product if they don't think it's been improved. That being said, if I were in the market for new clubs, I'd get a professional fitting. Best of luck! Nate | TSG Instructor
Hogan firmly believed "you move your lower body, not your shoulders, letting your arms and hands follow - rotating your hips first and release at the bottom" this created a boatload of lag and power. I think I'll stick with Mr. H. Unless I missed something in your video...
nice
Thanks!
107 arms only ,thats pretty fast
Haha! 😀 It's all relative. Play well!
So use both and you’ve got a 171 mph club head speed
171 mph is the ball speed. Play well!
@@TopSpeedGolf You missed the joke
Glad you can swing 107 with your arms only and 127 with arms and legs but this would be much more useful to see with an average golfer that represents the other 99.9% of golfers. Show how we can improve by using a real example of taking someone from 90 mph to 100 mph.
I swing as hard as I possibly can on every shot.
Thanks for sharing!
@@TopSpeedGolf that is why I suck!
You may find this one helpful: th-cam.com/video/olmhaWTgJ1M/w-d-xo.html Best of luck! Nate | TSG Instructor
I think your demonstration is great but I think your tool to mesurate speed is not accurate... 107mph with no rotation is strange and the 127mph doesn't look like ... Smash factor only 1,36 with a good hit strange also ! Maybe the ball speed is good but not the club head speed.
Smash factor is just ball speed divided by clubhead speed. 173 ball speed divided by 127 clubhead speed equals 1.36 smash factor. Clay has tested many launch monitors against his Flightscope X3, GC Quad and Trackman (even these devices don't always agree on the same numbers for the same shot) and found the PRGR to only differ one mile per hour on most shots from these devices. Play well! Nate | TSG Instructor
Now Clay…..come on…sequencing the lower body while using ground force is what that “using the legs” means.
captain America teaches golf...
Haha! 😂 If only Captain America had a southern drawl...😀
I really love your lesson :) I want to more perfectly understand.. plz give me korean sub~~🙏
If you click the CC button in the bottom menu and then click the settings icon (looks like a gear or cog) and then select auto-translate and select your preferred language it should work. I tested it on this video and was able to see a Korean translation. I cannot attest to its veracity, but it's there. Best of luck! Nate | TSG Instructor