The left arm and the club shaft (for right-handers) should act as a double pendulum during the golf swing, with the left wrist acting as a hinge.

As discussed in the previous issue, your arms and wrists should be soft and loose, like ropes dangling from your shoulders, during the swing. If your arms and wrists are soft then you will be easily able to let the shaft trail the left arm (or the clubhead to trail the hands) in the downswing until impact.

This is known as clubhead lag and is something all great players achieve and yet seems to elude most club golfers.

Put simply, the definition of lag is when the shaft and left arm are out of line and then, ideally, they come in to line at impact or just after impact, which is the release.

Peter Knight is one of only three PGA Master professionals in Australia and is the Director of Elite national Development for Golf Australia.

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