Would The Real Clubhead Lag Please Stand Up - Forum Archive

Phillygolf wrote:

Yoda wrote:

But the trailing of the Club behind the Hands is not Clubhead Lag. This is a widely held misconception, even among long-time students of The Golfing Machine.

Mr Yoda, per 6-C-2-0, and I quote: "Clubhead Lag is the 'Secret of Golf'........It can be any one or any combination of pressure points, selected to sense Clubhead Acceleration rate and direction(2-M-2), but herein, unless otherwise specified, always refers to Pressure Point #3" I am not following you sir. I have searched through the book, and for practical and G.O.L.F defined purposes, I believe clubhead lag is in fact the clubhead trailing the hands - or more specifically, the pressure point that produced the original clubshaft flex.

Now Mr Yoda, before we continue, lets go to the Glossary, because as Homer says, "Use this Glossary to understand the original mechanical application of a term is identical to its parallel golfing application"

And, in The Golfing Machine Glossary, Clubhead lag for golf is defined as the following: "The information transmitted through the #3 Pressure Point by the resistance of the clubhead to change"

Now, you could technically say Clubhead Lag is the line of pull of centrifugal force striving to align itself with the clubshaft because of acceleration, and more specifically, the stress occuring at the point of thrust of the shaft itself as also defined in the glossary under the mechanical definition. In otherwards, the clubhead is trailing the shaft!

But for all practical G.O.L.F. purposes, I'll stick to golf definition as defined by Homer.

By all means, let me know if you find something different.

No time now, Patrick, the roast beef is already cold...

But elsewhere tonight I mentioned that I plan an in-depth post to explore the two very separate identities of Accumulating and Releasing Power versus Producing and Sustaining Clubhead Lag.

But, so that you will be able to sleep tonight, suffice it for now to say that you've got it right.The writer of the post that I responded to clearly did not. He referred to, using his words, the "incredible Clubhead Lag" of Hogan and Garcia. What he was calling Clubhead Lag -- and what I've found most people call Clubhead Lag -- was really nothing more than the #2 Power Accumulator (the LeftWristcock) in its Loaded Conditon.

The Clubhead Lag is indeed the very slight flex in the Shaft that occurs when the Lag (the resistance of the Sweet Spot inertia to a change in its direction)is Loaded (7-19) -- I like to use the term welded -- against the first joint of the Right Forefinger (#3 Pressure Point) during theStart-Down.

This Clubhead Lag is the very slight -- that's why the darn thing is so illusive! -- Lag of the Clubhead (Sweet Spot) in its desperate attempt to maintain its straight-line relationship with the #3 Pressure Point. It is thatLag -- from Sweet Spot to the #3 -- and the Stress in the Clubshaftthat results that is the Clubhead Lag.

Again, all this business of the Club trailing back behind the hands is simply the out-of-line condition of the #2 Accumulator (the Wristcock). This is Stored Potential Power waiting to be Released. And, in fact, it is Released!

But the Clubhead Lag -- the real Clubhead Lag! -- has no release point! (6-C-2-A)

I'll be back.