Some Downswing questions

[Tradewind4]

Hi everyone. My first post. I've been playing golf for about 6 months and slowing getting better but mostly a work in progress.

Just some questions about downswing:

1) I hear you should shift your weight (in your hips) from right to left. Is this a lateral shift or is this a rotational shift (i.e. initiating your downswing with hip rotation which will automatically bring the shoulders and arms around with it)?

2) How do you create lag? In slow motion videos of pros I see their wrist acting like a hinge about 2/3 of the way before impact. When I try to do it, I can never get the club to square around.

Any tips?

[aquacooled]

If you could take a video of yourself? that really would make things allot easier..

[bjw181]

1) Hips should shift forward slightly first and then rotate. The forward movement helps put the shaft in "the slot" which in turn....

2) Automatically lags the club. To get a feel for it try just letting the clubhead fall to the ball instead of trying to force the head to the ball. As for squaring the clubface, that just has to do with releasing the clubface throughout the downswing and continuing through the follow through. Harvey says, "shake hands with the target."

[allin]

Hi everyone. My first post. I've been playing golf for about 6 months and slowing getting better but mostly a work in progress.

Quite a bit of this is addressed in the recent start the downswing thread. Several responses which kind of explain the different theories / methods.