This is a wonderful site! I spent about five months focusing on nothing but clubhead lag and finally have pretty good lag in my swing. My impact dynamics are better by far than they’ve ever been and I love the way I’m striking the ball.

Unfortunately, I’ve found that incorporating lag with my old release patterns leaves my clubface very open at impact. I tried trusting CF to square the club as you suggested somewhere on the site. I’ve also tried strengthening my grip, but that seemed to create inconsistency rather than fix the problem.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

Music to my ears!

In pitching and even a short chip, lag pressure is gentle but always there, solid and steady.

Ha-ha! Excellent and very funny!

The PP#3 should be located in the FIRST joint of the index trigger finger.

However, your blister is located in the SECOND joint…

PP#3 must be felt the AFT part of the shaft (see the PBS location for example: http://www.golflagtips.com/pure-ball-striker-review/ and the video around 0:14s).

To feel it on the SECOND joint AND located AFT of the shaft, you must place your right hand in a very weak position which is not recommended.

If you place your right hand correctly dead behind the shaft, your first joint will be correctly placed AFT of the shaft and your second joint (with the blister) will end up UNDER the shaft.
This is important because there is another pressure point (PP#1 that is located where the palm of your right hand touches the left thumb) that also needs to be dead behind the shaft.

This could hardly be done with your “blister grip”!

Moreover, blisters tell no lies: they are signs that the grip is moving in your hands during the shot which is not the precision we are looking for.

For precision impact, hands must be like clamps that firmly attaches to the club. As such, there should be no wobble in the attachment.

But remember, tight grip doesn’t mean tight wrists too!

If you have the book, check “10-11-0-3. PP#3″ in regard to PP#3 rotation when swinging…

I have a picture of a blister on my pp#3 trigger finger. This is where I feel and maintain the pressure. Is this the correct spot?

http://img266.imageshack.us/i/76250525.jpg/

Thanks for the reply and yes I am working on the lag pressure and intelligent hands. Regarding the PBS, I am way ahead of you he he – got those about six months ago. Sometimes I use it during a round. However the point you say about not swinging too far back is new to me. I didn’t know the PP3 changes position. No wonder sometimes I still hit it fat, I sometimes fight it when I feel the pressure move from the back to the front of the grip. I think I am a hitter after all.

Cheers and thanks for a very very useful site.

Congratulations on your improvements. Keep going: learn to play by FEEL by trusting the pressure in your hands and you’ll be in golf heaven!

You put a very interesting point here regarding equipment:

Our goal is to get a maximum FEEL of the pressure points in our hands.
In regard to this, read this review of the Pure Ball Striker (http://www.golflagtips.com/pure-ball-striker-review/) and come back…

The PBS is working the very same principle that you’ve discovered with bigger grips: to get get a better feel for your pressure points.

When I stick the PBS on a grip, I immediately increase the quality of my compression (and I think I’m already pretty efficient in this area!!!) and it’s like I’m playing with a new set of clubs!
After a few swings, I’m able to remove the device and keep that quality of contact until I focus on something else.

This tells one thing: With the PBS or bigger grips, we put our mind more than usual in our hands and this is KEY.

So I would say that the bigger grip is not a solution because you’ll get used to them after a few rounds and your mind will slightly shift away from your hands and you’ll be back again to the beginning.

Blades can play a similar role in pressure feedback because the center of gravity is a tiny point on the face instead of a peripheral weight distribution.
When you strike the ball on that point you can get a better “pressure feedback” in your hands than with cavity back irons.

I have been following your site for a while now. Today I shot the round of my life. I made three birdies and an eagle. I am still in shock at my achievement, but after sitting a while and taking apart what I did different today I found that most of what I did different today from most days was my approach shots. At one of the early holes today I was 100 metres out and was trying to find my PW. I found it missiing (persumably left it at another course last week) so, this being an informal game, my buddy lent me his pw. His PW is a mizuno blade ( I play with Ping G5s) – however he had oversized grips on. When I tried it, I can immediately feel all the pressure point 3 and 2. As a result I stiffed the ball three inches from the hole for the first of my birdies. Needless to say I used all his short clubs from then on. I proceeded to chip an eagle from 10 m from the green and made three more birdies.

So my question is: Was it the oversized grips and the better feel I get of the PPs? or was it the Mizunos? Should I get new oversized grips?

Keep it up, the more intuitive moves I can do the better!

Maybe knowing the purpose of that move could help achieving it properly:

The objective of the Hip Slide move is to lower the right shoulder down plane to initiate the downstroke.

This serves two purposes:
- to load the Lag: ie, establish the initial Lag Pressure in your pressure points
- to ensure that you’ll have plenty of left arm to extend through the shot (otherwise you’ll flip it!)

If you see/feel that you are already doing those two things properly, you probably do the hip slide correctly without knowing it and don’t need to focus too much on that.