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I remember a great photo sequence in Jimmy Ballard's How to Perfect Your Golf Swing. It was of Tom Watson, 2 photos, one right at the top of the back swing, the second after the beginning of his hip turn on the downswing. The club looks like it is in the exact same position, except it is bent in the second photo. He has already created his lag with that hip move, and that happened very quickly.

I have more luck thinking of lag as shaft bend rather than body position or geometry. Once you bend the shaft coming down, you must keep it bent until after impact.

Im not sure if you can really hold shaft bend but the thought or the attempt to do it is good to my mind. Interestingly Homer is on record as seeing what we call shaft kick or backward bending pre impact to be the shaft lagging the line or sweet spot plane between the #3pp and the clubhead. The text in the book seems to support holding shaft bend however .......something Im confused about. If he came to see shaft kick as lag why didnt he edit the book accordingly. Maybe I read it wrong.

I dunno. Im going from memory dont have my book with me.