Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "How to Make a Fundamentally Perfect Takeaway | 'On Plane'"

In today's lesson...

Make getting into the right impact position easier on yourself by getting the proper takeaway.

Fix this one extremely common takeaway move with your hands...

...and you'll be amazed how much easier it is the shallow the club and square the club face at impact.

This one simple move can create some bad momentum for your downswing.

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 8:31

Video Transcription:

All right, so let's talk about the perfect takeaway and really we're just talking about one thing that basically everybody makes a mistake in. In the takeaway here, most all players don't get the proper weight shift, which I'll go over in a second. The hands start to go out and then that sucks the club to the inside.

Then there's a giant loop. We come down a little bit steeper than when they like, I gonna stand up out of our posture and hit. That all stems from the takeaway. And what is it that we're trying to do? What is it we see with the pros? Well, there's a proper weight shift to start the swing. The clubhead stays a little bit more outside the hands and parallel or on plane, and then the face is on plane also, or square to the plane, which is a little bit different than what most people are telling you to do.

And I'll explain that too. Now, once you do that and you start to get the club working in a much better position, then it's easy to shallow it out from the inside and to hit that nice solid shot. So let's take it from the top. The number one thing is the weight shift. You see, if my weight stays still, then I'm just having to place the hands and arms.

I'm trying to find this perfect spot, and that's really not gonna work. If my weight stays to the left, again, that's 10. They're gonna suck the club to the inside, and I'm way off playing, not gonna work. What we are gonna have, and what you see with every single tour player, so if you put 'em on pressure plates, every single swing starts with a weight shift to the right.

I prefer to start with slightly more weight, maybe. 55% on the right foot, 45 on the left foot. That helps you to get the tilt, the slight head behind the golf ball that you need. It also helps you to get that weight ready to shift to the right to start the backswing cuz the weight is fully to the right.

Once the club gets about here and the backswing, then we're gonna shift left and swing down. Now that sounds complicated. But the go swing is just this. Imagine that I'm swinging a heavy pill of water. I'm gonna shift my weight to the right, swing it this way, shift my weight to the left, swing it that way.

So it's just this kind of back and forth weight shift type motion. And you can kind of see my body shifting the weight, and then the arms go, shifting the weight, and then the arms go. Same thing happens in a gospel. You'll even notice in my swing if I show a slow motion video here, I'll tap my left foot up in the air.

I have no idea that I do this. I've just always done it. Because that's instinctively how I'm gonna get my weight to my right side. So I'm kind of unloading my left side and going to my right to start my swing. I suggest you don't have to keep the tap or anything, but I suggest you do something similar to get your weight going to the right early.

Now, from here, the club starts to go to the inside and what we talked about is it's not just the club. The club is not actually the cause of this. It's actually the hands you see when the hands go out. The club is naturally gonna go in. So if I was to draw a line on my hands here on the front of my hands at a dress, I want my hands to stay inside that line.

And my club is naturally gonna go a little bit more outside of 'em, right? So if I feel like there's a wall here that my hands are on, I want to feel like my, my hands stay inside that wall. The whole back swing there, the whole takeaway there. And the club stays on this side of the wall. Exaggerate a little bit.

I promise that you won't. Almost everybody I see does this. Hands outside the wall club goes in. If you can feel like you're doing hands way in and club out, it's gonna look perfectly on plane once you start to do that. So that's the key there. The hands are the secret to getting that to go in. Now, all of that, even what we're talking about with the hands, is really a byproduct of shoulder turn.

If I turn the shoulders properly. The hands will just naturally go to the inside like that instead of jutting out. Here's what I mean by that. If I take this club and put it across my shoulders, let's imagine that there's a laser shooting outta the butt end of the club here, and as I turn my shoulders, it's gonna trace down this target line.

That's why I have this club on the ground. It's symbolizing the golf ball to the target line in the distance. If I go ahead and put a club across my shoulders and trace that target line, so I get a little weight shift, and then I trace that line with my shoulders. If my arms were just an extension of that, so if my arms were out here and I let my arms trace this target line, when I do my takeaway, I'd be about 45 degrees here.

And if I just let my hands drop, they would be inside my toe line. So that's this club here. You see if I rotate my shoulders and just let my hands follow along the hands go to the inside, the club tracks on plane. If I don't rotate my shoulders at all and I try to move my hands back, the natural way to move them back is by going out and the club goes in.

So really the hands and the swing plane and all of that stems down to what we just talked about in the beginning. A little weight shift to the right, and then the arms and shoulders tracking that target line. If I can get that weight shift, let my shoulders track that target line, I'm just letting my hands kind of go along for the ride.

And they're naturally gonna be on plane there. Now that's gonna get you way better coming on a plane that's gonna get you in a position to where you're getting this club going more out and it's gonna shallow out a little more naturally. The final piece, and this is just a little bit of a pet peeve, I really don't mind if you do it either way, but I'll see a lot of people trying to keep this club face really closed.

Or sometimes what people say match the spine. Well, it doesn't make too much difference because when you get to the top of the swing, Most people want this club much more on plane or the face of the club kind of matching the swing plane there. So when I do that now, the club's gonna be totally different at the top.

So it doesn't really make much difference if it's here or here. I tend to like to have the club a little bit more toe up than most people do, or that most people would say you should do, because when I look at the greatest players of all time, they're much more. Common to be in that toe up position. But again, that's just a a to get you a better position at the top of the swing.

What I find is a lot of times when you feel like you're closed, people will tend to get across the line a lot at the top. Doesn't mean you have to do that. That's just one of the things that I see quite a bit. So, again, to recap, a little weight shift, let the shoulders turn that pulls the hands in and lets the club stay out.

You'll be perfectly on plane that's gonna get you on plane at the top of the swing. And then from there, what do we do? And what I've found is that most people haven't gone through the process to find out what good impact is. And here's what I mean, good impact with a chore player is that weight is gonna shift to the left.

The body's gonna clear. I have tons of lag here. My hands are leading the way and my club is releasing in front of the golf ball. So if you look at all PJ tour players, they look, it's a big, giant mess. On the backswing, there's a lot of different variations of what people are doing. That's completely fine.

Here's one thing. They all do the same. Weight shift, lag hands in front, release the club out in front. Every single one of 'em does that. If you want to do that, then I recommend the 20 minute Shallowing Fix Program. So if you're a member of Top Speed Golf, all you do is go to the instruction tab. Top speed golf system, 20 minute showering, fix, and from there I'm gonna teach you all those things in a single practice session.

I like to show people their natural risk position, which is all based around finding out where you need to be at impact, like I talked about, and basing your grip and your setup on that. Then from there, it makes it so much easier to get that club shallowed out, get this lag, stay in your posture, release out in front, all that other stuff.

It is just a, a piece of cake. Once you get a couple key things right? First we find your natural wrist position, then we go into the natural elbow position, and once you have both of those, again, that's kind of what's been holding you back from getting that pro move that I just now talked about. So, if I had my choice, the second half here is what really matters.

If you want to get great, great. He great takeaway can help you. No doubt about that. I love seeing a swing that's perfectly on plane. But we can practice our butts off here for months or even years and not get the results we deserve if we don't do that second piece there that I'm talking about. And again, that's exactly what the 20 minute Shallowing Fix is designed around.

I can't wait to share it with you. Those two secrets there, go ahead, jump on over the 20 minute Shallowing. Fix right now and learn your natural risk position.