Why You Need This: In this video, you’ll learn how to perform the one piece takeaway in the golf swing.

If you can start off the swing on track, then you’re setting yourself up for a great swing!

Now, you may be pulling the club inside too much or picking the club up way too early.

Either of those issues will kill your swing.

But don’t worry.

This video will get your takeaway on the right path.

The real advantage of having a great one piece takeaway is that it’ll be super easy to transition into the top of your backswing.

As you’ll see in the video, the one piece takeaway is all about simplifying everything to avoid all the wasted movements that require even more effort to correct.

You’ll get a great drill to learn the one piece takeaway.

Watch this video now to get a simple and efficient one piece takeaway!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 3:52

Video Transcription:

The takeaway is one of the most important pieces of the golf swing. If we can get started on track and we keeping that moving, we’re going to be nice and consistent in the swing.

If you’re tired of maybe pulling the club inside, or picking the club up outside, you want to nice, one-piece takeaway, this is going to help you to simplify your swing.

Get it started the first couple feet in the right direction, and it’s going to be so much easier to keep that going throughout the swing, and then in the downswing. If we get started off track, then we’re going to spend the rest of the swing trying to get back on track.

One piece takeaway, all we’re going to do is simplify things and get the least amount of movement we can to get the club coming back in the right position.

You’ll see that if I go this way, that as I go to the end of my takeaway when the club’s parallel with the ground, it’s right down my toes and the club, the toe, is almost straight up and down. You’ll see I have very little arm and body movement as I’m doing this.

I’m going to show you exactly how to do this with a very easy drill. So first, let’s go ahead and set up to an imaginary golf ball. All I want you to do is to set up with your club out in front of your body, parallel with the ground.

Now from here, I’m going to keep both of my arms straight. They’re going to be nice and relaxed, but they’re going to be straight. I’m going to rotate my shoulders and my hips slightly until my club is parallel with the ground, and now pointing directly 90° the other direction.

So there, that’s all there is in the takeaway. You can notice my right arm and my left arm are remaining pretty straight. I’m getting some good shoulder rotation, I’m getting a little bit of hip rotation, and I’m letting the face rotate from perfectly up and down until it’s rotating open a little bit, probably about 45°.

The reason I want to do that, is as I go to the top of the swing, I want my club to be parallel, the face of my club to be parallel with my left forearm.

If I don’t get any face rotation in the takeaway, and I have the face more down like this matching my spine, I’m not getting any of that rotation. I’ll have to rotate a lot more as I’m going to the top of the swing. So it’s better to go ahead and start a little bit of that rotation as you’re going back.

I want you to go ahead and set up in your living room, and do about 100 repetitions of this. Just like that, nice and easy, not much to it at all. Then as I start to hinge forward, we can see how if I go from this side, as I start to hinge forward now, this becomes more like a golf swing.

As I’m setting to an imaginary ball here, now as I go back we can see that’s going down my toe line, and it’s parallel to my target line as I’m coming through.

Now after we’ve done about 100 repetitions just above, and then we’re working down into our normal swing, now I want you to do the same thing and I want you to check these same pieces.

So number one, I’m going to set up, I’m going to make sure that I’m in good posture. I’m going to feel like just my shoulders are rotating, my arms are remaining relaxed but pretty straight. As I pause, now my club is parallel with the ground, the face is straight up and down.

From looking from this direction, I’ll try to get parallel with the camera as best as I can, as I pause both arms are straight. If you look at my hands, they’re direction over my toes and my face is straight up and down.

That’s going to put me in a perfect position to continue to the top and be nice and on plane at the top of the swing. Get in about another 100 repetitions of that, and then we’re going to take it all the way to the full swing, recreating that same feeling.

Once you’ve done those repetitions, you’re going to be ready to go out to the course, get some golf balls, and do the same thing.

Now what I want you to do is before every swing, we’re going to make one really nice, easy takeaway. Check to make sure we’re in the right position, and then from there, we’re going to go ahead and hit some shots.

All right guys, get that takeaway down. It’s going to make you a lot more consistent. Good luck with your golf, I’ll see you all soon.