Why You Need This: Today you'll discover the "Perfect Golf Swing Takeaway Drill"

Did you know that you could really set yourself up for a powerful swing with a properly sequenced backswing?

Are you putting yourself in the right position to be successful on your downswing?

Or are you making your hands and arms do too much of the work?

If you aren't doing these 4 things on your way back, then you may not be giving yourself a fair shot at a powerful swing.

In today's video, you're going to learn the 4 steps that can have you "loaded up" to put more power into your shots than you ever thought possible...

...including a simple trick to help you get better hip rotation.

Are you ready to start hitting the ball farther today?

You don't want to miss this!

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 8:07

Video Transcription:

All right, the takeaway. If we can get the swing started correctly, it just makes it a lot easier to load up the body, get the club working back in the proper manner, and just makes it easier to hit the ball better.

Now, in this video I’m going to go over a foolproof four-step process, but the key to this if you just watch this video and don’t do anything, it’s not going to help your golf swing. You’ll have some great information, but you’re not going to be hitting any better.

I want you to grab a golf club right now. If you’re in your living room, if you’re at work, grab a broomstick, grab whatever you have to make a golf swing.

You don’t even have to hit a golf ball when you’re doing this, just go ahead and do the drills that I’m going to give you step by step and it’s really going to help you to get more power and more consistency.

Let’s jump in, let’s go ahead and get started.

All right, so let’s jump right in here. The first piece is going to be the weight shift. This actually starts before anything else happens.

We have to get a little bit of a shift to our right side. A lot of players will say, well I don’t really want to get a big weight shift to the right side, won’t that cause me to sway over to the right, and then have to sway back to the left in the downswing?

We’re not talking about major sway with upper body, if you look in my swing, you’ll actually see I have a little trigger where I lift up my left toe and that gets me to shift my weight into inside of my right foot.

But you’ll notice my head isn’t moving around all over the place, even though I get a very early weight shift to the right, I’m not swaying to the right, swaying back to the left, that kind of thing.

Here’s the way I want you to do this. Number one, let’s go ahead and just feel that weight shift into the inside of my right foot.

It’ll be a little bit more toward the ball of the foot or the toe, it won’t be back toward the heel. That’s actually going to help me to rotate my hips and my shoulders here in a second. I’m going to get to that in the next piece.

Piece number one, to start the swing, just a little bit of a weight shift, a pressure shift going into the inside ball of the right foot. Here’s what I want you to do.

Feel that shift, kind of stop there, and then I want you to go ahead, feel where the weight is in your foot, sense that, and then from there, finish the swing all the way back and through, that way you can feel how that would tie in to a real swing.

Now it’s very important that we’re only going to about right here when we check that weight shift. I don’t want to be getting way back in my backswing. I want that weight shift to be very early.

Actually, this sounds a little bit counterintuitive, but as your hands get about chest-high or parallel with the ground, your weight shift to the right is completely over, you’re actually going to start shifting back to the left naturally.

So it has to be very early if we want to have the perfect takeaway. What I’ll see a lot of players do is they keep their weight on their left side, they don’t get it shifting right, now all of a sudden you have to pick it up with your hands and arms, the club sucks back to the inside, it does all kinds of crazy things.

Then I’m late getting my weight to my right side, and the timing, and tempo, and everything is just thrown way off.

We can get rid of all that by just simply putting a little pressure on the inside ball of our foot as soon as the swing starts, as soon as the takeaway starts.

Actually before the takeaway starts, to get it started, to get it moving. Again, I have a little trigger where I lift up my left toe, you don’t have to do that. If you want to do that, that’s completely fine.

Number two, now we’ve got to get rotating. This is a big piece of this. Once I get the weight on my right foot, what do I do with it to make sure my hips and my body rotate?

On the backswing, my hips can only rotate if I’m pushing my hips with my legs and my feet. The muscles in my legs and my feet are what’s moving my hips to a very large degree.

If I take this weight that I now have in my right foot, in the backswing I’m actually pushing out this way. So you can imagine if I’m pushing down and out, that’s pushing my hip back so the harder and more I push this way, the more my body rotates that way.

That’s very, very key. So piece number two, is weight shift to the right, and now I feel like it’s on the inside ball of my foot, and then I’m going to push this way to get my hips rotating.

Now at the end of my takeaway, or when my club’s about parallel with the ground, notice how my hips have rotated quite a bit. That’s my pushing motion.

The more you push that way, the more your body loads up, the bigger the backswing, the more power you’re going to have, the more effortless, the more free flowing it’s going to be, all kinds of good stuff is going to happen when I push with this foot that way to get my body rotating.

That’s piece number two. Another 20 reps, same thing. We’re going to build on piece number one. First, a little weight shift to the right, then pushing out to finish that takeaway and really get my hips turning.

Piece number three is ensuring that my shoulders are turning. This is the last key checkpoint here to really getting that great takeaway.

I don’t want to feel like my hands and arms are doing much with this. The biggest mistake I see, again, is the lower body’s turned off, my shoulders and my body’s turned off to where all the big muscles of my body aren’t doing anything, and then I’m picking up this club with my hands and arms.

Maybe I’m sucking it to the inside, maybe I’m picking it straight up like this. I could really move this club in a lot of bad positions.

What I want to do, is I want to feel like the butt end of this club is toward the center of my body, and I want to rotate so that when my hands are about waist high or stomach high, I want to feel like my chest is rotated 90°.

So if I feel like I’m picking this club up with my hands and arms, watch the butt end of this club. Now all of a sudden, it’s way out here, I’ve sucked the club way inside, my body hasn’t rotated at all, and now the club’s already pointing way out to the right.

If I feel like the club is pointing toward my body, and my body’s really rotating. As I push into the ground to rotate my body, now all of a sudden I’m really loaded up.

I want you to feel like when your hands are mid-section high, your shoulders have already turned 90°. Now it’s not exactly going to happen, my shoulders won’t quite be 90°, but that’s the feeling I want to have there.

Let’s go ahead and do another 20 reps. Piece number one, little weight shift to the right. Piece number two, while I’m turning my shoulders, I’m pushing into the ground to get my hips to rotate.

So really loading up. That’s going to be my key checkpoint there for the third piece which is when the hands are waist high my shoulders have already turned what feels like 90°.

Another 20 reps of that.  So here checking it, then I’m going all the way back, all the way through, to make that into a full swing.

Now finally, we’re ready to complete the backswing and really hammer the ball. Once I’m this loaded up and just my takeaway, now I’m going to have tons of power.

All you need to feel from there is just like you’re lifting the arms straight up. You’re going to feel like you’re lifting them straight over your right shoulder like that.

In reality, because you’re swinging around a circle, it’s going to naturally get over the right shoulder, it’s going to get plenty of around motion.

I see a lot of players with their hands way too low, too tight to their body, they’re losing a lot of distance doing that. I want you to feel like you’re reaching to the sky to complete that backswing.

If I grab a golf ball here, let me go ahead and hit another one, I’m going to feel like I put those four pieces together. So it’s a weight shift, a turn, and a lift.

That’s what’s going to allow me to load up and get tons of power. Let’s try it out. All right, so hit that one really well.

Now in this video we talked about just the first couple feet here, and really the main theme of this is we have to rotate the body. We have to turn it.

Now that’s what I call the Power Turn in the Top Speed Golf System. This video is really helping to get you started on the Power Turn, to really get those shoulders loading up, to get the body turning so I can have a lot of power without a lot of effort.

I can create tons of swing speed without having to be big, and strong, and fast. But if I really want to ingrain that, if I want that to last my entire lifetime, I want to not even have to think about it, just make a swing and I automatically make that great turn, I need to work through the Power Turn section.

As you go through level number one, then level number two, level number three, as you work through that, that’s going to become completely engrained to where now you just step up to the golf ball on the very first shot of the day, and you rip one 20 or 30 yards farther than what you’re currently doing.

So go ahead jump into the Power Turn section after you finish this drill, start working through those levels, and you’re going to be thanking me later.

I can’t wait to hear how much more swing speed you get, how much better you’re hitting the ball. I’ll see you in the Power Turn.