Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "The Perfect Takeaway Drill | Key to an Easy Golf Swing"

In today’s lesson…

…I’ll show you how your takeaway can make getting into the perfect position at impact easier… or harder.

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 7:37

Video Transcription:

But if I can get a good takeaway, it makes the entire swing a lot easier. Let's go and hit a good shot here.

Here you go. Really solid on that one. Nice club speed. 99.2 miles an hour. 201 yards per carry. I'm not going to do much better than that. Well, the first foot or two feet of the take away are incredibly important. And if I can get those right, like I said, the whole swing is going to be a lot better.

I'm going to make an easier turn without having to be flexible. So give me more power. I'm going to be able to keep my club working more on playing, which is going to help me to swing straighter and hit a lot more solid shots And it's also going to help with my weight shift back in through so I can make really good clean contact with the ground.

So let's start with that. Start with the weight shift. Well, I see a lot of players do to get the weight shift wrong as they'll actually get to the right side way too late. That's what I have this little yellow ball here for. What I find a lot of players will do they pick the club up with their hands and arms without shifting their weight early.

And the weight does go to the right, but it ends up going to the right way back here. So my weight is kind of centered. Maybe I'm a little bit on my right side, though I'll take the club back. I don't really get that shift. I finally get the shift back here and there's no time to get back to the left and it falling back on the right or fighting hard to get to left.

It's just really inconsistent. That's a big reason that you maybe hit one a little heavy on one shot thin on the next shot. And then hit a solid one on the third one. Just keeps on repeating. It's like, Hey, why is it so drag on hardest to hit the ball in the ground at the same time? The weight shift is a big deal with that big to do with that.

So I put this yellow ball under my heel. Now I want it under the heel and not the toe so I can stay in my posture. If I let my my weight shift to the right and I come up on my toes I'm going to tend to stand up out of the posture, stand up out of the shot.

If I feel like it's under my heel now, I can simply press that into my heel. And it helps me keep in my posture as I rotate back. So I'm keeping my spine angled forward as my weight goes into my heel. That makes a lot easier to do that. I'm kind of rotating into this right hip. So what I want you to do instead of waiting until late to get to the right, I actually want you to do this before you even start your swing.

So the very first trigger for your back swing should be pressing into that yellow ball. And you can see me just kind of lean into that yellow ball to start the swing. You notice that when I do this, the club hasn't even moved yet. Now, once I've done that weight shift, it gets everything going into the right early, and it's going to be natural just to go ahead and shift to the left.

Then make your downswing come on through to good finish. So if I don't get to the right early enough I can't shift to the left early enough. It's as simple as this. I get my weight on my right before the club ever moves. That gets me loaded up on my right foot very early. And then from there, I can shift to the left and then swing on down.

That way your weight is always going to the left through contact. It makes it really easy. It's that natural, just right left momentum. Happens very early. Makes it really easy to hit the ground at the same point. Now, the next piece here is going to be the shoulder turn and getting the club on playing Now, once I get that little push into the ground, push that ball into the ground, then my club is going to move and I'm going to move this club.

Not by picking my hands and arms up to the inside You notice when I did that, this club shot to the inside, which I see almost everybody making that mistake. It tends to want to loop down steeper when that happens. And I also have bent this right arm right away. And when I do those two things, not only is my club go inside, but I don't get much of a shoulder turn.

So it feels like if you've really been struggling to get your shoulders to move in the back swing, it actually has less to do with the shoulders and more to do with the weight shift in that first couple feet of turn here. So what I want you to do is the right way here. We're going to push into that ball.

And in the start, the back swing, I want my right hip and my right shoulder to clear out of the way. It's almost like if somebody had a rope tied to my hip tied to my shoulder and they're pulling it in this direction, I'm going to press into the ball and then it's going to load back this way.

You notice that right leg kind of straightens a little bit when that happens. That allows the hip to turn back and allows the shoulder to turn back. And when I do this, I'm going to keep my right arm fairly straight. So I'm going to press and turn naturally like it's my club perfectly. I'm playing, gets my arm nice and straight.

Everything's turning big shoulder turn that gets the club to not shoot back to the inside. This gets everything working on playing there. And that's really the the key to it. You do those two moves press, and then I'm going to turn my body and let my right arm stay straight. And now I'm perfectly on playing. I made this big turn.

So once I've done that, now I'm loaded up on the right side. Now I'll this big shoulder turn. All I have to do is shift left and then make my downswing. Everything else is going to be much, much more natural when you can get that first little move. Right. Let's go and try that out. I'm going to press and turn.

Then I'm going to shift to the left and swing down. So I'm pressing and turning. I'm going to shift and then swing down. Let's try out There we go. Nice little tight draw. Just right at the target. Draw him back in there. Again. Good. Swing speed. 99.6 miles an hour. 196 yards a carry. Couldn't hit it a whole lot better than that one.

And a lot of that is because I got started on the right foot. Now it feels natural to get back to the left, swing on through it and get that consistent contact. Now, what we've been talking about here today is basically just a way of doing the power turn you see in the tops of your golf system. What we want to do is get that weight shift to the right and we want to turn our body and our shoulders in the back swing that gets us this good shoulder turn.

And then when we shift our weight early to the left and swing down that allows us to fall through the shot. We get this great turn going all the way through to the target. That's just a fancy way of describing the power turn. And what I found is that players that get that good turn on the back swing and the turn through their swings look better, their swings look smoother, and they hit it a whole heck of a lot farther So it's kind of an effortless way to say let's get the body moving in the right way.

Let's get it start off and then take away the right way. Let's finish the backswing, finish the follow through the right way. It's actually just a couple real simple moves like that. And you can make your swing really perform at a high level and have a whole lot of power while you're doing it. You might hear people you'll see hit some balls on the range or player round of golf with you for having played with your wife and said, well, you know, you've been working on your swing.

It looks so much smoother and you've gained ten, 15, 20 yards. How did you do that? Well, it all comes down to these few key moves that we're talking about here. But I'll be honest with you, if you just watch this video, you get the takeaway knocked out, that's going to help you right away. You can start playing better today.

You can start hitting with some more power, but then it's going to wear off because it's not really ingrained yet to ingrain it. We need to follow a system. So what you want to do is go to the instruction tab, go to top speak our system, go to the power turn, and then you start working through level one.

It's going to become more natural to where you don't really have to think about it as much. You're already making that great turn. Level two and level three is when it really ingrained it. So now you've made enough swings doing this to where you just grab a club and it naturally happens. All the swings are loose and free flowing and powerful, and it feels a whole heck of a lot better.

And you actually look forward to going out and playing golf because you know you're going to put some good swings on it. So that's why I want to challenge I want change. You get started on it. So do this drills that we did in the video here today and then go over to the Power Turn section, just complete one drill from the power turn and you're going to get that momentum going.

Then as you work through those levels, you're going to feel like a million bucks. So I can't wait to help you build this for a lifetime. Get a whole heck of a lot better turn. Have a blast on the golf course. Let's go out and get started right now. Let's head over to the power turn and just complete one video I'll see you there.