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This real video is square club face and the takeaway.

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So many golfers, while they're working on the one piece takeaway, benefit from

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getting

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a little bit more aware of where the club face is pointed.

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So if we held the club up at about parallel to the ground, just like so, and we

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made a

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backswing rotation like this, and then we pointed our shoulders down to where

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they would

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be in our golf posture, this would be roughly a square club face position.

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When the club face gets vertical like this, it's actually, you can see compared

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to here,

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I've actually had to rotate it, you know, 20, 30 degrees or so.

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So if I'm doing this takeaway movement largely from my body, then I'm not going

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to have any

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of that club face rotation.

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So checking that it's somewhere between parallel to my spine and vertical,

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somewhere in that

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position is probably good enough for most golfers.

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What frequently happens is one of two things, either golfer takes it away very

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shut, kind

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of like so, or takes it away, and you're better than that, very open, kind of

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like that.

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And you'll see that basically, if you're doing too much of one, you want to add

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pieces of

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the other one.

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So if you're taking it away to shut, what that usually means is from the face

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on view, my

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shoulders are actually rotating more this way, or short sort of my right

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shoulder is

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shrugging up as my left shoulder goes down.

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That's different from side bending.

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You can see that if I do this, the club face doesn't move very much.

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If I do that, then the club face will rotate a good amount.

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So if I'm bringing this arm kind of in towards my body like this, and that

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right arm is getting

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lifted and rotated inward, that will typically cause that club face position.

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That can often be accompanied by a little bit more of a sway like this, as

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opposed to

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more of that lead foot takeaway and body rotation.

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If you're getting more open in the takeaway, then that's usually coming from

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getting too

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much arm rotation more like this.

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So that usually happens when I'm lifting with my arms to take the club away

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kind of

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like that, as opposed to turning more with my foot and my core kind of leading

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or serving

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as the engine for bringing the club back.

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So when you're working on your one piece takeaway and trying to get more of the

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body

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to lead it, you want to make sure that you don't have a whole lot of club face

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rotation.

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And you want to make sure that your arms are somewhat passive in this movement.

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They're going to get more involved when you go into the setting phase of the

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backswing.

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But when you're working on this takeaway, you can use it in little nine to

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three style

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where I'm just bringing it back to that takeaway checkpoint.

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And then from there, just rotating through, just kind of getting used to

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leading the whole

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motion with my body and taking the arms out of it.

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So if you struggle with the club face in your takeaway, add a little bit of the

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shoulder

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elements that close it if you're too open or add more of the opening elements

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if you're

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too close and those two will balance each other out.

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And ultimately, it should feel like you're doing very little with your arms and

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most

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of the takeaway with your core and with your legs.