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In this concept video, we're going to go over trouble shooting the takeaway.

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Now, as we discussed, it's a very simple movement of just turning the spine, but there

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are a number of common ways that people get into trouble during the takeaway that kind

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of mess up for the rest of the swing.

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The first one would be an all-arms-type movement, which would basically be going like this

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where my shoulders move, my arms move, but my rib cage and my chest stayed pointing at the

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camera.

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It would end up looking like so.

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This looks like the club is in position, but the problem is I haven't really started building

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any torque in my body.

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I've pretty much just loaded my shoulder and it's going to mess up the sequencing when

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I get into transition.

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And it's also typically going to mess up my plane in the backswing.

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Not that the plane in the backswing is the most critical factor, but if it gets too vertical,

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it's going to require too much of a adjustment on the way down.

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The second common error that we see would be a sway.

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So as you go into that takeaway movement, some players will have their lower body shift

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off to the right and get their weight onto the outside of that foot.

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When you get onto the outside of the foot, then it's going to take kind of a major movement

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to get back onto the inside of the foot.

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Imagine trying to throw a ball from the outside of the ankle.

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You wouldn't be able to get very much power from your legs so you would end up doing it

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all with your arms.

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Same kind of pattern can happen in golf.

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Now the problem is as a power source, if you tend to use your shoulder a lot, which we

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talk about in the power section, then a sway actually helps make that easier.

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So pay attention to that.

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If you're having trouble getting rid of your sway, it may be a power source thing.

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But that's error number two would be a sway in transition.

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Number three would be standing up, which would be basically as I take it back, it ends

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up looking like this.

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Now we already talked about in the takeaway movement that to rotate around your posture

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is actually a three-dimensional movement.

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So what standing up means is not that you're going like this.

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It means that you don't have enough side bend.

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It means that that left shoulder isn't working down towards the golf ball.

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So it gives the appearance that I have stood up.

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You can see the difference in my head height of side bend as it relates to that takeaway

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movement.

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And then the last piece that I sometimes see is manipulating the face.

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Either taking it away and letting the wrists kind of collapse and get shut very, very early

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or the opposite, rolling those forms, getting the face very, very vertical.

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Remember, the majority of the backswing should be a spine-based movement.

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It's not going to be a ton of forearm and face rotation, because if you do so, it's going

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to tend to mess up your sequencing during transition.

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Because you won't be able to dynamically move your body and still get the face to square,

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you'll typically have to make a major adjustment with your body by slowing it down

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to compromise for getting the face to square a little bit better.

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So try those, check the drill section for the drills that I've sent you, and it should

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help you clear up this takeaway.