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This concept video is exploring the path of the takeaway.

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So in the downswing we like to use this shaft parallel checkpoint and shaft parallel

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and the follow-through as good checkpoints.

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You can use the checkpoint in the backswing as well just to see what you're doing during

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your takeaway.

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I tend to find if you're having dramatic takeaway issues, they tend to not be an issue unless

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they call as top of the swing or for your short, you know, your finesse wedge, your distance

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wedge shots where you don't have as much time to make these big body movements to get

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back into position.

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So as we discuss in the takeaway movement, the majority of the takeaway should be kind of an

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upper body or core rotation movement with, well we say it's very little going on in the

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wrists.

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I'm going to talk about the two major issues that you'll tend to see.

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Now just as a reference guide, I've got the stick on the ground roughly even with

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my toes.

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If I was to make a pretty good takeaway movement, this would roughly be on top of

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that club.

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If I would make my takeaway movement in a shaft parallel, it's either kind of pointed

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way out there or even more common.

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It's a pointed kind of way in here.

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That means that I'm getting way off of playing or off of path and I'm just going to make

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have to make a bigger adjustment at some point during the swing to kind of get back on

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track.

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The two most common would be more of an arm lift and going up and out kind of like that

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where you'll see very little body rotation.

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You'll see that it's very much, you can compare the height of the shaft to where my body

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is.

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If I do it more with the body, you'll see that the hands stay kind of below the belt.

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If they tend to go up here, it's definitely more of an arm movement.

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But I could also err on getting this inside and there's a number of different ways that

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that can happen.

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One would be if I was to just use my shoulders and pull them kind of across my body

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like so.

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So basically in that one, my arms are actually just going like this.

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That's getting the club kind of in this shut across my body almost stuck position.

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From here, I'm just going to have a lot of rerouting in order to get my arms back in front

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in order to shallow the club during transition.

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The other option would be if I keep my arms pretty straight, but then I have a massive hip

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movement to bring the club back to waist height.

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So this was not really core, this was all knees and feet.

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So it was kind of looking like this and that also unless I make an adjustment with my arms

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contend to get the club in a shut position.

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If one of the things that was interesting for me to first look at was when James Seekman

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and Greg Rose when they were talking about the Finesz wedge shot, you know, five or six

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years ago when I was taking a class, they were talking about more form rotation during

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the takeaway for a chip shot than on a normal swing.

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And in my mind at first, I didn't make sense because I felt like a putting stroke or

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a small chip shot would have very little form rotation.

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But if we think about it with the shorter shot where my body is going to be a little

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bit quieter and I'm dominating it more with the upper body, what would happen is if I don't

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rotate my my forearms and shoulders, then the club would just move straight that kind

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of like this.

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Now, if I in the normal swing I add body rotation, that's fine and now the club is pretty

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close to on plane is just a little shut.

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In the shorter shot, we're going to tend to have because the body is not going to move

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as much.

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These arms have to rotate in order to get this club on plane like so.

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Otherwise what would happen is I would use either my body standing up, I would use hit

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movement, I would take it away in a very closed position kind of like so.

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So getting into some of these details and just analyzing what you do during the takeaway,

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especially if you've trouble with the finesse wedges, can help reveal how you're getting

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off plane, how you're losing control of the face.

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If you're getting the face too shut, it's almost always collapsing in this left wrist

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and not having enough arm rotation or not powering in enough from the core so that combination

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of power core rotate the arms, don't collapse the wrist, then does up looking like that.

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Where if I exaggerate it and I use my legs so I don't use my core, I flex the wrist and I

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don't rotate, I can get that extremely inside.

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The opposite would be typically in the guys who tend to have more of this big sway, they'll

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tend to bring the club kind of straight up like so and that's usually just not having

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enough of that body rotation or possibly shoulder rotation in order to get the hands in that

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path.

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So there's a lot of details you can look at in the details of the takeaway.

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I tend to not go there unless it shows up elsewhere in your swing that you have a hard time

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adjusting from that position but if you're working on building your sockful swing from the

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ground up, some of these takeaway keys are making sure that the body is rotating from the core

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and the wrists have done very little but the forearms and shoulders have corroded just a little

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bit to kind of help that takeaway movement.

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So hopefully that helps you understand your pattern and all the patterns that you might see

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with golfers on TV of what they're doing during this initial movement called a takeaway.