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This concept video is investigating two causes of the inside takeaway.

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So one of the common questions that I get from new students or new members of the site

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is relating to the takeaway that one of the looks that golfers hate the most is when

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the club gets inside here kind of in this space.

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So if I had the club on the ground and kind of a shaft line here, the classic look

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of the club coming more up the shaft line versus going inside or under that shaft line.

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I think for a lot of the swing plane arrow where the main thing that golfers were working

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on was kind of these angles that was one of the big-bed pew.

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So I'm going to talk to you about two main causes that I see of that inside.

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So takeaway, I don't think being a little inside is the worst thing for a lot of golfers.

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So be careful with it, but if it is excessive, it's way inside, then yes, it usually

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points to one of these two problems in your swing.

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So one of the problems is an arm movement and one of the problems is a body movement.

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We're going to start with the body movement because that's actually a little bit easier

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to decode.

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So the main thing that's going to bring the takeaway too far inside is a lack of side

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bend or a lack of left shoulder or lead shoulder down.

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So left shoulder in my case.

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So what I mean by that is if I'm standing up here, if I was to bend to the left as much

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or as I'm rotating, then by bending to the left, if I keep my arms out in front of the

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body, that tends to make the club come up.

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So one common issue is that a lot of golfers turn those shoulders on a really flat plane.

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So if this shoulder goes high or this shoulder stays low, you can see how that would tend

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to do two things.

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That will tend to shift my upper body off the ball and then from the down the line view,

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if you were looking at the angle of my shoulders, it would be pointing more parallel to

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the ground or almost out towards my camera as opposed to down towards the golf ball

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there.

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So if the body tends to tilt down, that first movement, that will help bring the club

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a little bit more outside.

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So that's a common one that I see for a lot of golfers who bring it inside.

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The other option is more from the arms, which is if I bring my arms across my body,

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so if my arms have very little rotation, if I bring my arms across my body, as opposed

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to when we do the backswing only type drills, we talk about letting those arms rotate

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a little bit and keeping that trail arm in front of your chest.

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Those movements while it feels like rotating the arms would bring the club way inside,

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it actually moves it more on a path kind of out that way as compared to the down the line

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camera.

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So if I do the arm rotation movement where I feel either the lead arm kind of rotating

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over, a little bit like this, only about 30 degrees or so, or if I feel the trail arm

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starting that jazzy Jeff move, where the elbow stays in front and the arm is going into

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some external rotation.

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If I do those two movements, especially if I do those two movements with a little bit

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of side bend, you can see how that almost naturally gets the club swinging on more of

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a outside take away.

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So like I said, either snatching the club inside from the arms or turning the shoulder

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plate really flat will give you more of that inside take away look.

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Now what I tend to find is the pattern is most of the time golfers will go inside take away

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and then lift up and come over the top.

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So part of the challenge is if you're going to fix that take away movement, you have to

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get used to having the arm shallow a little bit in transition as opposed to that steep movement,

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which is at the over the top movement.

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And if you're going to shallow your arms in transition then you have to get a little

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bit more comfortable with powering the down swing with body rotation as opposed to with

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arm pull.

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So if I'm working on it, I usually do the down swing drills and kind of work on getting

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the body to rotate and the arms to shallow.

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And then when you start to add a little bit better backswing it fits.

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So it actually helps you do the down swing movement to better.

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If you start with trying to do the backswing and you still want to come over the top,

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it'll actually make you come more over the top.

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You won't be able to commit to it because you will struggle with contact almost instantly

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and that's usually when you'll try it.

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Four or five swings and then bail on it and move on to something else.

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So I want you to understand the takeaway but understand how it fits into the equation.

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I recommend working a little bit on some down swing movements before you make it too

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higher priority.

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But if you are seeing a weight inside takeaway, first check the shoulder tilt and body

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position and second check the arm rotation.

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That'll help you clean up that annoying look that messes up your swing plane.

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So let's do one of the bad one where we're going to do both.

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Turn shallow and lift it up and you'll see it didn't make great contact but did kind

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of that classic pattern.

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Now we'll do one that feels a little bit more better.

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We're going to rotate those arms while getting that shoulder down and we make pretty good

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contact there.