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This video is take away through the ground.

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So when you're working on your take away,

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it's very common to get upper body dominant.

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It's very common to get kind of position dominant.

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And then what happens is when you start trying

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to make an actual swing, your brain starts using your body.

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So you want to make sure that when you're training your take away,

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you're connecting it to your power source.

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So looking at the take away path,

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if you're getting the club coming way inside,

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or way outside, the ideal is we're going to try to get

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somewhat balanced or closer to on plane.

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So if I take an alignment stick and just kind of use it as

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a little bit of a visual guide, when I have my take away movement,

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I want to have the club roughly in line with this parallel

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to the target line, right, when I get to the about shaft parallel.

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It's a good sign that I've used good kind of body pivot.

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My shoulder plane has been pretty good.

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I haven't stood up out of my posture and I haven't

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dominated to take away with my arms.

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But what happens is a lot of golfers tend to practice this movement,

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and they kind of do them like this.

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And then what'll happen is they'll start to take the swing,

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and it'll look more like that.

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And they'll say, well, I'm doing these great looking take away moves,

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and then all of a sudden, when I step up to the ball, it doesn't work.

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And what you'll see is that during the take away for proper

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initiation, I'm going to, whether I feel it or not,

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I'm going to push a little bit with my front foot,

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and use my lower body in my core to help swing,

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start the club swinging back.

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So if I'm doing my take away movements and my lower body is doing nothing,

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I would look kind of like so.

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And then if I did that same movement, but now added

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hip rotation, you can see that my take away is now well to the inside.

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So when you're practicing the take away movements,

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you want to make sure that you're connecting what your arms and your hands

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are doing to the lower body.

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So connecting it to that power source.

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Once you're comfortable with doing that,

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then you can go ahead and take reps with some type of feedback,

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whether it's just an alignment stick, or just a position,

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whether you're a foam noodle, something of that sort.

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So in the rest of this video, I'm going to walk you through an example of a golfer

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who's struggled with this so that you can kind of visualize what it might look like

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if that's something that you battle in your own swing.

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OK, so here we have a golfer working on the take away kind of at the beginning of the lesson.

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You'll see he's making these movements, but it appears that all of this focus is

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in what the arms are doing and there's not a whole lot of connection to the lower body.

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So then what happens is when he actually sets up to swing at the golf ball,

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you'll see now his lower body has a lot more activity and so that tends to make the club come inside.

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So here he is after a number of reps working on a take away,

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but now feeling you can see as he's exaggerating the arm movement,

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he's really feeling the connection of his lower body to the movement.

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And so then when he makes that same kind of lower body movement that he made in the early session,

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now it's connected to where the club wants to go and so he's doing a little bit more of a one-piece take away.

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Now the club-based position is more a reflection of what he's specifically working on

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with his game and where he is at his level, but what I really wanted to do to see was how

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integrating the lower body into take away drills can help you when you go from the

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practice station to actually hitting a live ball.