Golf Swing Takeaway

A Correct Golf Swing Takeaway Leads To A Good Backswing

The first part of the backswing is your golf swing takeaway. To start the swing, you'll take the club back in a one-piece motion as your hands, arms, and shoulders will work together. If you visualize a triangle in your setup with the arms and shoulders, you'll simple maintain this triangle during the first part of your swing. A slight wrist hinge will occur as you swing the club back. Also, you don't want much lower body movement in the first part of the swing. Your lower body needs to be a stable base you turn and coil around for the first half of your backswing.

A proper takeaway and backswing will start On The Correct Swing Plane. At the point where the club first gets parallel to the ground in the backswing, the clubhead should cover up your hands. You can see this if you were to look in a mirror. If you look at your hands, the club should be extended in a straight line even with your hands. Try to avoid having the clubhead coming too far inside or outside of the plane line in the first part of the backswing. This would lead to having to make compensations to hit good shots which makes it more difficult to be consistent.

The takeaway is important to get correct because it will promote proper swing sequence throughout the rest of your golf swing.

It's important to note in the takeaway there isn't really any lower body movement. It's a simple motion of swinging the club together as your shoulders turn back and you're beginning to rotate the upper body over your lower body. This is called winding up in the backswing and will allow to build up power which can then be transferred to the ball at impact.

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