– All right, so let's talk
about the perfect takeaway. And really we're just
talking about one thing that basically everybody makes a mistake in the takeaway here. Most all players don't get
the proper weight shift, which I'll go over in a second. The hands start to go out, and then that sucks
the club to the inside. Then there's a giant loop. We come down a little bit
steeper than we're like, and we stand up out of
our posture and hit. That all stems from the takeaway. And what is it that we're trying to do? What is it we see with the pros? Well, there's a proper weight
shift to start the swing, the club head stays a little
bit more outside the hands and parallel or on plane, and then the face is on plane
also, or square to the plane which is a little bit different than what most people
are telling you to do.
And I'll explain that too. Now once you do that and you
start to get the club working in a much better position, then it's easy to shallow
it out from the inside and hit that nice, solid shot. So let's take it from the top. The number one thing is the weight shift. You see, if my weight stays still, then I'm just having to
place the hands and arms.
I'm trying to find this perfect spot, and that's really not gonna work. If my weight stays to the left again, that's tend to gonna suck
the club to the inside, and I'm way off plane, not gonna work. What we we're gonna have and what you see with
every single tour player. So if you put them on pressure plates every single swing starts with
a weight shift to the right. I prefer to start with
slightly more weight maybe 55% on the right
foot, 45 on the left foot. That helps you to get the tilt the slight head behind the
golf ball that you need. It also helps you to get
that weight ready to shift to the right, to start the back swing.
'Cause the weight is fully to the right. Once the club gets about
here in the back swing then we're gonna shift
left and swing down. Now that sounds complicated but the golf swing is just this. Imagine that I'm swinging
a heavy pail of water. I'm gonna shift my weight to
the right swing it this way shift my weight to the
left, swing it that way. So it's just this kinda back and forth, weight shift type motion. And you can kinda see my
body shifting the weight and then the arms go, shifting the weight and then the arms go. Same thing happens in a golf swing. You'll even notice in my swing, if I show a slow motion video here, I'll tap my left foot up in the air. I have no idea that I do this.
I've just always done it. 'Cause that's instinctively
how I'm gonna get my weight to my right side. So I'm kinda unloading my left side and going to my right to start my swing. I suggest you don't have to
keep the tap or anything, but I suggest you do something similar to get your weight going
to the right early.
Now from here, the club
starts to go to the inside. And what we talked about
is it's not just the club. The club is not actually
the cause of this, it's actually the hands. You see when the hands go out, the club is naturally gonna go in. So if I was to draw a
line on my hands here on the front of my hands at address, I want my hands to stay inside that line, and my club is naturally gonna go a little bit more outside of them. So if I feel like there's a
wall here that my hands are on, I wanna feel like my hands
stay inside that wall the whole back swing there,
the whole takeaway there, and the club stays on
this side of the wall.
Exaggerated a little bit,
I promise that you won't. Almost everybody I see does this, hands outside of the wall club goes in. If you can feel like you're
doing hands way in and club out, it's gonna look perfectly on plane once you start to do that.
So that's the key there. The hands are the secret
to getting that to go in. Now all of that, even what we're talking
about with the hands, is really a byproduct of shoulder turn.
If I turn the shoulders properly, the hands will just naturally
go to the inside like that, instead of jutting out.
Here's what I mean by that. If I take this club and
put it across my shoulders, let's imagine there's a laser shooting out of the butt
end of the club here. And as I turn my shoulders it's gonna trace down this target line. That's why I have this club on the ground. It's symbolizing the golf ball, to the target line and the distance. If I go ahead and put a
club across my shoulders and trace that target line. So I get a little weight shift and then I trace that
line with my shoulders. If my arms are just an extension of that. So if my arms were out here, and I let my arms trace this target line when I do my takeaway, I'd
be about 45 degrees here.
And if I just let my hands drop, they would be inside my toe line. So that's this club here. You see if I rotate my shoulders and just let my hands follow along, the hands go to the inside,
the club tracks on plane. If I don't rotate my shoulders at all, and I try to move my hands back, the natural way to move them back is by going out and the club goes in. So really the hands and the swing plane and all of that stems down to what we just talked
about in the beginning. A little weight shift to the right, and then the arms and shoulders
tracking that target line. If I can get that weight shift, let my shoulders track that target line, I'm just letting my hands
kinda go along for the ride, and they're naturally
gonna be on plane there. Now that's gonna get you way
better coming on a plane.
That's gonna get you in a position to where you're getting
this club going more out, and it's gonna shallow out
a little more naturally. The final piece and this is just a little
bit of a pet peeve, I really don't mind if
you do it either way, but I'll see a lot of people trying to keep this
club face really closed or sometimes what people
will say match the spine. Well, it doesn't make too much difference because when you get
to the top of the swing most people want this
club much more on plane or the face of the club kinda matching the swing plane there. So when I do that, now the club's gonna be
totally different at the top. So it doesn't really make
much difference if it's here, or here, I tend to like to have the club a little bit more toe
up than most people do or that most people
would say you should do.
Because when I look at the
greatest players of all time, they're much more common to
be in that toe up position. But again, that's just a to
get you to a better position at the top of the swing. What I find is a lot of times, when you feel like you're closed, people will tend to get across
the line a lot at the top. Doesn't mean you have to do that. That's just one of the things
that I see quite a bit. So again to recap, a little weight shift, let the shoulders turn
that pulls the hands in, and lets the club stay out. You'll be perfectly on plane. That's gonna get you on plane
at the top of the swing. And then from there, what do we do? So if we make a good back
swing, we are much more likely to make a good down swing and to be on plane in the downswing. But there's something that I find, honestly that most players get wrong, and it makes the downswing
really tough to do also. And that's just the way
that we've been taught to square the club.
And if you've been following
me for any length of time, you've probably realized, you've probably heard
about the anti-roll method. You've heard me talk about it. I've may even sound like
a bit of a broken record if you know what I mean, where I'm bringing this
anti-roll method up all the time. Well, why am I doing that? Well if we start to roll the forearms to square up this club face, we're gonna tend to back
out away from the golf ball, loose our posture.
We're gonna tend to cast and
to flip even a little bit of a chicken wing through impact. And quite frankly, I just
don't want you to do that. I want you to play good golf. I want you to have a great round and I want you to understand
what the anti-roll method is, so that you can get a ton of
lag, stay in your posture, compress the golf ball, have great extension through the shot, and do all the things that the pros do. So I'll play a preview of that
anti-roll method video here just one second. If you wanna see the full video, and learn what this is all about learn how to do all these great things that I was talking
about in the down swing, just go ahead and click the
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you the anti-roll method. I know it's gonna be a game changer and help you really get to the next level on your ball striking.
So
here's the bottom line. If you've been taught to roll the club in the early down swing that causes the shaft to get steep, and that steep club
causes all your problems, 'cause you hit it way
behind the big hitters, and way inconsistent with
your quality of strikes. So you're in the tall grass and the trees and the hazards all day long. Now the great news is this. There's really only two
pieces that you need to know, to fix all these problems. The first one is we need
to learn the proper way to square up the club face, instead of rolling the
forearms and getting steep, there's another way that the pros do this. Once you learn this right way to square up the club face, then you can shallow out from the inside, and everything starts to fit together. Now I'm gonna teach you this right now, in what I call the anti-roll method.
You may also hear this
called the motorcycle move, or the tour twist, but let's walk through
exactly how to do that. Now what I want you to do, is go ahead and go kinda
in the last parallel in the down swing. So here I want my hips to
go ahead and be opening up. I want my club to be
parallel with the ground, and I want my hands to be
in front of my right thigh. Now, when I take my grip, you're gonna notice that when I do this, the club face is basically
straight up and down. So if I'm looking at it from this angle you'll see the face is
straight up and down. And my logo of my glove has
pointed out in front of me. Now from there.