– Well hey, Adam Bazalgette here, Founder of Scratch Golf Academy. Today's subject is a good one, Two Simple Drills To
Immediately Fix Your Takeaway. Now you'll probably recognize Eric Cogorno right next to me here, of Cogorno Golf, very popular on YouTube. And Eric is gonna be
showing us a few things, a couple of drills that I really like. So, we're pleased to be
together here in South Florida. Nice to have you down
– Yeah, thanks for having me. – You gotta good drill for us, stay tuned. (bright upbeat music) Well, if you're new to the channel or if you've watched a lot of the videos but never subscribed, I'd love to have you subscribe, you get all the free content, if you hit the little bell there, you'll get notifications when
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you more free content. Okay, let's get Eric back in here and look at our take away drills. Well Eric, let's have a look, what show is this drill. – We just got our alignment rod, right? – Yeah, just alignment
rod, very simple drill. I think Adam, the point of this and the take away that we see a lot of golfers have issues with, really stems from a disconnect between what their body is doing
– Sure. – And their arms and hands. And when their body and arms and hands aren't sorta synced up, we'll say, there can be a variety of
the things that come up.
I know you and I both see especially a lot the hands out club roll, right? – Right, absolutely. – We might also see the hands
away, club away disconnected and we've got a really simple drill with an alignment rod here, one of two drills that we have. How to fix both of those issues, but – Great. – Maybe before we dive in and show that, let's take a look at
how some good golfers– – You'll get a good mental picture, it'll help you. So Tiger Woods here, let's have a look. You will certainly notice
on the right hand picture how the trunk and the arms
all move away together. If you picture this as maybe a triangle and just keep your eye on that, very much involved in the
first part of that takeaway.
And if, let's say your hand's
just passed that back leg, if I draw a line up the club shaft, it would be pretty close
to that hip at that point. And you'll notice from the other angle, as he moves away in
this nice together look, that left arm, that lead
arm, stays very much connected and up close to the body. You do not see the gap there, and that club shooting behind him. – Okay, so we gotta
look at how good golfers do their takeaways, some checkpoints that we wanna use. And so Adam, how I love using this drill, we've got a simple alignment rod drive away markers simple to get. I'm gonna go ahead and put this on the left side of my shaft, so basically, just kind of on the left
side of the grip there, and I'm gonna take a grip with it. Maybe slightly uncomfortable if a viewer hasn't done this before.
Now, what I'm trying to
do here is when I take – Well you probably
have just a little more forward press here than normal, maybe just.
– Yeah, exactly – So that's okay, right. Let's say, it's probably
gonna feel a little different for some
people in the beginning. But when I do this,
I'm gonna have my hands more or less inside, left thigh.
And then when I set that up, you can see the shaft on the side. So from face on, this alignment rod should be touching your hip. Now, as Adam mentioned, if you normally don't have your hands, where it's gonna feel pretty darn forward compared to normal. Now here's the point right of the drill. When I go back and watch the stick on my left hip. If I do that disconnected takeaway, see what happens there right away? – Yeah, immediately a gap. – Right off the bat. Batter the club and thing, stick your pointed weight to right field. Now, if I did a, how we
would like a takeaway, that would probably look a
little bit more like here. – Right. So you've actually maintained connection all the way to maybe shaft parallel. – Yeah, so a really easy feel when I'm going back here of hey, start with the stick on the left hip, make my takeaway, and keep this.
It's gonna ride down my leg a little, right, as it's in hand, but I'm gonna keep connection. And as I'm doing that, really the only way we can do this is we do keep that connection, right? – Right. – So this is a really simple one Adam, that I've used that I really like, start on my left hip, ride back down, have the club head more or less in a straight line back. – Right I love to see the club
face a little tilted there. – I'm with you. I hate when that toe is
flipped over in that way. It is such a difficult way to play, yeah. – Yeah. and as I do this, if I grip it right and I do my takeaway, the only way for me to
get that thing up there would be to have a pretty, you know, a lot of twist going on. – Yeah
– Like I could still do it, but wanna have that takeaway.
And what I would do in the beginning is I'd pop that stick down, and I'd try and retain that feel. – I wouldn't recommend
you try to come down and hit the ball (laughs) cause you could spear
yourself if you do that, so – Then you remove the stick.
– This is a takeaway, yes. (laughs) – And so I might have a couple of field. Now again, like you mentioned, hand a little more
forward is the feel there, and I feel like I'm gonna get
that stick just working back. same sort of feel, – Yeah. – And hit one or two. – I really like how that
fosters a connection in that left arm and the
torso as you start back. (golf club thudding) (wind howling) Now, once you're about hip high there, I noticed you start to get
some hinge, which I like. – Yes
– That's the way that should look,
so the key, I think, that when you do that, is the hinge, if I turn to this camera here, is really primarily just upward hinge. It's not backward hinge. So once Eric's gotten over here, it's primarily upward hinge.
Just don't tinch it behind you, right? – Right, and the one thing I'd add the drill Adam is, if I put this on here and let's say you wanna add a little hinge – Or someone in particular wants to – But actually help you determine where the club's what
plane you're on, right? – Yeah exactly and when I go down, a simple version of this drill would be, starting out on my hip, when I do my take away, why don't I just ride that down my leg a little further and then now I have
little more hinge to it. So keep it on the hip, let it ride down a little as I go back. And I might just make one
no ball practice swing. (golf club thudding) and now we're good. Lens it and puts it
together there very nicely. Just a take away, it doesn't make you a great golfer but if you get out of the
gate in the first few feet, in a good position with good sequences, it's a lot easier, a little tiny anecdote.
I wouldn't say I knew Moe Norman, but I've been around him a little bit and talked to him. Many of you may have
probably familiar with him. So I asked him a question he may have been asked
a lot of times before. If you remember, he started with a club
about a foot behind the ball – That's right – Where he sets up like that. The Canadian, Moe Norman. If you don't remember he
is a legendary ball striker the late Moe Norman. And I asked him and said, "Hey Moe, why do you like
to start with the club so far behind the ball?" And his answer was kinda
profound and simple, he said, "It's the hardest bit of the swing. So I just take it out." (laughs) So in a certain sense, if we can get this first
part of the swing right, you're helping yourself for sure.
Well if that was helpful for you, now we have a second drill
with the alignment rod that I really like as well but to see that you're gonna have to Corgono Golf we'll show you a link right there where you can over there same title, and then you'll really like the drill. (bright upbeat music).