hi guys it's Amy today I have prepared a
driver lesson for those of you who
struggle controlling the size Finn I'm
going to help you hit it long and
straight
so I'm going to be talking about the
takeaway a lot today takeaway is when
you start the backswing the very first
part of the backswing is called the
takeaway so basically in the takeaway
you've probably heard of one-piece
takeaway your whole body your shoulders
your hands and your club is supposed to
travel kind of together to get into this
eight o'clock position
we all know what eight o'clock is right
so if this is a o'clock right here this
is twelve o'clock six o'clock when my
left arm points at eight o'clock this is
the eight o'clock position
khloé supposed to be parallel to the
ground parallel to the target so I put
some sticks down on the ground to show
you the correct path or the club head
and my hands in the takeaway so let's go
ahead and look at this alright so I set
up to the golf ball and the red stick
shows which way the club is supposed to
travel and the yellow stick here shows
which way the hands travel in the
beginning of the takeaway so if you take
it away both of them stay on the stick
and when you hit eight o'clock the club
matches the yellow stick right and then
I have prepared a handheld fan to show
you the proper angles of the club face
as well so if I set up with the hand fan
in my hand like this so you see how the
spin is pointing at the target and the
coalface is also pointing at the target
so when you take it back you see how the
coalface points at the target as long as
possible and then when it gets into the
eight o'clock position it faces forward
so let me show you from the front so the
club face faces the target as long as
possible and then faces front at eight
o'clock if the club face points downward
too much at eight o'clock you see how
it's shut you call that coffee shut and
you will probably end up hitting it left
or hook it and the other way around if
the coalface is facing the sky too much
is called opened and you will probably
slice it a lot to the right
I want you to understand how the
clubhead clubface travels and which way
your hands on the club it travels in the
takeaway so a lot of amateurs watch pros
on TV and when you watch the pros even
though everything is moving together the
body movement is so subtle it looks like
their body isn't moving at all so it
looks like they're doing it but they're
taking it back with their hands like
this so a lot of amateurs tend to kind
of not use the body at all and if the
body decides not to turn rotate then
your hands sometimes decide to rotate so
you sometimes look like this or people
start their takeaway rotating their
hands you see how the club head got off
that yellow red stick and the hands went
off of that yellow stick as well it
looks different than the previous
takeaway I showed you so once the club
head and the hands are off plane at 8
o'clock you're probably gonna be way off
as well and then it's going to be really
hard to get back down in the correct
plane and hit is Square and impact
another thing is if there are some
people that don't rotate the hands just
but just lift like this same thing you
still get off the plane right away hard
to get back on plane on the way down so
we really want to start the takeaway is
very important if you want to eliminate
any of your size spin alright
so for in order for you to feel the
one-piece takeaway it's very simple you
want to grab your driver a little short
make sure the butt end of the grip you
stick it in your belly button and then
you set up like this you're going to
just go to 7 o'clock position you're
going to turn back like this and instead
of using hands and shoulders to do it
you want to use your thighs hips and abs
to start rotating see how the body
movement is very subtle you don't really
see it but you will feel everything
moving together once you feel the
togetherness let me go ahead and show
you a drill you can do at the dry range
okay it's a simple drill what you're
going to do is I
you the first part of the take away all
the way to 8 o'clock you're going to hit
some golf balls with one third of a
swing so you're going to get to the
correct date o'clock position and boom
just hit it like that so you're not
trying to kill it it may go maybe 10 20
yards it won't go anywhere you're
basically trying to start it on the
correct plane and get it into that
correct 8 o'clock position and then just
make square contact with the golf ball
it may be harder than it looks because
if you tend to use a lot of hands in the
takeaway a lot of people tend to just
completely rift the ball with the 1/3 of
a swing so imagine if you can't make a
square contact with a small swing like
this if you make a full swing most
likely you won't hit it all that great
right so we really want to do that drill
I showed you feeling the one-piece
takeaway using the same sensation you're
going to get into the correct 8 8
o'clock position and push the ball
forward once you get used to starting on
line and making score contact go up to
gradually into a full swing and then
once you start using your hands again
you feel like it's off plane go back to
1/3 of a swing again to try and really
straighten out your takeaway I hope
you're able to follow along if you have
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see you guys in the next lesson
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