Hi guys, it's Amy. Today I have prepared
a driver lesson for those of you who
struggle controlling the sid spin. I'm
going to help you hit it long and
straight.
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So I'm going to be talking about the
takeaway a lot today. Takeaway is when
you start the back swing, the very first
part of the back swing is called the
takeaway. So basically in the takeaway,
you 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 8:00 position. We all know
what 8:00 is, right? So if this is a
clock right here, this is 12:00, 6:00.
When my left arm points at 8:00, this is
the 8:00 position. Club is 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 of the club head and my hands in
the takeaway. So, let's go ahead and
look at this. All right. 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 uh 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 8:00, 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 uh fan in
my hand like this. So you see how this
fan is pointing at the target and the
club face is also pointing at the
target. So when you take it back,
you see how the club face points at the
target as long as possible and then when
it gets into the 8:00 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 8 o'clock. If the club
face
points downward too much at 8:00, you
see how it's shut? You call that club
face shut and you will probably end up
hitting it left or hook it. And the
other way around, if the club face is
facing the sky too much, it's called uh
opened and you will probably slice it a
lot to the right. So I want you to
understand how the club head club face
travels
and which way your hands and the club
head travels in the takeaway.
So a lot of amateurs watch pros on TV
and when you watch the pros even though
everything's 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 with their
uh taking it back with their hands like
this. So, a lot of amateurs tend to kind
of uh not use the body at all. And um if
the body decides not to turn, rotate,
then your hands sometimes decide to
rotate. So, it sometimes look like this.
A lot of 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 uh takeaway I showed you.
So once the club head and the hands are
off plane at 8:00, you're probably going
to be way off as well. And then it's
going to be really hard to get back down
in the correct plane and hit it square
at 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 side spin.
All right. 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 7:00
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, um, 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
showed you the first part of the
takeaway all the way to 8:00. You're
going to hit some golf balls uh with
one/ird of a swing. So, you're gonna get
to the correct eight o'clock position
and boom, just hit it like that. So,
you're not trying to kill it. Uh 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 the correct 8:00 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 whiff the ball
with the one-third 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
8:00 position and push the ball forward.
Once you get used to starting online and
making square 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
one/ird of a swing again to try and
really straighten out your takeaway.
I hope you're able to follow along. If
you have any questions, come visit me on
my Instagram, Facebook, and website. And
I'll see you guys in the next lesson.
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