Hi guys, it's Aimee, your golf coach.
Welcome to Beginner Series Level 2!
I know a lot of you guys actually watch my Beginner Series.
And I know even a lot of advanced players watch it,
because golf is all about basic fundamentals.
I wanted to continue on from that series that I already have,
and just kind of find tune your full swing.
So I'll be going through each positions
and also eventually we will get to hitting different clubs,
different lies, different shots, and etc.
But today, we will start with the Takeaway!
Oh and don't mind the chromakey here.
I usually use this for my online golf lessons
but I don't think I will be using it. That's why I didn't do the floors blue.
I was just working on my game earlier hitting.
That's why I had the sides up to prevent the golf balls from hitting anything.
Let's get started!
Takeaway, we will be talking about the takeaway.
What is a Takeaway?
It's like the first initial part of your swing, maybe 2 or 3 feet.
From the set up you go boom, that's the takeaway, okay?
And how important is it?
Very important! It basically sets the tone for your swing.
There is really no right way of doing it.
But there are guidelines. That's what I'm going to show you.
I chose this big club so you can see it better.
Let's take this alignment stick as a guideline.
So this is parallel to my desired target.
When I take it back, pros usually go boom!
Did you see that?
The first 2 feet, boom!
It's staying nice and low to the ground.
Club face is not rotating crazy amount, it's staying fairly the same as the address.
And also the club face is going straight back on that target line
instead of going like off it this way, right?
So, nice & low, nice & slow, nice & online, nice & square instead of flipping it open.
Number 5 would be the togetherness.
Tada~ okay I take it back, boom!
You see how my shoulders, my arms, my hands, grip and club head
everything kind of move together.
We call that the One Piece Takeaway.
We like that.
When you do it correctly, I'd say you are in sync, synchronized,
or you are moving together in one piece.
Most common mistakes I see that amateur golfers make would be
this one. A lot of them tend to boom! rotate the club face too much
and the club head goes off line right away really fast and super high as well at the same time.
Front view. You see how the club head, grip and the hands moved a lot
but the shoulders haven't moved. So now you are out of sync.
Everything is moving separately and we don't want that.
If you are able to keep it on line,
square face, nice & low, nice & slow, nice & together,
then you have the highest chance of
keeping that club face square throughout the whole swing,
and also keeping that club face travelling on plane
that means you are going to get it backed down to the golf ball
at impact more square with a lot more speed.
That means you are going to hit the golf ball a lot longer and straighter.
Here, when I say square, boom!
You are setting up to the golf ball.
If the club head is perpendicular to the target, we call that square.
That's how you set up to the golf ball, right?
Here this is square, at the top 45 degrees angle is square,
we have these positions throughout the whole swing what we consider as square.
So keeping the face square throughout the whole swing is very important.
Once it gets off line like this,
now it's fanned open,
your body is very smart it's going to try and improvise and hit it fat thin.
If you don't improvise fast enough, you are going to shank it
which is a terrible terrible shot that you don't want to know about.
Square is really important.
Number 2, being on plane.
When you set up to the golf ball, you draw a line through your shaft.
That's the plane we usually refer to.
We like to keep the club head moving on that plane as much as possible
up to like half way here, right? Boom!
You don't want to get under especially.
There are a lot of tour players that tend to get above it a little bit but never under
because once it goes under you barely have control over that club face
so we don't want to get under the plane.
We just like to stay somewhere close to the plane if we can.
Those were just the terminologies I wanted to throw in there
because some of you guys need guidance in that.
You want to check those five things in your takeaway.
If you do this correctly, the rest of the swing is a lot easier to control
because you are square, you are on line, your speed is great
and your turning in sync.
But once you get this rotation going now,
Watch, if you turn too much this way and then your body turns correctly,
now the club face is way behind you. There's no coming back after that, guys.
So that's why we do not want to rotate our hands that fast.
The easiest way to practice this takeaway is
you can find a wall at home, get the toe on the wall
and then keep practicing back and forth like this.
Right? Really understand how the shoulders are turning
and how the club is staying on line without flipping open.
And then once you get better, you can move on and
do this.
And then
Hit! little chip shots.
So since it's in your path,
if you go flipping you will miss the golf ball
or if you go out you will miss the golf ball.
Really try and keep that face low, square, and on line.
So that was the beginning of Beginners Series Level 2,
how exciting! I've hit the takeaway today.
Work on that for me.
And in the next one I am going to talk about the next position
which is the 8 o'clock position.
Thanks for watching, happy golfing,
and see you in the next one!