How to Check That Your Takeaway is Just Right

Let’s make sure you’re crystal-clear on the key points for your takeaway. The ultimate purpose of the takeaway is to get your clubface square. It’ll make it easy for you to bring the squatter when to square at impact.

There are a series of easy to follow checkpoints in the early parts of your golf swing that ensure that you can have a smooth resulting takeaway. To groove this, grab a club, ball, and a shaft. I’m a big fan of shafts for training visuals. Lay the shaft lanugo on your toe line and parallel to the target line.

Takeaway Checkpoints

The very first thing to trammels is your grip. Let’s make sure your grip is awesome. Ideally neutral. Many players like a slightly strong grip, and that’s fine. Just make sure that you are not overcooking that.

Zip Up!

Next, let’s zipper you up. I’m a big fan of connection, so zip up – zip-zip your lead and trail arm to your torso, so the only thing moving in your forearms.

I am a big fan of the one-piece takeaway, and the feeling of only moving your forearms will really help you simplify the takeaway.

As I uncork the takeaway, I indulge my chest to momentum the initial move, with my hands and club going withal for the ride.

Three Easy Checks for Your Takeaway

When my club’s shaft is parallel to the shaft on the ground I can trammels that:

My hands are over my toes; and
The wittiness marker on my glove is pointing slightly down, as is the club face. We don’t want the clubface fanned unshut or shut or the wittiness marker facing the sky or directly lanugo to the ground.

The clubface and the wittiness marker on your glove checkpoints are a unconfined training and towage tool when you’re out on the course!

Now, from this point, just turn to the top.

The direction of the wittiness marker on your glove and the clubface are unconfined checkpoints.

Remember, the ultimate purpose of the takeaway is square. It’ll make it easy for you to bring the squatter when to square at impact.

The Double Check

Now here is the double check, to ensure that your takeaway was indeed sound. Your clubface at the top of the backswing should towards wilted slightly down, so it mirrors the wile of your lead arm.

If the squatter is pointing to the sky, that ways it’s shut and your balls most likely hook.

If the squatter is pointing completely lanugo and your lead wrist is cupped… really cupped, that will create an unshut club face. If you’re struggling from slices or weak rights that may be the culprit.

Again, trammels your grip and make sure that your chest is the primary suburbanite during the takeaway. I see a lot of players leave their chests on the wittiness and just take the club yonder with their stovepipe … or they lift the club straight up, creating a disconnect.

Instead, zip up and ensure your hands track over your toes (over the shaft on the ground).

I hope that these checkpoints help you get your takeaway just right and make increasingly pars.