Working on your golf backswing could be one of the keys to improving the overall movement within your swing. It is often noted that a golfer that has a flawed takeaway position will often struggle to recover from this flaw during the rest of the golf swing. In this video tip Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will explain to you how leading your takeaway motion with your shoulders, whilst maintaining a passive hand position, could be beneficial to the overall consistency of your golf swing. Spend time working on your takeaway for long-term golf success.

If you've been watching golf and you've been reading about golf to be looking on the internet about improving your golf. You'll probably be aware that improving your backswing takeaway is a good fundamental thing to work on because that will have benefits on the rest of your swing but good takeaway will often lead to a good swing, and bad takeaway quite often compounds a bad swing and therefore bad golf shot. If you're aware that you want to improve on your golf take away but you might not necessarily be sure of what should I be working on what elements or what drills can I work on.

Now that's got one of these favorite backswing drills for us today something to pass over to Matt. You're going to talk it through this favorite backswing drill and I see you've got a lot just prop just behind you in the cane there behind you just while you're with it. Basically yeah definitely so backswing if we can get it right and get the takeaway a special it's going to lead us to hit some you know pretty crucial points in the golf swing and make it a little bit more textbook not what we have to be textbook you know everyone's individual and we can swing it how we want but if we can get close to these points it should make the golf swing a little bit more easier and repeatable.