Improve Your Golf Takeaway With This Classic Drill – (Video) Lesson by PGA Pros Pete Styles and Matt Fryer
Improve Your Golf Takeaway With This Classic Drill – (Video) Lesson by PGA Pros Pete Styles and Matt Fryer

In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer lead you through one of the most important golf backswing drills you will ever come across. Understanding the correct halfway back checkpoint could be the missing link in your golf game, particularly if you feel like your backswing is detrimental to your current swing or you don't feel like you have control of the club face at any point during your swing. By starting the golf swing with a turn of your shoulders followed by a passive arm position, we are able to create a one piece golf swing takeaway which could be credited for improving large portions of your overall swing technique and ultimately your shot shape and direction, if done correctly.

Right Pete so I know this is one of your favorites tips of all time and it is a position in the backswing and it's half way back in something that we're going to be looking for when we hit that position. So as you look at how it takes you know I thank you I want to thank you very much. It really is one of the fastest checkpoints I think people can use in and let me move in parts of the swing because we quite often up checkpoints to the address to ship the thing golf assessable in the right way yet all position check with the stance checked just in the board check finally checked enjoying the moving part the swing we kind of lose our reference point such checkpoint Yeah in light of because this checkpoint quite early on in the swing just to hit level I get the feeling that if I get it right going back at anchor or you don't have the swing will be right where you leave from there but likewise if I make a mistake in the early part of the backswing that mistake is compound it through the rest of the swing so for example if I take a good address position and my 1st movement is away this was my entire fast swing intent the downswing will be incorrectly stated Likewise if the club mixed in by too much here too flat my golf swing will probably suffer with it and I was taught by just simply you know if we can take the club away with the right part take it back in the right wife I'm more confident that the rest of the swing will follow suit slides from a good address position neutral grip we want to find the club in this position just here you can that's quite important that we notice that the club is horizontal to the ground yet parallel to the intended target line.

Thank you those 2 clubs should match rather than oppose each other I can also noted that if that camera was a mirror yeah then my clubhead would sit directly over the top of my hands yet in a way I wouldn't be able to see my hands because the clubhead would be on top but if I get this right hopefully back camera will get the same idea that this club is on top of very close to my hands. Yeah they can see my hand they can see my hands there my hands are going to be close to that terribly high high. Well past the other thing to note is there is the angle of the actually going to say yeah that's looking very similar to your spine angle as you hear a lot of times I say this big fan open and to open if we get this club to open here too close for the last common book to glance this was the landmarks as if that they were my spine angle I got up feeling everything turning away with a one piece per year then the rest of the swing hopefully will follow now the form thing to notice if that's a good checkpoint to drill and you can mass of after Hope Yeah but it should come from a nice positive one piece turn of the shoulders yeah was the seasons is a manipulation you don't want the hands to sort of position the club there just because you should be a natural extension of a good posture with a nice only her and looks very connected as you do that's OK That's a nice feeling isn't it connected one piece left shoulder turning from the child turning on the knee chin to hear continue the focus on them through your own I think you connect it feeling within the backswing is going to be ideal.

Yeah utilizing that checkpoint so if you've got a camera use a camera otherwise narrow patio door or something like that. Check yourself in that mirror watch the position and then let the swing fly from there and I'm confident if you get a half way back check point you golf will improve definitely and it is one that you can take to the golf course very easily a player that sticks out in my mind is Rickie Fowler and actually listen to a podcast about him the other day that Butch on the when he started working with him was I get a drill OK because we know that Ricky in a posh used to get a handle work into motion to pull that working back so we had him for an hour at Millfield after he missed the call doing exactly that and if even if now to this day 2 years 3 years down the line. Routine on the golf course or something if you're doing this in practice can seize on to get like trigger to help you swing on the golf course as well just by simply having This is your right handed golfer now as opposed to being left handed my way when the masters with that drill and not relating golf shots of 7 holes so that was easy check point is going to. Get the club in the right direction a lot of flow from the can you now see why it's one of my 5 a drill kind of the sun not totally nothing can be going on as well so if you want to be checking this positions make sure like Pete said you ought to do it with a camera with a mirror on the patio door we want to be looking for all the club heads in line with the hands the face angle is matching your spine and the club I like to see just subtle lets whole line give that a go like so even taking to the course and see it as a waggle and hopefully you should start to see the golf course flowing into better positions in your golf swing and producing some better golf shots from that.

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In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer lead you through one of the most important golf backswing drills you will ever come across. Understanding the correct halfway back checkpoint could be the missing link in your golf game, particularly if you feel like your backswing is detrimental to your current swing or you don't feel like you have control of the club face at any point during your swing. By starting the golf swing with a turn of your shoulders followed by a passive arm position, we are able to create a one piece golf swing takeaway which could be credited for improving large portions of your overall swing technique and ultimately your shot shape and direction, if done correctly.

Right Pete so I know this is one of your favorites tips of all time and it is a position in the backswing and it's half way back in something that we're going to be looking for when we hit that position. So as you look at how it takes you know I thank you I want to thank you very much. It really is one of the fastest checkpoints I think people can use in and let me move in parts of the swing because we quite often up checkpoints to the address to ship the thing golf assessable in the right way yet all position check with the stance checked just in the board check finally checked enjoying the moving part the swing we kind of lose our reference point such checkpoint Yeah in light of because this checkpoint quite early on in the swing just to hit level I get the feeling that if I get it right going back at anchor or you don't have the swing will be right where you leave from there but likewise if I make a mistake in the early part of the backswing that mistake is compound it through the rest of the swing so for example if I take a good address position and my 1st movement is away this was my entire fast swing intent the downswing will be incorrectly stated Likewise if the club mixed in by too much here too flat my golf swing will probably suffer with it and I was taught by just simply you know if we can take the club away with the right part take it back in the right wife I'm more confident that the rest of the swing will follow suit slides from a good address position neutral grip we want to find the club in this position just here you can that's quite important that we notice that the club is horizontal to the ground yet parallel to the intended target line.

Thank you those 2 clubs should match rather than oppose each other I can also noted that if that camera was a mirror yeah then my clubhead would sit directly over the top of my hands yet in a way I wouldn't be able to see my hands because the clubhead would be on top but if I get this right hopefully back camera will get the same idea that this club is on top of very close to my hands. Yeah they can see my hand they can see my hands there my hands are going to be close to that terribly high high. Well past the other thing to note is there is the angle of the actually going to say yeah that's looking very similar to your spine angle as you hear a lot of times I say this big fan open and to open if we get this club to open here too close for the last common book to glance this was the landmarks as if that they were my spine angle I got up feeling everything turning away with a one piece per year then the rest of the swing hopefully will follow now the form thing to notice if that's a good checkpoint to drill and you can mass of after Hope Yeah but it should come from a nice positive one piece turn of the shoulders yeah was the seasons is a manipulation you don't want the hands to sort of position the club there just because you should be a natural extension of a good posture with a nice only her and looks very connected as you do that's OK That's a nice feeling isn't it connected one piece left shoulder turning from the child turning on the knee chin to hear continue the focus on them through your own I think you connect it feeling within the backswing is going to be ideal.

Yeah utilizing that checkpoint so if you've got a camera use a camera otherwise narrow patio door or something like that. Check yourself in that mirror watch the position and then let the swing fly from there and I'm confident if you get a half way back check point you golf will improve definitely and it is one that you can take to the golf course very easily a player that sticks out in my mind is Rickie Fowler and actually listen to a podcast about him the other day that Butch on the when he started working with him was I get a drill OK because we know that Ricky in a posh used to get a handle work into motion to pull that working back so we had him for an hour at Millfield after he missed the call doing exactly that and if even if now to this day 2 years 3 years down the line. Routine on the golf course or something if you're doing this in practice can seize on to get like trigger to help you swing on the golf course as well just by simply having This is your right handed golfer now as opposed to being left handed my way when the masters with that drill and not relating golf shots of 7 holes so that was easy check point is going to. Get the club in the right direction a lot of flow from the can you now see why it's one of my 5 a drill kind of the sun not totally nothing can be going on as well so if you want to be checking this positions make sure like Pete said you ought to do it with a camera with a mirror on the patio door we want to be looking for all the club heads in line with the hands the face angle is matching your spine and the club I like to see just subtle lets whole line give that a go like so even taking to the course and see it as a waggle and hopefully you should start to see the golf course flowing into better positions in your golf swing and producing some better golf shots from that.