So now we have established that we really want to work hard on making sure the clubface is square as we hit the golf ball. But actually the reason why we check really hard on this position here is because once the club has gone past this position, to the top and coming down again, we haven’t really got a great deal of opportunity to know what happens to the clubface because the golf swing happens so quickly, but once the club has gone past that little checkpoint, it’s very difficult to see what’s going on up there and particularly as it comes down towards the golf ball, the club is traveling far too quickly for you to physically manipulate, definitely for you to see what the club is doing. So it’s important that we have our checkpoint here that might be the last point we can tell whether the clubface was closed or whether the clubface was open.

So that’s why it’s really important to make sure that we don’t rush through that phase. So when we get out on to the golf course we want to be able to swing back slowly, check that position and then during the real swing, swing back slowly and then hit through. There is no point checking this position really nicely, then going ahead and making a swing and shooting it to that point of full speed then dragging across it, all when we rush rotating the hands too quickly and opening and closing the ball to block or hook, very rarely once we have gotten the stake at that level, would we find time during the rest of the swing to correct it. So you could say that once you make your mistake here, you are pretty much stuck with it. So let’s make sure that we are not rushing this takeaway phase, we take the club away slowly, check the positions, then go ahead and commit with the shots, but don’t rush your halfway back takeaway checkpoints.