The Takeaway Sets The Golf Swing Path (Video) - by Pete Styles
The Takeaway Sets The Golf Swing Path (Video) - by Pete Styles

We’re talking about swing plane, swing path, what we’re often looking for is what’s going on here in the backswing or here in the downswing. Whether the club came up and dropped into a different plane, whether the club came around and down on the same plane, one plane or two plane swings. What we actually need to appreciate is what happens as you take the club away from the golf ball, can determine what happens up here. And a one or two plane golf swing and an inside outside swing path can have different takeaways that will affect them. So a two plane backswing or two plane golf swing will often have a takeaway that’s a lot more up and outside the line here, which is going to be a motion that’s dominated a lot more by what the body is doing. So the less of what the hands and arms are doing, and a lot more about what the body is doing. So we’d like to really feel like from a good set up here, the shoulders take the club away, the club runs in a straight line to start with then starts to lift with a nice early wrist set and we lift the golf club quite high, quite high to the top. Then the club will drop in slightly on the downswing and attack the ball more from the inside.

So that takeaway with shoulders hands and arms lifting, is your classic two plane backswing, out on line dropping in slightly, and it’s a very one piece takeaway to create the two planes. But a one plane backswing is going to be a little bit more of the hands and arms working. The hands and arms are going to work to rotate the club a little bit flatter on the inside here, get it back on the plane that it’s going to use on the downswing which might feel like it’s a slightly more inside approach. So it’s going to be rotate everything flatter and bring it in. So it’s less about what happens with the shoulders more about what happens with the hands and arms. So from phase on a two plane backswing, would be more about the shoulders. On the one plane backswing, would be more about the hands and the arms taking the club in a flatter position, less shoulder rotation. So if you’ve got a one or a two-plane backswing, it’s very important that the takeaway, away from the ball mirrors what’s going to happen later on in your swing. 2015-10-14

We’re talking about swing plane, swing path, what we’re often looking for is what’s going on here in the backswing or here in the downswing. Whether the club came up and dropped into a different plane, whether the club came around and down on the same plane, one plane or two plane swings. What we actually need to appreciate is what happens as you take the club away from the golf ball, can determine what happens up here. And a one or two plane golf swing and an inside outside swing path can have different takeaways that will affect them. So a two plane backswing or two plane golf swing will often have a takeaway that’s a lot more up and outside the line here, which is going to be a motion that’s dominated a lot more by what the body is doing. So the less of what the hands and arms are doing, and a lot more about what the body is doing. So we’d like to really feel like from a good set up here, the shoulders take the club away, the club runs in a straight line to start with then starts to lift with a nice early wrist set and we lift the golf club quite high, quite high to the top. Then the club will drop in slightly on the downswing and attack the ball more from the inside.

So that takeaway with shoulders hands and arms lifting, is your classic two plane backswing, out on line dropping in slightly, and it’s a very one piece takeaway to create the two planes. But a one plane backswing is going to be a little bit more of the hands and arms working. The hands and arms are going to work to rotate the club a little bit flatter on the inside here, get it back on the plane that it’s going to use on the downswing which might feel like it’s a slightly more inside approach. So it’s going to be rotate everything flatter and bring it in. So it’s less about what happens with the shoulders more about what happens with the hands and arms. So from phase on a two plane backswing, would be more about the shoulders. On the one plane backswing, would be more about the hands and the arms taking the club in a flatter position, less shoulder rotation. So if you’ve got a one or a two-plane backswing, it’s very important that the takeaway, away from the ball mirrors what’s going to happen later on in your swing.