What is the best takeaway and back swing for golf drives? Now when you’re taking the club away from the ball with the driver, if you can hit these key checkpoints in the back swing, it should kind of relate and it should cause a much more consistent down swing because you’re getting yourself setup in the correct manner to deliver that club into the ball where it will wallop, but also with some real accuracy as well. When you’re getting set up to the ball, you want to be taking the club nice and wide away, so you want to be stretching the club away in a nice wide arc, but your first checkpoint as you take that club away is to get the shaft parallel with the ground, get the left arm nice and extended but get that club head in front of the hands. This is your first checkpoint in the takeaway, this is a nice wide position, but it’s also on plane.

Now from there you want the wrist and the shoulders to begin turning and the butt end of the club to be pointing down towards your target line. If you can get in that position and again that is on plane and is setting you up for a nice full turn. So a nice wide swing into this first parallel position, the wrist hinged with so the butt end of the club is pointing down the target line and from there you want a full shoulder turn. And if you get the full shoulder turn with an extended left arm you’re now on plane, fully coiled and ready to release into that ball. So you get yourself set up, have a lovely wide takeaway, a lovely wide initial parts of the swing, get that club butt end pointing down at your target line, rotate the shoulders into a nice fully coiled position. If you can get up to that position is, obviously things that can go wrong in the down swing, but from that back swing position you’re a lot more likely and a lot more able to deliver that club into the ball a lot more consistently and hopefully hit some very good golf drives.