Why Is A One Piece Takeaway Important To My Golf Swing? (Video) - by Peter Finch
Why Is A One Piece Takeaway Important To My Golf Swing? (Video) - by Peter Finch

Why is a one piece takeaway important to my golf swing? Now a one piece takeaway is all about the magic word ‘connection’. And what connection means is that the club is moved away from the ball with everything still connected to one other. So a hand isn’t going here, your arm isn’t going there, a shoulder isn’t dipping there. Everything moves away from the ball in one piece and stays nice and connected. Now the easiest way to think about this and the easiest way to achieve this is to get into a lovely solid posture position with a nice grip, stand over that ball and just note this correlation.

You’ve got a shaft which is pointing pretty much straight down to the ground, you’ve got your left arm, your shoulders and your right arm which form an upside down triangle. Now this triangle, if you can take it away, just by turning the shoulders but maintaining the triangle in the same position, you would’ve achieved a one piece take away. If you take the club away, and the shaft gets to ahead of the triangle and it gets into this position then your wrists have broken a little too quickly. If you do it the other way and the club stays behind, the wrists haven’t broken at all. If you take it away and the right arm comes up you’ll see that the triangle’s been broken. And there’s lots of different ways that a one piece take away can fail. But if you keep that triangle and the club in that same relationship, that one piece takeaway will become a lot, lot easier. As you actually reach up to the point where the wrists begin to hinge, then the arm will fall to the side, and the wrist will hinge up to the top and that triangle will be slightly distorted. But you’ve done the job in the takeaway, keeping it one piece. Then we got the hinge up to the top and as you come down through impact, that triangle should be there again and you can actually maintain it through the ball if you wish, just to kind of amplify that feeling. But on the takeaway, keep that triangle the same and you’ll achieve a much solider takeaway and also hit some much more solid shots as well. Now one thing you don’t want to do is just elude it to is actually maintain that one piece takeaway all the way through the swing because you won’t have any wrist hinge and you’ll lose an awful lot of power. So the takeaway ends at about this point here, when the club reaches parallel to the ground and the wrists begin to hinge up naturally. So if you want to give that a go, get to your local driving range and you can incorporate as well on the course into a little bit of a practice ring, just keeping that wrist hinge to a minimum on the way back, keeping that triangle connected and achieving that mythical one piece take away. 2014-08-19

Why is a one piece takeaway important to my golf swing? Now a one piece takeaway is all about the magic word ‘connection’. And what connection means is that the club is moved away from the ball with everything still connected to one other. So a hand isn’t going here, your arm isn’t going there, a shoulder isn’t dipping there. Everything moves away from the ball in one piece and stays nice and connected. Now the easiest way to think about this and the easiest way to achieve this is to get into a lovely solid posture position with a nice grip, stand over that ball and just note this correlation.

You’ve got a shaft which is pointing pretty much straight down to the ground, you’ve got your left arm, your shoulders and your right arm which form an upside down triangle. Now this triangle, if you can take it away, just by turning the shoulders but maintaining the triangle in the same position, you would’ve achieved a one piece take away. If you take the club away, and the shaft gets to ahead of the triangle and it gets into this position then your wrists have broken a little too quickly. If you do it the other way and the club stays behind, the wrists haven’t broken at all. If you take it away and the right arm comes up you’ll see that the triangle’s been broken.

And there’s lots of different ways that a one piece take away can fail. But if you keep that triangle and the club in that same relationship, that one piece takeaway will become a lot, lot easier. As you actually reach up to the point where the wrists begin to hinge, then the arm will fall to the side, and the wrist will hinge up to the top and that triangle will be slightly distorted. But you’ve done the job in the takeaway, keeping it one piece.

Then we got the hinge up to the top and as you come down through impact, that triangle should be there again and you can actually maintain it through the ball if you wish, just to kind of amplify that feeling. But on the takeaway, keep that triangle the same and you’ll achieve a much solider takeaway and also hit some much more solid shots as well. Now one thing you don’t want to do is just elude it to is actually maintain that one piece takeaway all the way through the swing because you won’t have any wrist hinge and you’ll lose an awful lot of power.

So the takeaway ends at about this point here, when the club reaches parallel to the ground and the wrists begin to hinge up naturally. So if you want to give that a go, get to your local driving range and you can incorporate as well on the course into a little bit of a practice ring, just keeping that wrist hinge to a minimum on the way back, keeping that triangle connected and achieving that mythical one piece take away.