Wide Takeaway Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles
Wide Takeaway Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles

So, you'll often hear a lot of talk about a wide takeaway or even a one-piece takeaway. So let's have a look at what that means. And a good address position to the golf ball here when the club's in its right place, it should point pretty much in a straight line through the shaft, through my left arm, up to the top of my shoulder here. And that sets the golfer to have a nice position because that's actually the position I'd like you to be back at impact as well. Now, if I can use that straight line for a one-piece shoulder turn, you'll see the club and the forearm and the shaft, they're quite nicely in line up to this point.

If we have, let's say, a backwards lean with the hands, that's going to cost me lots of excessive wrist hinge on the way back. Maybe less common, but we sometimes we see too much hands forwards which, again, can cause quite a lot of wrist hinge on the way back. So, set yourself up, feel like the shaft points towards your hip or your shoulder on this left side and then a straight left arm creates a one-piece, wide takeaway. And that stops me getting too bunched and narrow, so nice and wide, big powerful turn. That should also set a lot of weight across to your right leg in the back swing, nice, big turn across and up to the top. So, shaft, left arm nicely all in line for one straight line, big, wide takeaway creating a nice, powerful backswing for you.

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So, you'll often hear a lot of talk about a wide takeaway or even a one-piece takeaway. So let's have a look at what that means. And a good address position to the golf ball here when the club's in its right place, it should point pretty much in a straight line through the shaft, through my left arm, up to the top of my shoulder here. And that sets the golfer to have a nice position because that's actually the position I'd like you to be back at impact as well. Now, if I can use that straight line for a one-piece shoulder turn, you'll see the club and the forearm and the shaft, they're quite nicely in line up to this point.

If we have, let's say, a backwards lean with the hands, that's going to cost me lots of excessive wrist hinge on the way back. Maybe less common, but we sometimes we see too much hands forwards which, again, can cause quite a lot of wrist hinge on the way back. So, set yourself up, feel like the shaft points towards your hip or your shoulder on this left side and then a straight left arm creates a one-piece, wide takeaway. And that stops me getting too bunched and narrow, so nice and wide, big powerful turn. That should also set a lot of weight across to your right leg in the back swing, nice, big turn across and up to the top. So, shaft, left arm nicely all in line for one straight line, big, wide takeaway creating a nice, powerful backswing for you.