Get your FREE distance injection here: freedrivedistance.com/ In this video, we go over two drills that you can use to PERFECT the takeaway in your golf swing! Don't miss this CRUCIAL golf swing lesson 😱
@@washredskin887 no way, are you sure they aren't just having you do that to exaggerate the opposite of what you did...I went to golfec and they had me taking it way outside like the last one Shaun showed because my fault was doing the first one he showed....over time it met in the middle
I have never hit the golf ball as pure and solid as I am since practicing this lesson. It has erased the tension and control of the golf club! Thank you!!
I've been playing golf for 35 year I am a 8 handicap I've had lesson from some great treachers this tip is unbelievable for me ,striking the ball the best ever!!!! Thank you!!!! Work countless hours on my back swing, this is so simple...Thank you I owe you guys lunch .
Hello Gentlemen. Once again another demonstration for a move such as the takeaway and back swing that has NEVER never been demonstrated in such a proficient and simple form. I’ve been around the golf game for more years than I cane to mention…..this video of the take away is the best! Ever! Again you are miles ahead of all lessons. Thank you and I can’t wait for the next amazing moment. Jerry
Watched the video last night and realized (hoped) that my flawed takeaway ( my misapplication of the “one piece” turn causing me to overturn early) was a fixable cause of my ball striking inconsistency. I spent about 15 minutes on the range trying to implement the change (Nick price drill) before playing 18. I’m happy to report that it really helped me! Despite feeling a lot of anxiety prior to each swing (my comfort level was low because I haven’t yet build any trust in the movement) I found that most of my shots were pretty good. I typically shoot low to mid 90’s (Boulders Resort, Scottsdale AZ- white tees 130 slope), I shot 86 after missing 3 short putts of 4’! I believe my ball striking and accuracy really improved because I fixed the takeaway. THANK YOU.
MY Gawd! I feel like I've been repeatedly lied to all my golf life. I am in the driveway on hour 3, viewing and learning and putting in the work...trying to catch up. This all makes so much sense. Dynamic drills are the way I teach basketball and today is a new day a new way for ⛳ in my life. Thank u so much!
Top notch instruction from Mike and Shaun. This modern understanding of the game, which includes verifiable biomechanics, is a milestone in golf instruction. You guys are REMOVING THE MYSTERY OF THE GOLF SWING, YA BABY!
The first drill encourages such a simple relaxed, effortless, tense free movement that is then encouraged and replicated in the downswing. As Shaun says it eliminates a wooden turn. It does reenforce the ‘keep it simple’ approach. Thanks for another great video guys
I have been searching for help on my disastrous swing. I love the fact that you provide drills. So many golf channels are too much talk. I have been working through grip, takeaway, pivot, turning, etc. Way too much in my head. Thanks for making it simple.
perfect explanation of a backswing that works for me after twenty yrs of doing it wrong, youre the only one ive seen on you tube doing it the way that gets good results, thanks alpt
I have been recently struggling terribly with my irons. This video helped me more than any video I've ever seen. After watching it over several times, I focused mainly on the part starting at minute 10:31 through 11:01. Just incorporating the information you illustrated in those 30 seconds helped me immensely to get my swing on the proper plane. After practicing the takeway move for awhile, I simply went to the takeaway position and then, leaving my arms pretty much passive, rotated just slightly to the top of my backswing and am now hitting my irons better than I have in a long time. I'm hitting the sweet spot much more often and getting better flight on my shots. It feels like I'm not even swinging hard and the ball goes flying. Now I'm just trying to get the full swing a little more fluid, instead of hesitating slightly at the initial takeaway position. I've watched tons of your videos, and you guys are great! The very next time out I shot one of my best scores. Thanks.
Thanks guys! Really good stuff. Trying to get back into golf and stumbled across your channel in search of help on the swing plane. I could never figure out why I could swing the club better the less my right arm (culprit) was involved in the takeaway. Look forward to checking more content on your channel.
I have added the motion drill as part of my pre-shot routine to get the "feels" going. Has really helped my distance and accuracy from tee to green. Good stuff!
Thank you, going to try it out today! So easy to understand, and it's crazy how far out my swing was. I was the over exaggerated head outside the hands, because of the layoff move..
This is absolutely a game changer! I do the first drlll before every shot now and it just puts the club in such a perfect position for the rest of the backswing. So much easier also to feel the weight of the clubhead and make the downswing almost an afterthought (almost being the keyword :-)) Thank you!
Well explained guys, got to get the golf swing takeaway nailed as it sets us up for a better overall golf swing. This will definitely help us golfers out. Cheers
I have been going to some top instructors for years for lessons and all they kept telling me is it is all about rotation. They had me rotation so much that my hips were killing me. Some days I hit the ball great and some days I had problems timing it. I watch a couple of videos from these instructor on taking the club away and it changed my game. I think these two guys are spot on. I have been going to the range and using their concepts and my game has turned around. I went from a 10 handicap to close to scratch.
Wow, Dennis, that's an awesome improvement there! Thanks for the kind words, but that drop in index is all you buddy! We love that you trust us enough to help a bit👊
Watched this 12 months ago and improved dramatically, recently had issues with over turning and over thinking when stood over the ball. Went back to this video and it explains very simply how to start off. The motion drill is superb for me. 🏌️♂️👍
This vid was so helpful rhythm/tempo and solid grip. I took this to the range and I was hitting the ball extremely well and on target albeit a little short and sometimes a little long but it felt effortless.
Perfect and great video as always gents. Our challenge to you now: Can you get us from this wonderful smooth and rhythmic take-away to the top of the swing (in detail explaining how far back with check points along the way)? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!
Hey guys just got back from trying out the tips on the takeaway. Wow made a huge improvement in my swing. Apparently I've been overturning at the outset, thinking one piece takeaway. Your suggestions here combined with the ones in rotating the hips correctly provide the basic recipe for a simple effective swing! Much appreciated.
Not sure if you guys are still around, but I can't thank you enough. I have watched many golf videos in the hope of helping my game. I have watched this one and the one with the right hand wrist motion and then I spent hours in the net and did NOT his one shank, something I have been doing for years .. Thanks again ..
That second drill is key. The move helps to establish momentum which, if maintained, helps the weight at the end of the stick seek a straighter line if not interfered with. When I get working on things and become more static than I should be, this drill gets me back in track. Thanks for the reminder.
Great teachers, thank you for all the content! It seems like the knees are very quiet getting to parallel? Watching your foot pressure video I thought all the knee movement would be on parallel on the backswing with rendering happening as you complete the backswing from there.
I never wrote to a site before. I have seen and used the Price drill , but never saw the motion drill. I is so good I think I will incorporate it into my pre-shot routine. Thanks for a great video for fluid motion.
Great video guys, thank you. That first few feet of takeaway is something that I'm constantly battling with, had a few minutes with the nick price drill and start to feel the position instantly. Would this also apply to driver?
im watching this having had 1st video in 6 yrs as Im striking it so well! what a shocker terrible closed, cramped inside takeaway with no body turn until club parallel! then got better and better! still shot 1 over today( tho not off comp tees yet) maybe this video will take me to the next level.
So much takeaway information online that doesn't come close to what you're teaching here. So many people say to lock wrists and simply turn the trail shoulder back to the target. Been doing it this way for years, the low and slow drag keeping the club head as low to the ground for as long as I can. Works sometimes. Although when I do this my hands are way past my trail thigh when the club is parallel (level) to the ground. And probably causing me to sway my trail hip. Thanks for sharing.
After watching AMG videos and adopting "pro swing" technic to my swing, this 73 year-old is able to bomb drives and play solid iron shots with about 90% reliability. Thank you so much for sharing such in-depth knowledge. Wishing you all the best and much success.
Thanks for these drills! Does it matter how you accomplish the pronation at 7:20? I mean you can use upper arm rotation or fore arm rotation to accomplish that move.
OOOLLAAYYYY SHIIII, best contact of my life since I used these drills. Works amazing when you use them all in a session and switch up the speeds. Great job fellas. Thank you so much for this. I have been sooo confused about the take away…. Do I keep it shut and strong, do I do this, do I do that. But this is gold for some reason. Tytytytyty
Perhaps your best video EVAH. Thanks. Would it be reasonable to assume that when this flowing motion is achieved in DRILL #2 by replant of right heel that it would be almost natural to utilize that brisk momentum achieved in takeaway (and I can see how this briskness is so different than that low and slow concept ), to literally minimally "pull" that LEFT heel slightly off ground and thereby help prepare for an earlier replant and earlier pressure shift back to the left much earlier in downswing?
My coach, Barry Fraser (back in the 1900's), studied teaching golf by watching Leadbetter work with Nicky when he (Nick) returned from the US Tour, a bit defeated with his crazy fast, steep, ground trenching swing. Leadbetter was studying the swing and was heavily into Hogan's 5 modern fundamentals. Leadbetter teaching Nick, and Hogan's paperback book, were the influencers of my coach, who never taught professionally in his life. He was well into his senior years when he saw me and said I had Nicky's old swing. I was teaching myself to be a golf pro, and was not doing very well. One of the things he taught me (including Hogan's fundamentals) was to trigger my knee to start my takeaway. You can't toss a bucket of water forward by swinging the bucket of water from a static start, so, just as you rock the bucket forward before swinging it back, you start the golf swing forward, and do so with the knee. It is very natural to me still, even after not having played in 2 decades and starting back again. Glad to see some of the old teachings hold up to high tech scrutiny. Everything else I do wrong these days but, you are giving me great direction.
Quality stuff as ever guys, wish you were based near to me! Did I also learn that top players start with everything open (chest/pelvis open to target) As such they mitigate the overturning issue? Hope that helps someone out there. thanks ! 👏👍
love your videos, very helpful; when club is horizontal on backswing, should the leading wrist be flat at this point? Or, to put it another way, how many knuckles on the leading hand should you see at this point, if you see 2 at address? Or, to ask it even another way, should the slight cup in the leading wrist disappear by the time the club shaft is horizontal? Thanks!
Great question, Jim, and it really depends on your grip at setup. Weaker grips will be more flat. Stronger grips will be more cupped. The key is let the face angle determine just how much there should be in either direction.
I needed this lesson so badly - thanks gents When you start from a static position how do you recommend your students get that athletic motion going to start the swing?
A little pressure shift is a great way to do it. If you stood statically just before you toss a ball, most everyone we've done this with will start the motion with a subtle shift in pressure before everything else gets moving.
Many thanks. In the video for drill 2 you talked about lifting and replacing the heel. Does the pressure shift you are talking about mean a movement into the back heel or is it more a shift directly away from the target?
@@BrendanWheatley1971 It's a pressure shift rather than a weight/mass shift. If you lighten your left heel, you'll be shifting pressure into your trail foot. That doesn't really require a big move off the ball. Stand in a golf posture and throw a ball... same thing.
Love your videos guys. In regards to the takeaway it gets very confusing as you hear almost every instructor say not to roll or turn your wrists in the first move, in your video you talk about the lead hand rotating to start the swing. Would that not lead to more of a handsy takeaway?
Does this takeaway work with all clubs? When trying to incorporate this takeaway with a driver or woods it seems to mess me up on my down swing. Do I need to use the same takeaway or wider extension?
I think the motion drill is extremely effective. I have been pulling the club more inside with a one-piece takeaway and this is making a difference. I actually see the club move on the shaft plane as I take the club back. Do you have any thoughts on creating more width in the takeaway? When I watch the video it does not appear to be much width as the club moves away. As I watch the best players their club head moves really far away from their body when getting to pocket/waist height.
It would be interesting to meld drills one and two.....with the left arm under the right, with the sudden stop, then a grip onto the club with the right hand and then the forward swing....possible? The second drill with the quicker back swing sudden stop forces the body to brace in the proper manner to halt the backward momentum. Excellent!! Watson (Tom not Bubba) said keep the club face square to the path (on the ball) on the backswing....this would put the face roughly on the spine angle....right at the limits of what you suggest but still within parameters....correct?
Bros, at 19:19, this changed my golf swing almost immediately. Shared with my buddy and he’s killing it as well. We still have a lot of work to do, but this was meaningful. No one does golf instruction they way you two do. Real question is how do I get that AMG hat that Granato’s wearing?
Thanks gents, great advice. I recently filmed myself, although I took the club slightly behind me, I did not cast, my downswing looked OK, with a bit of lag. Will your drills change something that will upset my striking. Tom Bruce (Wales, UK)
Gentlemen I have just come across some of your videos, in 1962 Casey Stengel was the manager of the Mets and he used to say that they were THE AMAZING METS , Gentle men you just took that award for simple golf instruction that will catapult you to to icons. You two have made every single move in the swing, well to put it simply take the club up and swing it down, AMAZING.
Mike and Shaun, my arms are inordinately short; generally 5" - 6" farther from the ground than almost all other guys. Should I be initiating more arm swing in the Nick Price takeaway drill than other male players? I certainly don't want to overthink this drill as it has helped immensely.