FINALLY Master The Takeaway With This SIMPLE Drill 

What did you think of the drill? I want to know!! 🤔

I’ve watched thousands of golf videos and this is one of if not the best all around golf tip I have seen. If you get the takeaway right everything else seems to fix itself.

You and Adam are two of the best golf instructors period. You both explain everything in great detail for us amateurs.

Thanks. Take away super important. I will video myself to see how I'm doing. Good video lesson. Thanks again. Oscar Canada

Any way to convert this to chipping putting takeaways? I’ve always used one takeaway for all clubs because of some weird OCD

This is the best takeaway video I have ever seen. Nicely explained. Thank You. Great job.

I've tried this and it helps tremendously, however now I have the tendency to come down too steep. Any suggestions??? Thanks

Golf Pitt. I have a horrible over the top move. I watched this video and the one with the gate drill. First off your videos are easy to understand. Secondary should I work on the take away drill before I start on the over the top drills? Or can I incorporate them together? Thanks for the content.

Easy with a wedge,,, but longer irons like a 7 iron is where I struggle. Even though it "should" be the same swing the feel is different somehow.

Good video. A lot of attention is put on don't turn your hips, shoulders, etc. This drill pretty much does that and gets you turning at the right time with little effort. As in a more natural golf swing. I was paying way to much attention to other things than hand path.

Mike, love the simplicity, but we all know who struggle in getting this correct its not simple. I have always been a little confused on when the hips start to rotate in the takeaway. Are they quiet for the first foot. Do they turn with the shoulders and club going back etc etc. thanks.

I like this thought of a "hand path" and "club path!" Now, is there a push back with the right shoulder and arm in taking these paths? I also like your recommendation of always "staying connected!" Well Done Sir!

Can you just set the club by pushing down the left heel pad with slight shoulder movement down the toe line and have it hover over the ball at slight 45 degree angle then simply then simply turn your shoulders to the top and hit balls ?

I am confused on when you hinge the wrists. At what point do you hinge and turn? I have seen some people say that once the hands reach the right leg but the club is not parallel to the target if you hinge at the right leg.

This great takeaway technique is to ensure swing plane control.

Excellent video. The hands coming inside is the issue for me. I'd imagine it's from playing alot of baseball still.

Correcting my inside takeaway has made me worse at golf

Set club early up through PW then a bit later as clubs get longer 🤓

When do you start to hinge in the takeaway?

I have been working on this premise for several years and I think the biggest issue I have is that the right arm stays on top of the left instead of bending up. It causes me to not be as deep on my backswing and be across the line the longer the club.

One thing I've always been stuck on, you get the set position, turn to the top, and then turn back through. But do you release the set position? or do you hold that angle you've created through and release it beyond the ball?

This is the Mac O’Grady takeaway?

do you have how to hit hybrid or rescue clubs? tq

OK, GOOD STUFF ! 1) Keep your hands centered with the CL of chest, ENTIRE SWING.2) This is a lead side, body powered swing, for me. The trail side is passive. 3) I also set the shaft at the start-up trigger, aligning with the lead arm, pointing to the swing radius pt ( lead arm-pit area ) and maintain this alignment entire swing to control the arc radius, low pt of the swing. The connected lead side ( NO ARM SWINGING) How do you get the body starts & continues the swing to the "end" of the takeway. Now what ??? How do yo get the lead arm/ club unit up to th shoulder line with-out "lifting" the arms off the body. BTW, I wish you & Porzack had come along 10 yrs ago. I'm 73, and I've wasted a lot of time learning bad technique.

What about the driver?

I’ve watched a lot of golf instruction videos and this is the first I’ve seen that addresses hand line in correlation with the club head path. Gold dust. Thank you.

First time watching you absolutely fantastic golf instruction you make it so simple this video is going to be my number one go to when I'm working on my back swing, sweet as a nut

It is a fantastic video; a lightbulb went off with the two alignment rods. Not to make the drill a “triple-lindy,” but can you combine it with a towel under the arm connection drill?

Excellent instruction, thank you, sir! I find this very helpful in getting my takeaway dialed in!

Such a clear understanding. Thank you so much.

Fantastic......I finally understand the takeaway

Great way to explain the backswing. Great teaching. Thank you.

Have watched way too many you tube videos on the golf swing. Your videos along with Adams are simple the best!! Great explanation and drill on the takeaway. Everything else is garbage

Hi Mike, this is a great explanation of the takeaway, especially noting the club path vs. the hand path. I had a tendency to push my hands away from my body which created a disconnected swing with inconsistent results. Awesome drills, Thank you!

When I try this with the pinky squeeze my club gets too far outside my hands. Miles off the “p2” position, not sure what I’m missing

Good advice.Start is the most important part of the swing and STAY CONNECTED.

Nelly checks these exact positions before every swing! Thank you great information!!!!

this is a great and thorough lesson, easy to understand, i'm definetly guilty of sucking my arms, hands and club inside like you have shown. gonna work on it, thnx for the help..

I believe this is the best instruction I have read on line. Simple without over talking. I believe I swing in that manner; however, I sweep the ball and do not feel I am not hitting the back of the ballon the downswing. I occasionally take a small divot but not consistently. Should my angle of attack be more angled down to get to the back of the ball? Hope you can help. I do believe I have found a new on line swing coach. Thank you very much.

It’d be great to do this topic showing short long irons and hybrids and drivers to show any subtle differences. Thank you!

Great explanation ! Adam's and your videos helped me so much. Greets vom Bavaria

Thanks.. I’ve watched many of your videos and have improved my game ..

This helped a ton during my round this morning. I don't even realize myself disconnecting and hands going out.

Excellent video. Thank you. Cheers

Hands down one of the best video's I've seen on the take away! Fix your take away and most of the swing becomes automatic.

Mike, this is awesome! Thanks for all the time you spent with my swing, this further reinforced it!

Have such a hard time setting the club. I set to late and club gets across the line and my hands too close to face :(

Mike you guys are the best . Keeping a complex game simple enough for us to understand and adapt to

Great lesson. I struggle with hand path. Going to do this drill tomorrow!

I like the confidence Pitt!! 😊

Super good info. Very well explain and visual

Very very good

OK

Best golf channel ever

Brilliant!

Outstanding. Thank you

video on transition and downswing next 😊

ExcellentExcellent!! Excellent!

Excellent instruction!

I was waiting for this one 😂😊

Where you are going all wrong is in execution. In a touring pro "connected" swing the arms and shoulders only go along for the ride. It is the big body trunk muscles which take the club back. The path back is determined by them. This is why both Nicklaus and Palmer insisted that the first four inches of the take-away are the most important part of the backswing. That is because it is the only place in the swing where the big body trunk muscles can initiate the swing. Once past that point the swing is what you are teaching. And that is an unconnected swing that is loaded with a need for timing. That timing NEVER carries to the first tee. Some touring pros say their golf swing is only as good as the first four inches of the take-away. Hal Sutton said that. What I am saying is not particularly easy to do when you have done it wrong all your life. I like to think it is the muscles on my side located just above my belt line. And you can't take it back EVEN A SMIDGE with your arms and shoulders. Wrists ALONE are another issue for some golfers. They can be moved without moving the arms and shoulders. Tom Weisskopf did that. All this is also how you also get "level". You are moving everything around a single axis. The need for timing is dramatically reduced. Swings are getting shorter today. Now you know why.

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uhh ok skip to 6:59 for the actual instruction. so much wasted time barfing about angles and checkpoints. if you're supposed to move your body and chest not your arms and hands, a movement that is completely counter-intuitive and not what 99.9% of golfers would naturally think to do, maybe you want to start with that, right? it's difficult to master the takeaway when you don't know what to do. i still don't know if i believe him.

Wow That was so so informative and the demonstration of the Pit falls of getting the takeaway wrong will cause You All sorts of Problems In your Golf Stroke...Thanks for taking the time to explain how crucial This Drill Is.