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In this video, I’ll show you the one swing change that’ll fix your takeaway once and for all. You’ll find out how taking your club too far to the inside makes it tougher to square up at impact and how to get the right amount of cupping in your left wrist for the perfect takeaway. Check out this video now to fix your takeaway and increase consistency!
- Keep some cup in the left wrist for proper takeaway.
- Right wrist remains fairly flat in the takeaway.
- Use torso to rotate the body in the takeaway.
Hi guys, I'm Clay Ballard and I've got one question for you all today.
How many of you out there are struggling taking the club back to the inside during the takeaway?
You've tried everything, you've heard all the tips and tricks, but nothing seems to work for you.
Well, I've got great news for you.
I've got one very simple move that's going to help you to get rid of this once and for all, and it's very, very easy to do.
So let's go ahead and get started.
So first to get started, let's go ahead and talk about why taking the club back to the inside is a negative thing.
And what I mean by taking the club back to the inside is if we do everything ideally, as the club's parallel to the ground in the takeaway, the club is going to be parallel with my target line.
So you can see, I have a stick down here on the ground, representing where I'm going to be hitting the ball in the distance toward the right side of this fairway.
And as my club is parallel with the ground again during the takeaway, I want the club to be parallel with this stick or as close as I can to it.
Now if I get the club going to the inside at this point and pulling the club back to the right side, now I'm searching for this square path all the way throughout the rest of my swing.
So I get started offline and now I spend the rest of my swing trying to get back to where I was at address.
And that can lead to a lot of inconsistency.
Now I have one really good tip for you guys that's going to help you to eliminate this forever.
And if I go ahead and face you from the face on angle, we'll see that at address, my left wrist has a little bit of a cup in it.
So my left wrist is not perfectly flat and that's, that's okay.
That's good.
That's what you wanted to be at address.
Now as I set up here as if I'm hitting a ball this way, All I want to do is maintain that slight cup in my left wrist all the way throughout the takeaway.
And really use the core or my torso to rotate the club.
And my hands and arms and everything back.
So here I'm going to maintain that cup in my left wrist.
I'm using my chest and my core to rotate the club back.
And you'll notice that I've kept that and now the club is perfectly on line.
Now, what I see a lot of people do is they think that they need to keep this left wrist flat during the takeaway, or get it flat during the takeaway.
And you end up doing something like this.
Now you can see that this is almost a little bit bowed.
And the second thing that you can key in on is the right wrist is now very cupped.
So incorrectly, I'm going to go ahead and do the takeaway.
My left wrist is bowed or even flat or even a little bit bowed.
And my right wrist is cupping the correct motion.
I'm going to maintain a little bit of cupping in my left wrist and use my torso to rotate the club back.
Now everything's nicely on plane and my right wrist is nice and flat.
So really focus in on that.
Make sure that you keep a little bit of cupping in the left wrist.
As we go all the way to the top of the backswing, that left wrist will flatten out.
So it's gradually flattening out throughout the entire takeaway and backswing.
But we want to make sure that we keep a little bit of that cupping action in there all the way through the takeaway, so that you're staying on plane the entire time.
So try that out.
I guarantee you that'll help you to make your takeaway more on plane and help you to get some overall consistency in your golf game.
Now, for those of you that are premium members, there's a couple of videos you can watch that are even going to help to further solidify this.
The first one is the bucket drill.
And that's going to take what you've learned about the left wrist today, incorporate that into the bucket drill, and that's really going to help you get an overall, very, very solid motion with your torso and your hands and arms working together.
And also watch the right wrist and the takeaway.
Another fantastic drill to help you to really, really solidify that takeaway motion.
So watch those two videos.
Those will really help you out.
I wish you guys the best of luck this year.
Have a great year with your golf.
Play the best golf of your life and start by solidifying that takeaway to improve your consistency.
I'll see you soon.
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