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Golf instructors teach many different approaches to the takeaway.
There are countless ways to start from the vertical setup position and get the club 90 degrees up into the backswing. You can set your wrists early, you can shift off the ball and lift your arms, you can lift off the ball, lift your arms and set the club early, you can try to turn…
There are a million ways to do it, but there is only one optimal way to do it efficiently and correctly, while keeping yourself centered.
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That is a fundamental principle of the Rotary Swing: you want your spine to remain as a fixed center point, using your muscles and joints to rotate around it efficiently. The beauty of it is, when you execute the takeaway correctly, you are performing only a few inches of movement. That may sound impossible, but in a moment you will understand.
The club travels perhaps seven or eight feet during the takeaway — roughly two and a half yards. If you sway along with it and allow your head and arms to shift off to the trail side along with the club, you are obviously going to have to shift everything back to the lead side on the downswing.
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