The Proper Way to Start Your Backwing to Get the Most Power

As we're ready to hit our golf shot, a lot of people freeze over the golf ball. What they are doing here is going through a mental checklist of ideas. They stare at the golf ball for quite some time and they don't move and as a result they get a very jerky takeaway. Many times they take it away with their hands and arms.

Now, that's really not the way that a good player takes the golf club away. From address or set-up position, the first move in the backswing comes off a little waggle forward. A waggle is simply letting the club move back and forth from a soft grip pressure, nice and relaxed, get a little feel for the clubhead. It almost gives you a little pre-determined path of the impact position or the attack track as well.

Once we waggle, we're getting set to hit our golf shot and to start the backswing. So that's a tremendously important component of taking the golf club away. When I do that you'll also notice that my feet move just a little bit, that again gets me tension free as opposed to freezing in one position.

Now, as I start the golf club away I'm really preceding it with just a little micro move to the target. So the first move in the backswing is actually a little push forward and then we rebound off that. Now, I've seen people over do that and make it a big move, it's very small.

In fact, it's almost imperceptible in the tour players, but almost every one of them does it. It is a natural way to start the swing. So again, it's a little move right at set-up and then you rebound off it and what you rebound off with is everything. And that means the club, the shaft, my hands, my arms, shoulders and a little push off my whole left side. My right side sort of releases and everything goes away in a classic one piece take away action.