You are brave standing ahead of the golfers on the range.

Eric.. your teaching style resonates with us! Thanks for all you do 🙏

Eric,love your videos, you are one of the very best instructors on line......I was hoping you might clarify your hinge guidence in this video, soft and subtle vs the guidence in your video A Simple 3-Step Drill For The Perfect Backswing on Apr 3, 2019, where you advocated a strong and pronounced hinge at 45 degee at completion of one piece takeaway to thigh. Thank you Eric

I use a small clock-wise turn of the pelvis from the outside of the left/lead heel to get the club moving on the path that you describe. This move blends into the main engine of my swing, which is a simultaneous rotating of the left and right side shirt seams. Thinking about the shirt seams/obliques has added about 8 mph to my swing speed. I now feel like I'm getting the most that I can with both sides of my body contributing to the swing. Today's video gets me a consistent additional 5 mph, by picturing a light, coming from my sternum that is turned both ways by the turning of the shirt seams. Thanks so much for your tip, because it helps me to overcome a tendency, to get too handsy with the takeaway.

Wonderful detail. So clear so easy to get wrong. Tks for this important information

Great points. I always appreciate when you talk about the feel of something. What should I feel when I do blank... great videos

Great video. After a couple of rounds, it feels great. I’m compressing the ball better have now been breaking 90 more often.Your videos are the best. Thank you, Eric

Great video, keep em coming!

Great content thanks for helping us.

Great advice as always Many thanks.

Fantastic stuff Eric!

Absolutely great video....just forwarded on to about a dozen of my golfing friends.

This is a great lesson video

This is my only swing thought and it works! Still feels awkward at times, especially with driver, but I know the end result will be good. This goes along with your advice you mentioned in another video. Something like having the "door more closed than open" will make it easier at impact. I didn't get it at first but now I know what you're implying. Thanks a bunch Eric! Keep it up.

I think this lesson will help me with my chips cause I was hitting to the left a lot, Thanks

Eric, your thoughts... Always seem to find opposites in the golf swing. If one wants lag into contact, take that lag angle OUT of the takeaway. (this lesson) If one wants the right elbow in into contact, let it float OUT on the takeaway If one wants to hit from the inside, keep the clubhead on or above plane in takeaway (a little outside) If one wants to shallow the club on the downswing, let it feel a little up in the backswing Hogan cupped his wrists in the takeaway so as to BOW into contact Thanks for the vid

Superb video Eric, the move back to P1 is critical. I actually started going back to outside the line, which meant a lot of hip movement and a big loop to get back on the inside. It was powerful but timing was difficult.

Outstanding!! This is key to being able to “trace” your perfect swing.

Eric you talk about the swing to the point of the club being parallel and this has helped tremendously. Can you recommend a video for the next step in the backswing? Do I then turn the right hip and bring the arms to the top? Something along those lines. Thanks

So simple and effective

For the driver, do you also just do the initial takeaway with shoulders and chest to the trail thigh as a landmark? Or is it done only to the groin area? The reason I ask is because the set up for the driver is wider stance. Thanks

Erich. Would love to see a video on proper posture. I struggle with how far I should bend over for each club(Especially Long Irons). Is there proper relation of posture to hand angle on the club shaft? How do I know I am too upright or too much bent over? I sometimes feel like my long irons are too long for me because my stance seems to be too upright. How bent over should I be for longer irons?

i am a senior golfer -tried this -felt very awkward but i had almost immediate improvement

There are many good instrutors in youtube, full respect to them, but I think you are the best! Thanks for your help.

Eric..I am officially a member of your site..excited! I think takeaway should feel like left shoulder dips towards the ball...as we turn...side bend initiates takeaway...makes sense?

Great info. It just seems everyone has something a little different to do in a golf swing that its information overload. I am your typical golfer over the top flipping at impact but not too extreme and on good days would manage to shoot mid 80's low 90's but could never break 80. So I took off to you tube to find that magical cure. LOL What has happened is information overload and now I shank the ball and at one time completely missed the ball which has never happened even when I first started playing 25 years ago. Now I am to the point of calling it quits. Where is the best place to start, I love the game but there is no way I would want to step on a course at this point.

thanks for the video. Is there a weight shift during the takeaway or even before the takeaway?

Great information how to take the club away.

Great information Eric; So does the speed of your club going back make a difference? I find with my swing the more deliberate the better result. Love your channel, play well my friend.

Sweet Nixon lid

Plain..easy to understand

Is a forward press after the eagle necessary to start the takeaway?

This is my go to tip Eric! Now I'm working on shaping the ball. But my problem is the face feeling "closed" when I know it's supposed to be open in the takeaway when hitting a fade. Is this feel normal or should it feel "open"? Hope this makes sense.

Hi Eric if you don’t mind I would like to share my swing thoughts that works perfectly for me and may also work well for your students. Since we have a 180 degree swinging motion; then none of us should ever be fixated on how to manipulate our upper and lower body or either side of our symmetrical body. Our body automatically knows how to sequence our swing. So what works best for me? Mike Austin has always said the our swinging the club is in our hands. And Ed Merrins told us to swing the handle of the club. Both men were 100 percent correct So once I get myself in the ideal posture of bending my hip back and then bending my knees forward in order to balance my body to the swinging of the my club. My only swing thoughts are to have unlock and responsive hinges for my bones to react throughout my body. So that my lead hand can simply push the handle of my club up, back, around my body; and, then to start my downswing my trail hand pushes the handle of the club down, forward, up and around my body. This swing thought of my lead hand pushing the handle up to start my backswing then my trail hand pushing the handle down on my downswing should work perfectly for everyone; since everything else simply falls into place. To explain why this works is the fact that our muscles cannot push, they only can pull. Golf is a lever action that works on multiple planes as we are swinging our club in which our bones acts as the levers set on their own plane ready to respond and push as well. So throughout our swing we can only push with our bones in order for our muscles to pull throughout our swinging the club. Swinging our club with our lead hand pushing up on our back swing and then our trail hand push down communicates with all the rest of our lever bones to be directed to push as well on the corresponding side of our body. Hope you like what I said. Cheers

Can this be used for drivers and woods as well or mainly irons and wedges?

Really hopefully 🙏

Would this drill help with follow through as well? My hands are finishing too low instead of up high.

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When the hands create the angle too early, the shoulders often stop turning. Thanks for this...

I like the fact that this is something you can practice without even hitting a ball.

I feel, rightly or wrongly, if I get the take away right, I'll make a good swing.

Did you say, Butt of the club? 😂😂😂

Lucky the dude behind you didn’t hit you. So much room on the range and he picks that spot? Anyway, great video as always.

this is the #1 most neglected item in golf instruction...glad you are talking about it You have to master this "position one" to ever play consistent golf...when I learned to play 36 years ago this is what I was taught...it's what I teach and what all students hate...well if you never master basics you will always be a hacker. It also really improves your short game...

Disregard previous comment ment wagle not eagle.

Need to work on my take away so I don’t come so far inside