One-Piece Takeaway

​The club should be taken back in one piece while loading onto the back leg and foot--your right leg and foot for a right-handed golfer. A one-piece takeaway should feel like everything is moving together as you turn and shift your weight.
 
Nothing can be more dangerous than taking the club back with the hands. When this is done, the coil or wind-up does not take place until late in the backswing. You can get away with this when your timing is good, but put it under pressure and things will get ugly fast.
 
If, for some reason, your handsy backswing becomes short, you will have no power and your body will make up for it with a fast, short swing. You will have the feeling that you did not get fully through the shot.
 
Taking the club back with the hands also makes the swing disconnected. Coiling late at the top followed by a downswing move into the ball which is all hands will produce a snap-hook. A snap-hook is an indicator of total disconnection in the swing.
 
A good test is to take the club half way back and see how much your body has turned. With a one-piece connected takeaway, your shoulders should turn close to 90 degrees and the hips 45 degrees. If nothing has turned, you have disconnected your swing.
 
As you take the club back in one piece, you should be loading into your back leg and foot coiling up power for the downswing. Keep your weight on the inside of the back foot and your knee flexed and in the same position as in the set up. The back leg should act like a post with very little give.
 
The more connected the backswing the more connected the downswing. Coiling into the back foot and leg will keep you from moving on the ball and make for a consistent swing that can be repeated.