Keep your Hands from Rolling Over

Here’s another very simple but very useful golf drill to help you with the one piece takeaway.

I use a range basket in the video below but you could just as easily use a basketball or beach ball.

By the way, please use this drill and the other takeaway drill at the bottom of this page alongside the takeaway fundamentals lesson. In that video, I explain a couple of important checkpoints that you can measure yourself against to make sure your swing is starting off on the best possible path.

Takeaway Drill Video Summary

Holding a range basket, take your normal setup over the ball.

Go ahead and make a one-piece turn until the basket is about hip height.

There should be no twisting or rotating of the basket as your take it away. If you were to look in a mirror facing down the line of your target, you’d be able to see right inside the basket.
You can also do this drill with a basketball or beach ball.