What Starts the Golf Swing?

[Nail]

Hi guys, what, in your opinion starts the golf swing or takeaway. Is it a moveaway with the clubhead, is it the hips? Or do you start by turning the shoulders? Any teachers here, what do you recommend or is it different for everyone?

[klineka]

I think this is going to be a very "feel" based thing which will vary by player. I don't know if there is a right or wrong answer.

Day 10 of the Covid-19 30 Day Practice plan talked about finding a trigger that worked for you. 

For me personally the first thing I like to feel is my hands moving back and in towards my right leg and the clubhead staying outside my hands on the way back, because I used to roll the clubface open on the way back. 

I've never thought about my body leading/initiating the golf swing, I've always thought about my hands to initiate the swing.

[arturo28mx]

In the backswing I think of my connected torso-arms going back, and in the downswing  I think of my connected torso-arms going down. My hips move too, especially in the downswing, but I don't think about them. 80% of the time when my swing is not working it is because my torso and my arms are not connected (arms move independently). The other 20% of the time I am swaying on the backswing.

[FlyingAce]

I just had a swing analysis in Feb and for me, takeaway is initiated by my shoulders and downswing by my lower body (hips and quads). 

[Piz]

For me it's the club head.  I try to follow the head with everything else...winding up from the top down and then unwinding exactly the opposite.  That being said;  I suspect, on full shots, that it's my shoulders that get things going.  

[billchao]

Your brain 

The first conscious move I make in the takeaway is to hinge my wrists, which funny enough, happens slowly enough that I’m not fully hinged until A4. I don’t use a trigger; I prefer to stay loose and tend to just bounce around after a couple of waggles and swing.

[boogielicious]

In the full swing, for me it’s a subtle shift of weight from the front to back foot. In putting, I do a forward press.

[iacas]

The golfer. 🙂

The feeling or whatever is different for everyone.

[CarlSpackler]

7 hours ago, iacas said:

The golfer. 🙂

The feeling or whatever is different for everyone.

Over half of my swings are started by one of my inner demons. That is the only rational explanation for mishits.

[boogielicious]

5 minutes ago, CarlSpackler said:

Over half of my swings are started by one of my inner demons. That is the only rational explanation for mishits.

What about the other half?😀

[CarlSpackler]

22 minutes ago, boogielicious said:

What about the other half?😀

They are stated my me, but I only screw up 60% of those.

[billchao]

34 minutes ago, boogielicious said:

What about the other half?😀

Outer demons.

[mcanadiens]

For better or worse, I feel the start of my golf swing with the movement of my left (front) shoulder down toward my chest. The rest of it just follows.

 

[bwdial]

For me, it's usually a feeling of crippling self doubt.

I am trying really hard to change this.

[bm85]

I tilt my trail knee toward the target a little to direct pressure to the inside of my trail foot.