You’ll Own An Elite Golf Takeaway With This Simple Wrist Action! (DIVE MOVE)

[@MiloLinesGolf]

What could be another name we give for the "DIVE MOVE"? 💦 Plus, don't forget to watch my FREE Rotational Golf Swing Blueprint: milolinesgolf.com/5-keys-to-unlocking-a-rotational-golf-swing/

[@mrpriceisright]

I'm going to say "priority delivery move" because in my mind you are first setting the wrist angles (flat lead, extension trail) and firstly/by the time the shaft is horizontal (hands about trail knee), you are in the perfect delivery position, the position you want to return to on the downswing. With the angles all set you simply rotate back, then squat, weight shift, rotate... The set wrist angles and hands as a unit, shouldn't change much until you are back at the same delivery position. I've found it to be the best way to set a flat lead wrist. This is the only thing I've been working on for some weeks, that and a feeling of holding the club face square until impact.

[@MrPDey1]

That little dive move is great and lets you groove in a feel that can be elusive. Not seen one of your videos in a while and noticable that Henry has really come on with his confidence and communication style in the meantime. Excellent stuff, thanks gents.

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Thanks for watching and glad you liked it! If I can ever be of further help to you in learning to Swing Like an Athlete, please do check out my website at milolinesgolf.com for in-person or online lessons, golf schools, or to become a member of my Online Academy.

[@jimthomas1759]

Great presentation of the concept with drills to ingrain the feeling.

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Thanks for watching Jim!

[@t-moneyflotown8433]

You guys do a great job of explaining the swing. Another great video!!!👍🏻

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Thanks so much for following along!

[@davidmeier3707]

If I grip the club in my trail hand, use my lead hand to push the butt-end of the grip down to stand the club up, regrip it with my lead hand, and then open my trail hand before starting a downswing sequence, it produces some interesting feels. Thanks for sharing this!

[@jackbowman4788]

Milo/Henry great video=-you two work so well together !

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Thanks so much Jack!

[@dmpt39]

Prozac golf has been teaching this style of backswing for sometime!

[@TheWedgeWizard]

The whole push down to cock the club up is so so awkward for many players. Not a big fan of that aspect of their teaching as well as a few other things. This is one of the few things I’ve not liked from Milo, the whole push down to go up. It may help someone who really take it off the ball incorrectly to get the feel but there’s better ways to do it.

[@Stank_Johnson]

@@TheWedgeWizard Do you have a point? Maybe share a technique that worked for you? Or are you just a “take a dump on the floor and leave the room” kind of guy.

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Many coaches (depending on the student) have a similar move in their arsenal.

[@Ron28]

Prozac golf sounds like something you would do after missing the cut at the British Open.

[@MurielRamirez-Salas]

He means Adam Porzak

[@SteveWessels-k7o]

I was always taught the “one-piece” takeaway where there was no wrist action early. As a result I over rotated the upper body with no wrist movements and the club got way behind me. I’ve fought that for many years. The drill Henry presents with the alignment rod brushing against the left leg gives a great feel for a proper backswing. A good teacher is hard to find! Hopefully Milo will come to North Carolina for a school. Thank you

[@MiloLinesGolf]

We’d love to at some point

[@maxwired2235]

Great instruction…very inspiring doing it in my sun room with just a club…not as successful at the range, thoughts.

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Thanks for watching. I'd have to see your swing for further comment. The Faldo Drill can help though. For me to have a look, check out my online academy - milolinesgolf.com

[@terryharris4871]

Great video! It keeps me from pulling my trail arm inside.. thank you!

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Can help keep the trail arm a little longer in my experience. Thanks for watching Terry!

[@djpoints]

Yes yes outstanding demonstration of the early set move Sir Nick Faldo made famous. It's also highlighted in my favorite old golf book, Four Magic Moves by Joe Dante written in the 60s. Main chapter is dedicated to this magic move, then an updated edition mentions it went mainstream in 76 when the director of PGA education, Gary Wiren wrote an article about it. Faldo mustve picked it up then and I think it really is magic especially for somebody looking to remove other disruptive variables that come and go and seemingly out of nowhere. It's magic and medicinal....oh and that mention of thinking about the butt as the width creator is great. Never thought of it quite that way.

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed it!

[@markbarry789]

Great review and explanation

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Thanks for watching Mark!

[@dougwetzel1609]

Just like the alignment stick club extension riding down the thigh as you showed me Henry. Struggled with the concept, was always told “one piece “ takeaway. Will continue to work on this. Oooops, didn’t see video all the way through.

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Bingo

[@justinchung982]

Milo - with the left hand putting downward pressure on the grip at takeaway, do you also feel like your left arm/hand is controlling more of the club than your right hand/arm? Kind of like, you can take your right hand off the club entirely and just swing with the left?

[@MiloLinesGolf]

@@justinchung982 no it’s like the lead is pushing down and the trail is levering up

[@Ron28]

I tried the dive drill the way you describe at the very end of the video. Hold the club with the right hand and push down with the left. It feels like I'm going down and then up. It also feels like the push up us done with the legs. Very promising. Solves my tendency to yank the club inside on the takeaway. The Faldo drill feels very different. Mostly hands and arms. I don't feel the pushing up with the legs. Thanks.

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Good stuff! The Faldo drill should encourage you to wind up and use your ribcage more.

[@Ron28]

Makes sense. Thanks for responding.

[@randd6687]

Thanks for the video, Henry and Milo, appreciate all of your work. I am left-handed but swing with right-handed clubs. I take the club back with a bowed left hand to the top. The face stays square and then I feel as though I hit over the top with my right shoulder. The ball draws from right to left but is difficult to hit a slice or fade. With all the matchups you have seen in your teaching, is this a good matchup?

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Firstly, thanks for watching! Regarding your swing, I'd really have to see it to offer the best possible feedback. A bowed wrist can work with the right matchups. If you'd like any help, please do check out my offerings at milolinesgolf.com.

[@mikebarnard2689]

I have never struck the ball more purely than from the Faldo drill ( 25yrs of doing that ). However, I could not find a way of wrist setting to replicate that drill in my full swing. This is because the Faldo drill presets the left arm fully rotated ( left forearm way above right forearm) and is in actual fact a preset to p7 impact position rather than a backswing position… hence the difficulty getting this on the full swing. I’m genuinely excited to try the dive move tipping the club up and seeing if I can replicate the Faldo preset purity of strike and balance .

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Correct, and this is why we typically do our Faldo drill a little differently. We cover this more on my website, milolinesgolf.com.

[@truthlifefishing1730]

Could the move be accentuated even more by collapsing the lead side?

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Don't really like to see that in backswing. I like to see this blended with a good windup.

[@richyclubsport5155]

Mike Malaska likes the early set, in fact did a video on it a month or so ago

[@MiloLinesGolf]

I was Mike’s assistant for 7 years and you are correct we agree on this concept

[@Chris_Traynor]

This is the thing I am constantly working on in my swing. The challenge = it feels like the club gets to the top immediately, so it is difficult for me to combine it with the proper coil of the body. I can do it slowly but if I do it in a normal swing, even though I am just triggering and standing the club up, the speed and momentum shoots the club up so fast I lose control, especially because it feels light so I lose the sense of where the clubface is. It is hard to get out of the opposite i.e. forearm roll inside and steep down because even though it is a bad movement, when the club feels 'heavy' you at least know where it is but then make a whole slew of errors. As a beginner I misinterpreted the common 'holding a tray' phrase and do that early, bicep curling the club up with my trail arm rather than making it 'feel light'. When it when it works though - blissfully 20 yards longer!

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Thanks for watching Chris! Interesting thoughts here.

[@bjohnson515]

Very good. I would say that Steve Stricker and Jason Day, to name two, are exceptions

[@MiloLinesGolf]

There are always exceptions

[@mclaugka]

This move really works well 1 my only issue is that when I push down on the grip, I go into lead side bend too early and my head drops too much

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Gotta feel the trail side expansion at the same time to keep things balanced

[@jordanelmquist3202]

So preference is more of an upright BS and shallowing the club with more body rotation? Have you found it easier for high handicappers to adjust to shallowing with the body to shallow rather than having them more flat from the inside in the BS?

[@MiloLinesGolf]

I teach what has helped my students most over the 1000s of lessons I give each year.

[@tmooregolfer]

I wish you would have hit some drivers and shown how to get a good rotation turn .

[@MiloLinesGolf]

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[@Stank_Johnson]

You ever have a monthly swing review with Henry that’s so bad they make a video out of it? Yah me neither 😂

[@dougwetzel1609]

Not yet, but it’s still early!!!!!!

[@MiloLinesGolf]

Haha, this is one we see a lot.

[@grovercarter1126]

Would you make up your minds on whether the body leads the arms or the arms lead the body. So confusing!

[@MiloLinesGolf]

@@grovercarter1126 pretty sure we’ve been consistent in our coaching.

[@mjb8274]

Little confusing when you say set it and forget it, get your wrists right at the top then simply rotate. I thought in your other vids there was an additional move preceding rotation where in transition you recenter with some hip flex. Seems like simple rotate from the top will risk OTT.

[@MiloLinesGolf]

We were referring to the professionals who have talked about this first move in the past. As always, it all depends on the individuals needs, but with many of our students we work to establish a better structure early on to carry them through the motion.