When you are ready to start the swing, to uncover the first fatal flaws that appear, with the horrible shots they produce, and to learn the first of the magic moves that will cut strokes from your score.
Ironically, these first flaws that creep into the average player’s swing produce an effect that is the exact opposite of what he wants. Just as you have, he has read and heard all his golfing life that certain things are essential.
The first of these is that you must pivot, the second is that the club must be taken away from the ball inside the projected line of flight, the third is that the wrists should be broken late and upward.
You twist your body as you start the take away.
This brings the club back on an inside line. Fine.
It opens the face of the club too. Excellent, you say, for you know it should be open at the top of the swing.
You delay the wrist break as long as possible and then let the wrists break upward.
Then what happens? The very thing you wanted most to avoid. You hit the ball from the outside in, with an open face (usually), and you get an outlandish slice.
If you close the face on the downswing...