Start the club straight back from the ball for twelve to eighteen inches using only the hands and the arms keeping the club-face and the hands SQUARE to the line with no rolling of the forearms or turning of the wrists.  It is just one single movement, the simplest imaginable.  There can be no complications unless you make them.

 

Three vital stages in the back-swing.  The initial movement, carried out with the hands and arms only, has set the left shoulder in motion.

  Let us pause for a moment while I make quite clear what is meant by keeping the club-face and hands square to the line.  The square golf club-face is maintained by retaining the position of the club-face in relation to the shoulders as the shoulders turn in the backswing.

 

  The golf clubs face and hands are square to the intended line of flight at the address and the shoulders are parallel with the intended line of flight.  This set-up should be exactly the same when the club-head is returned to the ball.

 

  The initial movement away from the ball has an important bearing on this matter of returning the club head to the golf ball with the hands and club-face square and the shoulders back in line.  To make this consistently possible the set-up must not be altered as the backswing gets under way.  This clearly implies that the club-face is neither rolled open by a clockwise motion of the hands and wrists nor closed by an anti-clockwise motion of the hands and wrists.

 

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