Your friday is where you can help chris with the content. If you weaken your grip, you will start hitting it right. Often, golfers curve the ball too much from right to left because of their strong grips. But with the driver or other wood or hybrid shot with a teed ball, you want to sweep the clubhead into impact. How to fix a duck hook golf swing 101 if you find yourself with a nasty duck hook in your golf swing, then youre not alone. The fix for the hook would be to open your stance slightly and play the ball more forward in your stance, opposite the left shoulder, so that your swing direction is a little bit more toward the target. If you still pull or pull hook the ball to the left start your hips sooner. If you stop fearing the hook and start swinging all the way through, youre going to spend a. Interlock grip one grip that often stops hooks is the single interlock grip. And its gotten to the point this fall where my scrambling abilityski.
The feel we want you to have is, trying to keep the head relatively still, but once you make a back swing, you want to feel as if the grip hes pointing more down to the left. I am a 1518 handicap and aside from this my game is pretty sound. With a 3 wood, the angle is a bit bigger, thus it makes the head easier to rotate, e. Golf tips stop hooking the ball with your driver golf channel. September 24, 20 by john stahlschmidt, senior head instructor, touracademy tpc scottsdale. How can you stop hooking the golf ball video lesson by. Those who suffer from pull hooks, on the other hand, often find themselves blocked out on the second shot or, worse, in a hazard. Ive always had a natural draw and i have no problems with my irons.
This is the same method by which a baseball pitcher throws a curve ball, but in the golfers case the excessive spin is unintentional. Here are some tips on how you can stop hooking when taking your golf driver swing. If youre a righthander who is scared to hook the ball to the left, it feels as if turning your upper body to the left will take the ball to the left, as well. Elite golf coach dan whittaker takes us through a few simple tips and explains how to stop hooking the ball with your driver. Jan, 2017 at that point of the video, crossfield takes a threeminute digression to go to the bank on a rainy day and answer a couple of viewer questions unrelated to over hooking. Low handicapper who cant stop hooking instruction and. When you can control your starting line you can play any type of golf shot you desire. Michael breed, host of the golf fix has a drill to show you how to stop hooking the golf ball. The key to stop pulling your golf shots is to learn how to control the starting line of your ball.
By slowing or even stopping your turn toward the target, your arms and hands whip through the hitting area and shut the clubface, producing that dreaded snap hook. For a quick fix, try weakening your left hand on the grip, in effect opening the face of your driver. Hooking or pulling the ball off the tee with a driver can be fixed with a few tweaks. What causes hooking the golf ball, and how to stop it golf. If you weaken your grip to the point the clubface is square to the path you will see the ball start way right, the push. If youre a player who tends to hit a hook, first count yourself fortunate. Stop pull hooking driver golf tips lesson 25 youtube. Jim hardy, a texasbased pga professional and author of three books on golf, blames snap hook problems on loose right hand grips. Check out this index for easy access to all of our coverage of golf news, instruction, equipment and courses. But its still a ballflight problem you need to take care of to make that next step and become a scratch or nearscratch player. Im a collegiate golfer so needless to say, the faster i can figure this out, the better. One is that the clubface is too closed at impact and is way to far left relative to your path. Even pro golfers hook the ball, as fred couples did on the 18th tee during the 1998 masters, leaving him in the woods. Apr 28, 2011 for the last couple weeks the only shot with my driver has been a low pullhook.
At the beginning i thought the reason for it was my wrist. How the elbow being tucked can help you stop pull hooking. This is becuase of the angle between the top of the clubhead and the shaft. However, theres a whole other side of golfers who hook the ball severely and cant stop hooking it, and dont understand why. Let the clubhead rotate naturally on the backswing. To fix your hook and start hitting it straight, you need to align your body parallel with the target line. If your right hand grip slips underneath your left hand on the downswing, the only way to square the clubface at impact is to snap your right wrist, hardy says. One was my grip was horribly strong, such that my right hand was almost horizontal. With irons, you want the clubhead to still be descending when it contacts the ball. A hook is the last stop on the road to a good golf swing, and youre very close to hitting consistent, powerful shots. Instructor rick smith says it can be difficult to stop hooking the ball because the way to do so is counterintuitive. With a driver, the angle is smaller, and it makes the head less prone to closing. Hooks how to stop hooking golf balls left golf distillery.
Thats where the phrase hit down on the ball comes from. Tips for how to stop hooking a golf ball sportsrec. When a righthanded golfers tee shot curves to far to the left, the shot is described as a hook. In this video pga golf coach mark wood shows you a great way to start hitting your driver much straighter. That one thing is that youre hitting the ball on the wrong direction. Stop pull hooking your golf shots the box drill for your. It is helping my driver distance, but hooking hybrids. How am i able to stop hookingand or drawing my hybrid clubs. How to stop the ball from going left when driving in golf. Hooks how to stop hooking golf balls left in golf a hook or a hooked shot is one that sees the ball starting right of the target initially but then veering aggressively to the left as a result of strong counterclockwise sidespin. Important before you follow any of the lessons below, its well worth acquainting yourself with the correct ball flight terminology that way, you can check whether your predominant fault is a hook or a pullhook for example, and return here to choose the most appropriate lessons golf ball flight diagram and terminology. Even though the hook really isnt that bad more like a power draw. Instruction this cheat sheet will tell you whether you have the correct grip for your golf swing. Loosing your posture or standing up during the down swing, that can throw you steep causing a snap hook or a pull allignment.
Driver distance secrets what manufacturers wont tell you. Practice drills can definitely help you stop hooking with a driver. I know this may be difficult to answer on here but ive been hooking my driver and cant seem to fix it. If you push the ball or push fade the ball out to the right youre driving the hips too hard or youre sliding laterally so slow down and turn. Stop hooking your driver golf lessons and golf tips with pga professional mark crossfield. Youd want to dial your lefthand to the left if you are now hooking a golf ball more than youd like. When you let your forearms and clubface rotate, the club stays on the correct swing plane, haney says. To prevent hooking, the clubhead needs to stay square to the arc of the swing. What causes hooking the golf ball, and how to stop it golf digest. How to grip a driver not to slice can this really be. A lot of golfers that pull the golf ball do so because they swing with an over the top golf swing or they shut the clubface too early in the downswing dragging. When you get your hands positioned effectively on the handle. Also, with the driver try addressing the ball with the driver on the ground 812 inches behind the ball encouraging a sweeping upswing reducing any hooking tendencies. What causes hooking the golf ball, and how to stop it.
Spend some time at the range to figure out how much to weaken your left hand grip. Most of the videos on the site talk about how to stop slicing and how to stop coming over the top. This week chris helps steve beckfield who is struggling with his driver swing. The causes of duck hook and how to fix it golf tips. Tips drills and instructions to stop hooking with golf driver. Look no further than the very basics of a sound grip of the golf club. Golfers hitting duck hooks tend to hit a hook or draw on regular shots. Or that theres a certain feeling with your hands through impact that can help you fix the problem.
The snap hook almost always results from a backswing flaw of getting the club too far across the line at the top and coming from underneath on the downswing. Its a weird hook, it goes out 150 yards and than heads dead left at a very steep angle so its not sweeping in the air. Most courses are built with a little extra room to the right to accommodate them, because the slice is the most common miss in golf. The pull hook is one of golfs most devastating maladies because on top of the misdirection, a ball hit with righttoleft sidespin will run for days. Mens golf club drivers how to find the right one on. A duck hook is a shot that curves hard to the left of your target, if you are a righthanded golfer. How am i able to stop hookingand or drawing my hybrid. A hook is the last stop on the road to a good golf swing, and youre very. Mar 22, 2017 in this video pga golf coach mark wood shows you a great way to start hitting your driver much straighter. By slowing or even stopping your turn toward the target, your arms and hands whip through the hitting area and shut the clubface, producing that. Just a few practice sessions of golf driver swings with special importance on hitting the golf ball with square contact rather than across it can easily work wonders in getting rid of your hook. This, if done properly, should add height to your drives and eliminate your hook. You may not have realized that posture plays a huge role in creating your snap hook. This is a common swing fault that many golfers suffer from in addition to a nasty slice.
You dont want to swing too much to the left with your driver or youll start overfading the ball. How to eliminate the snap hook from your golf game forever. The direct cause of duck hook is a closed clubface at impact. I had a problem with hooking my driver and pulling my fairway woods up until 2008. Learning to swing with a square club face, to release the.
This tip will keep you from hooking your driver golf digest. In this video pga golf coach mark wood explains why you might be hooking the driver and what you need to do to stop it. By paul wilson may 7, 2009 if youre pulling or pull hooking the ball to the left youre doing one thing wrong. Sometimes the ball will just start out with a pull but no hook and sometimes it does hook. Many golfers are frustrated with their golf swing as they cant seem to keep from hooking the golf ball when they tee off.
Instruction this cheat sheet will tell you whether you have. How to fix a duck hook golf swing golf practice guides. The feel we want you to have is, trying to keep the head relatively still, but once you make a back swing, you want to feel as if. Golf tips stop hooking the ball with your driver golf. How to stop hooking the golf ball golf fix golf channel. If you stop fearing the hook and start swinging all the way through, youre going to spend a lot less time hunting for balls in the woods. All summer i was fighting the ever growing urge for my golf balls to fly aimlessly to the left violent drawshooks. Jun 07, 2018 if youre a player who tends to hit a hook, first count yourself fortunate. Hook sufferers often try to keep the club square, but end up closing the clubface, producing their hooks. At the eightminute mark, he comes back to the topic du jour with an option most golfers with a bad grip would happily consider. How can you stop hooking the golf ball video lesson by pga pros pete styles and matt fryer during this video tip pga professionals pete styles and matt fryer will lead you through a series of exercises to try and reduce the amount of hooking golf shots that. You must know the basic fundamentals involved in a golf driver swing to.
Try weakening your grip w your irons so that your thumbs are lined up w the cluface. This video explains the wrist positions to help you stop pulling the golf ball. A closed club face at impact and an insidetoout swing can cause a duck hook. In other words, a case of the pull hooks must be dealt with and defeated asap pull hooks results from an overthetop or outsidetoinside swing path paired with a closed, quickly. To stop hooking, keep your clubface at a 90 degree angle to the ball at impact. One is that the clubface is too closed at impact and is. Stop snap hooking stay in posture to hit straight top.
The pull hook is one of golfs most devastating maladies. In short, to stop the snap hook you have to get a more online swing. School of golf hosts martin hall and blair oneal teach how to stop the hook like twotime masters champion bernhard langer. Take your address position, place that club across your shoulders. For the last couple weeks the only shot with my driver has been a low pullhook. To know how to stop hooking the golf ball with a driver, you must first identify what causes the problem. How can you stop hooking the golf ball video lesson by pga. Stop hooking the golf ball with meandmygolf pga professionals piers ward and andy proudman. Hookers tend to align themselves to the right of target because they hit the ball right to left. Learning to swing with a square club face, to release the club properly and to swing on the proper path will help eliminate your duck.