What Happens When Hitting A Golf Hook Shot (Video) - by Peter Finch
What Happens When Hitting A Golf Hook Shot (Video) - by Peter Finch

One of the most destructive shots armature golfers and professional golfers for that matter can encounter, is the hook shot. Now a hook shot is the ball that starts to the left of the target and then moves further left which is known as a duck hook or a pull hook or the classic hook, which starts right at the target before curving well left to finish well left of the target. Generally speaking, you can classify as hook of anything which is finishing left with curvature, and it’s the curvature which is really the key here. Because what happens when you hit a hook shot is that the clubface is very much out of sync with the overall club path. So if we’re looking at the classic hook which starts at the right hand side before curving massively to finish left of the target. What happens is that in part the clubface is closing down to the extent where it’s pointing further left than the path and the target line.

So what’s happening as I’m getting set up here, is my target line is straight down the driving wedge. I want to get my path moving from the very much inside the body to outside the body. Now if the clubface was in the same line and it was pointing the same way as the path, that ball would just go straight right. If my clubface close down slightly, so its pointing left of my path but it was still open to my target that will create that draw shot, the shot that everyone’s after. If however that path is moving from into out and my clubface is pointing further left than my target line because my path is starting out at the right hand side, the ball will follow but then clubface which has an overall dominating effect over where the ball will finish, will curve the ball in the air and finish it off to the left hand side. So it’s moving from the inside with that strong clubface which gets that ball curving massively in the air and off to the left hand side. So that is what you’ll be seeing if you are hitting that hook shot. 2016-10-26

One of the most destructive shots armature golfers and professional golfers for that matter can encounter, is the hook shot. Now a hook shot is the ball that starts to the left of the target and then moves further left which is known as a duck hook or a pull hook or the classic hook, which starts right at the target before curving well left to finish well left of the target. Generally speaking, you can classify as hook of anything which is finishing left with curvature, and it’s the curvature which is really the key here. Because what happens when you hit a hook shot is that the clubface is very much out of sync with the overall club path. So if we’re looking at the classic hook which starts at the right hand side before curving massively to finish left of the target. What happens is that in part the clubface is closing down to the extent where it’s pointing further left than the path and the target line.

So what’s happening as I’m getting set up here, is my target line is straight down the driving wedge. I want to get my path moving from the very much inside the body to outside the body. Now if the clubface was in the same line and it was pointing the same way as the path, that ball would just go straight right. If my clubface close down slightly, so its pointing left of my path but it was still open to my target that will create that draw shot, the shot that everyone’s after. If however that path is moving from into out and my clubface is pointing further left than my target line because my path is starting out at the right hand side, the ball will follow but then clubface which has an overall dominating effect over where the ball will finish, will curve the ball in the air and finish it off to the left hand side. So it’s moving from the inside with that strong clubface which gets that ball curving massively in the air and off to the left hand side. So that is what you’ll be seeing if you are hitting that hook shot.