Do you find that you have an issue with hooking and pulling the golf ball? The problem really is the closing of the golf club at the impact position, having the clubface aiming too far to the left of your target line through impact, and that’s putting spin on the ball that’s taking the ball offline. Now, your hands are responsible primarily for where the clubface is aiming. So, if we can control what your hands are doing through impact and stop them closing over too much, you’ll have a lot better feel for what the club head is doing.

So, just go ahead and take a few little practice swings here. Watch how wherever the badge on the left hand points, the club head will point as well. So, if the badge turns down to the floor this way, the club head will point down to the floor and the ball will hook and go left. If the badge points up to the sky, the club face points up to the sky, the ball will go more to the right hand side. So, to stop the ball hooking and pulling on you, just concentrate on what your left hand is doing through impact. And if you can get your left hand to point up to the sky a little bit more, we should see in the follow through position here that the clubface is not turned over, it hasn’t pulled the ball down. So, if we look from the front on, point the badge up at the sky, the face is square into the target or even open to the target line. If that badge was to roll over this way, my hands have got too active, I’ve started to hook the ball too much.

So, if a hook is your problem, just consider where the clubface is through impact, control the left hand, control the clubface, you’ll be controlling the golf ball back there in no time.