The Golf Swing How To: Fix Your Hook (Video) - Lesson by PGA Pro Pete Styles
The Golf Swing How To: Fix Your Hook (Video) - Lesson by PGA Pro Pete Styles

If you have issues with hooking the golf ball and a hook for a right-handed golfer is a ball that starts right or straight and finishes down the left-hand side. We would probably question whether the, the swing path is too much into out. And the face is very closed to that path. That’s imparting a lot of spin on the ball. So what we would like to try and do is control the club face and look a bit better. Make sure the rotation of the closing of the club face is done in a more controlled fashion. So here I’ve a target line and that’s going to be aiming the ball straight back towards the camera lens there. Now I’m just conscious to the fact that my left hand wants to return back to its set up position. It doesn’t want to have turned away 'cause I presume the club face is square in my dress position. So I focus on the fact that my badge here points down the line of this yellow cane. So as I make my swing back I make my swing down, I focus on the badge of my glove still pointing down that target line. If my badge was to aim left at this face, clearly I have rotated the club face too much. And if that’s the case I’m rotating the club face too much, it’s normally for the right-handed golfer, the right hand it’s doing too much work.

As the right hand comes down it whips over the top. And it might be fact that your grip is too strong or your right hand is too dominant or your hips on your torso aren’t leading the down swing, but your shoulders and your hands are coming over the top. So a couple of little ways of settling that right hand down. In my place the right hand in a very weak position, as a drill, get your right hand right on top. Feel how your left hand now dictates the movements a lot more. Your right hand becomes a lot more passive. You should notice if you are doing that and the ball would start more to the right and stay more to the right and not disappear down that left hand side. Another nice exercise would be to take your normal grip with a single overlapping finger or interlinking finger, but actually double it so put two fingers on top.

Simply that makes the right handle a lot less influential. You’ve only now got two fingers and the thumb on the grip. Meaning the right hand can’t quite come over as quickly. The hope is that there the face stays more open, the ball blocks more out to the right hand side and reduce that hook. I would stress that they are just drills. So you wouldn’t necessarily go on the golf course and play with those, but the hope is the feeling of the right hand being more passive enables you to square the club face a bit more. The feeling then can be transferred into the normal set up and grip. So the right hand has less influence, the badge on the back of your glove stays more straight to target and doesn’t curve over too far left. That keeps the face squarer to the path and reduces the amount of curve the ball has and stops your hook.

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If you have issues with hooking the golf ball and a hook for a right-handed golfer is a ball that starts right or straight and finishes down the left-hand side. We would probably question whether the, the swing path is too much into out. And the face is very closed to that path. That’s imparting a lot of spin on the ball. So what we would like to try and do is control the club face and look a bit better. Make sure the rotation of the closing of the club face is done in a more controlled fashion. So here I’ve a target line and that’s going to be aiming the ball straight back towards the camera lens there. Now I’m just conscious to the fact that my left hand wants to return back to its set up position. It doesn’t want to have turned away 'cause I presume the club face is square in my dress position. So I focus on the fact that my badge here points down the line of this yellow cane. So as I make my swing back I make my swing down, I focus on the badge of my glove still pointing down that target line. If my badge was to aim left at this face, clearly I have rotated the club face too much. And if that’s the case I’m rotating the club face too much, it’s normally for the right-handed golfer, the right hand it’s doing too much work.

As the right hand comes down it whips over the top. And it might be fact that your grip is too strong or your right hand is too dominant or your hips on your torso aren’t leading the down swing, but your shoulders and your hands are coming over the top. So a couple of little ways of settling that right hand down. In my place the right hand in a very weak position, as a drill, get your right hand right on top. Feel how your left hand now dictates the movements a lot more. Your right hand becomes a lot more passive. You should notice if you are doing that and the ball would start more to the right and stay more to the right and not disappear down that left hand side. Another nice exercise would be to take your normal grip with a single overlapping finger or interlinking finger, but actually double it so put two fingers on top.

Simply that makes the right handle a lot less influential. You’ve only now got two fingers and the thumb on the grip. Meaning the right hand can’t quite come over as quickly. The hope is that there the face stays more open, the ball blocks more out to the right hand side and reduce that hook. I would stress that they are just drills. So you wouldn’t necessarily go on the golf course and play with those, but the hope is the feeling of the right hand being more passive enables you to square the club face a bit more. The feeling then can be transferred into the normal set up and grip. So the right hand has less influence, the badge on the back of your glove stays more straight to target and doesn’t curve over too far left. That keeps the face squarer to the path and reduces the amount of curve the ball has and stops your hook.