Three Common Hook Causes (Video) - by Pete Styles
Three Common Hook Causes (Video) - by Pete Styles

So if you’re hooking the golf ball and this is a right-hander’s – well, I’m going to talk to you about it from a right-hander’s position, so if you’re a left-hander just reverse things. But if from a right-hander’s position if you’re hooking the golf ball, it generally means the path is too much from in to out and the club face is too closed. So for a right-handed golfer, we’re swinging too far right and the club face is aiming too far left, reverse that if you’re left-handed. So let’s look at why that happens and how we can stop it happening.

So the first element might be that you’re swinging too much from the inside. So from down the line of view with this being my target, my swing path is probably heading too much this way, so the club comes too much from behind me to too far out in front of me. That swings the club too far to the right. We say the path is too far right. If the club face is not to the right but it’s more to the left that imparts that spin. It’s actually anticlockwise spin that goes on the ball for the right-hander. And if the club face is quite aggressively left, it turns the ball too far. And often the club face is too aggressively left because the hands are too active. So we often see golfers that bring the club too much from the inside, then work on too much of an active hand rotation so the hands and arms are flipping over and turning the club over here and then too much hand action shuts the club face down too much and the ball will ultimately hook down that left hand side. One other reason why a lot of golfers hook the ball, it can of creates those two positions but accidentally it’s not using the legs enough, having a very stable and static bottom half, sort of we see a golfer that gets to the top and then stays on that back leg and lets the hands hook over just effectively the hands go faster than the lower half, they’ll roll the club, shut the club face down and the ball drags off that left side. What we’d like to see is a golfer that was driving into the golf ball with the lower half, allowing that club face to stay more on line and squarer for impact rather than legs going back, hands overtaken and hooking it down that left hand side. So if those three ideas ring true in your game, and that might be the reason why you’re hooking the golf ball, we can now go about starting to correct those things and reduce that hook and hopefully turn into a nice drill. 2015-08-11

So if you’re hooking the golf ball and this is a right-hander’s – well, I’m going to talk to you about it from a right-hander’s position, so if you’re a left-hander just reverse things. But if from a right-hander’s position if you’re hooking the golf ball, it generally means the path is too much from in to out and the club face is too closed. So for a right-handed golfer, we’re swinging too far right and the club face is aiming too far left, reverse that if you’re left-handed. So let’s look at why that happens and how we can stop it happening.

So the first element might be that you’re swinging too much from the inside. So from down the line of view with this being my target, my swing path is probably heading too much this way, so the club comes too much from behind me to too far out in front of me. That swings the club too far to the right. We say the path is too far right. If the club face is not to the right but it’s more to the left that imparts that spin. It’s actually anticlockwise spin that goes on the ball for the right-hander. And if the club face is quite aggressively left, it turns the ball too far. And often the club face is too aggressively left because the hands are too active. So we often see golfers that bring the club too much from the inside, then work on too much of an active hand rotation so the hands and arms are flipping over and turning the club over here and then too much hand action shuts the club face down too much and the ball will ultimately hook down that left hand side.

One other reason why a lot of golfers hook the ball, it can of creates those two positions but accidentally it’s not using the legs enough, having a very stable and static bottom half, sort of we see a golfer that gets to the top and then stays on that back leg and lets the hands hook over just effectively the hands go faster than the lower half, they’ll roll the club, shut the club face down and the ball drags off that left side. What we’d like to see is a golfer that was driving into the golf ball with the lower half, allowing that club face to stay more on line and squarer for impact rather than legs going back, hands overtaken and hooking it down that left hand side. So if those three ideas ring true in your game, and that might be the reason why you’re hooking the golf ball, we can now go about starting to correct those things and reduce that hook and hopefully turn into a nice drill.