Snap Hook Golf, 3 Good Cures To Fixes It (Video) - by Dean Butler
Snap Hook Golf, 3 Good Cures To Fixes It (Video) - by Dean Butler

Okay. So I guess if you’re looking at this tip, you hook the ball. So a snap hook golf is a ball that travels as a right hander, from the right side and brings itself back it finishes to the left side of the target. So that’s the hook and that’s why we're watching this video clip now to try and find out what you may be doing wrong. The first thing is how to tackle; I want to tackle about the grip. The grip is a major factor; it's the only contact you've got with your club. It's really something that we need to make sure that we've got right. So here is a hookers grip, a hookers grip is when the left hand is wrapped too far over, we should bring the shoulders around and it would force the right hand to go underneath.

Now from that angle you might probably think I don’t understand why that we call a hook, so let's look from behind. I set myself back up again, I put my left hand over, you'll notice straight to where my left shoulder's coming forward. I'm going to put my right hand underneath, because my left hand is blocking my bright hand out. And straight away you can see that my shoulders are aiming to the right hand side, so I'm now in a close set up. This is not going to make for a very excessive swing that’s going to go very much inside and flat around the body, from here we'll come back from the inside and the swing will be very much like a slingshot, it will be literally coming round and you can see this sort of body language, of course that shape is going to make that ball maneuver from right to left, so try that just in case you think yes it will be my grip. So let's look at the second thing about the club face. If I say to you, you might be hooding the club face; you might think I'm not sure what I mean. Hooding the club face means having the club face close, okay? So club face square, club face close, so how do I check if the clubface is square? So let's look from behind. I set myself up; if I swing the club back and the club faces close you can see that the face is actually aiming to the ground. So the club face is close, so another good point would be to say like watch that club face now, I will turn my body around and that face on, I'm going to drop that club straight back down and wow! how close is that club face, it's so hooded. Where is the square club face, same setup, what we want to do is swing the club face back, and as we go back, we're pointing the tip of the club up into the air. Again that club face is not a square we want to reassure ourselves, turn the body around but not move the club face drop it back down and the club face is in a square position, so very simple if you find that whether you got a closed or hooded club face, it's the same thing or whether you've got a square club face and you've got a good way of checking what you're doing because you can just do what I've shown you from that hopefully eliminate that fault. And the third thing is, what I want to do is I want to talk about the alignment which is another big factor as you can imagine. The perfect set up is for the club face to be on line for the target which is represented by that stick there. This stick here represents the actual body alignment which runs parallel. So here is the perfect set up, and here is the hooker’s position. A hooker's position you can see I just basically move my feet round so I aim in to the right hand side and again this is going to encourage the club to come very much, a rounded swing, very much from the inside and from here as the weight transfers back to the ball, the left side will have to get out of the way very quickly and so sort of sling shot actually where the club is being thrown literary like that, so the ball starts off and off it pops from right to left, so there are three ways that you could actually be hooking the ball in this tip. Go away and practice on all three style with the grip, because that's normally sort of the big birdie. And work your way off through all three, if you don’t find yourself improving up to hitting maybe a couple of hundred balls work on each tip, because remember if your grip or any of the other things were wrong it didn’t happen in one shot, they most probably happened over weeks or month of playing golf. So give yourself plenty of balls to get yourself into the habit of whatever we just put into practice. If it still doesn’t work, go and see a pro, the PGA Pro is there to help you, and he can identify or he or she can identify within minutes what that problem is.
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Okay. So I guess if you’re looking at this tip, you hook the ball. So a snap hook golf is a ball that travels as a right hander, from the right side and brings itself back it finishes to the left side of the target. So that’s the hook and that’s why we're watching this video clip now to try and find out what you may be doing wrong. The first thing is how to tackle; I want to tackle about the grip. The grip is a major factor; it's the only contact you've got with your club. It's really something that we need to make sure that we've got right. So here is a hookers grip, a hookers grip is when the left hand is wrapped too far over, we should bring the shoulders around and it would force the right hand to go underneath.

Now from that angle you might probably think I don’t understand why that we call a hook, so let's look from behind. I set myself back up again, I put my left hand over, you'll notice straight to where my left shoulder's coming forward. I'm going to put my right hand underneath, because my left hand is blocking my bright hand out. And straight away you can see that my shoulders are aiming to the right hand side, so I'm now in a close set up. This is not going to make for a very excessive swing that’s going to go very much inside and flat around the body, from here we'll come back from the inside and the swing will be very much like a slingshot, it will be literally coming round and you can see this sort of body language, of course that shape is going to make that ball maneuver from right to left, so try that just in case you think yes it will be my grip.

So let's look at the second thing about the club face. If I say to you, you might be hooding the club face; you might think I'm not sure what I mean. Hooding the club face means having the club face close, okay? So club face square, club face close, so how do I check if the clubface is square? So let's look from behind. I set myself up; if I swing the club back and the club faces close you can see that the face is actually aiming to the ground. So the club face is close, so another good point would be to say like watch that club face now, I will turn my body around and that face on, I'm going to drop that club straight back down and wow! how close is that club face, it's so hooded. Where is the square club face, same setup, what we want to do is swing the club face back, and as we go back, we're pointing the tip of the club up into the air. Again that club face is not a square we want to reassure ourselves, turn the body around but not move the club face drop it back down and the club face is in a square position, so very simple if you find that whether you got a closed or hooded club face, it's the same thing or whether you've got a square club face and you've got a good way of checking what you're doing because you can just do what I've shown you from that hopefully eliminate that fault.

And the third thing is, what I want to do is I want to talk about the alignment which is another big factor as you can imagine. The perfect set up is for the club face to be on line for the target which is represented by that stick there. This stick here represents the actual body alignment which runs parallel. So here is the perfect set up, and here is the hooker’s position. A hooker's position you can see I just basically move my feet round so I aim in to the right hand side and again this is going to encourage the club to come very much, a rounded swing, very much from the inside and from here as the weight transfers back to the ball, the left side will have to get out of the way very quickly and so sort of sling shot actually where the club is being thrown literary like that, so the ball starts off and off it pops from right to left, so there are three ways that you could actually be hooking the ball in this tip.

Go away and practice on all three style with the grip, because that's normally sort of the big birdie. And work your way off through all three, if you don’t find yourself improving up to hitting maybe a couple of hundred balls work on each tip, because remember if your grip or any of the other things were wrong it didn’t happen in one shot, they most probably happened over weeks or month of playing golf. So give yourself plenty of balls to get yourself into the habit of whatever we just put into practice. If it still doesn’t work, go and see a pro, the PGA Pro is there to help you, and he can identify or he or she can identify within minutes what that problem is.