Adrian Fryer – PGA Teaching Pro
If you are struggling hooking the ball off the tee the reason is the same for every golfer who is hooking it. Basically from a physics point of view the club face is getting closed at the moment of truth of impact is looking left of you intended target, and certainly left of the path your swinging the club on and of course what happens you see the ball go left and you aim for the right. I'm afraid this makes your swing more from the inside here and you turn the face in and it's going even further left and put in a nasty hook spin on the ball. A little trick is actually the tee height if you see that ball high you probably more likely to hook it because that gives you access to the inside of a golf ball so you're hitting it in and up. You do need to check what your club face orientations like to the arc if you are getting the club face a little bit closed remember to check your grip hasn't crept to strong too far to the right so make sure you've got an orthodox grip, but you know one of the simplest things you can do to stop this hook. You can effect this all by you set up and your tee height.
What I'm going to do is using a much smaller tee so rather than teeing it high I've got a tee half the height here. If I tee this ball really low it makes it difficult with the driver to get to the underside and inside of the golf ball. So any tour professional wants to fade one down the middle they definitely may well tee it lower. Then what you're going to do is rotate your stance around so traditionally you've got the ball off the inside of your front foot but what I'm going to ask you to do is just shuffle round slightly left of the target so now this is going to affect you swing path. It is going to make you swing path the more outside combine that with that lower tee peg that means the club is going to come outside and across the golf ball, and again if you keep an eye on your grip this is going to swipe the club across the ball just getting that nice little bit of cut spin on it. Jack Nicklaus one of the greatest golfers probably ever lived he said it was quite simple if you will keep trying fade and if you fail at it then try and hook it. So I'm just going to try and fade this one so from a square set up I'm going to rotate around left to the ball low let the clubs slide across the golf ball, and that was great to hear a little overly fade there given that. Have a try at set up and adjustment I think you'll be able to eliminate that hook and see some nice little powerful fades.
2018-11-27 Adrian Fryer – PGA Teaching Pro
If you are struggling hooking the ball off the tee the reason is the same for every golfer who is hooking it. Basically from a physics point of view the club face is getting closed at the moment of truth of impact is looking left of you intended target, and certainly left of the path your swinging the club on and of course what happens you see the ball go left and you aim for the right. I'm afraid this makes your swing more from the inside here and you turn the face in and it's going even further left and put in a nasty hook spin on the ball. A little trick is actually the tee height if you see that ball high you probably more likely to hook it because that gives you access to the inside of a golf ball so you're hitting it in and up. You do need to check what your club face orientations like to the arc if you are getting the club face a little bit closed remember to check your grip hasn't crept to strong too far to the right so make sure you've got an orthodox grip, but you know one of the simplest things you can do to stop this hook. You can effect this all by you set up and your tee height.
What I'm going to do is using a much smaller tee so rather than teeing it high I've got a tee half the height here. If I tee this ball really low it makes it difficult with the driver to get to the underside and inside of the golf ball. So any tour professional wants to fade one down the middle they definitely may well tee it lower. Then what you're going to do is rotate your stance around so traditionally you've got the ball off the inside of your front foot but what I'm going to ask you to do is just shuffle round slightly left of the target so now this is going to affect you swing path. It is going to make you swing path the more outside combine that with that lower tee peg that means the club is going to come outside and across the golf ball, and again if you keep an eye on your grip this is going to swipe the club across the ball just getting that nice little bit of cut spin on it. Jack Nicklaus one of the greatest golfers probably ever lived he said it was quite simple if you will keep trying fade and if you fail at it then try and hook it. So I'm just going to try and fade this one so from a square set up I'm going to rotate around left to the ball low let the clubs slide across the golf ball, and that was great to hear a little overly fade there given that. Have a try at set up and adjustment I think you'll be able to eliminate that hook and see some nice little powerful fades.
