How to Stop Hooking Correct Hand Speed - Senior Golf Tip (Video) - by Dean Butler
How to Stop Hooking Correct Hand Speed - Senior Golf Tip (Video) - by Dean Butler

What I want to talk about here is how to stop the hook with incorrect hand speed. A hook first of all is a ball, which is aimed down the camera here, a ball that starts to the right and bends to the left-hand side, that is a hook, so we’re clear in our mind what sort of shape we’re talking about. If you’re hooking the ball and it’s down to your hand action being too quick, what we need you to do is obviously slow down the hands, but how do we do it? If you’re over the ball and the hands are being too active then basically this is happening. You’re throwing the club at the ball, the hands are rolling over, the forearms are rolling over, and, of course, you can see that clubface is coming in and closing over.

So, there are a couple of ways of actually going about this. You’ve got of kind of lose this sort of throwing the club at it, these wrists being too active. The first thing is you could actually set yourself up with a clubface slightly open and then from that just try and keep the clubface in that position and swing so the clubface hits the ball as that was done to the right-hand side. That gives you the feel of holding the clubface open and, again, the hands have not been able to rotate. Had they rotated, that ball would have again hooked in the flight. So, that’s one way of actually getting the hands to be a little bit more quiet, a little bit more docile. The other one is basically swing the club like a pendulum. So we all know what a pendulum is like. It just sits there and just swinging it backwards and forwards.

It’s on the same path backwards and forwards, it’s the same length, it never deviates one way or the other, just great tempo. So, from here, if I set myself up and just think about the pendulum, so I keep my arms straight, hit my arm straight and surprise, surprise, the ball has gone exactly where I’ve aimed, straight down the middle. No deviation whatsoever and this is giving you the feel of keeping these fort of wrists inactive and making the arms a bit more active. So, if you’re hooking the ball and we know what the shape is and you know it’s down to your hands cause the hands are just releasing too quickly. Hopefully I’ve given you a couple of tips there just to get yourself out and just work on what is so simple. Don’t make it complicated. Make it simple. Golf is hard enough. Let’s make is simple. Take that knowledge away and put it into good practice.

 2013-08-07

What I want to talk about here is how to stop the hook with incorrect hand speed. A hook first of all is a ball, which is aimed down the camera here, a ball that starts to the right and bends to the left-hand side, that is a hook, so we’re clear in our mind what sort of shape we’re talking about. If you’re hooking the ball and it’s down to your hand action being too quick, what we need you to do is obviously slow down the hands, but how do we do it? If you’re over the ball and the hands are being too active then basically this is happening. You’re throwing the club at the ball, the hands are rolling over, the forearms are rolling over, and, of course, you can see that clubface is coming in and closing over.

So, there are a couple of ways of actually going about this. You’ve got of kind of lose this sort of throwing the club at it, these wrists being too active. The first thing is you could actually set yourself up with a clubface slightly open and then from that just try and keep the clubface in that position and swing so the clubface hits the ball as that was done to the right-hand side. That gives you the feel of holding the clubface open and, again, the hands have not been able to rotate. Had they rotated, that ball would have again hooked in the flight. So, that’s one way of actually getting the hands to be a little bit more quiet, a little bit more docile. The other one is basically swing the club like a pendulum. So we all know what a pendulum is like. It just sits there and just swinging it backwards and forwards.

It’s on the same path backwards and forwards, it’s the same length, it never deviates one way or the other, just great tempo. So, from here, if I set myself up and just think about the pendulum, so I keep my arms straight, hit my arm straight and surprise, surprise, the ball has gone exactly where I’ve aimed, straight down the middle. No deviation whatsoever and this is giving you the feel of keeping these fort of wrists inactive and making the arms a bit more active. So, if you’re hooking the ball and we know what the shape is and you know it’s down to your hands cause the hands are just releasing too quickly. Hopefully I’ve given you a couple of tips there just to get yourself out and just work on what is so simple. Don’t make it complicated. Make it simple. Golf is hard enough. Let’s make is simple. Take that knowledge away and put it into good practice.