Learn from Your Ball Flight – Slices and Hooks - Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles
Learn from Your Ball Flight – Slices and Hooks - Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles

You might be in a position in that way when you hit the golf ball, you hit the ball hard, you hit the ball straight out in the middle of the golf club and you hit the ball a long way, but it might not always go where you want it to go. It might have the dreaded hook or slice spin. Now this spin is created when the path of the club and the angle of the club face don’t match up, they are not perfectly square to each other when you hit. So if we have an out to in swing path which should be traveling from out to in and a face angle that is open to that path we are going to create sliced spin. It doesn’t mean it would always be a big slice, if it’s a very small amount of slice, spin it, it might be fade, it might land on target but it’s spinning in that direction. And basically it’s the backspin access, is actually knocked off straight so rather than the ball back spinning through there, the backspin is on an angle and it spins and it curve through the rear. A lot of people would term that a side spin. You have also got the hook inch, the hooking shot or the drawing shot, which is a swing path that’s too much from in to out with a club face that’s closed that swing path. And that would produce drawing spin or hooking spin. And again same thing it’s the backspin that a club would normally create but it’s just a tilted access, some people would term that as a sidespin the other way. So it’s spinning from right to left.

Now if you have got one of those shots, here is three common causes that each shot might be caused by. So if you are slicing the golf ball, three issues really here, one would be whole weight transfer, probably leaning back through the impact area, getting the bodyweight back on the right foot, rather than driving forward to the front foot. Often that could then cause a second issue which is bringing the club over the top, so from this angle taking the club outside the line and over the top in your downswing. And then the third issue would then be not releasing the golf club correctly, not squaring the club face up to the target, to the point of impact, but having the club face open to that swing path so that club comes from out to in, the face is pointing right of the swing path and it’s going to stop putting that tilted spin or some people would term it sidespin on the golf ball.

Now if you are hooking the golf ball, spinning the ball on the opposite direction, again three main issues that might be causing this. We have got a little bit of a flat swing going on too far around the body this way. So taking the club up dropping too flat, too much from in to out therefore resulting in excessive hand action to try and hook the ball back in to stop the ball blocking, too much rotation and rolling of the hands, often caused by bad alignment as well. So a lot of people would aim down the right hand side and then try and rescue that ball back in with their hands and put an awful lot of that hooking spin on the ball so that tilted access of spin, drawing the ball to then you get too far to into the hook. So if you got the dreaded slice or hook spins happening on your shot, consider those three issues for each of those faults. If you have identified that there is a fault in your technique that’s one of those is causing the problems, try searching on  HYPERLINK "http://www.golfinfoguide.com" www.golfinfoguide.com on this site if you are looking for more of those corrections of how you can help improve those areas.

 2012-07-17

You might be in a position in that way when you hit the golf ball, you hit the ball hard, you hit the ball straight out in the middle of the golf club and you hit the ball a long way, but it might not always go where you want it to go. It might have the dreaded hook or slice spin. Now this spin is created when the path of the club and the angle of the club face don’t match up, they are not perfectly square to each other when you hit. So if we have an out to in swing path which should be traveling from out to in and a face angle that is open to that path we are going to create sliced spin. It doesn’t mean it would always be a big slice, if it’s a very small amount of slice, spin it, it might be fade, it might land on target but it’s spinning in that direction. And basically it’s the backspin access, is actually knocked off straight so rather than the ball back spinning through there, the backspin is on an angle and it spins and it curve through the rear. A lot of people would term that a side spin. You have also got the hook inch, the hooking shot or the drawing shot, which is a swing path that’s too much from in to out with a club face that’s closed that swing path. And that would produce drawing spin or hooking spin. And again same thing it’s the backspin that a club would normally create but it’s just a tilted access, some people would term that as a sidespin the other way. So it’s spinning from right to left.

Now if you have got one of those shots, here is three common causes that each shot might be caused by. So if you are slicing the golf ball, three issues really here, one would be whole weight transfer, probably leaning back through the impact area, getting the bodyweight back on the right foot, rather than driving forward to the front foot. Often that could then cause a second issue which is bringing the club over the top, so from this angle taking the club outside the line and over the top in your downswing. And then the third issue would then be not releasing the golf club correctly, not squaring the club face up to the target, to the point of impact, but having the club face open to that swing path so that club comes from out to in, the face is pointing right of the swing path and it’s going to stop putting that tilted spin or some people would term it sidespin on the golf ball.

Now if you are hooking the golf ball, spinning the ball on the opposite direction, again three main issues that might be causing this. We have got a little bit of a flat swing going on too far around the body this way. So taking the club up dropping too flat, too much from in to out therefore resulting in excessive hand action to try and hook the ball back in to stop the ball blocking, too much rotation and rolling of the hands, often caused by bad alignment as well. So a lot of people would aim down the right hand side and then try and rescue that ball back in with their hands and put an awful lot of that hooking spin on the ball so that tilted access of spin, drawing the ball to then you get too far to into the hook. So if you got the dreaded slice or hook spins happening on your shot, consider those three issues for each of those faults. If you have identified that there is a fault in your technique that’s one of those is causing the problems, try searching on HYPERLINK “http://www.golfinfoguide.com” www.golfinfoguide.com on this site if you are looking for more of those corrections of how you can help improve those areas.