The Top Ways to Fix Your Hook (Video) - by Pete Styles
The Top Ways to Fix Your Hook (Video) - by Pete Styles

So in this next little mini series, we’re going to be looking at hooking the golf ball. Why does the ball hook? How does it hook? What’s detrimental about a hook? But also what’s positive about a hook? How does the hook show that we’re actually quite close to hitting some good shots? So initially we need to understand that a hook is a golf ball that generally will start at or slightly right of target but then move quite aggressively left of target for the right-handed golfer. So it’s a ball that sets off right and turns left.

Now if the ball is setting off left and turning further left, we’d generally probably call that a pull hook. So just consider there is a difference between a hook and a pull hook, likewise there’s difference between a push and a push slice. But a hook is something that looks pretty good as it sets off from the club, starts to move from right to left and goes too far and often a hook is related to someone who’s maybe been hitting a draw but starts to overcook it. Some people often say, it’s a good player’s fault. You might have started hooking the ball because you used to slice it. You took some advice of how to stop the slice but then you’ve started to overdo the correction, started to actually overcook it and hook the ball a little bit. So in this series, we’re going to look at how that happens and how we can correct it. Now often the hook is a detrimental shot for a lot of golfers because unlike a slice, when a slice lands, it stops and it stops getting worse you know, a slice goes left and right for a right hander, maybe lands in the semi rough but stops, lands in the right hand side of the green but stops. A hook is different because a hook is on low profile, it has lot of backspin. When a hook lands, it will really kick on and shoots off. So we’ll hit the ball from right to left, it will land flag high next to the side of the green but then it’ll bounce another 30 yards through, gets itself into some heavy rough. So that’s why the hook is quite a detrimental shot. But like I stressed, it is quite close to being a good draw or straight shot. So watch this next little mini series if you’re hooking the golf ball. We’ll line out some drills and some corrections that will help improve your hook and hopefully turn it into nice strong draw ball flight that you can control. 2015-08-11

So in this next little mini series, we’re going to be looking at hooking the golf ball. Why does the ball hook? How does it hook? What’s detrimental about a hook? But also what’s positive about a hook? How does the hook show that we’re actually quite close to hitting some good shots? So initially we need to understand that a hook is a golf ball that generally will start at or slightly right of target but then move quite aggressively left of target for the right-handed golfer. So it’s a ball that sets off right and turns left.

Now if the ball is setting off left and turning further left, we’d generally probably call that a pull hook. So just consider there is a difference between a hook and a pull hook, likewise there’s difference between a push and a push slice. But a hook is something that looks pretty good as it sets off from the club, starts to move from right to left and goes too far and often a hook is related to someone who’s maybe been hitting a draw but starts to overcook it. Some people often say, it’s a good player’s fault.

You might have started hooking the ball because you used to slice it. You took some advice of how to stop the slice but then you’ve started to overdo the correction, started to actually overcook it and hook the ball a little bit. So in this series, we’re going to look at how that happens and how we can correct it. Now often the hook is a detrimental shot for a lot of golfers because unlike a slice, when a slice lands, it stops and it stops getting worse you know, a slice goes left and right for a right hander, maybe lands in the semi rough but stops, lands in the right hand side of the green but stops.

A hook is different because a hook is on low profile, it has lot of backspin. When a hook lands, it will really kick on and shoots off. So we’ll hit the ball from right to left, it will land flag high next to the side of the green but then it’ll bounce another 30 yards through, gets itself into some heavy rough. So that’s why the hook is quite a detrimental shot. But like I stressed, it is quite close to being a good draw or straight shot. So watch this next little mini series if you’re hooking the golf ball. We’ll line out some drills and some corrections that will help improve your hook and hopefully turn it into nice strong draw ball flight that you can control.