What are Pull Hooks and How to Cure this Golf Shot as a Senior Golfer (Video) - by Dean Butler
What are Pull Hooks and How to Cure this Golf Shot as a Senior Golfer (Video) - by Dean Butler

Okay, so first of all, I'm going to describe what a pull hook is. Here is the direction that I wish to hit the golf ball, straight down the sticks here, down towards the wall. And a pull is where the golf ball will go straight to the left hand side, with a big horrible curve to the left hand side. So if a pull is coming up this angle and it curves all the way around, so it ends up going up so far left, you will be so lucky to actually find a ball again. So what I want you to do is first of all, let me just show you what causes this.

You swing the club, first of all and you are going outside the line, you are coming inside the line, the clubface is closed and that creates that pull hook, that's what creates it. Now the reason I have got a basket here is because we have just shown you that the problem is, is that we tend to swing the club from out to in and with the clubface is closed. So we have got to get rid of that, so the easiest thing in the world is not, just not put a golf ball or a head cover down there, let’s put something there which is quite substantial. Set ourselves back up again, this time move the ball a little bit closer to the basket, just inside the basket and from here, you can just imagine if I took the club back now and I took it outside the line, the basket is going to go over. So from here now, the club should come away from the basket and from there, we can’t produce the same shot. So from here now, the club is now going to come back from the inside and you can see I am going to focus on hitting out. Remember, the problem was we swung from out to in, that’s this direction with the club face closed. By putting the basket there, we have now changed the swing path, so now we have come inside and we're going to concentrate on hitting outside. And that's a very simple way of curing this problem. Go out practice this, it won't take longer than 5 to 10 minutes to actually put this into practice and see big changes very quickly. 2013-10-25

Okay, so first of all, I'm going to describe what a pull hook is. Here is the direction that I wish to hit the golf ball, straight down the sticks here, down towards the wall. And a pull is where the golf ball will go straight to the left hand side, with a big horrible curve to the left hand side. So if a pull is coming up this angle and it curves all the way around, so it ends up going up so far left, you will be so lucky to actually find a ball again. So what I want you to do is first of all, let me just show you what causes this.

You swing the club, first of all and you are going outside the line, you are coming inside the line, the clubface is closed and that creates that pull hook, that's what creates it. Now the reason I have got a basket here is because we have just shown you that the problem is, is that we tend to swing the club from out to in and with the clubface is closed. So we have got to get rid of that, so the easiest thing in the world is not, just not put a golf ball or a head cover down there, let’s put something there which is quite substantial.

Set ourselves back up again, this time move the ball a little bit closer to the basket, just inside the basket and from here, you can just imagine if I took the club back now and I took it outside the line, the basket is going to go over. So from here now, the club should come away from the basket and from there, we can’t produce the same shot. So from here now, the club is now going to come back from the inside and you can see I am going to focus on hitting out.

Remember, the problem was we swung from out to in, that’s this direction with the club face closed. By putting the basket there, we have now changed the swing path, so now we have come inside and we're going to concentrate on hitting outside. And that's a very simple way of curing this problem. Go out practice this, it won't take longer than 5 to 10 minutes to actually put this into practice and see big changes very quickly.