Cause Of A Hook Shot In Golf

As you can see in the picture; typically a hook is caused by an in-to-out swing, coupled with a closed clubface, creating a strong topspin (right to left) rotation on the golf ball. The closed clubface is the real issue, as in inside to out swing is a good thing, not a bad one. Learning how to square your golf clubface at impact will be crucial in correcting your hook in your golf swing.

Another cause of a hook shot is the stopping of your upper body rotation before impact, and the hands take over, which closes the face prematurely. If you are hooking the golf ball, a great tip is to work your ABT’s. The ABT’s mean…“Always Be Turning”. I can promise you, if you focus on rotating your body (and hips) aggressively through impact, you will not hook the golf ball. If you are, you have a strong golf grip causing it to close to much at impact. Getting the proper left hand golf grip (slightly weaker) will help correct the rapidly closing clubface.

Getting stuck on your downswing is another cause of a hook golf shot. This is something Tiger Woods is notorious of. Getting stuck means, your lower body gets way ahead of your upper body in the downswing, and your hands, arms and club get stuck too far inside, and the ONLY way to make decent contact is to flip your hands through impact.

Learning how to slow down your golf swing is crucial to proper golf downswing sequence. Once you get this right, you will have a perfectly timed golf swing coming into impact. Your lower and upper body will be sequenced to come into the ball with a square clubface, and just a slight in-to-out swing path.

Simple Tips To Correct Hook

1. Square your clubface at impact. Start by making sure it is square at address, and not closed, or even open, which would make you compensate coming down.
2. Weaken your left hand grip. If you’re a right-handed golfer instead of seeing 3 or even 4 knuckles on your left hand, rotate it to your left to only see 2 knuckles.
3. Slow your downswing. If you learn how to slow your downswing, your body’s sequence will be much better. You will come into the golf ball with the face square, and both upper and lower body nearly matched up, and not one ahead of the other.
4. Work your ABT’s. As mentioned earlier, focus on aggressively rotating your upper body through the shot. That way your hands will never want to take over.
5. Get your right should to come out not down. This is for the more advanced player, as the fault is coming inside too much on downswing, and part of that may be an “over-dropping” of the right shoulder in the downswing. So for that player, thinking of the right shoulder coming just a bit out and not down, might be the ticket.

Hope you enjoyed this article on how to correct and/or fix your golf hook shot. If you did, you’ll want to download our FREE Golf Lessons right away!

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Some of the issues causing an inconsistent clubface at impact is:

• Rolling the face open at the start of the takeaway.
• Improper golf grip that encourages an open/or shut face.
• Cupping of the wrists at the top, which either opens or shuts the face.
• Early release of the wrists (flipping, scooping) through impact.
• Upper body rotation stops in downswing, and hands take over and close the clubface.

Here’s how you can make sure you will have a square clubface at impact:

Clubface At Address

This was a huge eye opener to me after 15 years of playing golf and studying the golf swing. Setting your golf club square to the target at address like the above picture. All this time I had it slightly open and didn’t even know it. This is so important. Try to copy the picture next time you go out to practice or play. This is a perfectly square clubface. You are starting off with the best chance of returning square with this position.

Square At Top Of Golf Swing

Having a “checkpoint” at the top of your golf swing is not a bad idea when you’re doing mirror work at home, or you can have a buddy check it when you swing. The key to being square at the top is not having too much cup in your wrists. You can also have a bow in your left wrist which will dramatically shut the face as well.

Take a look at Tiger Woods. This is a perfectly square clubface at the top of his golf swing. Look at his left wrist. It’s not cupped or bowed. You can barely see his clubface, but see how it matches up with his left forearm. That’s a perfect example of square at the top.

Square At Impact

This is the “key to the kingdom”. Getting to impact with a perfectly square clubface. If you can get to impact with your hands ahead, hitting down on golf ball, a forward lean of the club shaft, and your square clubface, you’re golden! Take a look below at an overhead view of what it should look like. My face is square to the target. You can see the hands are ahead of the ball, making sure to hit the ball first with a descending blow.

Great Resource On Attaining A Consistently Square Clubface

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Golfers who slice the golf ball are to the point of humiliation. Have you been there…because I know I have. I use to hate stepping up on the tee in front of friends, and worse strangers, and hit the big ‘ol banana ball. What an ugly golf shot! It goes 40 yards shorter than all the other drives, and usually ends up out of bounds costing you 2 strokes off EVERY TEE!

Having been a frustrated slicer of the golf ball for years, I took lessons, bought training aids, and pounded thousands of golf balls at the range (most of them sliced). I could only dream of someone giving me the best, most effective cure for my slice.

I know when someone states it’s the best, it’s subjective and individual opinion, but that is what this golf blog is all about. My trials and tribulations on playing single digit golf, of which I do now, but have a long way to go nonetheless.

If you’ve been waiting to hear my best golf slice cure, you won’t have to wait no more!

The golf grip is your ONLY connection to the golf club. Get that wrong and you will NEVER be able to consistently square your clubface. And a square clubface is critical to fixing a golf slice.

Most slicers have a weak golf grip. One that is turned too far to the left on the clubshaft if you’re a right-handed golfer. This left hand position on the shaft makes it very difficult, nearly impossible to bring the clubface back to square at impact.

The proper golf grip should show atleast 3 knuckles of your left hand when you look down at it, when you’re in your golf address position.

I have taken a picture of a stronger golf grip to show you what it should look like. See below.

Try this golf grip to cure a golf slice and I think you’ll be on your way to a slice-free golf swing.

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To get the proper golf grip fundamentals first start off with your arms hanging naturally in front of your legs. Take a look down at you left hand. I’ll bet it’s mostly facing your leg with the palm. That is a natural and relaxed position with your left hand. That is EXACTLY the way you put your left hand on the golf club. Why would you change it? If you did, you would not have a natural golf grip would you?

Secondly, the proper golf grip with the left hand is in the FINGERS not in the palm! I found out after 15 years of golfing my own grip was in my palm, and with a LONG left thumb. Both not good traits if you want to hit a consistently straight golf shot.

Take a look at the below picture and notice how you bring the left hand over the golf club.

The more you grip the golf club in the fingers, the higher your clubhead speed will be, and the faster the clubface will close, which will eliminate a golf slice. If you grip the golf club further up in the palm, you will have a much slower clubhead speed, and the longer it takes for the clubface to close.

If you are a slice of the golf ball, you will want to move the grip more into the fingers (the base of the fingers), with up to 3 knuckles showing when you look down at it. If you are hooking the golf ball, you will want to move the grip slightly towards the palm area (higher up in the left hand), with 1-2 knuckles showing.

When you finally wrap your left hand around the grip of the club, it should look like the picture below.

This may take a bit of time getting use to, but the great thing is you can have a club in your home or office, grip it and regrip it dozens of times a day to speed up the process and get it to feel more like a natural golf grip, with no tension in your left forearm.

We will cover the proper right hand golf grip in the golf swing in a later article, but lets take a look at a solid golf grip in the picture below. Notice how both hands look very comfortable on the golf club. This is the correct golf grip to hit straight golf shots for 18 holes.

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Golf Grip

Most slicers of the golf ball have a weak golf grip, where the left hand is only showing one knuckle, and is rotated too far to the left. A quick fix for a slice is to rotate the left hand to the right until at least 3 knuckles show. When you do this, it is so much easier to have the clubface square and rotating through impact encouraging a nice draw instead of a slice.

Alignment

This is another golf swing fundamental that most golfers get wrong. If you’re a right-handed golfer, and you slice the golf ball, you most likely aim way to far to the left with your feet line, which creates an automatic “over the top” golf swing. Always try to go parallel to your target with your feet, knees, hips and shoulders. When you do this, you will give yourself the best chance at hitting a straight shot.

Golf Swing Takeaway

Another “death move” in the golf swing for a slicer is the takeaway. Nearly all beginner golfers who slice have a takeaway that goes out and away from their bodies on the way back, and automatically comes down from over the top. This over the top move is caused almost completely by this improper golf swing takeaway. For a golf slicer, the swing thought should be immediately to the inside with the hands and butt of the golf club. This will get you feeling and thinking “inside” on both the takeaway and the downswing, resulting in a beautiful draw…with NO GOLF SLICE!

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For beginner golfers, learning how to grip a golf club should be first on the list. A proper golf grip,shoulf feel natural, with no tension. To swing correctly, your hands have to be on the golf club a certain way. There is a little room for error, but getting the technique down so you don’t even need to think about it, should be your goal.

Proper Golf Grip

A proper golf grip is one that is the fingers of the hands, not the palms. Most amatuers, including myself don’t get ths correct. When you set the club in your fingers, you now have freedom to make a full wrist cock, which will give you maximum clubhead speed through the ball via wrist lag.

I will go into this in great detail, but for now, I want to briefly cover 2 grips. Continue reading below.

Grip

Most beginners slice the golf ball. One of the main reasons is a poor grip that is considered too weak. So for a right handed golfer that means the left hand is rotated too far to the left, along with a right hand that is also to far to the left.

Strength your grip to cure your slice AND add more power and distance to your swing. Rotate your left hand over to the left so when you look straight down at it you should see atleast 3 knuckles of your left hand. This is exactly what you want, as your hand will naturally want to turn over through impact which will close the clubface and create topspin adding lots of distance once the ball hits the fairway.

Learning how to grip the golf club with your right hand is equally important. You can do a couple of things with the right hand depending on what your new ball flight is. If you are getting too much curvature, you will want to weak your right hand (rotate it left on the club). If you are still hitting it right, then strengthen it (rotate it more left).

In future articles, we will cover golf stance, posture, and ball position.

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I had an eye-opening experience with a golf instructor recently, who looked at my grip (it was wrong) and my clubface at address. He said it was WIDE OPEN! I was in disbelief, but I trusted this instructor unequivocally. He squared the face, corrected my golf grip fundamentals and when I looked down at the club on the ground behind the ball I about fell over!

It looked completely, 100% shut!

Then, when he put me in an impact position, I about fell over a second time. Wow! I had never seen nor felt this position in my life! I think this is where many golfers mess up. They, like me, don’t really know what a correct and square clubface should look like at address, and at impact.

Take a look at the below picture, and ask yourself if your club at address looks like this?

If it does, than you are a solid ball-striker. If it doesn’t, you’re about to experience nirvana like I did!

I am now compressing the crap out of the ball with a piercing lower trajectory that I can control, and I’m getting backspin on the greens!

I’ve added about 5 yards to every iron, and I hit my irons pretty far already, so this was an added bonus. Now I don’t have to worry about the thought… “why is it so hard to square golf clubface at impact?”

Best Resource For Clubface

I’ve come across a phenomenal golf ebook that covers every aspect of clubface awareness in the golf swing. It really is amazing, as I have never seen a book just covering the clubface like this one.

This ebook has 50 DVD quality video clips which is unheard of for an ebook.

You can check it out over at Clubface Golf right now!

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I’ll be covering everything from putting, irons, driver, bunkers, golf swing technique for consistency and power; even as specific as clubface, as well as scoring, fitness and injuries; and maybe even some golf news for fun! You’ll also see some FREE Golf Video Tips that will help beginner golfers too!

We’ll also be building out a BIG section on Mental Golf. This, in my humble opinion, is 90% of the game, just ask Tiger Woods.

Having been online for 10 years helping golfers improve their golf swings, this is a chance to “give back” and help you for FREE. On occasion I will mention a resource that I feel will help you achieve longer drivers faster, but take my word for it, I will ONLY recommend resources I have thoroughly researched and tested myself, so consider me your research guy, so you don’t have to waist your valuable time surfing the net to learn about them, and worse yet, risk wasting your hard-earned money.

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