Help with my hook!?

Question

I have a bad hook with my lower degreed clubs (5,4,3 irons & 3,1 woods) and need some pointers to cure my hook. Although a few lessons would help to cure it i don't get on well with lessons because they try and change too much and i end up getting frustrated at not playing well and go back to my old techniques.

I already have a slightly faded swing and a faded stance to try and stop the hook but it doesnt always work and is terribly inconsistent.

Any pointers or tips would be greatly appreciated...

Answer 1

A simple fix to lessen your tendency to hook those clubs would be to try an over-sized grip. An over-sized grip prevents you from rolling your wrists over as much through the impact area. Try it on one club and see what the result is.

Answer 2

If you're hooking continually, you are probably closing the club face on impact, I do the same. Here's how I've 90% of the time corrected that: try to either, put the ball a little farther back in your stance, or open your club face just a little in your set up, and swing your normal swing, try these, and let me know if it works!

Answer 3

Few things that have a tendency to create a hook...

Swing path: Swinging from in to out, will create right to left spin therfore nice duck hook to go with it... Easy fix (Not permanant thou) swing as thou you are forcing yourself to play a slice, create a swing that on your downswing come from out to in... Hit a dozen balls like that, then play a normal swing shot...

Closed stance??.. Practice correct alignment.. easy fix...

Since its your long irons I would be having a look at your ball position in relation to your stance... If you have your ball too far forward in your stance this will cause you to swing over the ball therfore another duck hook. Move ball back in stance??..

Answer 4

To hit yoour higher clubs and low irons you'll need your 7 iron.

Hit 800 balls with your 7 iron only.

200 at 1/8 swing then another 200 with a 1/4 swing. This will help you understand your impact zone. 200 at 1/2 swing. this will help you understand your grip and wrist cockpoint. the last 200 at 3/4. this will help you understand your swing plane and tie everything together

Answer 5

Whenever I develop the hooks I narrow my stance about 2 inches. this lets my hands through a little faster and prevents the club face from closing too soon.

Answer 6

I can attest to what Dave W and toughnottobeasynic have said here, good advise there. One more thing that helped me with my hook was to slow down a bit, and keep my weight on my right side through impact, "hanging back" like this makes it harder to over-turn your hands or body. Funny, it's the same thing many slicers are trying so hard not to do.

Answer 7

Roll the right hand a bit more to the left at setup which will weaken it and result in a draw or a slight fade. Just do it gradually so that you will notice at what hand position you are attaining the best results.

Answer 8

1. Dont swing so hard; meet the ball flush, dont HIT it
2. Weaker grip will help
3. Steeper swing plane induces more L-R shots

Answer 9

It could be a number of things, when i hook my higher irons its usually because i put the ball to far up in my stance. it could also be that ur also leaving ur face closed at impact. u could also be comming inside out through ur downsing. But make sure you start with the basic when ur trying to fix ur swing. instead of trying to fade by leaving ur stance open or leaving ur face open, start with ur basics. square ur feet and shoulders at ur target line make sure ur club face is perpendicular with ur target line, then go from there. because all ur doin when ur are trying to fix a wrong swing could make it worse.

Answer 10

One video lesson would fix it. You need to see your swing path on video.

Of course, I can't see your swing, but that is likely the problem.