Golf Hook Tips; How to correct a Hook

br> If your game is suffering because you are hooking the ball with every shot then it is time to review our golf hook tips.

What happens:

The club face is closed or closing at impact, and is often combined with an inside out swing.

The ball flight will normally start straight or to the right and then hook hard from right to left.

Typical Causes:

1. Early wrist rotation is the most common cause of a hook due to your thumbs turning over before contact with the ball closing the club face.

2. Another cause is typically just poor follow through. Instead of your hands swinging out at the target, they are swinging around your body in a baseball like swing.

If you are opening you hips too early causing a hook, you will notice that you hit more of a pull hook where the ball starts off left and hooks further left.

Golf hook tips to work on correcting golf hook:

To address the first two causes of a hook, practice hitting long chip shots on the range ensuring that your ball flight is going straight and you are following through straight to your target.

You may want to try to hold your club face square through impact leading more with the heal of your club.

Once you have you shots going straight, starting hitting half shots making sure to follow through until you get the ball going nice and straight again.

Now that you've got this down graduate to a three quarter shot and up to a full shot after you've master that.

Note: Make sure not to increase you rhythm too much from your half shot to three quarter to full shot as we want to get the feel of hitting nice straight shots first before we start trying to bomb the ball down the middle.

To correct opening your hips too early, try practicing an exaggeratedly slow back swing and stopping your swing at the top.

This will force you to start your swing again with you hips and legs but you arm to hip motion should be more in sink.

Remember one thing if nothing else, when you are struggling with an awful hook or slice, the best fix is always to go to the range and work on half shots to straighten out your ball flight and swing path.

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