What causes A hook and how to fix it

Here in this article I am going to explain what causes a hook and how it can be fixed. A hook is generally an unwanted shot in golf that steers and turns violently left of the target. It is often loaded with topspin and runs quite far as well. There are times however when a hook can be desired for going around trees etc so you can use this information to learn how to hit one aswell.

So what causes a hook?
A hook is caused by the clubface being closed to the target line at impact moving from an in to in or in to out fashion. This smoothers the ball in hook spin and generally top spin. This is how a hook/draw can make the ball go further.

How do you cure a hook?
In golf virtually every bad shot is caused by bad basics so to begin fixing your hook you should really start by looking at your basics. This will involve looking over your golf setup, your grip, your posture, your ball stance and your alignment. Your golf alignment and grip are often noteable culprits to a hook. If your grip is too strong you will hit a hook and if your stance is closed you will hit a hook. So check over all of your basics before doing the following golf drills.

Golf drills to cure a hook
If your basics are correct and you are still hitting a hook your swing is probably at fault. What you are doing then is swinging too far inside to out closing the clubface too early. Too fix this you want to swing on a more neutral in to in swing plane or even an out to in swing plane. You should use the clockface drill. Simply imagine the target being at 9 o clock and to the right opposite is 3 oclock. you want to imagine swinging the club on a 4oclock to 8oclock line. Once you do this you will start to straighten out that hook. Another thing that you want to look out for is not to release the club too early. Releasing the club too early means that the club will start to square up to soon and by the time it reaches the ball it will be closed.

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