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In this video, we're going to take a look at the high level of solving your hook.

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So a hook is caused with a path that is overly into out and a club face that is overly

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close to the path.

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So for a right hand a golfer, it would look like this.

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If this is the target line, going right across here, the path would be, now you may actually

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have divots that are pointed right of the target and the club face is going to be closed

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compared to that path.

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In some ways, the hook is actually easier to deal with than the slice in other ways it's

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more challenging.

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And the reason is, we have the same goals.

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We need to get the face to match the path better.

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So open the face compared to the path and get the path moving from out to the right to

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more in line with the target.

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So the goal is to get to here.

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Now with the slice correction, we were going to take a two step approach.

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First, fix the face and then adjust the path.

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The issue here is the same movement that is going to open the face to the path is also

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going to move the path to the left.

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So the same movement is going to be body rotation which creates shaffling.

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Now what I see with good players and players who tend to battle this hook is there's

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an additional high to low component of the hand path that we need to address in order to

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help break this early-sension hook causing pattern.

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So the hand path issue is here's what it looks like when I'm hooking the ball where

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basically the hands are gradually working down until contact.

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So what you'll see is that the shaft works pretty vertically at the point of impact and

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then passes pretty quickly.

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So the face is closing based on this in-plane shaft movement.

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In the model what we would want to try to do is we're going to have the hands lower at

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the end of transition so they can work slightly up and in.

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That allows for a little bit more shaft lean and that shaft lean opens the club face.

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The movement that creates this high to low is going to be body rotation and that body

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rotation gets the path point and more in the general direction of the target.

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So if you get your hands a little bit lower at the end of transition and then you keep

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your body rotating through impact that tends to accomplish both opening the face in moving

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the path which will get you out of the hook pattern that we'll see when we take a look

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from the wide view with me demonstrating with the whole loop.

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Okay so now let's take a look from kind of the down line so we can see what this pattern

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tends to look like.

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So the hook pattern will tend to have the club face swinging more along this or the club

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path swinging more along this whole loop and a club face that is pointed close to it.

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So it looks kind of something similar to that.

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Now as I mentioned with the whiteboard the solution is going to be creating shaft lean

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and that shaft lean is going to come from body rotation.

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So the body rotation tends to move the path more to the left and the shaft lean tends

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to open the face to the path.

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So that one movement of having the body continue rotating tends to solve both the face

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and the path issues.

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Now many golfers are struggle with just implementing the continued body rotation and usually

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I find that's because of hand height.

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So from the face on camera view when you'll tend to see is with the hook pattern you'll

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tend to see more of a lift and kind of stall.

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So now my hands are about even from my belt line from this face on camera angle and

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then they'll continue working down as I release the club kind of like that.

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That path is going to be too much in the out both because I've got the club working

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too much high to low and because the shaft is working backward and the club faces going

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to be too closed because if I've got any shaft rotation as well as having the grip move

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backward both of those close the face more or less to the path.

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So from the down the line it ends up looking kind of like this where the hands are coming

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from a higher perspective down low the shaft is pretty vertical at impact and that tends

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to cause that big slinging hook.

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The solution is usually working on the release pattern getting a little bit more body

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rotation delaying the straightening in the arms so that they're extending through the

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shot that delaying the extending in the arms opens the face and the body rotation moves

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the path more to the left.

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Now one of the things that you'll have to get used to is the hand height so looking at

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the hands being lower or almost like thigh height mid thigh height at delivery positions

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so that when I rotate I can have shaft lean and still kind of get the club head down

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to the golf ball.

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So the way that looks is if I'm going to if my hands are way up high the only way I'm

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going to get the club down to the golf ball is by straightening the shaft but if my hands

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are low I can exaggerate and have shaft lean and still make contact with the golf ball.

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So just like this, there's a two step approach.

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One is getting that body rotation to smooth out the face and path issues down at the

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bottom.

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If you find that you're hitting lots of thin shots or who've been topping it or if you find

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that you're unable to do it then you need to work on getting the hands a little bit

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lower during transition.

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The way that the hands get lower in transition is by minimizing early extension and delaying

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the straightening in the arms.

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Once you're in that good delivery, just continue that body rotation and it's virtually

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impossible to hook the ball.

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If you have that body rotating from a low position because it's virtually impossible to

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just rotate the shaft enough close to the path and that will almost guarantee you have

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a little bit of shaft lean and a good neutral path.