Why You Need This:

Do you want to eliminate pull hooks from your game?

Then this video’s for you!

You’ll find out two keys in your lower body to focus on…

…so you can stop coming over the top…

…and start coming in on the correct plane, for nice, long, solid draws!

Watch this video now and rid yourself of the dreaded “dead yank” once and for all…

What's Covered: what the hips are doing to help cause a pull hook

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 5:28

Video Transcription:

Hey guys, and welcome back. In this video we’re going to address the pull hook. In the last video we talked about how to identify whether you have a pull hook or a snap hook.

The pull hook is when the path is going to the left, my club is swinging from right to left across the ball, and my club is still closing down to get hat ball starting left, and then drawing a little bit even farther to the left. So very frustrating. I think we’ve all been there before.

In this video, I’m going to give you two keys that are really going to help you to get in the correct body position.

It’s really crucial to have your body set up in a way to where we can consistently get that path to deliver through the club. If our body position’s off, it’s going to be really, really difficult.

So the first thing we’re going to look at here, are where are my hips in relationship to this golf ball. A lot of times when I see someone pull hooking, what’s happening is in the backswing the hips kind of slide to the right away from the target.

If you’re looking from this way, the hips kind of slide to the right, and then the shoulders pull over the top and really pull everything to the left coming up and out of the shot, and really just coming right to left across the ball.

That looks something like this where we set up a little bit vertical. Then as we go to the backswing, my hips start to slide a little bit this way, and then as I come down steep, I went ahead and rolled my hands and got the ball to pull hook.

Two things here. Number one, let’s just do some practice swings, and then we’ll go ahead and hit some balls.

Let’s imagine that this is my golf ball right here as I’m setting up, and this line’s going to be right in the middle of my stance, or perpendicular to my stance.

Now in the first scenario there, what happened is I set up with my body too straight up and down. This is one of the things we go over, the number one fundamental in the Top Speed Golf System is to get what’s called a stable, fluid spine.

So at address, I’ve got to make sure that my spine angle is tilted away from the target a little bit. So the feeling that I’m going to have here, is that my hips are bumped a little bit forward and then my upper body, my nose is behind that golf ball.

If I’m looking at this golf ball, you can imagine this is straight up and down over top of the golf ball. I want to be looking in at the back of the golf ball. My upper body’s tilted away.

Again, that’s going to set me in a position to where I’m going to be able to swing a little bit easier inside out.

Try this out for me, I want you to really exaggerate this. I’m going to tilt my nose way behind where the golf ball would be. So let me go ahead and set this down here.

I’m going to go ahead and bump my hips forward, I’m going to really tilt my nose back a ton, as far as you can go. Notice how there’s no other way you can swing but more out to the right.

So if I’m coming over the top, I’m pull hooking, I’m going too far to the left. What’s happening there is as I set up my body’s leaning too far this way, I’m sliding my hips to the right, and I’m coming over the top swinging to the left.

In this drill, we’re going to tilt our body behind the golf ball so that we’re angled in at the back of it, and then I’m much more easily going to be able to swing from the inside.

Try that out about 10 times. Get a little more tilt, and we’re going to do with a practice swing. Feel like you’re swinging a bit more out to the right.

You can see I’m coming a little bit inside out from this direction and letting the club release. Do a good 20 to 30 practice swings as you’re trying this out.

Now the second thing we’re going to work on here is what’s happening with the right leg. If I’m too vertical, now my upper body is going to be straight up and down.

A lot of times I go to the top of the swing, watch how my hips start to slide to the right, and now my right leg is almost angled away from the target, or angled like this.

I want to make sure as I go to the top, this pushes back and my right leg is angled in very slightly. That’s going to help me to load up behind the golf ball.

So if I do this, now all of a sudden I’m leaning to the left. I keep that right leg angled in, I’m going to be easily be able to angle to the right and come in from the inside a little bit more.

Feel like, again, my face, my nose is behind the ball. I’m looking at the back of the ball. My weight, my pressure’s on the inside of my right foot. This is nice and angled in as you to go the top.

Now you’re going to go ahead and do about another 20 or 30 practice swings. Look at that on camera, make sure that leg’s angled in, and then once we’re doing that, we’ll be feeling pretty comfortable.

Now finally I’m going to put these two things together, and we’re going to hit some nice little draws out there that start to the right, we’re getting rid of that starting to the left. We’re going to start to the right, and then have that draw back to the center of the fairway.

So number one, I’m getting toward the back of the golf ball. Number two, my leg is angled in, I feel like I have a little pressure on the inside of my right foot, and I’m going to start this down the right-center side of the fairway.

There we go. That ball started a little bit to the right, started to barely draw back in, and just by changing my body position, I was able to get my path going more out to the right and get rid of that over the top kind of pull hook.

If you were to look at the same thing on camera, so if we were to look at this and draw that elbow plane that we talked about in the first video. I’m going to draw a line from the hosel of the club out through my right elbow.

As I’m coming down, you’re going to see that I’m starting to come underneath that plane. If we go ahead and draw that on this video, you’ll notice in my downswing, I get a little underneath that plane and then release the club.

There we go. Same thing there, started just down the right-center, a little bit of a draw. So work on those keys, get your body lined up, it’s going to make it a lot easier. See you guys soon.