Why You Need This:

In this video, you’ll learn how to hit laser-straight shots.

This is the final video in my Never Hook Again series and you’ll get great drills to eliminate your hook once and for all.

So next time you’re standing over an important shot, you won’t have to worry about snap hooking that sucker out of bounds.

First, I’ll review some of the moves that you should feel in your swing.

With a snap hook, the club path is too far in-to-out and the club face is rolling over too much.

To fix that, you need to feel your club coming in more to the left with your clubface more stable and almost feeling like the clubface is open (it shouldn’t be open, but it’s OK feel like it is when you’re fixing your snap hook).

Instead of trying to muscle your right hand in the swing, feel like you’re relaxing the right hand and use the momentum of the club to come into contact.

Try this drill…

Address the ball with just your left hand on the club and make relatively slow swings under control.

Getting your left hand more involved and feeling like you’re coming in more on an over-the-top path will help you lessen your reliance on your right hand.

In the downswing and follow through, feel like your left hand is working straight through to your target.

Hit about 100 balls with your left hand only, then hit regular shots with both hands on the club.

On all your shots, concentrate on having the logo of your glove moving towards your target.

Watch this video now to discover a great drill to eliminate your snap hook once and for all…

And to start hitting laser-straight shots!

What's Covered: How to handle the momentum of the club head through contact

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 4:43

Video Transcription:

Hi guys, and welcome back to the final video in the Hook series. We’re going to eliminate this snap hook once and for all.

I know how frustrating those are, you get up over an important tee shot, you swing the club, the ball snap hooks off the tee right into the water out of bounds, very, very frustrating.

In this series I am using an iron, but the same principles apply to the driver, pitching wedge, any club that we’re hitting we’re going to use these same principles.

I’m just using an iron here so we can set up in the fairway and we can track these shots nice and easy, and I can hit several shots for you guys. Works throughout the bag, same feelings are going to happen through anything.

Let’s go ahead and take a couple feelings here that are really going to help you guys with your hands and arms in a very misunderstood part of the swing which is momentum of this club head coming through contact.

So with the snap hook, let’s recap on what’s causing the snap hook. That means our path is too far to the right. Our path is going to the right and our club face is rolling over too much.

I’ve got to get my path going more to the left and my club face staying square or almost feeling like it’s a little bit open as I’m coming on through there.

A lot of this is coming from the right hand. So most of us out there, right-handed players, we want to hit with this right hand or this back hand, and then really get that club rolling on over.

A lot times we’re manipulating the face. What I want to do is have momentum of the club to swing and I either want that to stay open or want it to roll on in.

If we draw that elbow plane again, let’s just swing with just our left arm only here. I’m going to draw from the hosel of the club up through my right elbow. Then I’m going to take that back.

Now if my club starts to come too far inside, as my hands start to slow down what happens is the momentum of the club wants to turn on over. So the momentum of the toe wants to turn on over and that club face wants to close on down.

By getting my left hand a little more involved, feeling like I’m coming a little bit more over the top, and I want to feel like instead of letting the momentum roll that face around and now my glove is pointing out this way, I want to feel like my left hand works straight on down to the target.

So I’m going to let my hips rotate on through. My back of my left hand’s going to move straight on through to the target. If we’re looking from this direction, it’s going to be moving like this coming on down to the target.

I’m accelerating, keeping everything moving through that shot, and I’m going to feel like the momentum of the face doesn’t roll on over, but it comes in nice and square.

So instead of letting this club get way to the inside and roll, I’m going to feel like it comes a little more down that target line, almost a little bit right to left across the ball, and I keep that hand moving down the target.

If I take my left hand only, not a very easy drill to do. Takes a little bit of coordination. But I’m going to feel like I just swing some left-arm-only shots and let the back of my left hand chase down the target.

I’m not having to fight that club. I’m letting the momentum of the club keep the club face square. There we go, right down the middle. That ball didn’t curve an inch either way.

So I kept the momentum of the back hand going nice and square through the ball.

I want you to do about 100 practice swings where you focus on that. Just left arm only, I don’t want to get that club too far inside.

I want to let that club come down the target line or even a little bit over the top to the left, and I want to work the logo of the glove toward the target.

You’ll notice that the face is staying level with the target the entire time. That’s really going to get you rid of that snap hook. If I let this face roll on over, now I can start hooking it.

If I left the face stay square, the momentum of the club stays square, now I’m going to be hitting nice and straight.

So we’re going to go about 100 practice swings, just working on those two things. Then we’re going to hit about 20 or 30 balls just with the left arm only.

Then finally here, we’re going to go ahead and make some swings keeping that logo, that visual of the logo working down the target line. Let’s see if we can get a little bit of a fade here.

Oh, just pulled that one a little tiny bit, but I kept that logo nice and straight. Let’s go with one more, see if we can get it to turn over a little bit more left to right and get that nice, perfect fade like we’re looking for.

There we go, nice fade. Ball started just a little bit to the left, really kept that logo going toward the target, and let’s see what the FlightScope numbers say.

So my path was 5 left, a little left swing. My face is 1.5 left, so my face just had a nice little fade shot. That ball turned over a few yards, and really, really solid.

Work on these drills, you’re going to get rid of that hook. You guys are going to be feeling like a million bucks out there. I’ll see you all soon.