Why You Need This:

If you’re ready to stop pull hooking your golf shots…

…and hit beautiful draws instead…

…this video’s exactly what you need.

It’s going to teach you how to get the feedback you require to fix your elbow position.

Yep, your elbow movement’s helping to cause your pull hooks.

All the top pros do something crucial with their trail elbows in the downswing…

And now you can, too!

We’ll be using a box to help you with these drills.

Watch this video now to discover a little trick with your elbow to ensure you stop the pull hook and swing more from the inside!

What's Covered: How the elbow being tucked can help you stop pull hooking

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 4:23

Video Transcription:

Hi, guys. Welcome back to The Hook series, time to get rid of the hook once and for all. We’re talking about the pull hook again today.

To recap, the pull hook is when my club is moving over the top, right to left across the target. Dropped my box here, we’ll get to that in a second.

But my club is moving from right to left, I’m coming over the top, and I’m closing down that face to get that ball to hook.

In the first video we got your body in a good position to get more inside out, to start swinging a bit more to the right. That’s going to really help it out.

In today’s video we’re going to talk about the hands and arms, what are they doing?

Usually, when I’m pull hooking, is what’s happening here is I’m coming over the top swinging from right to left across the ball and my elbow is coming out away from my body and it’s really turning the face down.

See how my club face is closing down, so I’m over the top, turning the face down with my hands, really rotating the face hard and I really can’t get the momentum of the club to release and turn itself over.

So a great key for this, we’ve got to get our elbow in with our body. You’ll see that all the top players, all the top pros are doing this.

As you make that downswing, if your elbow’s flying out and you’re rotating this club down, rotating that club closed, what I want you to feel like you’re doing is as you start your downswing, your right elbow starts to tuck in in front of your right side.

If I imagine my shirt seam, right here in the side of my shirt, I want my elbow to go in front of that shirt seam and be pretty close into my side as I start my downswing.

So if we take a look at the top players, let’s take a look at Adam Scott, Ben Hogan, Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, any of the guys you really like.

When they start their downswing, they’re going to have their elbow coming in to their side. That club’s going to be nice and shallow coming from the inside here, and then they’re going to release out in front of them. That’s very different than that elbow coming out, and me closing this club face down.

Here’s what I want you to do for this drill. We’re going to start out with just some little mini shots, and again, I’m going to get my body tilted so that I can swing a little bit more inside out, little bit more to the right.

Then I’m going to have this club face, my elbow inside, and that’s going to feel like my club face is coming square through contact.

I don’t want to feel like the toe is rolling on over, my right shoulder and my elbow aren’t doing this to close the club face. I’m going to feel like my club face comes in nice and square through contact.

My right shoulder’s feeling like it’s kind of tucking under also, and that’s going to keep everything nice and square.

Imagine this club face is my right palm. I’m going to let it roll on down the fairway. Just like I’m tossing a ball straight down the fairway rather than letting that come this way and putting some spin on it.

So my right elbow in, my right shoulder in, and all that’s going to stay nice and square. My face stays square all the way through contact. I’m going to feel that as I hit this shot.

Now again, I’m going to try to swing a little bit out to the right, with a nice, stable face. There we go, that ball started a little bit to the right. I even overdid that a little bit and a little bit of a fade on there. I could let it roll a little bit more if I start to fade a couple.

Now once I’ve done that a few times, let’s go ahead and take a box you get your golf balls in, and let’s go ahead and set that down. What I want to do to give you some good feedback, is let’s imagine this is straight ahead and I’m going to go ahead and hit some balls right beside this box.

So that would be a straight ahead shot, matching up with my alignment stick. I want to ensure that I’m going to swing a little bit inside out, because I know I’m coming over the top as we talked about in the pull hook.

I’m going to tilt this box a little bit more out to the right, just like that. So now if I start to swing over the top and get that elbow out, roll the face, I’m going to smack right into this box.

I’ve got to make sure that I get my body behind the ball, keep that elbow in, and then hit that nice draw. So I’m going to go ahead first couple times I’m going to do about 100 practice swings getting my body and elbow, my shoulder under.

Then I’m going to go ahead and put hat box there, and I’m going to hi about 100 shots making sure I’m coming inside out.

There we go, so nice and straight little draw right down the middle of the fairway, and I’ve got that box there to give me some good feedback. Again, if I start to come over the top, immediate feedback I’m going to smack right into that box.

You don’t have to have fancy training aids all the time, just a simple box laying around your house can help you to improve your game.