Why You Need This:

Today, you’re going to stop snap hooking.

How?

With the three drills in this video.

You may not have realized that posture plays a huge role in creating your snap hook.

Or that there’s a certain feeling with your hands through impact that can help you fix the problem.

Last, you may be surprised how a simple cardboard box can get you on the right path for straighter shots.

Watch the video now to finally stop snap hooking!

What's Covered: covers points on how to stop snap hooking

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 6:16

Video Transcription:

Hey guys, welcome back. In this video we’re going to get to the snap hook. In the last couple videos we talked about the pull hook, our club was moving right to left across the ball and we’re closing down the face getting it to hook even more.

That’s great for those of you who are doing that, but for the other people that are coming from the inside, really getting that snap hook, that ball that really curves a lot, this is going to be perfect for you to do this.

The first thing we want to look at, and what I see every time for anybody that’s snap hooking, meaning that the club path is going out to the right and the club face is really rolling on over to close down.

What’s happening is the shoulders are kind of leveling out. Usually what’s happening is the hips are moving into the ball kind of this way in the downswing.

The shoulders are getting level as you’re coming through the shot, and that really puts you in a position of where you can roll that face on over. So that looks something kind of like this. Let me go ahead and demonstrate that.

There we go, and I really hooked that one off plane, you can see how my shoulders are tilted in. I’m kind of doing this motion as I’m coming through the shot. That allows my face to really wrap around the outside of the ball and to get hooking a lot.

The first thing we want to do just like we talk about in our Eliminate Early Extension series on the website, is we’ve got to keep our shoulders in posture to allow our club to work squarely through this golf ball.

What I mean by this is, as you start your downswing you’re going to feel like your hips, your left hip especially I’m pushing right here, clears out of the way.

I’m going to clear that out of the way, and I’m going to stay in my posture. So as my left hips back out, I’m pushing into the ground out this direction. That’s going to clear my hips out of the way.

Then as I come on through the shot, as my arms are released, now my shoulders are staying in posture. When I have the snap hook, my shoulders were coming up out of their posture.

Here they’re staying in their posture, that’s going to make it much easier for me to swing to the left as I’m coming through the ball. That’s the first key, I want you guys to practice that.

Do a couple repetitions where you start your downswing, clear the hip out of the way, and then stay in the posture with your shoulders.

You can go ahead and put a club across your shoulders, I want this club angling down to the ground, and that would be at the point where I’m releasing this club on out in front of me.

Do about 100 repetitions working on just those motions. That’s going to set your body up in a way that you can keep this face working much more squarely through the golf ball as you’re hitting.

Now the second thing we’re going to do, is let’s go ahead we’re going to put this box down on the ground here. What I’m going to do is I’m going to go ahead and angle this to where it’s going a little bit to the left.

In the last one, we were coming over the top and we wanted to swing more to the right. Well now, we’re swinging to the right, and that’s what’s causing the big-time hook, the path is going way too far to the right.

I want to get this path more to the left. So with the snap hook, path is going to the right, and our face is really rolling over and closing down. I’m going to do the exact opposite of that.

I’m going to feel my path a little bit to the left here, I’ve lined up this box going to the left. I’m going to cheat a little bit here, and I’m going to line up my stance a little bit to the left.

I’m going to work on staying in my posture and feeling like I’m going to have this face holding open as I’m coming through the shot. So my club face instead of rolling on over, is going to be staying open to get that fade coming through there.

I’m going to swing down the box and then really feel like I’m playing a fade as this is happening. So let’s go ahead and try a couple of these out. I’ve worked on my posture, now let’s get a golf ball down there.

I’m going to aim to the left, and I’m going to swing even farther to the left. There we go, nice little cut that time. My path was definitely to the left, and that ball faded back.

So let’s go ahead and take a look at my FlightScope numbers here, and we’ll see 7.4 to the left. So I really exaggerated, that club’s really moving to the left hard, and I got a nice little fade on there. The face, the target was only 4.6 to the left. So I got that great fade.

Now the last key with this, those are both great drills. Go ahead and hit about 20 or 30 shots working on that. The last key here is we’ve got to keep our hands moving.

What’s happening when we snap hook a shot is our hands are slowing down through contact. Our hands are slowing down, so imagine my hands are moving let’s say 20 miles an hour through here.

Well they slow down all the way down to 5 miles an hour, or imagine they almost stop and the club face rolls on over. So as my hands start to come down, they slow down and the face rolls all the way on over, the face turns over very quickly.

I’ve got to keep my hands moving through the shot. I want to feel, you know in reality we know the hands do slow down through contact a bit. I want to feel like my hands are accelerating on through.

My hips are opening up, my shoulders are moving through, and my hands are accelerating through the ball coming through contact. Again, that’s not really what’s happening, but that’s going to help you to keep that face from rolling on over as quickly.

Now I’m going to hit about 20 or 30 shots doing the same thing. Staying in posture, feeling like I’m hitting a little bit of a fade, and I’m going to keep those hands moving through the ball.

Let’s go ahead and try that out, and we’ll see that we get another nice little fade. There we go, that path was to the left, that ball barely started to turn over to the right. That would have been a pretty good little one or two-yard fade.

Let’s check out the numbers here on the FlightScope. Path 3.8 to the left, so a great path on that one, and 2.2 to the left on the face.

So those three keys are really going to help you. Number one, got to get that posture right, got to keep those shoulders tilted just like we talk about in our Early Extension video series.

Number two, let’s get some feedback with this box and then a third one, let’s keep those hands moving. If those hands slow down, the face rolls on over. That’s what’s called the momentum, your angular momentum is going to increase.

Conservation of angular momentum would be the scientific term for that, we don’t have to get that scientific with it. Just know that as my hands slow down, my club face wants to roll on over. If my hands keep on moving through, that face is going to stay nice and stable.

So work on those three drills, I’ll see you guys soon.