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This is an anti-hook station using the swing mate so the swing mate is a cool

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little product that has a bunch of kind of customizable positions for you have

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two different kind of like alignment stick arms I just have pool noodles on

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top of the alignment sticks but then you also have what they call their

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stabilizer arms you can put sticks in the ground to help keep the base stable

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but

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it also gives you some nice visuals so these ones are pre-drilled they can't

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move but I can move the sticks anywhere I want and so for an anti-hook station

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I

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really want to avoid movements that are gonna bring the club too far from the

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inside now most of the time if you're struggling with a hook it's more likely

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a pivot issue then the arms getting too flat I've rarely if ever seen the arms

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get too flat the main causes for a hook would usually be overly shallow body

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positions either from getting too much early extension causing the club to

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drop way under plane kind of like this even if I have steep arms a lot of

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players have steep arms and then they go into early extension and then they

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throw

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it down to the bottom path gets way into out face closes you get your hook

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another

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option is more of excessive tilt going this way often maintained not

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necessarily steep arms kind of forward backward this way but more steep arms

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kind of retaining the the radial deviation or the wrist hinge too long

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getting behind like this that tilt then invariably causes a little bit more of

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a stall and a throw at the bottom and that can cause the path to come inside

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out

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so most both of those are usually accompanied by not having enough body

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rotation so you're just overly shallow on your body movements causing the hook

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but sometimes visualizing where the club needs to swing can help you kind of

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ingrain the feels better so I have the the bottom or the low bar in this case

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kind of at the 10 degree angle in line with the middle there so you can see

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from the down the line I've got a little bit of space here so that I could come

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even slightly from the inside and not hit the pool noodle but if I was to go

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into early extension you could see that the club would likely catch some piece

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of this pool noodle the second one instead of having more of a gap I have

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the the pink noodle here a little bit inside the hand so if I was to make a

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takeaway and put it so that it's kind of in line with my my feet like this then

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I'm gonna give myself just a little bit of wiggle room here so I'm not I'm

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making sure that I'm not dropping it under too early in transition and I'm

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making sure that I'm not kind of delivering it from too far upward back

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so those are the two major body movements that can cause hooks you can you can

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definitely get it just from the hands kind of throwing the club out there but

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overly into out path with a face that's closing that's what causes your hook I

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got some visuals that will help me avoid the overall pattern of the club coming

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too far from the inside it doesn't give me a whole lot for the clubface but it

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will at least help me dial in the path now some of you might be able to still

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get steep and then kind of tilt late and hook but I'm gonna call that a rare

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subset so this is just a easy hook station that you can set up at home

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let's try hitting a couple so we've got the ball kind of in line with the red

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stick there and the main thing is I'm gonna try to use my body to avoid getting

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into the bad pattern getting hitting the pink or the purple pool noodles there

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pretty straight shot pretty straight divot we'll see on video how close it was

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you can customize this and make it as challenging as needed but sometimes I

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find especially if you had a have a at-home station building in a little feel

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awareness especially of the path at the bottom of the swing can be really

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helpful

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the swing mate provides some really good visuals