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In this video, we're going to take a look at the high level of solving your

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hook.

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So a hook is caused with a path that is overly in-out and a club face that is

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overly close

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to the path.

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So for a right hand golfer, it would look like this.

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If this is the target line going right across here, the path would be in-out.

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You may actually have divots that are pointed right of the target and the club

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face is going

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to be closed compared to that path.

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Now in some ways, the hook is actually easier to deal with than the slice.

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In other ways, it's more challenging.

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And the reason is we have the same goals.

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We need to get the face to match the path better.

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So open the face compared to the path and get the path moving from out to the

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right to

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more in line with the target.

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So the goal is to get to here.

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Now with the slice correction, we were going to take a two-step approach.

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First fix the face and then adjust the path.

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The issue here is the same movement that is going to open the face to the path

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is also

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going to move the path to the left.

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So the same movement is going to be body rotation, which creates shaft lean.

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Now what I see with good players and players who tend to battle this hook is

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there's an

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additional high to low component of the hand path that we need to address in

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order to help

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break this early ascension hook causing pattern.

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So the hand path issue is here's what it looks like when I'm hooking the ball

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where

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basically the hands are gradually working down until contact.

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So what you'll see is that the shaft works pretty vertically at the point of

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impact and

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then passes pretty quickly.

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So the shaft or the face is closing based on this in-plane shaft movement where

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in the

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model what we would want to try to do is we're going to have the hands lower at

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the end of

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transition so they can work slightly up and in.

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That allows for a little bit more shaft lean and that shaft lean opens the club

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face.

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The movement that creates this high to low is going to be body rotation and

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that body

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rotation gets the path pointed more in the general direction of the target.

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So if you get your hands a little bit lower at the end of transition and then

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you keep

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your body rotating through impact that tends to accomplish both opening the

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face and moving

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the path which will get you out of the hook pattern that we'll see when we take

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a look

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from the wide view with me demonstrating with the hula hoop.

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Okay so now let's take a look from kind of the down the line so we can see what

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this

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pattern tends to look like.

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So the hook pattern will tend to have the club face swinging more along this or

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the club

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path swinging more along this hula hoop and a club face that is pointed close

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to it.

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So it looks kind of something similar to that.

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Now as I mentioned with the whiteboard the solution is going to be creating

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shaft lean

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and that shaft lean is going to come from body rotation.

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So the body rotation tends to move the path more to the left and the shaft lean

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tends

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to open the face to the path.

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So that one movement of having the body continue rotating tends to solve both

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the face and

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the path issues.

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Now many golfers struggle with just implementing the continued body rotation

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and usually I find

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that's because of hand height.

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So from the face on camera view when you'll tend to see is with the hook

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pattern you'll

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tend to see more of a lift and kind of stall.

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And so now my hands are about even from my belt line from this face on camera

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angle and

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then they'll continue working down as I release the club kind of like that.

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That path is going to be too much in the out both because I've got the club

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working too

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much high to low and because the shaft is working backward and the club face is

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going

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to be too closed because if I've got any shaft rotation as well as having the

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grip move backward

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both of those close the face more or less to the path.

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So from the down the line it ends up looking kind of like this where the hands

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are coming

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from a higher perspective down low the shaft is pretty vertical at impact and

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that tends

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to cause that big slinging hook.

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The solution is usually working on the release pattern getting a little bit

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more body rotation

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delaying the straightening in the arms so that they're extending through the

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shot that

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delaying the extending in the arms opens the face and the body rotation moves

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the path more

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to the left.

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Now one of the things that you'll have to get used to is the hand height.

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So looking at the hands being lower or almost like thigh height, mid thigh

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height at delivery

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positions so that when I rotate I can have shaft lean and still kind of get the

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club

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head down to the golf ball.

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So the way that looks is if my hands are way up high the only way I'm going to

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get the

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club down to the golf ball is by straightening the shaft but if my hands are

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low I can exaggerate

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and have shaft lean and still make contact with the golf ball.

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So just like this lice there's a two step approach.

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One is getting that body rotation to smooth out the face and path issues down

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at the bottom.

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If you find that you're hitting lots of thin shots or you've been topping it or

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if you find

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that you're unable to do it then you need to work on getting the hands a little

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bit lower

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during transition.

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The way that the hands get lower in transition is by minimizing early extension

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and delaying

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the straightening of the arms.

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Once you're in that good delivery just continue that body rotation and it's

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virtually impossible

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to hook the ball.

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If you have that body rotating from a low position because it's virtually

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impossible

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to just rotate the shaft enough close to the path and that will almost

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guarantee you have

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a little bit of shaft lean and a good neutral path.