[sunhacker]

Need advise on how to remedy my duck hooks. I've been playing for quite some time now and as they say, bad habits are hard to break. I therefore would need a 'quick fix'. I'm thinking that my hands are faster than my body? Would widening my stance help? Need anyones advise the soonest, handicap is ballooning fast and have been losing heavily!

[SWFlaGolfer]

You're right, your hands could be faster than your body. I have this problem too and it causes me to slice like mad though, not hook. All depends on the angle of the club face when you hit the ball.

Check to make sure that you aren't shifting your weight to your back foot. That will cause the clubface to close too early and cause the hook. Also a very strong grip on the club can do the same thing.

For the actual swing, get it up in the air in the backswing. If you tend to take the club straight back and flat instead of in a circular motiion, the club face hits the ball more closed than it should be more likely than not.

I'd say your best bet is to hit the range and try one thing at a time. If you try 5 different things at once you're going to get confused, frustrated, and nothing will work. I solved a great deal of my slicing problem by just slowing my swing down. I lost about 30 yards on my drives but it also cut out about 75% of my slices (and saved me a good number of Pro-V1x balls from going into the woods, lake, road, etc.)

Good luck!

[Gateway]

Could be several things. Path of the club could be coming to far form the inside coupled with hands being too fast in the impact zone.

One thing I do when I just can't seem to figure it out is start chipping and gradually increase the swing a little each time but never going past 3/4. It will let you get a feel for the club and your swing without standing there concentrating on a full swing and what is going wrong. Generally when you chip your instincts and natural feel take over because you don't have to think about it as much and while you gradually increase your swing you get a better feel of whats going on.

Without actually looking at your swing its impossible to tell exactly what is going wrong but a hook is generally because your coming from the inside too much and/or your hands and wrist action is too quick through the impact zone.

[vincent355]

Hey hacker,

a hook is better than a slice and easier to fix...that's good news.

This happens more with the long clubs....think about swinging while staying behind a wall (this helps slicers as wel) but most of all think high finish. By thinking high it will change your swing path and help that hook.

good luck.