Driver left and duckhook

[Collie]

Hi Guys

Playing off 8 handicap. Have always hit my driver inconsistently. Irons pretty much sorted out. Playing with a Callaway Fusion 9.5degr , shaft fitted etc. I'll hit maybe 3 or 4 fairways in a round( scrambling and catch up part of game very good).
I have the tendency to pull balls left or a ugly duckhook. Trying to compensate, then ends up on right hand side, but not to bad.
Distance on good drives are ok at about 260 to sometimes 300m. Others have said that my backswing is to quick and sometimes to long.
If anyone have any ideas, please let me know.

[lgskywalker37]

Re: Driver left and duckhook

pulling the bal is because an outside to in swing. try to practice more of an in to out appraoch. sometimes faning the club open on the backswing makes you rely on timeng to get it square and that is near imposible to do everytime and usually lead to hooks when you over rotate on the downwing and close the face. try to have the 1st move to be a cupping of the right wrist, untill you get the hange of briging the club strait back.

Let's start you out with the bench drill. You take it way too far inside, that you have nowhere else to go but back out for a wicked out-to-in path.

http://www.golf-tuition-online.com/s...71&postcount=2

maybe youare only rotating not trasfering weight too. make sure you plant the weight onto you right foot and roate around that. if you just rotate it can make you come outsie in.

[proshank]

Re: Driver left and duckhook

purely down to outside in swing. i used to have this a while ago. the main drill that i tried was to make sure on the downswing that my right elbow was pushing a gainst my ribs. This enforces the in to out swing path that is generally better and then you can start learning to draw the ball.

also try to open the club fact a little. your grip may feel weaker but it should stop your duck hook

[msklar92]

Re: Driver left and duckhook

As other pros have said here, aim for the inside quarter of the ball. It works well, gets the club on the proper inside path and takes care of the proper elbow action without thinking about it too much.

[gark]

Re: Driver left and duckhook

Pulls - happens to me when I fail to move my weight forward on the downswing. My weight stays on the backfoot thus changing my axis.

Hooks - this I've traced back to an overactive right hand. Too much of power coming from my right hand closing the clubface before impact. My solution to this is lighten my right hand grip during setup and keep it light during the swing. (Whenever I need to curve the ball right to left, I just tighten my right hand grip and lower my swing plane.) Another possible cause of hooking is an overly flat swing plane. To check this, stop your swing midway (right forearm parallel to ground). If your grip is pointing beyond the target line then your plane might be a bit flat. Ideally, at halfway back, your grip should point somewhere on the target line (at the ball to 2 feet behind the ball).



Pull Hook - combination of the above.

[Collie]

Re: Driver left and duckhook

Thanks guys , haven't been to the range yet , but the weight shift makes sense if i think about it. Flat swingplane also.

[Timothy Slaught]

Re: Driver left and duckhook

Collie:

Definitely try to hit the inside rear quarter of the ball. If you use a striped range ball actually point the stripe in the direction you want to approach the ball with the club head. See if you can get the ball to start right of your target line and do not be concerned with where the ball ends up initially. Just try to train yourself to start it right. This will probably feel very strange at first but you may be surprised that it helps fix things quickly. It will probably feel like you have to keep your hands and arms fairly close to the body on the downswing to perform this inside move. This is a good thing. Once you get this path issue worked out you can focus on the clubface squareness which will help produce a draw. Make sure your foot and body alignment is square to your target consistently otherwise nothing will work consistently.

[JohnP]

Re: Driver left and duckhook

Happens to me too - caused by going slightly over the top and therefore approaching the ball from outside to in.

My way of curing this (as taught by my Pro) is to move the club to the top of the backswing - then go halfway down and stop, make sure that at this point the club is paralell to the ground and that your right shoulder hasn't stepped out (this is the cause of my OTT move) keep your right elbow going towards your right hip as you practice this.

Keep repeating this drill, and with a bit of luck the duck hooks will dissapear!

Worked a treat for me!

[Mcdougle]

Re: Driver left and duckhook

I used to have a duckhook but now i have got rid of it by changing my grip slightly

Have a look at this website:

http://www.golf.com/apps/instruction...p100.asp?id=84