Snap hooks and high spin rate

[viscidog]

Hey everyone,

I'm new to golf tuition, its my second year golfing and I'm shooting in the high 90's and I'm looking to lower my scores. My swing is not perfect but I recently developed a rather bad problem of snap hooking my irons. The kicker is that not just the 3-4 but down to my 8-9 (oddly enough my wedges aren't effected). I usually play with a lot of shape (draw) but lately the results haven't been where the ball starts 10-15 yards right of the target line, and then come back, the ball has been starting at the target line and then ripping way left. I looked at my divots and they are going to the right, sometimes extreme right. My Pro told me that that I'm flattening out my downswing and swinging too far to the outside. The lesson that my pro gave me did not click in my head, and I'm kinda lost on what to do to fix this. Also, as a precaution, I went to golfsmith and "demoed" a club on their launch monitor to see if I was hitting with a closed club face and that wasn't the problem. I was pinning the sidespin meter though!!! If anyone has any tips or swing thoughts I could use that would be awesome!


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[shootin4par]

Re: Snap hooks and high spin rate

over the last few months I got my game in much better shape and really dropped my handicap. My impact conditions improved by a huge amount and I now get a lot of compression. BUT I had a couple of problems. First my misses were snap hooks that were off the planet, my draws were 20 yard draws and I could also hit a huge push. Furthermore I was not able to shape shots. If I tried to play a draw I would hit a slice, if I tried to play a slice I would hit a hook. I went to 2 instructors who could not fix it, their suggestions were typical things that I knew already. THen someone told me another way.

Swing left. I was told that in order to fix it I needed to swing left. but while doing this I needed to look 1-2 dimples on the inside of the back of the ball and direct my pointer finger there. many people try to swing too much inside out, I was one of them, some even pull the butt end of the club down the target line. by doing either one of these you get your down swing off plane and have an unatural release of the club face. so swing left with your body while directing your finger a little on the inside of the back of the ball. keep your spine angle and stay behind the ball, dont lunge. I have now taken OB left out of play with my driver, can shape the ball both ways, and generally hit a 3-5 yard draw on a good shot.

good luck in the search