Tip From the Archives

Over Rotating

Problem

You hook your drives.

Cure

Try to notice if you are over rotating your hands, causing you to hook the ball.

Therapy

Rotate your hands towards the target or use a stronger grip pressure to help prevent excessive hand movement. If you are beginning to slice the ball, you know you have rotated your hands too far.

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Ben | 5 months ago

Actually, a "strong" grip would make you hook it more. To prevent a hook, you need a "weaker" grip. Also, this has nothing to do with how tight you are gripping the club.

Ivan CN | 5 months ago

Besides a weaker grip, be aware to keep your chest aiming the ball in the moment of impact. This will prevent you of forwarding (or from outside) your right shoulder to quick in the downswing. Keeping your chest aligned in the moment of impact will force you to bring your right elbow to the body (or from inside) in the downswing and therefore you will hit straight.

Harvey | 5 months ago

Typical! Try this if that dosn't work do the opposite

Mark T. | 5 months ago

This is how I read it. If your hands are flipping around, such as over rotating your hands during the swing, you need to stabilize them with a stronger grip. If you overcompensate for it then you will slice, so you readjust. Makes sence to me!

Ben | 5 months ago

Mark, I think you get the point, but the terminology is incorrect. If you rotate your hands towards the target (at address) this creates a "weaker" grip which should reduce your hooks. However, the opposite is probably the problem that most beginners experience (a slice); this needs to be compensated by a "stronger" grip in which the logo on your golf glove will face more to the sky than the ground.

Ryan Holz | 5 months ago

When I go to a strong grip should I line up to the ball with the club face closed, or should line up the face of the club head strait and just rotate my grip to strong. For some back story I started out with a high slite braw and now I have a low strong slice.

Chris | 3 months ago

Stay square and balanced at impact and then extend your follow through to the hole rather than falling away. Have a neutral grip with the V of both hands pointing somewhere between the ear and shoulder. The more the V points to the shoulder, generally the stronger the grip.



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