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Second Hand Shorts 23: Hooking your irons

published: Apr 13, 2017

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updated: Oct 3, 2023

Second Hand Shorts 23: Hooking your irons

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Our resident pro James Whitaker shows us how to stop hooking your iron shots..

Second Hand Shorts 23: Hooking your irons

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  • second hand shorts 22: skying the driver
  • The shack
  • second hand shorts 22: skying the driver
  • driver comparison: titleist 917 vs. mizuno jpx900
  • sergio garcia is a major champion at last

It’s time for another episode of ‘Second Hand Shorts’. You can watch some of the other episodes of the series below: 

Second Hand Shorts 22: Skying the driver

Second Hand Shorts 22: Skying the driver

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Today’s short is all about how to stop hooking your irons. Our pro, James Whitaker, talks us through the problem from Reunion Resort in Orlando…

Hooking your irons, what tends to happen here is pretty simple, your alignment get worse and worse.

Because your alignment gets poor you then start to flip the golf club which then shuts the club face down and the ball pops off to the left.

To fix this problem it’s really important that you use the alignment stick and make sure it is parallel to the target.

What I want you to feel here is that instead of the golf club flipping, I want you to feel like the butt of the club is being pulled to the left.

The Shack

Come and join us at The Shack for all of the best instruction and equipment videos.

Resident head pro James Whitaker hosts regular guests from the NCG family to fix some of their most frustrating faults and joins equipment editor James Savage in taking an in depth look at all the latest releases.

Second Hand Shorts 22: Skying the driver

Second Hand Shorts 22: Skying the driver

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Titleist 91v vs. Mizuno JPX900

Driver comparison: Titleist 917 vs. Mizuno JPX900

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NCG’s mystery golfer, Anonymous Big Hitter, then gives all the clubs a proper test while the two Jameses analyse the data with Trackman software.

With a state of the art ShackCart – based on the popular SkyCart – and Trackman, The Shack is the ideal pace for instruction and challenges with Tour professionals.

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Sergio Garcia is a major champion at last

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