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How to understand the cause of hooks and slices

How to understand the cause of hooks and slices

PGA professional Alex Nicolson demonstrates how we can better understand the movements of the clubface which cause particular shot shapes
 

When playing table tennis, most of us understand how we need to move the bat in order to create a particular type of spin.

With golf it’s not so easy. If we watch someone hit a ping-pong ball in slow-motion we can see the relationship between the angle of the bat and the direction of the swing.

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To help us understand how the golf club needs to move through the swing we can practice by holding the clubface in our hands and move it though impact position.
Simply understanding what the club face is doing moments before impact is of limited use as by this time it is too late” This helps the brain to understand the way in which the clubface needs to move to create a particular shot.

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Once we understand the way the club face needs to move to hit a fade or a draw, this can then help us to understand how to hit the ball straight.

Simply understanding what the club face is doing moments before impact is of limited use as by this time it is too late.

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We need to understand how the clubface moves throughout the swing in order to have control over the spin.

Click on the video to see Alex demonstrate the theory in full…

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