Your entire body should rotate around naturally with your swing.Start with your hip, almost in a thrusting motion, to begin your downward swing.The dominant arm will be bent the non-dominant arm should remain straight at the top of your backswing.Also, your hips, torso, and shoulders should rotate slightly away from the target on your backswing.Keep your knees bent slightly and your back straight.Align your feet, hips, and shoulders perpendicular to the target.As we discussed in our article about increasing your distance and accuracy with a good upright swing, the motion of your swing should be consistent every time you swing no matter which club you are using (except the putter, of course). Once you have your grip adequately adjusted, it is time to focus on your swing. It’s at this stage that will lead to make or break. After you’ve got the above information down, then it’s onto the swing. Other tools and training aids are available, but if you’re just a casual golfer, you don’t need the added expense when you can use what you already have in your golf bag or your home. This video demonstrates the basics of finding the correct grip and aligning your club properly. There are gloves available that have marked alignment dots across the base of the fingers where your club grip should rest on your hand to ensure a proper grip. Most golf club grips, if installed correctly, actually have alignment marks down the front face for this purpose. Make sure that your hands are lined up on the club correctly, with the proper club head orientation. If you can’t determine the cause, or do more than one of the things that cause a pull hook swing, you can still fix it with a return to fundamental (basic) practices.įirst things first – adjust your grip alignment. If you can isolate the exact cause – grip, ball position/stance, or swing, you need only correct that one thing. Whatever the cause, there are cures for each. The cause might be too strong of a grip or having your hands positioned wrong on the grip surface the ball might be positioned too far forward (toward the target) in your stance, or you could be starting your downswing with the wrong body parts moving first. There are several different things that a golfer could be doing wrong to cause a pull hook shot. Pull hooks happen when an outside-to-inside swing path is paired with a closed clubface at the point of impact, which causes the right-to-left (or left-to-right for a lefty) spin on the ball. They are often lower-flying, bouncy little devils that roll and roll, making them even more devastating to a golfer’s score than the more common slice. A golf pull hook is a ball that comes off the club face with a right-to-left spin (or left-to-right for a left-handed golfer) and spins off the straight path to the non-dominant side.