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Hooking irons and slicing drives

  • 15-07-2011 8:36pm
    #1
    bm1993
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 135 ✭✭


    Anyone have any tips on how to stop hooking my irons left and slicing my drives right?


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  • #2
    Jul3s
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    bm1993 wrote: »
    Anyone have any tips on how to stop hooking my irons left and slicing my drives right?
    Get lessons and maybe you'll then be able to understand why it happens and be able to correct it yourself.


  • #3
    Alan Smithee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55 ✭✭Alan Smithee


    Use your putter!!... Lessons the only answer I think; well worth the investment we all spend hundreds on clubs yet most of us baulk at paying a 30 quid for a lesson


  • #4
    bm1993
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 135 ✭✭bm1993


    I probably will get a lesson but any other suggestions?


  • #5
    Alan Smithee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55 ✭✭Alan Smithee


    Could be any number of causes and trust me you could drive yourself mad obsessing over grip, stance, swing plane, overswing, elbow,ball position, spine angle, follow through, wrist break, knee flex hip turn club face etc etc you could watch every video on you tube with each subsequent one contradicting the last and still be no nearer to solving the problem i know i did..Bottom line book a lesson and they will simplify your swing so it's repeatable and consistent and you can work on that anyway best of luck:)


  • #6
    Keano
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    bm1993 wrote: »
    I probably will get a lesson but any other suggestions?
    Could be your grip, the way you stand, the club face opening when it hits the ball. Seriously, get a lesson and you wont look back


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  • #7
    stockdam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,472 ✭✭✭stockdam


    Are you sure you are hooking your irons? Are they going straight left or curving to the left? Is there a difference between your long irons and your short irons?

    It's pretty unusual to slice your drives and to hook your irons.


  • #8
    bm1993
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 135 ✭✭bm1993


    They curve left. My 4 and 5 are ok but my short irons aren't


  • #9
    PFiddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47 ✭PFiddy


    Same here. Hooking my irons & wildly slicing my drives. Playing golf for ~18 months an its actually getting gradually worse. Gonna book a couple of lessons next week, need to mend ths asap or me & golf are looking at separation due to irreconcilable differences by the end of August!


  • #10
    SM746
    Closed Accounts Posts: 414 ✭✭SM746


    bm1993 wrote: »
    Anyone have any tips on how to stop hooking my irons left and slicing my drives right?

    I had the same problem when I got my last set of golf clubs. Had to change my golf grip and that worked. One lesson will sort it for you.


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