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article thumbnail Fix Your Over-the-Top Slice
Monday, 16 November 2009 | The Golf Drill Guru

One of the most common causes of your slice is an over-the-top move on the downswing. Most golfers don’t know the difference, but this move actually causes a different type of slice – a pull slice. It’s a slice that starts left of your target and quickly turns right – it...

Fix My Slice

article thumbnail Fix Your Over-the-Top Slice
Monday, 16 November 2009 | The Golf Drill Guru

One of the most common causes of your slice is an over-the-top move on the downswing. Most golfers don’t know the difference, but this move actually causes a different type of slice – a pull slice. It’s a slice that starts left of your target and quickly turns right – it...

Fix My Hook

article thumbnail The Hooking Drill Tiger Woods Hates
Tuesday, 08 September 2009 | The Golf Drill Guru

Butch Harmon was an advocate of this drill and it was used quite often on Tiger Woods. Tiger Woods said that this drill was by far, the most irritating but effective drill he ever tried. If it can help Tiger’s game, likely it can help your game as well.

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article thumbnail No... Don't Bend Your Knees
Monday, 26 October 2009 | The Golf Drill Guru

Keep your head down, and bend your knees! Hear it before? This is by far the worst advice anyone can offer a beginner golfer. In this post we are going to focus on the ‘bend your knees’ part of the annoying myth. First off, don’t do it! Bending your knees will promote an...

 
How Low Can You Go Drill - Cure your Hook PDF Print E-mail
Written by The Golf Drill Guru   
Tuesday, 04 December 2007
A common cause of a hooked tee-shot is over-active wrists in the downswing. Practicing hitting knock down shots is really effective at reducing wrist movements. To properly perform this shot, you need to keep the clubface square to the target line as long as possible. Practicing hitting knock downs while focusing on trying not to be wristy. You’ll be impressed at how effective it is at fixing a hook.

knockdown hook cure 

Take a look at the image to the right - look at how delayed my wrist release is, even when the club is only two feet from the ball on the downswing, my wrists have yet to uncock. Practicing this move will not only help your knock downs, but it will increase your ability to create lag and thus more distance and also reduce your wrist movements in the downswing.  This is because one of the tricks to hitting a solid knock down is to hold off the rotation of the clubface after impact - think about trying to finish your swing low and with the clubface still facing the target. 

Try this fun drill out, grab range buckets and a rod of some sort (I used a wooden doweling from an old broom in this video). Pick a club, preferably a 6-3 iron, and set up a bridge like the one I did in the video) and try to hit underneath it. I was hitting a 5 iron for the video, and I was able to hit it about 180 yards, but only about 6 yards above the ground (on the lowest level). It’s a tough drill.. but definitely a fun one. Try it out!

 

 

 





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