twist away hook blues

[diggerdog]

What can I do to stop the hooks of the twistaway move. When you talk about hinging the wrist back on itself on a horizontal plane, keeping the clubface vertical, and then bending into a golf stance the clubface is maybe 35 degrees open at halfway back.. There is no room to swivel without hooking. What am I missing? I make a bunch of right arm only swings with this twistaway move and notice I can bang the clubhead down and slam into the ground with a slightly still open clubface. But in my normal swing, the toe beats the heel to the ball. Could it be accumulators not unfolding in sequence?

 

[Jim Kobylinski]

My guess is that you had my issue...you aren't hitting towards the right enough. To compensate for a way open clubface, after impact i would yank hard left to the left instead of out. Whenever i start yanking hard to the left instead of out i get pulls or hooks

 

[cdog]

Digger, Brian actually mentioned this in the twist away lesson, now add his lag lesson to it.

 

[Brian Manzella]

Digger...use the left thumb as the backswing Backstop!

 

[EdZ]

quote:Originally posted by brianman

Digger...use the left thumb as the backswing Backstop!

Yep, great post.


One way to feel this is to grip a club only in the left hand, just in the last three fingers, but keep the thumb just raised from where it would be.

staying very 'loose' back and through, just start swing the club back and through, back and through, letting the club fall onto the right shoulder, then left shoulder (don't try to keep the left arm straight in this drill).

You will notice, if you let it really just swing, that the club will 'fall' onto the thumb on both sides of the motion.

You want that 'backstop' - the thumb supporting the shaft, under the shaft at the top, and you don't want to have to 'do' something for it to happen

as you start to feel it fall onto the thumb, widen out the swing and try hitting balls with the left hand only, the thumb is a great guide, use it.