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I've had the worst problem the past few weeks and its been killing my game. I hit my irons flush, wedges fine as they are all on plane, I drop my driver inside but my coach this is not what is causing my hooks. I think its my hands are turning over to much but I try my hardest to stop this and it still happens, I have a lesson this Thursday but I thought does anyone have any tips that they do to stop hooking the ball they have tried in the past?

It seems anything less than 18 degrees is left if I put a normal swing, but irons fine I did have a lesson two weeks ago and I sorted my alignment out and its fine on the range just when I take the course on, its a different story Its the total opposite of my irons, I'm so confident I can take an iron and flush it just not my driver/3 wood.

Im having to take a rescue on some very long par fours off the tee and have another in or leave myself a 3/4 iron and I'd rather be taking my driver and hitting a 7/8 iron It just seems to have gone away somewhere I've tried putting the ball further up in my stance like right on my front foot and purposely swinging outwards and some go good, but I dont know why I'm struggling to hold the club off to hit a nice draw.

I know its hard without a video, sorry


Thanks in advance
Carl

Just out of curiosity you might want to try and weaken your grip (especially the right hand)?

idea: have someone show you a video of a close up of your hands at impact. i have this problem from time to time with the driver and almost always because i lose the r wrist hinge and "flip " it.

Can you hit the range and swing at a reduced swing speed and just try knocking your driver 200 yds? This is almost always your hands rolling over. My guess is its a timing/tempo thing. I usually cure the hooks by slowing down my tempo for 30-40 swings and than gradually bring it back to full.

Thanks for the tips, I've been playing non-stop for the past few days and I'm going to the range later so Ill try those tips.

MUSCLE

Back to Penick's comment "Hold the club" don't grip it. Too much grip/muscle especially with right arm maybe.