In this video, we recap the first drill of week one focusing on hitting 10 hooks in a row. The drill involves pausing with the club parallel to the ground on the downswing, setting the club inside, closing the clubface, shifting weight, and ensuring the face remains closed at impact for effective hooks. After mastering hooks, the video covers the opposite technique for hitting slices, including keeping the clubface open and leading with the hands. The emphasis is on exaggeration and achieving consistent results before moving on to the next phase.
What's Covered: Recap of the week one hook and slice drill, covering key checkpoints for closing and opening the clubface at impact.
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It's great to have you here. This is the drill recap for the first drill in week one. Now we started out by trying to hit 10 hooks in a row. We paused with the club parallel to the ground. We then set the club inside. So I'd basically imagine like I'm swinging a plane of glass inside out. That's piece number one.
Piece number two, we turn the face down so it's closed. That's gonna help us hit a hook or a draw piece. Number three, I'm gonna get a little weight shift and go to impact. And at Impact, I wanna make sure that the face is closed here, everything happens at impact that determines ball flight. So I'm going inside, face closed as I go to impact here.
The face is definitely closed down. I don't wanna drag the shaft through there. I'm releasing it to get that face to be really closed. This would be super released. I don't wanna go that far, just making sure the face is closed here. And then finally, I'm finishing in my hook release where my hands are going out to the right.
My club faces down to the ground. This is nice and flat, and when I put that together, it's gonna look like that. I'm gonna do that and exaggerate the heck out of it. I want to hit low snap hooks. If they just go straight into the ground left, that's great. I need to get 10 of those in a row. Now, once I get 10 hooks in a row, I'll go over to my fade side.
I'm gonna do the exact opposite for all the checkpoints. If I pause here, my face would be, or my club shaft would be outside instead of the face being closed, it's open. From there, I feel like the face stays open. As I go to impact, I'm doing my fade or slice release where I feel like my hands are leading the way.
I have a little shaft lean, the face is really open here, and as I come through to the release, it feels like the club is up to the sky. My hands are in, the face is out, and the, it's up toward the sky like that. So that's gonna look something like this, right? Whereas my hook release looks something like that.
Right, so I'm really turning it over 10 slices in a row. Do not move on from week one, drill one until I can hit 10 hooks in a row. If I hit any that go left and go straight, that doesn't count. They've got a curve from right to left. I really want movement on here. Exaggerate, exaggerate, exaggerate. 10 hooks in a row, 10 slices in a row, nail this piece, and the rest of the entire course gets really easy.
