In this video, you’ll learn how to master drill number two by alternating between hitting a slice and a hook. The instruction starts with five successful hooks, focusing on the important hook release with a clubface closing at impact. If struggling, adjustments in impact timing, release, and hand positioning are suggested. Next, the focus shifts to hitting a fade using a slice release where hands pull in and the clubface points up. Consistency is emphasized, and the video advises practicing until achieving ten successful shots, alternating between hooks and slices. Tips on adjusting grip strength for better ball control are also covered.
What's Covered: Recap of the week one alternating hook and slice drill, with adjustments for grip, timing, and hand positioning.
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Alright, so this is the drill recap for drill number two. In week one, we're gonna alternate between a slice and a hook, go back and forth. We're gonna have five successful shots each. They don't have to be in a row for the hook. We're gonna start out and we're gonna use our hook release club to the inside clubface.
Closed releases to close at impact. This is the important piece. If I wanna hook it, I gotta make sure at impact it's still closing down with the face. And then I'm gonna release it hands out to the right face, down to the ground. That's the feeling I'm gonna have now as I'm doing this hook. If I'm struggling to get the hook, I'm gonna start with the release out in front.
I'm gonna feel like I really get this club face down to the ground, or if I'm going toward the camera here, I really feel like this face is turning down to the ground. And it's not up like this in a straight line, more like a straight shot. So I'm really feeling like I'm turning that over more. I wanna feel like my hands go out.
This way more in the club almost goes back like that. Not like this. I'm gonna go hands out. Clubs, fully released over club, face to the ground. That's the thing I'm gonna focus on. If I struggle to get those to draw. Now, if it still doesn't draw or hook, I'm gonna go back. Instead of focusing on the release, I'm gonna focus at Impact.
I'm gonna feel like the club face is closed there, and then I get that hook release up here. If that still doesn't make it hook, I'm gonna go back in here. Really focus on turning the club down here, turning it down more at impact, and then turning it down. So basically, I'm gonna start with my release. If that fixes it, I'll stop there.
If I'm still struggling, I'm gonna go back to impact. If that works, I stop there. If I'm still struggling, I go previous to impact timing, go previous to Impact. That ball should be hooking just like we did in the first drill. Now number two, um, we're gonna go to our fade side. Again. We're alternating. As soon as I get a good hook, I'm gonna go to the fade.
And I'm just gonna do the opposite. I'm gonna focus on my release, my slice release. My hands are pulling more in. Remember my, my hook release. My hands are going out, my slice release, my hands are going in faces up to the sky. That should be easy for most players. Most players don't struggle to get the ball to slice.
Again, I want to get these up in the air for them to count, and I don't care where they go. So if it starts right in hooks, that's a great hook. If it starts way left and hooks and would've been out of bounds, still a great hook just has to get up in the air and has to curve the correct direction. Now, if you find you really struggle to get one of the shot shapes, most people are gonna get the slice easy.
If you struggle to get that ball to turn over from right to left to start to hook, I can take my grip and make it a little bit stronger. Or if you imagine I had a clock face, I'm gonna turn my hands from my perspective would be clockwise a little bit more than whatever you're doing now. That helps it to be easier to release that club and turn it on over to make it more closed at impact.
If I find I, I struggle to slice it again, very rare, you may wanna turn your hands the other way. Eventually, I wanna find a grip to where I can hook it or slice it, fade it, or draw it from that same grip. That's gonna be my own neutral natural grip. And that's the one I want to use. There's no right one.
You'll see guys on tour that have crazy, strong grips. You'll have crazy weak grips Again here. Get in the air, get it to curve the right direction. Doesn't have to be on the first try. Just alternate until you get 10 successful ones. One hook. Then we go to a fade or a slice, then a hook, then a slice. 10 total successful ones.
You've knocked out drill number two, and you're well on your way to really hitting some great shots of the drive. Don't be worried if it feels crazy at this point. We will dial it in. I promise you. You just have to trust me on this one.
