toe hit with a hook

hi all im new here, i've been having problems with a hook for a few years now and it pisses me off. im a 2 handicaper that plays good golf but most of the time a hit a few hooks in a round that screws me up. my ball starts straight then hooks to the left, i barely take divots and when i do take some its straight to my target line. with my short iron i tend to pull the ball on my bad shots and with my driver and 3-wood i hit it mostly perfect everytime on some occasion i hook it or push it. the driver and 3-wood i hit it in the center of the golf club but with my iron i hit it almost everytime on the toe. can anyone tell me what im doing wrong?

Mathgolf,

It sounds to me like you have slipped into leaving the club behind, you either flip the wrists in an effort to catch up and hook or just a straight push, look at your stance, if it's wide then it's difficult to get through quick enough, most low h/cappers started as children and get through the ball very well due to them carefree days.

When the stance gets wide you can catch some thin too. Try a slightly narrower stance and you should create a steeper angle of attack and less from behind.

Hope this helps


Ian.

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thanks for the reply i will try that as soon as posible cause i know i have a wide stance. with that i would like to add that it could be posible that my hands is too fast for my body, im a very long hitter with a swing speed of around 130 mph that last time i checked.been playing since the age of 14 turning 20 this year.

hi, i want to add something to this tread, im still hooking the ball. something i found strange is that i can't hit the sweet spot on any of my irons but with my driver and 3-wood its okay.i've been hitting the toe for about 2 years now and im sick of it. i mostly hook everything(use to be a slicer a few years ago). i've seen here that a toe hit can be due of a too much inside aproach but i can't see with it would be a too much inside aproch if i take a weak grip and still hook it. with a weak grip and inside it would tead to make a push i supose. Anyways anyone has a tip to give me that i could try?

I used to hit my irons on the toe, this used to cause hooks. I setup normal, then I move the club so that the ball is closer to the heel. This gives me a hit much closer to the centre of the iron.

i've tryed to aligne the ball closer to the heal today and i'm still hiting the toe. I've tried a weak grip again and it seems to work hiting moe the sweet spot but still hokking the ball sometimes.. its not really a hook its more of a draw but i hate it. i hit a ball with a hook on #18 and went past the grenn hole is 355yards. can beleive i still hit hooks with a weak grip.

I know it is only a bandiade fix, but on shots you cannnot afford to have a draw, open your clubface on alignment.

The other easy cause of toe hits is reaching for the ball (aka standing too far away).