My Swing (Mike Muscat)

[Mike Muscat]

I've been Playing Golf for: 10 years

My current handicap index or average score is: 95
My typical ball flight is: draw/hook
The shot I hate or the "miss" I'm trying to reduce/eliminate is: snap hook

I started the season off great from the tee. Hitting a stiff shaft driver anywhere between 250-280 depending on if center contact or not, I would say a 90mph or so swing speed. The last 2 months have been a struggle. I hit about 2 fairways with the other 12 drives hitting snap hooks. The ball only gets about 10’ off the ground hooks severely left and dives down hard and rolls forever. Probably 75 yards in the air and 50 yards of roll. This leaves me 250+ in on most par 4ths and really hurting my scores. 

Today I hit this snap hook for the first 12 tee shots but hit 2 great drives about 290 down the center to finish the last 2 holes (only 2 I birdied or parred all day).

i had my buddy record one of the shots in slow motion to try and figure out what I’m doing wrong. At first I though my club head was too far in front of my hands at impact and a closed club face but after reviewing the video below I don’t think that’s the case.

I know I have a lot of head movement but everything else looks ok to me. I’m shifting my weight from back to front, fully extending, keeping the club head far from my body, and good wrist hinge. I have no idea how this swing is preducing a shot that is going 150 yards with snap hook ball flight. This video the ball went about 10’ high for about 75 yards immediately turning left then dive bombed to the ground, landed in the left fairway and rolled about 50 or so yards and into the left rough.

Any thoughts on why I snap hook? I even have tried to slice and still hook!

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[iacas]

You probably hook because you hit out a bunch.

Get a good down-the-line camera angle: https://thesandtrap.com/b/playing_tips/filming_your_swing.

[Effington]

10 hours ago, iacas said:

You probably hook because you hit out a bunch.

Get a good down-the-line camera angle: https://thesandtrap.com/b/playing_tips/filming_your_swing.

Sorry for the beginner question here, but can you describe what you mean by hitting out?

[iacas]

27 minutes ago, Effington said:

Sorry for the beginner question here, but can you describe what you mean by hitting out?

You swing to the right.

https://thesandtrap.com/b/playing_tips/filming_your_swing

https://thesandtrap.com/b/playing_tips/ball_flight_laws

Now you have two things to read. 🙂