put all your pocket change in your left front pocket

My right hand is very strong from.... well you get the idea.

I'll prolly go to the range tonight so I'll try that, thanks Mr. Smith.

Staple, it is all about where the ball is positioned to your front foot. Mess around with that alittle. Try inching the ball position back. Sounds like you might be to far in front. You can make your swing work if you change the position of the ball according to your front foot.

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NO, you obv have no clue what you are talking about. If you read my post it says, move it around a few inches. This has helped my game when i have had the lefties' or righties' going. Golf is a game of inches and if you have the ball positioned alittle off with how your swing is then it could make you have these.

This has worked for me....Hit the range and swing with your feet completly together until you start making good contact and gradually widen your stance hitting balls making the same swing until you get to your normal stance with the driver....mine is at the inside heel of my left foot.

Obv....you don't swing hard when your feet are together...just make consistant contact. GL

Wow, the responses in this thread are making my head hurt.

1. Shanking the ball implies that you're practically hitting the ball off the shaft of your club, sending it it almost dead-right. You're duck hooking it.

2. The person that said you should play the ball an inch inside your left heel regardless is wrong. Depending on the club you're hitting, the ball should be anywhere from in front of your left toes to the center of your stance.

3. Coming over the top of the ball does not result in a duck hook, just a monster pull. It might hook, but it won't be a low swooping duck hook.

Staple Gun, if standing closer to the ball like Mantis said doesn't help, here's a few possible solutions:

1. Try playing the ball anywhere from in front of your left toes to the inside of your left heel. Your hand position should still be around your belt buckle though. If you're duck hooking, it might mean you're playing the ball in front of your stance (good) but that your hands might be somewhere like off your left thigh to start instead of in the center of your stance.

2. Assuming you're right handed, if you can't see your middle and pointer finger knuckles on your left hand, your grip is probably too strong. When you grip the club, lift it up 90 degrees in front of you, so that the end of your grip is facing your belt buckle and that the clubface is in front of you. The clubface should be pointing straight up and down at a 90 degree angle. If it isn't, your grip is off.

3. You could be swinging too flat, like a baseball swing. If the first two tips don't work, then make your swing more upright. This is a rare problem with the driver, though, as most people that struggle swing the club too upright. But if you're duckhooking it, that could be an issue.

4. Sloooooooooow backswing. Duck hooking often means that you might be moving too quickly or breaking your wrists on the backswing too soon. When you start the backswing with your driver, it should be all shoulders and arms, no wrists. Once your hands get to around your right hip/thigh, you should start breaking your wrists. You need to "drag" the club back to start your swing. And then, just take it slow.

Hope those tips help, let me know if you still need anything else.

actually, youre wrong when i said it should be 1" the left heel i obviously was talking about the driver...since you know, thats what the OP was about...

Not calling out anyone in particular in this thread, but there is just so much bad advice given by bad golfers who truly have no understanding of the golf swing, or the mechanics of it, and what makes it go. And then other bad golfers take this advice as good advice, and they get even worse. If you reallly care about your golf game, get a lesson or ten.

If any of that bad advice is directed at me, I'd like to know so that I'm not giving out bad information to people. I'm a good golfer, 4-handicap, know how to swing, etc. but if I'm giving out stupid advice, by all means point it out and tell Staple Gun that I'm an idiot.

Wasn't really directed at anyone, I just meant it in general, that 99% of people giving out golf advice are either giving wrong advice, or explaining it in a way that the person isnt going to understand, and its just gonna fuck them up even more.

he should just use the classic ben hogan image...

Imagine there is a pane(sp?) of glass on top of your shoulders thats goes along the swing plane...

wait..this is hard to explain...
keep the club under the glass all the time obv

i was a .3 and won Jr. championships in WA since i was 15 and have a pretty shitty golf swing. never taken any lessons. keeep at it and figure it out on yourself if your at all naturally gifted

once you find out what you are doing wrong, don't forget it. it might come in useful if you ever find a sharp dog leg par 3

VASELINE OR CHAPSTICK ON CLUBHEAD....OBVI

When I have the pull/hooks going it's usually because my transition at the top is too quick...I gotta say to myself....one...two....threee...while I'm swinging to get my tempo right again. Not saying that's the universal cure,but it could help.