5 basic fundamentals of your golf swing

One of the biggest culprits for having a hook in your golf swing is the grip!

It is important to regularly check the 5 basic fundamentals of your golf swing to make sure the swing has a solid base. If any part of the fundamental swing is incorrect, whatever work is done on top of the basic swing, the rest of the swing will be unstable. Imagine the annoying table in the pub that always wobbles, if there isn't a good foundation it will never be consistent.

The grip can change for a number of reasons; the biggest killer to the grip is comfort. While the grip should be comfortable hands want to naturally roll over the golf grip, this creates a strong grip. Even if you have mastered the swing plane and the club is on plane, the strong grip will naturally close the club face when it comes in to hit the ball. This creates right to left spin on the ball causing it to draw or in extreme cases hook, for a solid snap hook the plane of the club is usually in an over the top motion, so you will most likely start slicing the ball once you return the grip back to normal.

A good tip to identify where the fault is within the golf swing is to watch where the ball starts and where it finished. If the ball starts off on target but moves left or right the problem is with the club face position at impact. If the ball starts off target then the fault lies with the swing plane.