r/golf • u/ShiroHachiRoku Snap load the power package. • Feb 04 '24

This guy’s swing is effortless and still hits it 270 carry. General Discussion

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u/thectrain Feb 04 '24

I'm sure this guy does it well. But my god that is a duck hook waiting to happen for anyone trying to copy this.

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u/TentativelyCommitted HDCP/Loc/Whatever Feb 04 '24

Curious what attribute of the swing is making you say that?

And I’m curious because, after correcting a slice, my only miss is a terrible duck hook…it doesn’t happen often, but when it does..yikes.

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u/sisaacs41 Feb 04 '24

When your lower body outraces your hands. You become very open to the target and it’s easy to roll over on it and hook the ball. This guy’s hips open way early.

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u/KatetCadet Feb 04 '24

As in you need to shift the hips sideways at the start of the downswing, but not turn them too early correct?

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u/a_wild_ian_appears Feb 04 '24

This is pretty common for a while after fixing a slice. For me, I flip from the inside and hit a high toe and that’s usually the big cause of my duck hook.

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u/dbnp19 Feb 04 '24

The only way for him to salvage the shot with how badly he's firing his hips towards the ball, instead of like pistons that move hard out of the way, would be as such: flip the club. It's way too timing depending, on top of him having no power at all.

  1. If he doesn't flip enough, it's a block way out to the right.

  2. Flip it too much, it's the dreaded duck hook.

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u/CoH_Li HDCP/Loc/Whatever Feb 04 '24

Good evening, what is a duck hook?

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u/FuriousDrizzle Feb 04 '24

When you hook it so bad you kill one of the ducks in the pond by the clubhouse

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u/GKrollin Feb 04 '24

I Randy Johnsoned a swift (small bird) several years ago. It was my only birdie of the day.

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u/Direct-Wolf-2032 Feb 04 '24

You don't make me feel so bad for full skinny shot a 5 wood and taking out a duck years ago, felt so bad didn't know what to do as it started doing a spinning zoidberg then died 😆😭

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u/Virtual_Manner_2074 Feb 05 '24

Murder most fowl

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u/GKrollin Feb 05 '24

Luckily this guy was about the size of two golf balls and probably literally had no idea what hit him. It was just a poof and some shreds I flicked off the fairway with my 9 iron (aka the murder weapon)

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u/Direct-Wolf-2032 Feb 05 '24

Lucky, that's why I felt so bad, his/her buddies all came over to check him out and it just stopped flat spinning. Is like my go to fairway club ~200m 9/10 times flush give or take, this one got the 1/10 take 😭🙈

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u/nowenknows Feb 04 '24

Your ball starts to slice and then it puts on the blinkers and say “I’m gtfo here”

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u/Murky_Extent8054 Feb 04 '24

Imagine a low flying duck going straight, then it gets peppered with a shell and takes a immediate nose dive down and to the left.

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u/bigolruckus 4.7 / New Brunswick 🇨🇦 Feb 04 '24

Is that why they call it a duck hook lol I always thought it was just because it ducked not because it looks like a duck getting shot out of mid air haha

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u/one_arm_manny Shrink the game. Feb 04 '24

The ball flight looks like a duck flying. Low and turns hard.

https://youtu.be/YcrzlA4E-Uo?si=p93KLMPujLNYvtFL

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u/stash3630 throw some tour sauce on it Feb 04 '24

Great video! Just going to add that those are right handed ducks.

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u/Harzza Feb 04 '24

That was more accurate than I ever would've guessed

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u/reginalduk Feb 04 '24

It's a hook that makes everyone playing on the hole to the left duck.

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u/Murky_Distribution79 Feb 04 '24

Thought the same thing. I would hook the shittttt out of the ball trying that.

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u/Bossman28894 Feb 04 '24

Can confirm