Hood: Tilting the toe end of the club toward the hole. Lessens the loft on a club, and generally produces a right-to-left shot.
Hook: Shot that curves severely from right to left.
Hood : To lean the clubface forward (toward the target) reducing its loft.
Hook : A shot that travels from right to left (right-handed player). More severely than a draw. Example: He hooked his tee shot into the trees.
HOOD
To close the clubface during the swing
HOOK (submitted by: tiger101)
A severe curving shot made from an inside-out swing path that puts side spin on the ball. This makes it curve from right to left.
Playing the ball too far back in your stance can make you hood (close) the clubface reducing the loft. The reduction of loft will make a slice more likely.
(In informal or casual play, especially when there are players following, the importance of the honor is superseded by the need to play without delay, and "hit when ready" is usually a more appropriate M.O.) hood to lean the clubface forward ...
To ensure a low, right-to-left ballflight, hood the clubface just a bit by turning the toe of the club toward the target. Once you have the setup, concentrate on taking the club away on a slightly inside path, just as you did with the 3-wood draw.
With a knockdown you want to actually "hood" the clubface over the ball a bit at impact. It's the reverse of a cut shot. A lower shot results. This is a necessary option for anyone who wants to play well into the wind.
You still, admittedly, see forlorn golf bags on luggage carousels at airports, with the rain hood in place in the naive hope that this will offer some form of protection to everything that baggage handlers can literally throw at your clubs but most ...
You will have a problem with this exercise unless either your hands are directly beneath your shoulder sockets at address or you know how to "hood" the stroke in response to "gating" caused by having the hands positioned inside or outside the line ...
Then vary the openness of your stance and see what that does. Play around with the clubface too -- open it as wide as you can get it and see how high you can pop the ball. Then close it down and hood it and watch what that does to your chips.
hood: Term used to describe the act of de-lofting the club by leaning the hands towards the target.
hook: An uncontrolled shot that starts right of target and moves to the left of target.
 See also: Golf, Rough, Head, Hole, Putting
  
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