Hooding the club?

[Jim.Cook]

On the way home from work I stopped at the driving range yesterday, got my usual large bucket of balls. I proceeded to warm up and then start my practice. I have just put a new set of clubs together and wanted to watch for any changes in direction and distance.
I was being very careful in my set up. That is, I placed the head of the driver behind the teed ball, lightly holding the grip with my right two fingers I moved the club until the face was exactly perpendicular to the target line. When I stand normally I can look down and see two to two and a half knuckles on my left hand. Keeping this position I bring my left hand up and grip the club followed by my right. All this time, the head of the driver is sitting level on its sole with the face pointed at the target, address position.
Then I move my hands with the grip of the club along my plane until they appear to be over the toe of my left foot, my impact position.
At this point the course owner, and several other people including a PGA teaching pro started yelling, point at me and jumping up and down and saying “he’s hooding the club, he’s hooding the club!” It got to be quite a scene and I was very worried that the golf police were about ready to drag me away.
Based on my explanation what do you think? I am hitting the ball straighter than I have ever done and the ball flight is perfect. My distance is low but I’m old as dirt, no flexibility and full figured.

[Daryl]

I think you need to find a new practice facility.

[Daz]

Jim Im getting exactly the same comments from all of my playing partners. Unfortunately at the minute they are scoring better than me!

I take my grip (10-2-B) at impact fix and then when I take my hands back to adjusted address position the clubface is closed.

I hit one ball left and the comments come "you're working with a closed clubface! no wonder you're hooking"

OR

I block one ball right and its "whats with the forward press? Do you think you're playing cricket? no wonder you're blocking everything right!".

At the minute Im ignoring them and hope to show them how wrong they are when I can consistently crush the ball into the ground the way I do on the practise tee and take their money like I used to.

I even played some without going to adjusted address position and the comments were even more raucous.

Can any of the AI's confirm its OK for the club to look like this?

Also is hooding in TGM terms delofting as opposed to closing.

Anyone know of any video demonstrating 3-F-5 ?