ROG,
While there are a lot of factors in scooping shots, there are some very common factors a player must understand in order to proceed with diagnosing and subscribing a cure. All the drills won't help until you understand the cause instead of treating the effect (scooping).
Scooping happens because the bottom of your swing is too far behind the ball. That can be caused by faulty address position, ball position, swing plane, swing path, swing width or a combination. The most common reasons I see for scooping are a set up that is dominated by too much knee bend and balanced in the knees. This sets up a chain reaction of events that are doomed from the get-go (your set-up). When you balance and/or excessively bend the knees, the commom first move is the back knee straightening. This causes the back swing to tilt upwards and the weight to reverse to the front foot (see SHAWN CLEMENT foot together drill for a visual of this reversal). The only two ways to move your body from there are to continue to fall forward towards the ground causing a very steep swing and fat, deep divots, or to fall back to the back side (right foot and knee for the right handed golfer) - (watch the same video and watch how his hips and knees reverse direction). You will be coming out of your spine angle and falling backwards and upwards. When the latter happens, you will scoop the ball.
Why? Because the center of your swing (for simple sakes, your sternum) correlates directly with bottom of your swing because when you bring your arms and hands together to form your grip, your hands are directly in front of your sternum. Your hands connect to the club on the holder part (the grip) and it connects via the shaft to the hitting part of the club (the club head). The upper body, including the sternum sits directly over the hips. So if the hips are reversing direction then the sternum is moving backwards in the swing and so is the bottom of the swing (the club head). Hence the only way to get the club head to the ball is with a throwing motion of the hands and sometimes arms resulting in the dreaded "scoop" and that shot that can look pretty but go nowhere.
Now let's talk about fixing it. First check your posture. Be sure your balance is in your hip joint not your knees. Start with your ankles directly under your knees, knees directly under your hips and your hips directly under your shoulders. Next, feel your thighs turning inwards so that you feel your thigh bone (femur) pushing into your hamstring muscles. This will cause your upper body to bend forward to counter balance the weight from this move. Continue to push your legs back until you almost fall over on your heels. Then slightly bend your knees with your hips staying "back and up" until you feeel the weight distribute evenly in your feet between the front of your heel pad and the back of your toe pad. At this point you will be in your very own spine angle and posture. From there when you make your swing, be sure to feel your weight in your back (right) hip at the top of your swinng. From there, you can be in a position to swing the club into the back of the ball because your torso (and sternum) will be in a position to move forward to the ball and toward target. It is like throwing a ball. You go from your back foot to your front foot and your sternum follows.
The base of the golf swing is it's foundation so you can swing into the ball. Be sure it's secure and moving properly. And rememeber. Every action has an opposite reaction. So if the weight and the swing move forward in the backswing and backwards in the downswing, the bottom of your swing is behind the ball. And if you want the ball in the air, scoop it. OR fix your base, swing backwards in the backswing and forward in the downswing and meet the back of the ball with power and speed and send the ball sailing!
Good luck ROC! Post some pictures with your next question and let's see how you do.